SUSAN ENNIS is an executive development consultant with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in executive level competency modeling and applications such as 360 assessment and development, selection, executive orientations and succession planning. She is particularly effective in creating rapid prototypes of competency models and tools. Susan helps companies set up executive coaching systems, along with sourcing, qualifying and brokering executive coaches.
Susan coaches high potential managers, newly appointed leaders, and technical managers who need to expand their influence repertoire. She is especially interested in helping people reach their potential so that organizations can realize the full contribution of executives whose social background, educational experience or cultural heritage varies from their peers.

Susan has extensive managerial experience in large corporations and non-profits. Prior to starting her own consulting practice, she managed executive development, succession planning, and executive coaching at BankBoston. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Susan held a variety of leadership development positions, some with global responsibilities. These included: executive development, career development for US employees, as well as creating and implementing a worldwide competency framework for integrating human resource practices, and managing an internal consulting group funded by business units. At McBer, she held consulting, project management, product development and account management roles.

Client List
A selected list of the organizations Susan has worked with the follows: American Management Systems, BankBoston, Boston Scientific Corporation, Boston Police Department, Corning Fiber Optics, Digital Equipment, Fannie Mae, FDIC, Fidelity Investments, Hallmark Cards, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, numerous small companies and non-profits. Susan is a founding member and on the Board of Directors for The Executive Coaching Forum.

Education
Susan received a BA with honors from Harvard University in an interdisciplinary major of Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology. She has a M.Ed. with honors from Northeastern University in Curriculum Design and Instruction. Susan has presented and published widely on how to execute business strategy through executive coaching, competency-based selection, development, and performance management tools.

WILLIAM HODGETTS is an experienced, senior executive coach who brings an extensive knowledge of leadership development, executive assessment, behavioral science and family business to his work with CEO’s and other senior leaders. Before co-founding Hodgetts Associates, an executive coaching and consulting firm, Bill spent over fifteen years working in a variety of HR consulting and organizational/leadership development roles in the financial service sector. In addition to his work at Hodgetts Associates, Bill is currently Vice President of Leadership & Executive Development at Fidelity Investments, where his responsibilities include providing executive coaching, developmental assessments, and other learning resources to senior executives, overseeing executive coaching company-wide, and maintaining an extensive referral network of coaching and other development resources.

Bill is a founding Board member of The Executive Coaching Forum, an organization devoted to establishing and promoting the highest standards of professional and ethical practice for the field of executive coaching. His other professional memberships include the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Organizational Development Network. Bill also serves on the Board of Community Legal Services and Counseling Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Client List
As a senior consultant at Fidelity, Bill has worked closely with the Chairman and other senior leaders around issues of organizational change and learning, management development, family business, succession management, and the organizational impact of new technology. As principal of Hodgetts Associates, Bill has provided in-depth executive assessment and senior level executive coaching to a number of major corporations, family businesses, and professional service firms. Recent clients have included S.C. Johnson and Sons, Corning Glass, Allied Domecq Retailing USA, Dunkin Donuts, Hasbro, and the Handleman Company.

Education
Bill holds and Ed.D. in human development and psychology from Harvard University, and a B.A. in government from Cornell University. He has presented frequently at national conferences on executive coaching and leadership development, and is author of “Using Executive Coaching in Organizations: What Can Go Wrong (And How to Prevent it”), in Executive Coaching, Catherine Fitzgerald, editor, Davies Black, Fall 2001; also co-author (with Jane Hodgetts) of "Finding Sanctuary in Post-Modern Life," from The Career is Dead, edited by Douglas T. Hall, Jossey-Bass, 1996. Bill has also been a lecturer at Harvard Extension School, and the Arthur D. Little School of management.

JAMES M. HUNT is Associate Professor of Management and the Charles E. McCarthy Family Term Chair holder at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he teaches management, strategic human resource management and leadership at the graduate and executive education levels. James is also a faculty member of the Leadership and Influence Program at the Babson College School of Executive Education and is Faculty Co-Director of the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program at Babson. He is co-author of the new book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business, available from Sage Publications (www.CoachingManager.com). He is currently engaged in a major research project on executive coaching and organizational learning.

He has spoken at a variety of national conferences including the Academy of Management, Society for Human Resource Management and the Linkage Conference on Coaching and Mentoring. At the 1999 national meeting of the Academy of Management his research (with his colleague Dr. Joseph Weintraub) on teaching coaching to management students was voted Best Paper in Management Development. He has published in the Journal of Management Education, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Innovation Management, Consulting Psychology Journal, Journal of Organizational Excellence, Proceedings of the Academy of Management, and Progress in Management Consulting.

Client List
James is also the founder of Hunt Associates, a leadership development and strategic human resources consulting firm. Since 1990, Hunt Associates has provided executive coaching, leadership development and consultation services to a number of businesses and not-for-profit organizations throughout the U.S. including the Bose Corporation, Children’s Hospital Boston, 3Com, Genzyme, and Stratus Computer. He also serves on the advisory board of Insight Performance, Inc. a human resource management consulting firms.

Education
He received his DBA (doctorate in business administration) with a concentration in organizational behavior, from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management in 1994. There he studied career and leadership development and organizational consultation. He received an MSW from Simmons College in 1977 and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. James also completed training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. James is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management.

JUDY OTTO has worked in leadership, organizational, and team development in both the private and public sector for 25 years. She specializes in helping organizations, work units, and individuals plan, implement, and manage change. Her methods include executive coaching, process facilitation, process improvement, large group interventions, and team coaching.

As an adjunct faculty member of The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)/Rensselaer Learning Institute, she coaches participants in CCL’s Leadership Development Program. She has designed and delivered coaching programs for leadership teams and individual high level managers at several New England corporations. Judy has also facilitated CCL’s Leadership Development Program and Looking Glass Experience.

She is a founding member of the Executive Coaching Forum, whose members wrote the Handbook of Executive Coaching. Judy is the manager of the TECF website.

Judy provides individual and group supervision for executive coaches. Judy has also served as adjunct faculty with Columbia University’s International Senior Executive Program, Boston University’s Executive Challenge Program, Antioch University, Lesley College, and Northeastern University.

Client List
Please see Appreciative Leaders: In the Eye of the Beholder, Taos Institute 2001, where Judy’s account of a client project is published. Other recent clients include Connecticut Light and Power, Entergy Northeast Nuclear, Philips, NStar, Northeast Utilities/Millstone Nuclear and Seabrook Station, Marmaxx Corporation, The American Management Association, Cabot Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Genrad, Boston Edison, Citibank, Serono Laboratories, Seagram Beverage Company, Fidelity Investments, Lahey Clinic, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Forum Corporation, General Electric, Digital Equipment, and Beth Israel Hospital.

Education
Judy’s formal degrees include a B.A. from Nazareth College of Rochester, NY, and an M.Ed. in Counseling from Antioch University. Because she values continuous learning, Judy devotes at least 20% of her working schedule each year to her own professional development. Recently she has studied with the MIT Dialogue Project (Bill Isaacs), Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Peter Vaill, David Cooperrider, Margaret Wheatley, Edgar Schein, Will Schutz, Warren Bennis), Harvard Medical School (Herbert Benson), Ned Hermann, and The Center for Creative Leadership.

Contributing Members

Biographical Summaries

MICHAEL MADERA designed the initial website in 2001 and was recruited to join the Executive Coaching Forum in the autumn of 2005, contributing primarily as our webmaster. He brings 15 years experience counseling and coaching in the areas of individual development, personality assessment and coaching. Michael was trained in the Excel Coaching Model with The Edelstein Group, San Diego CA in 2000, and has attended numerous formal training sessions in coaching and related organizational consulting topics, receiving so far over 160 CEUs. He completed an 800 hour OD practicum with Ibis Consulting, 1994-1995 as part of his doctoral program at The Massachusetts School for Professional Psychology, where his research focused on creativity and personal development in corporate managers. He earned a Psy.D. in 1997. He earned a Masters from Middlebury College and his BA from Vassar College.

Michael specializes in pre-hire and developmental assessments, executive and leadership coaching, and consultation to help organizations innovate and evolve in line with business strategy. He is a certified user of a number of testing and performance development systems, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Denison Culture Survey and the ASSESS system. Using these and other tools, he carefully assesses individuals, teams, and organizational cultures and then provides 360 feedback, creates new or revised competency models and/or delivers high-impact coaching.

Michael also brings a business background to his coaching and consulting. As an entrepreneur, he managed two food products companies before seeking his psychology degree. He served as VP Sales & Marketing for a startup software company in the late 1990's, and then as Senior Consultant for Knickerbocker & Stevens, Inc, a Boston-based management psychology consulting firm. He is a recent Past President of the New England Society for Applied Psychology (NESAP.org) and served for 3 years on the Steering Committee of the Institute for Organizational Consulting Psychology at The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He is a licensed psychologist and a member of the Society for Consulting Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Human Resources Leadership Forum.

Clients: Digitas, Fidelity Investments, Radian Group, cMarket.com, SimpleTuition, Rogers Corporation, Artisan Industries, Cornerstone Technology, Worthen Industries, Hollingsworth & Vose Co., Choate Rosemary Hall School

Michael Madera, Psy.D.
michael@maderapartners.com

RICHARD MANSFIELD was recruited by the Executive Coaching Forum in the spring of 2005 to contribute to the new executive coach competency model. He will continue to be involved in research or product development, e.g., development of assessments based on the competency model. He has more than 25 years of consulting experience. His current focus is on developing assessment tools and methods to support leadership development and organizational assessment. He has developed numerous 360 degree feedback instruments, feedback reports and resource guides to support development planning and executive coaching. He has also served as an executive coach using significant assessment, development planning, encouraging reflection and analysis of past critical situations.

Before starting his own consulting practice, Richard was a Vice President at the Altwell Group, Director of Research at McBer and Company, and an Associate Professor of Human Development at Temple University.

Richard holds a BA in social relations and an Ed.D. in human development, both from Harvard University. He was a faculty member and Department chairperson at Temple University in the department of Educational Psychology where he taught human development, educational psychology, and statistics.

Richard has published numerous articles and co-authored several books, including one on creativity in science. His organization development skills come from seminars on organizational assessment and much experience designing/conducting organization assessments and planning/running interventions based on assessments.

Client List: Richard has worked in many large organizations, including Millennium Pharmaceuticals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, John Hancock, Fannie Mae, Fidelity, Corning Fiber Optics, EMC, Towers Perrin, Massport, Commonwealth Energy, and BankBoston. He has also developed assessment tools and led assessment projects for many consulting firms.

Richard Mansfield, Ed.D.
mansfieldassess@comcast.net

LEW STERN served as the chair of the Executive Coaching Forum since its inception in 1999. One of the original founders, he was also one of the writers of all of the editions of the Handbook, and co-editor. Lew also initiated the website and worked on the recently published competency model. In 2004 Lew designed and helped found the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) Professional Executive Coaching Certificate Program, based on the ECF Handbook and Competency Model. He now serves as Director of that program and as a member of the Board of the new Alliance of Graduate Schools for Executive Coaching. Lew also contributes as ECF's link to those two organizations and similar programs in North America.

With his PhD in psychology plus nearly 600 hours of continuing education in public workshops and conferences, Lew is expertly trained in executive coaching. During his nine years at ODI, he was trained as an international business coach and consultant. He learned the Manchester executive coaching protocol while SVP of coaching in New England. Lew received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, where he also studied organization development and business. He is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and a Certified Health Service Provider. He has served as an adjunct faculty or guest lecturer in business, management, and organization behavior and development at several colleges and universities. Lew co-founded and was twice President of the New England Society for Applied Psychology.

Lew has over 30 years experience as an executive coach, organization development consultant, and consulting psychologist. in the U.S., Canada, and countries in Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. Using the seven principles of the ECF Handbook and an eclectic coaching model that includes cognitive-behavioral, action learning, and a systems approach, Lew focuses on helping executives and their teams develop leadership skills and strategies and change their behaviors and organizations. He provides many types of coaching including: executive coaching, leadership assessment and development planning, new leader coaching, career coaching, and coaching for high-potential leaders. His research demonstrated that 75% of his coaching clients had been promoted or given expanded responsibilities within a year and that the retention rate of leaders assigned to new positions doubled.

Selected Client List: Boston Scientific, Rogers Corporation, Dynogen Pharmaceuticals, Northeastern University, Omgeo, Analog Devices, Fleet Boston Financial, Fidelity Investors, Compaq, Federal Express, American Express, Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Becton Dickinson, Shipley Rohm & Haas, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts Health Plan, State Street Global Advisors, John Hancock, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Brown Brothers Harriman, Stratus Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, and Harvard Medical.

Lewis R. Stern, Ph.D.
Email: sternconsulting@comcast.net

 

Emeritae: Founders/Co-authors

Biographical Summaries

MICHELE VITTI was a founding member of the Executive Coaching Forum and a co-author of the original Handbook. Michele has been a consultant to businesses around leadership and management development for 15 years and has many more years of experience as a coach. Her long time abiding interest is in creating environments that invite and support transformative learning. She is interested in how and why people change, and in ways to encourage opening to new possibilities. Michele's work with clients is to help them clarify the results they want to achieve and, using both analytical and creative means, facilitate the removal of habitual obstacles to attaining those results.

Most recently, Michele's executive coaching practice has focused on working with women in executive positions, exploring the unique challenges they face in leadership roles.

Prior to starting her own business, Sunata Consulting, Michele was a founding consultant and senior partner with Camden Consulting Group. She developed Camden's executive coaching model and lead their practice in management team development.

Michele's education includes an undergraduate degree in English Literature from SUNY, a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University, a clinical fellowship with Harvard Medical School in Addiction Studies, and extensive self study, coursework and qualification workshops in: personality style and 360° assessment tools, organizational change, mediation and dialogue, and transpersonal psychology. She has been studying studio art for several years, and is developing a methodology for using the creative process to develop leadership capacity.

Michele is a faculty member at Smith College Executive Education and has lectured on psychology to undergraduate and graduate students as well as to professional groups. A frequent speaker to professional groups, Michele has recently presented to the Massachusetts BioTech Council, Institute of Management Accountants, The Boston Club and Massachusetts Healthcare Human Resources Association.

She serves as a Master Coach for the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Coach Certification Program, and is a member of The Boston Club, and the Boston Facilitator's Roundtable

Michele Vitti
m-v@verizon.net

Nancy L. Yahanda is a seasoned leadership coach and organizational consultant with over 25 years of experience building individual, team, and organizational effectiveness. Nancy specializes in partnering with senior/high potential leaders and their organizations to fully leverage their potential for creating value to all of their stakeholders and to achieve identified business results. She is known most recently by her multinational and global coaching/consulting work, primarily with U.S. headquartered companies with significant operations in Asia and Europe. Nancy's global perspective, holistic focus, and systems orientation enable her to serve in multiple roles and capacities in organizations, and to facilitate learning and planned change at all levels.

President of YAHANDA group, which she founded over 20 years ago, Nancy has extensive expertise in senior leadership development and executive coaching, post-merger integration, CEO and senior management succession, and building executive team effectiveness. Her approach includes using a variety of 360 feedback and executive competency assessments, learning organization tools, and individualized coaching to help leaders achieve business objectives. Her firm has developed a customized 360 process focused exclusively at the top tier in organizations. In addition, she is certified in Benchmarks, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the California Personality Inventory, the Change Style Indicator, the Campbell Leadership Index, FIRO-B, BarOn EQ, Conflict Dynamics Profile, and others.

Prior to founding YAHANDA group, Nancy held positions in financial management and marketing management in both business and the public sector. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty member and coach at The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), affiliated with the Greensboro, NC headquarters. In that capacity she provides feedback and facilitates group sessions in CCL's Leadership Development Program as well as in CCL's custom leadership and team development programs.

Nancy was recently named one of the Top Ten Executive Coaches in Boston by Women's Business. Nancy is a founding board member of The Executive Coaching Forum and was a key contributor to the first edition of the Handbook. She is a former board member of the Human Resources Leadership Forum and a member of The Boston Club.

Client List
Nancy has broad-based experience across industries and organizations, from financial and legal services to E-business, multinational/global to non-profits. Representative clients include: Fidelity Investments, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Intuit, Inc., JPMorgan Chase, Lucent Technologies, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Procter & Gamble, State Street Global Advisors, and Wellington Management Company, LLP. She also has worked extensively in health care, education, and the non-profit sector.

Education
Nancy holds a Doctorate of Education from Harvard University, with a concentration in Organizational Behavior, and an MA in Management from the University of Washington. She also studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management with Edgar Schein, Richard Beckhard, and Ed Nevis and served as a teaching and research assistant at the Harvard Business School. She has published several articles related to the fields of leadership development, corporate governance, business ethics, and executive coaching.

Nancy L. Yahanda, Ed.D.
nyahanda@yahanda.com