Leadership

My Ph.D. is in Leadership Studies. I have applied my training to developing a compendium of leadership development courses, online leadership sessions, and coaching curriculum materials.  After conducting a literature review of 20+ articles pertaining to the attributes of top-tier, future-driven leadership development programs, the following themes emerged regarding best practices.

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• Needs assessment should occur first via surveys, interviews, focus groups, and observation.
   

• Gap Analysis should be conducted to determine where the organization is and outline future goals.
   

• Commitment should occur from senior-level support to the corporate strategy, organizational mission, and cultural learning.
   

• Meaningful metrics from paper-and-pencil assessments.
   

• 360-degree feedback from the perspective of relevant viewpoints.
   

• Executive coaching and other types of coaching are often employed and applied to real-life situations.
   

• Mentoring and professional development pertaining to team dynamics, systems thinking, communication skills, cross-functional projects, globalization, strength discovery, critical thinking, cross-cultural communication, etc.
   

• Emotional Intelligence development, which helps individuals become more sensitive and understanding to manage emotions and impulses.
   

• Innovation through greater agility and more experimentation.
   

• Leadership Diversity development pertaining to discovering implicit bias.
   

• Vertical development that builds employees' leadership capacity in more-complex roles.
   

• 70-20-10 framework should be considered.
   

• Professional Action Plans and ongoing reflection.
   

• Succession Planning should be considered.
   

• Design Thinking promotes success, and involves: empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test.
  
   

Leadership Consulting

I was trained in Process Consulting by the Center for Organizational Reform. COR assists individuals and groups to achieve resilience and a greater capacity to address complex challenges. COR supports those who lead and serve others through consulting, teaching, research, and product development. 

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• Participated in doctoral internship program and was formally trained in the skills of facilitation and process consultation.
   

• Worked with requesting organizations in the Pacific Northwest to increase effectiveness, health, and accountability by administering Organizational Cultural Assessments based on Schein’s work.
   

• Provided toxic handling, conflict resolution, “professional helping,” and "technical assistance" to organizations going through trauma and rapid change.
   

• Completed COR Leadership Development Training, which included Enneagram and MBTI.
   

• Strengthened organizations by helping them increase productivity and improve the quality of relationships, services, and products.
   

• Worked with organizations - including businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions to effectively develop standards and measure progress aligned with organizational objectives.
   

• Developed and used meeting assessment tool to audit meetings and improve communication. 
   

• Tracked data and presented statistical feedback to stakeholders.