With a PhD in psychology and a successful early career as a Director of HR at strategy consulting firm, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Jeff has always been passionate about bringing out the best leadership talent in C-suite clients from a wide range of backgrounds and organizations – from start-ups to fortune 50 finance, manufacturing, health care and pharmaceutical firms.
A Board-Certified Coach (BCC) with over 15,000 hours of coaching senior leaders, Jeff is well known for his expertise in cultivating and empowering executives to step up their game in:
Emotional agility – learn to “flex” and honor emotions as a key part of a leadership portfolio.
Communicating with presence – build a strategic vision and utilize aspirational communication that inspires others to act.
Overcoming blind spots – cultivate vulnerability and humility that creates psychological safety and encourages creativity, learning and risk-taking.
Expanding leadership behaviors – enable leaders to move seamlessly from directive to collaborative decision-making that elevates productivity from diverse and multicultural teams.
What Jeff’s clients say about his coaching:
Expanding on strengths. “Working with Jeff, it was an eye opener experience for my professional and personal life. His diligent listening, analytical thinking, and methodology brought out my key strengths and focused me on what really matters, which made our coaching exercise a true transformational journey!!” Alejandro De Lara, Managing Director, Global HR Lead Product Group, Marketing and Research, MSCI
Building emotional agility. “ I was very fortunate to have Jeff as my executive coach when working as the COO at Duke Clinical Research Institute. His guidance and support helped me grow into a C-level role where I successfully navigate both academia and corporate R & D in a global pharmaceutical organization.” Baljit (Boo) Samra, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations, Asia Pacific, Parexel
Expanding your leadership repertoire. “Jeff has helped me to up my leadership game by several levels. Working with Jeff, I always felt that – while he gave me space to discover insights for myself – he was fully in control of my learning progress, he knew where to pick me up and how to guide me to the next milestone, and he took responsibility for helping me through my successful leadership transformation. Thanks to Jeff’s coaching I feel like a fish in the water in my everyday leadership work today, enjoying every minute of it.” Michael Stolle, Chief Operating Officer at Digitec Galaxus AG
In addition to his twenty-five years of C-suite coaching experience, Jeff is the author of two books and serves as faculty at NYU and Harvard Medical School, and Executive Director of the Institute of Coaching, a McLean Hospital based Harvard Affiliate. His most recent book, FLEX: The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World, was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House and named a Top 20 business book by Forbes and other media companies. He regularly writes for Harvard Business Review and has been profiled in the NY Times and Investors Business Daily.
He travels broadly, living in Europe and the USA, and works extensively with multi-national teams. A highly sought after speaker, he gives keynote talks to academic and corporate groups worldwide, including Goldman Sachs, Syngenta, the International Leadership Association, the Consulting Psychology Association, Association for Medical Simulation, the Clinical Pharmacologists International Association, International Coach Federation and many more.