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- Do you run your own business?
- Yes
- What business help can you offer?
- Professional development programs and coaching in four key areas:
•Consultative Problem Solving, focused on building a common “toolkit” of analytical and communication skills for cross-functional work teams to accelerate efficiency and effectiveness. Recent client engagements include a leading US cellular phone carrier and a global food-services retailer.
•Structure and Logic in Communications, focused on embedding the tools and skills necessary for middle managers and analysts to move from data to insight in developing compelling recommendations to senior management and investment community decision makers. Recent client engagements include a leading US financial services concern, a global digital storage devices manufacturer and the European R&D group of a global biotech/pharma manufacturer.
•Presentation Impact, focused on tools and skills for more effective presentations, particularly targeted at middle managers presenting up in their organization, global executives presenting outside of their home culture and senior managers presenting to the investment community. Recent client engagements include a Wall Street investment management firm and the European R&D group of a global biotech/pharma manufacturer.
•Leadership Coaching, focused on helping business leaders and emerging leaders build and enhance interpersonal communication skills necessary to enable both personal and organizational success. Approach built around benchmark 360o survey of coachee followed by a series of short interactions focused on real work, over a six-month period. Recent engagements include working with: incoming COO of leading Canadian paper manufacturer; group of four SVPs of top-tier U.S. commercial bank; and, U.S. business-unit president promoted to U.K headquarters leadership position.
- Favourite Entrepreneur:
- Norman Gurevitz
- Favourite Music:
- Steely Dan, The Kinks, George Gershwin
- Favourite Books:
- Widow for One Year; Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; Badenheim 1939
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