Many different individuals and organizations have used my services.
Here are some of the tasks and results of my work with specific clients.
Executive & Life Coaching
Financial services executive
Task: To develop strategy for managing stress and working with new company ownership and difficult boss.
Outcome: Significant reduction in stress and development of effective exit strategy
Investment manager
Task: Create plan for working with highly critical boss and enhancing assertiveness skills.
Outcome: Better working relationship with boss, effective negotiation regarding professional role, enhanced self-esteem.
College professor seeking tenure
Task: Analyze writer’s block and time-management challenges.
Outcome: Successful completion of book and requirements for tenure. Now tenured professor.
Financial services consultant
Task: Analyze “stay or go” options. Identify and plan for next career based on personal values and passions.
Outcome: Appropriate exit strategy. Recognition of new ways to assess career options.
University executive
Task: Identify and resolve issues related to poor working relationships and marital concerns.
Outcome: Greater satisfaction and excellent feedback from management regarding performance and attitude. Happily reconciled with husband following trial separation.
College professor
Task: Develop techniques to navigate highly conflictual departmental environment. Prepare for tenure application process.
Outcome: Successful resolution of deparmental conflict. Awarded tenure.
Father & Adult Daughter
Task: Communicate more effectively about intergenerational money goals and tensions.
Outcome: Reduction in family tension. Father more able to treat his daughter as an adult: daughter assumed more financial responsibility.
Physician, major medical center
Task: Enhance skills in anger management and navigating organizational politics.
Outcome: Successful elimination of workplace outbursts, positive performance evaluations.
Law school applicant
Task: Reduce test-taking anxiety and related stress. Challenge assumptions underlying perfectionism.
Outcome: Passed LSAT with high scores. Improved stress management and relaxation skills.
Foreign-born non-profit executive
Task: Analyze cultural differences and required skills to work effectively with the Board and understand operational politics.
Outcome: Improved working style. Chosen for community award. Developed better coping strategies in personal and professional life.
Small business owner
Task: Assess management style and devise new approach.
Outcome: Established responsibility-sharing for corporate success with managers. Significant reduction in reported stress.
Women Lawyer's Group
Task: Facilitate discussion regarding gender-related
leadership styles and firm-specific issues.
Outcome: On-going group meetings and report to Managing Committee .
Media consulting firm founder
Task: Analyze family business and relationship issues.
Outcome: Clarification of family and business roles and responsibilities. Dramatic improvement of relationships in both domains.
Law firm
Task: Plan and facilitate retreats for all firm personnel.
Outcome: Significant improvement in management of cases, office administration and morale.
Family-owned Business family
Task: Develop strategy for spouse/owner and children to determine business succession plan in light of husband/owner's alcoholism.
Outcome: Successful plan implementation & transition.
Accounting firm
Task: Resolve high level of conflict between managing partner and COO.
Outcome: Developed exit strategy for COO. Identified new resources to manage firm's day-to-day operations.
