TECF Who We Are

He is the creator of The Developmental Coaching Dialogue and has developed a comprehensive approach to team development that simultaneously addresses individual and organizational capacity building.

Bob is a contributing author to Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives, Davies-Black, 2002. Prior to establishing RGA, Bob maintained a private clinical psychology practice for 15 years in Watertown and Belmont, Massachusetts. He trained as a Family Systems Therapist at the Family Institute at Newton. In his practice, Bob worked with families, children, and adults who presented a range of issues.

Bob also has direct business experience as the owner/operator of Rustica Inc., a retail food business. He brings experience in strategic planning, management, marketing, and customer relations.

Bob joined The Executive Coaching Forum in 2001 and has contributed to the third and fourth editions of the Handbook.

His faculty appointments are Harvard Medical School, Clinical Instructor; Department of Psychiatry; McLean Hospital, Clinical Associate; The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Master Coach Supervisor, Executive Coaching Certification Program

Selected Client List
Citigroup, Eisai, Élan Corporation, Fidelity Management Resources, Harvard Business School, Harvard Vanguard, J.P.Morgan, Kaiser-Permanente, Microsoft, Novartis, Omgeo, Pfizer Inc., Pick ‘n Pay, Serono, Stratus Technologies, Thomson Financial, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Weil, Gotschal and Manges, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Education
Harvard University, Ed.D, Human Development
Rutgers University, AB, Biological Sciences; M.Ed., Human Development

While with Development Dimensions International for five years as a Master Trainer and Account Executive, she was trained in Assessment Center technology and all DDI’s leadership courses. She is trained and certified in coaching by The Center for Creative Leadership.

Lew has served as President of Focus Consulting, Vice President at ODI, and Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting. He is a co-founder and Past President of the New England Society for Applied Psychology and co-founder and Past Chair of The Executive Coaching Forum. He was a founding Board member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching and the Co-founder and Past Director of New England’s only Graduate Certificate Program in Executive Coaching, at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He served as the Chairman of the Working Group on Coach Education and Development for the Global Coaching Convention.
Lew is a founding member of The Executive Coaching Forum, founder of its website, and co-author and editor of all four editions of the Handbook.

Selected Organizational Client List
Boston Scientific, Rogers Corporation, Northeastern University, Omgeo, Analog Devices, Fidelity Investments, Federal Express, American Express, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Tufts Health Plan, State Street Global Advisors, John Hancock, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Brown Brothers Harriman, Johnson & Johnson, and Harvard University.

Education
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. Dr. Stern is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and a Certified Health Care Provider. He has served as an adjunct faculty or guest lecturer at many colleges and universities.

WILLIAM HODGETTS, Ed. D 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. 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 an 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, DBA, LICSW 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.

MICHAEL D. MADERA, Psy. D. 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

RICHARD MANSFIELD, Ed.D. 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.

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.

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

NANCY L. YAHANDA, Ed.D. is a seasoned executive 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 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 25 years ago, Nancy has extensive expertise in CEO coaching, 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 Executive Dimensions, 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, Workplace Big Five, the Hogan Assessment tools, 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 this 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 is a three-time winner of The Top Ten Executive Coaches in Boston, awarded by Women's Business and The Boston Herald. She 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 The Boston Club, and is a member of the Million Dollar Circle of The Commonwealth Institute.

Clients 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 Bose, 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.

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