Background
I bring to coaching 35 years of experience as a consultant, counselor, entrepreneur and manager.
My formal training is in industrial/organizational psychology. In 1974, after nine years working in large organizations, I founded my own consulting practice in New York City. This practice grew into Lee Hecht Harrison, a major worldwide firm offering services in career transition, leadership development and talent management solutions. In 1994 I became President and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership, a non-profit which is the world’s largest leadership research, training and publishing organization. Since 1997 I have been in my own New York City practice offering coaching to executives and training to people who wish to do coaching.
I am on the adjunct faculty at The New School, and am a Senior Fellow with the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. In 2003 I founded iCoachNewYork, a group of experienced executive coaches who serve as faculty and supervisors for the coach training programs based at these universities and for programs provided in-house for organizations.
My active memberships include the Society of Consulting Psychology [SCP], the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology [SIOP], the Society of Psychologists in Management [SPIM], and the New York Metropolitan Association for Applied Psychology [METRO]. I am a Fellow of SIOP and was the recipient of SPIM’s Distinguished Psychologist in Management award in 2008.
With my iCoachNewYork colleagues, I published Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach [AMACOM, 2011], based on our coach training and certificate courses. My earlier publications include two co-authored books: Discovering the Leader in You [2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, 2011]
and Executive Coaching [Wiley/Pfeiffer,
2005]. My PhD is from Case Western Reserve University,
1965.