About Us
- Since 1983 N. E. Fried and Associates, Inc. has proudly served more than 1,500 clients worldwide with its products and services. We specialize in organizational effectiveness and talent management, offering products and services in executive assessment, 360 feedback, organizational culture surveys, performance management, coaching, training and development, and compensation research. MyExecutiveCoach, along with TheLearningEngine.org and Intermediaries Speakers Bureau are divisions of the firm.
We enjoy getting to know our clients and taking the time to understand their needs. Our most satisfying consulting engagements occur when clients work with us as partners to solve business challenges. This arrangement keeps us on our toes by creating an environment for continuous learning and improvement. We maintain alliances with a variety of professional coaches, consultants, psychologists, assessment vendors, and training developers to assure we bring you the best available resources. and are proud to introduce you to our coaching team.Partial Client List
ACCO Brands Blockbuster Entertainment Compassion International Chevron Chemical CIT Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago GE Aircraft Engines Georgia National Guard Huron Consulting Johnson & Johnson LG InfoCom USA Matsushita Avionics Systems Corp Memphis Light Gas & Water Magline New York New England Telephone National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Ohio Society of CPAs Silverado Senior Living SAP Tiffany & Co. Tele Atlas North America Textron Marine Land Systems Sharpe Electronics Solatube International Walt Disney World Victoria's Secret Wendy's International WalMart Stores, Inc.
About N. Elizabeth Fried, Ph.D.
Dr. N. Elizabeth Fried, author, consultant, and executive coach, is president of N. E. Fried and Associates, Inc. She is author of two books, Outrageous Conduct: Bizarre Behavior at Work (1991, 1999) and Sex, Laws & Stereotypes: Authentic workplace anecdotes and practical tips for dealing with ADA, sexual harassment, workplace violence, and beyond . . . (1994). Ms. Fried received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and her Certified Compensation Professional Designation from the the WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association). Additionally, she is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America.
- A vibrant and entertaining speaker, she regularly addresses audiences on a variety of human resources topics, including hiring practices, career development, and sexual harassment. From 1983 to 2001, Fried conducted compensation research on a national scale and was quoted widely in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Ms., Business Week, and Fortune Magazine. A prolific writer, she frequently contributed to professional journals and trade publications, which featured her research on secretarial grading practices, on-call pay, and retention (stay) bonuses designed to retain key people during acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and special IT projects, such as Year 2000 or SAP. She has published more than 50 professional articles, most recently evaluating performance management software in an article entitled, "360 Degree Software Shootout: Comparing Features With Need," for HRMagazine Focus on Technology Supplement and an update with more product comparisons for IPMA NEWS. Additionally, she co-authored the WorldatWork's Building Blocks in Total Compensation titled "Developing Statistical Job Evaluation Models: An Approach to Building a Job-Worth Hierarchy."
- Fried taught a certification seminar for the WorldatWork on job analysis, job documentation, and job evaluation. She served as adjunct faculty at the University of California - San Diego, where she offered a course on assessment tools. Fried has also taught continuing education courses in compensation at Lehigh University and served as adjunct faculty at Franklin University from 1979 to 1986, where she taught a course in wage and salary administration. She also co-developed and facilitated sessions on 360 degree feedback, teambuilding, and communication for The Center for Leadership, a five-day premier program offered through the Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and California CPA Societies.
Strategic Partners and Vendor Relationships
- Agnes Mura, MA, MCC
- Ann Ewen, Ph.D.
- Brett Avner, Ph. D.
- Elizabeth Fried, Ph.D.
- Eric Kaufmann, CMC
- Jan Thompson, PCC
- Janyne Peek Esmick, Ph.D.
- Judi Spear, MS, CMC
- Ken Masco, MBA
- Larry Brower, MPA
- Loida Noriega-Wilson, MBA
- Rebecca Drake, MA
- Rick Stamm, MS
- Stanlee Phelps,MSW
- Sue Stevenson, FCIPD
- Susan Curtin, MS, CEAP
- Thomas Crane, MBA
- Timi Gleason, MCC
Agnes Mura, MA, is an international Master Certified Coach (MCC) to global executives, entrepreneurs and consulting companies. She has special expertise in coaching leaders through successful cultural adjustments of all types, including changes in location or geographic reach, integration into new corporate or departmental cultures, and how to successfully shift the culture of a function or a department.
Ms. Mura is an experienced and globally focused leadership coach who inspires and develops Fortune 500 corporate executives from Europe to Latin America. Fluent in six languages, Agnes has also mediated among diverse peoples and cultures. She is currently coaching in English, Spanish and German – virtually, as well as in person.
Ms. Mura is a coach and partner to leaders who deal with the complexities, uncertainties and turbulences of today's global business world - while having to deliver ever better business results. She understands organizational (and national) cultures and how best to navigate them. Her profound humanity is coupled with a keen strategic eye for what's really going on, and a strong business sense from her 10 years as a finance executive. Her capacity to elicit authenticity in her clients helps leaders and key contributors achieve the personal and professional shifts that are required to deliver... and to bring their teams along with them.
She holds a Masters Degree in philosophy and applied linguistics from Cologne University in Germany and a Bachelor of Arts from Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Key Highlights:
As a Coach, Ms. Mura is credited with supporting:
· A senior executive in a global company repatriating from an assignment in Asia. Accepted a substantial regional responsibility in the US with minimal adjustment period, making a smooth and cost-effective transition for the company and quickly leveraging his experience to lead her region to top tier performance.
· The CFO of a large (public) restaurant chain to navigate the delicate triangular relationship between his CEO, key board members and himself. At issue was an appearance of hesitancy or lack of assertiveness towards the CEO, and a board-meeting demeanor that did not convey enough confidence. At 4 months into the process, the chairman and the lead director called to express their renewed confidence in the whole management team.
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Ann Ewen creates extraordinary results for individuals and businesses who desire aggressive growth. She has extensive management experience in global corporations, entrepreneurial and high tech firms. A strategic, creative thinker, she develops systems that support superior employee and customer relationships, and drive organizational productivity. Ann has 20 years experience as a corporate leader, business owner-entrepreneur and strategic consultant and coach to small and Fortune 500 companies.
Under her leadership as President, TEAMS International, Inc. , Ann achieved 100% or higher annual growth 5 years running, resulting in receiving Inc. 500 recognition. A software and consulting firm, TEAMS invented, branded and owned the trademark for the 360º Feedback process, a team-based performance feedback process. TEAMS was sold to an international consulting firm in 1999. Additionally, Ann began her career in the telecommunications industry and has served as CEO and other senior roles in several technology start-ups.
Today, Ann coaches and consults with CEOs and senior executives to enhance personal and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the areas of leadership development and organizational alignment. Through Vistage International, the largest CEO membership organization in the world, she facilitates monthly meetings of CEO/business owners and senior leaders of small to mid-sized companies in a peer group setting, providing continuous learning and business growth. She also meets with each member monthly to provide accountability, focus, goal-setting and problem-solving coaching support. After joining, member organizations typically grow three times faster than industry peers. Ann has provided almost 10,000 hours of coaching time with CEOs and senior executives.
Ann is co-author, with Mark Edwards, of the business bestseller 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment and Performance Management (AMACOM, 1996).”
Ann’s education includes a B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Dakota, an MBA in Marketing from Arizona State University, a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from the University of Colorado-Denver and the Harvard Business School’s Owner-President Program. She has also served on ASU’s faculty, co-developing and teaching “Relationships in Small Business” class, College of Business.
Key Highlights
· Designed, implemented, managed, trained and coached over fifty 360◦ Feedback projects for leadership and talent assessment, and leadership development.
· Developed and managed a 360◦ Feedback project for an international electronics distribution company, training and coaching 100 senior leaders (director and higher) in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Follow-up coaching was provided in North and South America and Asia telephonically, Germany and London face-to-face.
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Brett Avner brings a true sense of commitment to all coaching assignments and seeks a tangible "return on your investment".
Brett has served on executive management teams, partnered with CEOs and Board members, and has led large scale initiatives that required strong change management and organizational alignment skills. He maintains a contemporary and progressive view of roles and opportunities for senior management to become exemplary leaders, and has been consistently recognized for his contributions in aligning HR strategies and initiatives with organization’s goals to drive outstanding business results.
Brett has continuously demonstrated an ability to embrace organizations’ missions and foster cultures that support these missions in each organization where he has held senior executive positions. Brett’s education, a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has proven to be of great utility and value and a perfect complement to his career in human resources.
Key Highlights:
· Current executives coached through critical development periods: Chief Global Marketing Officer: PEPSI; Chief Financial Officer: AMERICAN EAGLE: SVP Global Sourcing: WALMART; President: VICTORIA'S SECRET STORES; VP Talent Development: LIMITEDBRANDS
· Member of the executive team at Victoria’s Secret Stores that created one of the world renowned brands from a retail store chain through sustained high quality talent/leadership – all aligned around a unified vision, which was reflected in profitability and sales growth for over a decade.
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Elizabeth Fried is best known for helping her clients quickly achieve insight and move to action for improved individual and corporate performance. She has an uncanny ability see what others can’t and has honed her talents to bring these insights to her clients. She skillfully helps them focus on solutions rather than problems. This keeps conversations at a high level to avoid getting lost in the details. Elizabeth typically combines 360 feedback, behavioral assessments and current neuroscience research in her coaching process. She is committed to helping her clients use their brain power in new ways so they can efficiently achieve the lasting results they desire.
Along with being an executive coach, Elizabeth is an author and former compensation consultant. She has been president of N. E. Fried and Associates, Inc., since 1983, dba The Learning Engine. The firm has served over 1500 client companies with its compensation research, leadership training, and software products and services. She is author of two books (one a Society of HR Management bestseller, which has been used as a supplemental text in HR graduate programs), and she recently contributed chapters to Extreme Excellence (2008) and Coaching for Success (2009). My Executive Coach is a division of the firm, which maintains strategic alliances with over a dozen of the country’s top executive coaches. Elizabeth and her select team of coaches have added significant value to executives at companies both nationally and internationally.
Elizabeth received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and her Certified Compensation Professional Designation from the WorldatWork.
Key Highlights:
· Successfully provided coaching to Sr. HR Leadership of a two billion dollar office products manufacturer and distributor emerging from the brink of bankruptcy to reorganize staff, help them to adapt to rapid change, empower them to think strategically, and execute that strategy by streamlining processes and procedures.
· Coached the CEO of a major aerospace contractor to improve performance of his top team and set the tone for best leadership practices throughout the organization resulting in lower turnover, reduced absenteeism, and fewer employee complaints.
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Eric Kaufmann draws on two decades of successful experience in sales, management, and training for companies such as 3M/Lanier and Corning Clinical Laboratories. His coaching clients become better leaders who make better decisions and achieve better results. His work focuses on blending strategic thinking with managing uncertainty and personal development. His clients range from Sony Electronics, Alcon Laboratories, T-Mobile , PETCO and Cox Communications, to Scripps Bank, and UCSD.
Eric teaches leadership and coaching programs at San Diego State University and is a Group Chair and Speaker for Vistage International. Eric is an Executive Coach, Certified Management Consultant, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Scuba diving Instructor. He holds a BA in International Business and graduate education in Psychology.
A native of Israel, Eric lived and worked in South Africa before settling in San Diego, CA. He brings an insightful, diverse, and global approach to his work; a work which is deeply influenced and enriched by 24 years of meditation practice.
Key Highlights:
· Successfully provided coaching and OD interventions to Multinational Pharmaceutical Company striving to create global consistency in management and development practices.
· Developed an integrated Leadership Development Pathway for global District Managers. The customized coaching model and process facilitated managers to become skilled at developing teams with a consistent and effective coaching approach.
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Jan Thompson is a Leadership coach with over thirty five years of business experience working with corporate professionals. She offers leadership development coaching to leaders in a wide array of areas such as high technology, professional services consulting, biotechnology, financial services and others.
Recent neuroscience research has dramatically changed how Jan approaches behavioral change with her clients, focusing more on leveraging strengths and establishing new behaviors to build an inner foundation for outward results. Her clients report that they make lasting changes in the way they approach their careers and their jobs.
As a former line manager of a $180 million international corporation, she is experienced with both startup and growth situations. Consulting with over 1000 executives and professionals, using 360-degree feedback, career counseling and other methods, has also given Jan a unique background as a coach to high potentials and managers.
She has a B.A. in English from the University of Houston with advanced studies in Psychology and Business. She is a Professional Certified Coach (P.C.C.) with re-certification from The International Coach Federation required every third year.
Key Highlights:
· Provided leadership coaching over a 13-year period to the San Diego, CA senior leadership team and identified high potentials of a $6 billion consulting firm. This highly analytical group made the shift to a participative culture and currently lead their local market.
· Jan’s expertise at writing Coaching Plans that help clients achieve their goals was recognized recently by Experian Corporation. She authored all examples of coaching plans for their Employee Development Resource Guide.
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Noted by clients for her spot-on analysis combined with humor, Janyne Peek Emsick combines creative energy and discernment to facilitate leadership and organizational development. From the executive team through the IS and HR teams to the warehouse staff, her holistic approach taps into individual and organizational potential for higher levels of problem solving, collaboration, and personal initiative--increasing productivity and raising morale. Janyne capitalizes on the benefits of technology, using web-based communication and computer based audio-visual tools to increase communication and self-directed learning.
With expertise in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, organizational change and adult learning, Janyne designs and facilitates events to bring about lasting learning and continued change. She develops custom programs based on client needs in the areas of 360° feedback processes and online surveys, one-on-one leadership coaching, team building, conflict-management, empowerment, creating a shared vision, self-leadership and change management.
Janyne holds a Ph.D. with research in the area of adult learning and transformational leadership. She is certified as a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) interpreter and trainer, and has served as a regular presenter at international and regional MBTI professional development conferences.
Key Highlights:
· Challenge: To Accomplish Organizational Strategy, Executive Team needs to Break Down Business Unit Silos and Strengthen Individual Leadership (Manufacturing: Industrial Automation)
Solution: Implemented development and coaching process targeting both the Executive Team and Individual Executives. Issues range from 1) increasing trust; 2) breaking down over-developed ownership (territorialism); 3) communicating a vision that, in the midst of downsizing and restructuring, energizes and aligns staff; 4) identifying and mentoring staff with leadership potential; 5) and coaching financial and HR executives to developing value-added business partnerships with sales and marketing executives.
Outcome: Increase of trust demonstrated at the Executive Team level, with communications channels opening and increased collaboration across business units. Individually, includes executives increasing interpersonal risk-taking through rebuilding relationships, reaching across business units to partner with other executives, identifying leadership in staff and creating development plans, and implementing robust communication strategies that infuse the organization with energy and focus on the future following a period of significant downsizing and restructuring.
Judi Spear’s career includes more than two decades in medium and large corporate environments where she gathered invaluable experience to pave the way to create her successful management consulting practices. Since 1996, she has worked with more than 30,000 executives, managers and administrators in the public & private sector as a facilitator or executive coach. She provides leadership coaching with a focus on strengths identification and development toward improved business results. Her clients represent a wide array of top leadership positions in many areas, such as healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, utilities, education & non-profits.
Judi quickly understands her clients by using her extensive experience with personality and behavioral inventories. This enables her to fully engage them while they discover key insights that lead to meaningful change. Through her coaching they resolve issues problematic throughout their career. Her strategy is to coach them to an understanding of how their strengths can help manage their challenges in a way that feels natural. This leads to more effective behaviors, results and lasting improvements.
Judi holds a B.A. in Business Administration and English Literature and an M.S. degree in Communication and Organizational Development. She is a graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership and a facilitator for Vistage International (TEC) on the topic of Emotional Intelligence. She is certified by the Institute of Management Consultants, headquartered in Washington, DC.
Key Highlights:
· Provided conflict resolution in a consumer-services firm, coaching the CIO to work more effectively with a strategic partner during a major technology transfer slowed by heightened competition and conflict.
· Provided business & leadership coaching to leaders in a major Health Services firm during a time of significant change in business strategy (nine executives including the CEO).
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Ken Masco is a Facilitator, Executive Coach, Mentor, and a leading authority on strengthening organizational effectiveness.
For the past eighteen years, Ken has coached and mentored CEOs and senior management teams of closely-held middle market and publicly traded companies throughout Southern California. He has helped leaders unleash the energy and creativity of their people and co-create a positive environment of change based on clarity, alignment and truth telling. Ken has helped business leaders and their teams in manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, financial services and high technology industries optimize the performance of their companies. Ken engages client teams and leaders in an energetic, participative environment of positive change.
Ken’s Executive Coaching and Mentoring programs offer a wealth of business background and expertise to help clients accomplish their goals. He helps them achieve clarity, identify priorities, gain insightful perspectives on important issues and develop a plan of action to move forward. He facilitates the development and clarification of organizational and personal objectives and offers straightforward “reality- based” feedback.
Ken was certified as a Master Certified Coach in 1995; is a founding board member and past President of the Professional Coaches & Mentors Association.
Ken earned his MBA in the Presidents and Key Executives Program at Pepperdine University. He regularly lectures at universities and executive forums throughout Southern California on Leadership, Team Effectiveness and Truth Telling.
Key Highlights:
· The Gemstone Process™
Ken Masco offers an innovative approach that is customized to your organization’s needs and produces guaranteed results in solving performance problems and increasing organizational effectiveness. The Gemstone Process™ turns strategies into road maps for organizational activity and creates an environment where people produce meaningful results. World-class performance is achieved by managing the “whole” not the “parts”; the Gemstone Process™ does exactly that. It brings alignment to and between all the functional areas of the business. Employees learn to recognize and manage the “gap” between functional areas, develop positive personal interactions, identify areas where the greatest opportunity for performance improvement exists and proactively take responsibility for managing changes.
· Team Building
Ken works with teams to focus on results, new levels of cooperation, trust and “truth telling”. Teams learn to establish and clarify organizational and personal goals, work together to achieve optimum levels of success and communicate with a new level of understanding.
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Larry Brower’s expertise in developing managers and executives is based on 30 years of experience in management, leadership, and organizational development. Simply put, he works to help his client companies, and the managers and leaders who run them, be the best that they can be. These companies have been in a wide range of industries including banking, financial services, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, education, retailing, defense contracting, telecommunications, energy, and government.
This includes extensive experience in coaching managers and executives for improved effectiveness. His coaching process includes the following:
• Identification of the competencies and key defining behaviors that are critical for the client’s success
• A customized 360˚ assessment to gather data and measure progress at intervals throughout the process on these key behaviors
• A Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help interpret this data and understand the client’s strengths and challenges
• Construction of an Individual Development Plan based on this data
• Extensive individual coaching focused on capitalizing on strengths and addressing critical opportunities for improvement.
Larry's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, San Francisco State University, and a Master of Public Administration (emphasis in human resource management), California State University, East Bay. He has also served as adjunct faculty at three colleges and universities at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Key Highlights:
· Successfully provided coaching to a general manager who had been hired to turn around a hospitality company, raising their performance standards, building a new team, and introducing a new, more business-like culture
· Designed and implemented an internal process to train internal coaches in support of the company’s first corporate-level management and leadership development initiative, which was also delivered by us.
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Loida Noriega-Wilson, MBA
Loida Noriega-Wilson has been a leadership development consultant and coach for ten years. She has worked for more than 30 years in domestic and international business and management, guiding individuals, teams and corporations to seek innovative ways to fully develop their business potential. “Linking the business strategies of an organization to the performance of their people is critical to our approach.”
Loida was voted Business Leader of the Year for 2001, for Middlesex County, New Jersey. She has served as Chair of the Middlesex County Workforce Investment Board, Department of Labor for the State of New Jersey.
She holds a Masters Degree from Rutgers University specializing in Business and Human Resources Management and graduated with high honors from the University of South Florida in Political Science. She has served as an adjunct professor at the Russ Berrie Institute at the Cotsakos College of Business, William Patterson University, New Jersey.
Loida is fluent in her native language, Spanish, and is very involved in the historic community in which she lives with her family.
Key Highlights:
· Loida’s training with the Integro Leadership Institute has given her a format which insures all aspects of leadership are addressed. The work of Dr. Ralph Colby, Dr. William Marston, Dr. William Glasser, Institute for Reality Therapy, Canoga Park, Ca. and Noel Tichy, University of Michigan Business School all figure prominently in her experiences in Leadership Development. Numerous managers have progressed to senior level positions while working with Loida on their leadership development.
· Loida’s work blends building trust, coaching and counseling skills, and increasing engagement and commitment among employees with developing high performing teams and sharing leadership roles. These personal skills mixed with corporate strategic initiatives have proven highly successful for her clients. Supporting leaders to leverage best practices and optimize activities that support the business strategy is a key foundational cornerstone.
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Rebecca Drake is lauded throughout the US as a highly effective corporate consultant and executive coach to CEO’s, entrepreneurs, Board of Directors and business leaders. She is the “go-to” consultant and leadership coach for companies experiencing rapid growth, cultural adjustments, mergers and acquisitions, shifts in focus, unexpected downsizing and global outreach.
Having resided in Paris, London and Uganda with extensive stays in Hungary, Italy and Croatia, Ms. Drake brings a keen awareness and practical experience when partnering with leaders who must navigate the intricacies, cultural challenges and uncertainties of a rapidly evolving global market. Known for her compassionate, clear cut approach to coaching, Ms. Drake assists leaders in exceeding personal expectations while making profound personal and professional shifts. She has coached and trained all levels of management from CEO’s to mid-level management in such industries as manufacturing, banking, medical care, travel, insurance, interior design, building and construction, technology, federal and state prison systems, professional studies, communication and energy.
Ms. Drake holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Montana State University and a Master of Arts in Vocal Performance from San Diego State University. In addition, she has received certification from the Rapport Leadership Institute, the Hoffman Institute, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL/TEFL) and the Summit Organization.
Key Highlights:
As an Executive Coach, Ms. Drake has supported:
· The President and CEO of the nation’s largest building industry marketing firm grow the company 250% within four years
· One of the US’s largest privately owned bank systems identify and implement a Competency based foundation for bank-wide restructuring and public re-identification
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Rick Stamm has been involved in personal and organizational development for over 30 years. His primary focus for much of that time has been teaching and coaching business leaders and training and development professionals in effective methods of deploying behavioral strengths. His clients span virtually all categories of organizations: manufacturing, Federal State and County government, human services, retail, healthcare, church, university, and more. This broad spectrum of experience in human behavior provides deep insight into what motivates people and how they lead and develop others.
Rick’s approach to coaching and mentoring others is based on a system of thoughtful questioning during which the subject finds his/her own solutions.
His academic training began with a B.S. in Math and Physics from Albright College. Later experiences led him to change careers and obtain a Masters Degree in Community Psychology from Penn State University.
Key Highlights:
· Provided certification training to hundreds of professional trainers and coaches in effectively using the DISC Model of Behavior in their professional practices.
· Developed the curriculum for the Pa Department of Transportation Leadership Academy for Supervisors and Managers. Served as a trainer and coach for the Academy and supervised adjunct faculty.
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Stanlee Phelps has served as a key executive in global professional service firms for over 20 years and has distinguished herself in doing Executive Assessment and Coaching with senior executives. She has worked in a wide variety of industries in the public and private sectors, including Fortune 500 companies. Representative clients have been in industries such as engineering/software, biotech, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, auto, aerospace, entertainment and publishing.
Stanlee is a Master Coach as well as mentor for other coaches working on the most challenging assignments. Her coaching style encompasses a strong focus on helping executives and teams meet strategic business goals, while building confidence, emotional intelligence and executive presence.
She earned a B.A. in the Behavioral Sciences from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and earned a M.S.W. in Psychiatric Social Work from Louisiana State University. She is certified in an extensive suite of assessments and is a Master Facilitator for Management Research Group.
Key Highlights:
· Directed a team of 12 SVP’s, representing different business units, and their EVP in negotiating the most critical strategic leadership practices they would need going forward for the next 2-3 years, with an emphasis on how they could work synergistically across their varied functions.
· Facilitated the assimilation of a European President/CEO of a global manufacturing company into his first United States based position leading a team of all American senior executives.
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Sue Stevenson has over 20 years of global business experience in Sales, Marketing, Quality, Internal Communications, Executive Coaching, and Global Human Resource Management – latterly at the SVP level. Her expertise is in guiding and developing talented global leaders through a partnership of coaching for success. She believes that we all have the capacity and potential to truly thrive. This can be facilitated by stimulating curiosity, creating clarity, and inspiring people to take action for results.
Born in Scotland, Sue has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Switzerland as well as traveled for business throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, prior to moving to the United States in 2001. She brings a wealth of experience in the navigation of diverse national and organizational cultures. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree, graduate education in psychology and is certified in coaching by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
Key Highlights:
· As Senior Vice President, Global HR, at Gerber Products Co., a $2.4 billion global business with 6,000 employees in 25 countries, was responsible for structuring a new global organization while continuing to keep the focus on growing the base business and maintaining the 78% US Market Share.
· Successfully facilitated positive, energetic change at the individual, team and organizational level immediately following the merger between Ciba Geigy and Sandoz as Head, Organizational and Leadership Development at Novartis Consumer Health.
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Susan Curtin draws on two decades of successful internal experience coaching, mentoring & developing managers and leaders and three years as an external consultant. Her coaching work has included leadership development, transition to the next stage of leadership, succession management including work on key competencies such as interpersonal savvy and political acumen. She has also created successful Leadership development programs incorporating leadership competencies, Coaching & Mentoring.
She is known for her tenacity, passion for developing individuals, and her ability to work with others, motivating and inspiring them to carry out the mission and vision of their organization. Ms. Curtin is recognized as a skilled communicator who specializes in facilitating, coaching and training individuals and groups.
Susan holds a Masters degree in Counseling and is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional. She created and implemented the first internal Employee Assistance Program for the City of San Diego. She was also the Diversity Project Lead and Program Manager of the successful Diversity Commitment program in the City of San Diego along with working as the first Career Development Program Manager rolling out individual and group mentoring programs. She was the first Training and Development Manager for Health and Human Service Agency, County of San Diego, where she created and implemented their award winning Managers Development Institute. Susan teaches for San Diego University’s Coaching for Organizational Excellence program.
Key Highlights:
· Created and implemented the first internal Employee Assistance Program, Diversity Distinction Award, Career Development Program for City of San Diego
· Implemented and administered the first City of San Diego’s Fellowship Program targeting high potentials
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Tom Crane is an international consultant, executive coach, facilitator, author, and speaker who specializes in assisting leaders in creating high-performance through the development of high performance coaching cultures. He works with all levels of leaders and their teams to embrace coaching as a primary method of communication designed to enhance both individual and team effectiveness in achieving performance objectives.
Tom’s passion (and book, The Heart of Coaching) is focused on changing a leader's mindset and skillset from “the BOSS OF people” to the mindset of "the COACH FOR people." The premise of the book is that a performance-based, “feedback-rich” coaching culture will more effectively support an organization's business strategy, and lead to higher and more sustainable levels of performance. This book is used extensively in Executive Coaching assignments.
Prior to founding his own consulting firm in 1995, Tom was vice-president of Senn-Delaney Leadership for eight years and consulted with clients engaged in strategic culture change. Additionally, he worked in financial planning and project management roles with Solar Turbines, a division of Caterpillar. He has a bachelor degree from Purdue University and an MBA from Drake University.
Key Highlights:
· Coached a Pfizer executive leader and team to create a high performance coaching culture in their division
· Developing high performance team leaders with manufacturing team
· Successfully developed aero-space firm leadership talent to assume senior roles
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Timi Gleason has been conducting leadership development and executive coaching since 1994. She specializes in building leadership EQ (emotional intelligence). Timi’s philosophy is to help clients build business acumen and maturity. She works with clients within a coaching framework that incorporates behavioral data, motivational and work preferences, and a personalized development plan resulting in new skills and accomplishments. Timi places emphasis on developing professional accountability, learning basic systems thinking as a means to achieving transformational goals and increasing strategic vision. She often works with leaders to improve their rapport- and network-building skills, business creativity, and intuition. Timi has over 15 years functional HR leadership experience and another 20 years leadership coaching and hands-on organizational development success.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in (an Interdisciplinary major) Psychology / Sociology / Consumer Sciences with an emphasis in Adolescent Psychology. She is a Master Certified Coach and has additional advanced certifications in Creativity from the University of California, La Jolla; Gold Mastery in Systems Thinking & Strategic Management from the internationally recognized Haines Centre for Strategic Management; community and group mediation certification from the San Diego Mediation Center. In addition, Timi is certified to administer The Birkman behavioral assessment, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and encourages the use of assessments that measure Influencing Style, Communication Style, and will spark leadership effectiveness.
Timi has mentor coached clients in Israel, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, South East Asia and regions across the United States. Timi was raised in the culturally diverse city of San Francisco and has represented culturally and ethically diverse causes: microcredit loans for the poorest of poor (India & Mexico), enterprise development for middle eastern refugees, grass roots credit union management, Rotary International programs as a two-term club President.
Key Highlights:
· Timi is known for her successful interventions with (both) troubled individuals and high-risk departments: Late last year, Timi took on a dysfunctional group of a dozen leaders who had lost the respect of their shareholders and peers. Timi helped them develop team norms, a new desired state and helped them quickly reinvent their group persona. With Timi’s mentorship they successfully gained renewed support and credibility in a record 180 days as demonstrated in the department Talent Review results.
· Introduced a new approach to creating meaningful annual development plans, 360s, and evaluations for promotional readiness by aligning developmental opportunities with mastery of specific leadership competencies & success factors (i.e. Coaches and Develops, Promotes Accountability, Inspires Innovation, Thinks Strategically, Builds Business Acumen, Respects Company Values, etc). Increased employee effectiveness and promotional results immediately by anchoring this formula for success with desired behavior changes.
