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N. Elizabeth Fried, Ph.D.
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. Named in 2012 for the third year running, as one of the world's top 15 most influential executive coaches by Coaching Gurus, she has contributed chapters to Coaching for Success (2009) and Extreme Excellence (2008). She is also 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 executive coaching, 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 is currently President Elect for the San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance. Her prior board positions were VP of Marketing and Board Member at Large. She also 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
Executive Coaching Team: Domestic & Global ExperienceRanked as among the top 15 executive coaching firms in the world, My Executive Coach proudly brings you a stellar team of master executive coaches from which to choose for large scale projects. These highly skilled professionals have broad-ranging domestic and international experience focused on coaching C-Suite and Senior Executive level individuals. Review the names of our executive coaching team, select one and scan the highlights. For more in-depth bios, feel free to download the PDF, containing a 3-6 page in-depth review of their respective backgrounds. To learn more about the services provided by the firm, click on one of the links above or, if they are not visible on this page, visit My Executive Coach.
- Agnes Mura, MA, MCC
- Alan Abeles
- Ann Ewen, Ph.D.
- Anne Miller, MBA Equivalent (Sloan Fellow)
- Brett Avner, Ph. D.
- David Crighton, MS
- Elizabeth Fried, Ph.D.
- Eric Kaufmann, CMC
- Jan Thompson, PCC
- Janyne Peek Esmick, Ph.D.
- Judi Spear, MS, CMC
- Julie LaCroix, MA
- Kathy Lee, MA
- Larry Brower, MPA
- Laura Perez, BS CEC
- Loida Noriega-Wilson, MHRM
- Michael Davis, CMB
- 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 a globally experienced Master Certified Coach (MCC) to senior executives, owners of closely held companies and emerging leaders. She has special expertise in coaching leaders through successful cultural transitions of all types, including changes in assignment, location or geographic reach, integration into new corporate or departmental cultures, and how to successfully shift the culture of a function or a department. Executives turn to her at the critical junctures in their career to strengthen skills (e.g. managing global virtual teams) or to vastly expand their leadership abilities (e.g. global emotional intelligence, matrix collaboration) in the face of sweeping challenges.
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 results... 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:
· The CFO of a large public corporation to navigate a problematic triangular relationship with the CEO and key board members. At 4 months into the process, the chairman and the lead director expressed their renewed confidence in the whole management team, in time for the CFO to launch a critical and successful debt restructuring.
· A female Senior Partner in one of the nation's Big Four Accounting Firms to achieve a new function with global responsibilities and a seat on the executive committee and the firm's board, by strengthening her firm-wide strategic perspective, building credibility and connections through collaboration and sharpening delegation and mentoring skills.
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Alan is a senior executive coach and leadership development consultant with more than 25 years of experience with regional, national and global organizations. His practice areas include leadership team alignment, individual and organizational leadership assessment and development, executive coaching and succession planning. He has worked with Presidents, CEOs and other C-level leaders in client organizations ranging from privately held professional services firms to Fortune 100 companies to early-stage enterprises. Alan has consulted across a wide range of industries, including financial services, professional services, higher education, technology, healthcare, biotechnology, legal services, and entertainment. Alan also has extensive international experience, having consulted with, facilitated and coached leaders and teams in Europe, South America, Asia and Australia.
As a founding member of Lee Hecht Harrison’s (LHH) Leadership Consulting practice for more than 10 years, Alan marketed, designed and facilitated engagements including leadership team assessment, succession planning, senior executive coaching services and leadership competency development. Alan has particular expertise in the area of multi-rater leadership feedback tools, and served as LHH’s lead certification facilitator in the use of 360o assessment technologies. Most recently, he served as a co-Practice Leader for the leadership consulting and executive coaching practices at BlessingWhite, Inc (BW).
Earlier in his career, Alan directed Bank of America’s executive development and succession planning programs. During his tenure with the bank, Alan also led projects in the areas of leadership competencies, team development, change management and acquisition due diligence. He also served on UC Berkeley’s Executive Education Corporate Advisory Board while leading the leadership development function for Bank of America.
Alan received a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was awarded Phi Beta Kappa.
Key Highlights:
· Alan has coached more than 15 Partners and Directors of a top-tier professional services firm. As a result of his clients’ successes, he has been invited to serve as one of a handful of coaches who will be working with the highest levels of Partners in a comprehensive leadership development experience in 2011.
· Successfully coached the CEO and several of his direct reports in a Fortune 100 company to demonstrate and role model a set of newly articulated leadership values and behaviors. This new leadership framework facilitated the company’s emergence from a traditional, staid organization to a leaner, more market-focused one.
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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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Anne Miller, MBA Equivalent (Sloan Fellow)
Anne Miller is best known for her action-oriented with the key premise that it is far easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. She is distinguished by her ability to assist individuals and multi-cultural teams achieve step changes in performance while advancing their leadership capability faster than many others. She skillfully helps them design new futures and then build the behaviors and working practices to realize those futures. Anne typically combines 360 feedback, peer feed forward processes and behavioral assessments in her coaching process. For teams she has developed the Action LabÔ to address the integration of accelerated results and leadership development. She is committed to leaving her clients more capable to sustain achieving the futures they desire.
As well as an executive coach, Anne is a facilitator, consultant and educator with over 35 years of professional experience. She is both a UK and US citizen and has worked with executives and their teams committed to going beyond their past successes in diverse cultures and industries. She has led successful leadership development and organizational transformation efforts for Fortune 500 companies in Europe, Latin America, United States and Southeast Asia. Anne has worked with two leading business schools in the design and implementation of new programs to address leadership challenges and entrepreneurship.
Anne is co-author, with Richard Pascale of “Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking”, Leader to Leader, and “Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change”, Strategy and Business. She is qualified to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Hogan Leadership Assessments, the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Inventory and the Human Performance Institute program of full engagement.
She was a Sloan Fellow at London Business School, graduating with Merit and received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Colorado College. Anne is certified with the World Association of Business Coaches and in the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Process.
Key Highlights:
· Designed and delivered a leadership development program to top women in a Fortune 100 company to boost the pool of women available for senior roles during a time of growth. Coached individuals, cohort groups and a team of 12-15 women during three cycles. Graduates of the program became peers to work with the next level of women in the company. Results so far include a high percentage of promotions, job expansions and an expressed increase in the joy these women experience through their mutual coaching exchanges to further their growth as leaders in the company and society.
· Coached an executive in a Fortune 100 Healthcare company to improve his communication skills, develop his team and model leadership practices that allowed him to stand out for added responsibility. The result was improved satisfaction and performance of his team, his manager and a subsequent promotion to a head up a new business line.
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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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David Crighton works with executives and senior leaders to leverage their strengths and achieve their career goals in ways that support the strategy, objectives and overall success of their organizations.
David’s coaching work with executives centers on helping them continue to successfully grow and develop as leaders in a world of continuous change. His extensive and
practical business background dealing with the complex challenges of building and running successful operations and his strength in leadership and executive development bring an ideal mix of experience and expertise to his coaching.
David’s professional career includes over twenty years in Vice President, Senior Director and Director Roles with corporate-wide accountability for executive, leadership and organizational development strategy and operations. His industry experience includes global Fortune 500, national and regional companies: Technology (Internet and Semiconductor), Financial Services, (Banking, Credit Card, and Insurance) Travel, Advertising, Retail Apparel, Membership Associations and Nonprofits.
As an executive, David coached and worked extensively with senior executives and their teams. He was known for successfully developing and implementing new strategies and building strong organizations dedicated to improving leader and organizational performance.
David holds a Master’s of Science degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He has completed executive programs at Stanford University and University of Virginia as well as a variety of professional, leadership and coaching and leadership development programs throughout his career. David is certified in the use of variety of leadership and coaching assessment instruments including MBTI, Strong Profile, and Firo B, CPI, Thomas Kilman Conflict and Korn Ferry assessment tools.
Key Highlights:
· Built the first-ever executive education function for a major telecommunications company and established it as the source for coaching advice and counsel regarding executive, career and leadership development Received President’s Quality
· Received President’s Quality Award for coaching work with special cross-functional team in an advertising company contributing to the company's improvement from "worst to first” in industry quality measures
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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. Named in 2010 and 2011 as one of the world's top 15 most influential executive coaches by Coaching Gurus, 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 two 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 the Sr. HR Leader of a two billion dollar office products manufacturer and distributor emerging from the brink of bankruptcy to strengthen his communication and delegation skills. This enabled him to effectively reorganize, empower, and mentor staff, helping them to adapt to rapid change and think strategically.
· 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.
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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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Julie LaCroix is a career counselor and professional career development coach for emerging prof
essionals in growing organizations. She has been guiding executives as they pursue their livelihoods and their passions throughout her career. A former Wall Street recruiter for nearly a decade, she discovered that her own sense of purpose was firmly grounded in helping talented individuals strengthen and define their personal stories as they climbed the ladders of success.
Julie brings to the impressive distinction of being part of the launch team for Bloomberg’s electronic trading platform for the equity markets, as she leveraged her professional trading expertise with Merrill Lynch. Her proficiency in this category of software dovetailed with her interest in executive potential and achievement, which launched her in the field of executive search. With an M.A. Ed in Educational Counseling from Azusa Pacific University, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, Julie contributes a unique understanding of real-world business experience and the underlying motivation that drives professionals to make the right career choices.
As she engages with her clientele, she helps identify and develop the tools needed for each client to differentiate themselves and maximize their potential. She customizes each client’s career management strategies based upon helping them define and focus their expertise and present it effectively. She guides their career development and advancement through identification of work values, perception management and goal attainment. Julie is a firm believer that each professional has his or her own intersection where livelihood and greater purpose meet.
Key Highlights:
· Julie has coached more than 20 professionals at a major Southern California professional investment services firm. Her background in this industry combined with her comprehensive approach to career development has helped this company attain a high level of productivity and improvement in their young employee base. Julie has been able to help these professionals manage their image, advance toward their goals, and has provided feedback to management on their strengths, values and weaknesses. As a result, management has a clear idea of how to incentivize and reward these workers as they reach their high potential.
· Authored over 150 pages of curriculum designed for assisting emerging professionals develop and advance their careers. Additionally, she has designed numerous workshops and seminars designed to educate and refine young workers on professional practices.
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Kathy brings a strong global mindset to 30 years of coaching, consulting and training experience in the United States and South Africa to clients who represent diverse nationalities, ethnicities, religions and professions. Her clients include U.S. citizens and expatriates working in the United States from other countries including: China, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Japan, Viet Nam, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and others. Her work in corporate, not-for-profit, government, education and healthcare sectors provides a solid foundation in understanding how organizational cultures impact those who work in them and the conscious strategies employees need to succeed in their careers.
Kathy enjoys working with people from diverse cultures and supports them to draw upon and align their choices (professional and personal) with their personal and cultural values and beliefs.
Kathy earned her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and her M.A. in Sociology from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a certified coach with the International Coach Federation.
Key Highlights:
· Successfully provided coaching to senior manager at top tier U.S. professional services firm ($29B revenue), who was planning to leave the firm. She is from China and works in the U.S. She was a top performer, but was bored and she felt something was missing from her career and life. She identified core values she wished to honor, among them family and access to her own cultural community. We prepared her to negotiate a new position and relocation package closer to her family. We developed a two year strategic career plan with milestones, identified and resolved limiting beliefs and positioned her for partner track. She asked for and was granted a new position in a new location, with increased national visibility, renewed energy, engagement and commitment. The firm retained a top performer and she assigned to an elite national project reserved for top performers.
· Successfully coached first cadre of thirty African management candidates for South African agricultural development company. All of them graduated and became project managers on development projects. They were often the first in their families to be formally educated beyond secondary school, thereby raising the quality of life for their generation.
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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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Laura Perez is a Certified Executive Coach, facilitator, and management consultant with more than 20 years of experience, guiding individuals and organizations toward realizing their fullest potential. In doing so, Laura uses her distinctive style, proven tools, and ground-breaking strategies to help clients achieve personal and professional excellence. Laura unleashes the power and knowledge of both executives and senior-leadership teams to maximize teamwork, enhance leadership skills, effectively manage complex board-level dynamics, and successfully navigate challenging organizational transitions in achieving strategic goals and positive outcomes. Laura works with leaders to help them discover where they want to go and identify the best path to get them there. In doing so, she has worked with some of the most respected business leaders in the medical, construction, high tech, banking and government sectors, nationally and globally including Presidents, CEO’s, and other C-level leaders of these top tier organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Sacramento Region, Asia, and Europe.
Laura holds dual degrees from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelors of Science in Business Management and Bachelors in Business Administration. She is also certified from the Institute of Professional Executive Coaches, in addition to being accredited with the Leadership Performance Inventory, Inc.
Key Highlights:
· Worked with a large company to coach and groom three potential executives to become the next President/successor of the organization. Devised processes to understand each executive’s strengths, values, and leadership capabilities. Coached individual candidates to ensure they understood the business as a whole to comprehend the component of each department, their functions, processes, and departmental best practices. As their trusted advisor, I engaged them in leadership exercises to overcome weaknesses and develop strengths that were identified as important to becoming the successor. I further challenged their assumptions in problem-solving, decision-making, and identifying core issues with known challenges. I provided guidance in transitioning to a leadership role and developing an organizational vision
· Coached CFO to improve leadership skills and assist in overcoming weaknesses and developing strengths to secure a position with an aggressive company in the construction industry. Challenges included business collaboration and communication. To focus on these challenges, I provided tools to improve communication techniques, leadership skills in communicating vision and direction, and create accountability. I further challenged the CFO to make organizational business decisions versus making decisions at the departmental level. Improving communication assisted the CFO in getting involved with senior leadership and become a leader in strategic planning, in addition to developing and forming relationships with business partners and the community at large.
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Loida Noriega-Wilson, MHRM
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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With an extensive background of more than 35 years of solid and proven business accomplishments, Mike is much sought after as an executive coach, organizational consultant and trusted advisor. Combining business acumen with an empathetic style, he has successfully developed leadership skills and awareness in countless senior level managers and CEO’s across a wide range of industries. While he has focused in financial services, his broad experience extends to pharmaceuticals, technology, software, and professional sports.
As trusted advisor to leaders with global outreach, he has coached and provided consulting services in enhancing senior management expertise, developing teams globally, board of director competencies, and cognizance in behavioral changes to accommodate challenging business scenarios and the subsequent political realities of business.
Mike built a successful career in the financial services sector, which culminated as principal founder and CEO of Mason McDuffie Financial Corporation. During his tenure, he presided over growth in the servicing assets to close to 1.5 billion dollars. There he earned the company recognition as one of the top 10 privately held commercial mortgage banking companies in the United States. He was also selected to serve as President of the Northern California Mortgage Banker’s Association, Board member of the California Mortgage Bankers Association and lecturer at the School of Mortgage Banking.
He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and has taken numerous graduate courses in real estate, finance and management at Cal.
Certifications in organizational behavior include Personnel Decisions International and MRGs’ Leadership Effectiveness Analysis.
Mike is also in the last phase of earning his Master Coaching Certificate.
Key Highlights:
· Mike spent six years as coach and trusted advisor to the CEO, Executive Team and selected managers of a global pharmaceutical company. In that capacity he worked closely with the CEO on critical business challenges including corporate reorganizations, executive team alignment, corporate priorities and other key management initiatives
· Mike successfully coached a key leader in a professional sports team on developing team dynamics, mentoring throughout the organization and navigating the political realities of professional sports.
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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.
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