Highlights

We can help you to improve the wellbeing of your people and create a successful, high performing organization. Whether the organization is growing or downsizing, transitioning times demand that leaders rapidly assimilate while simultaneously providing heartfelt leadership. We help you to select the right people for the right jobs and put together effective teams. We coach individuals to be well- balanced, thoughtful leaders. To add impact, we provide workshops designed to catalyze a group's collaborative solution finding effort.

We work with Fortune 50's, professional practices and venture start-ups. As example:

Coaching the Newly Promoted Executive

We work with individuals newly promoted to the executive suite. This time of transition, while exciting and highly charged, can also be daunting for the new executive, in terms of understanding the rules of engagement at this level, the politics, and the particulars of leading a larger organization.

We take a snapshot of the executive 's personality, combine this with feedback on leadership in recent roles, and assist the executive to develop engagement plans aligned with life goals and organization outcome goals.

Professional Practice Decisions

We work with Professional Practice Firms to create effective working relationships within the firm and the larger community.  As an example of our work:

The partners of a medical practice sought assistance to negotiate their interpersonal differences. On-going conflict had led several to consider breaking up the practice but they wanted to make one more attempt to resolve their differences through professional intervention.

Karen A. Foster, Ph.D. met with the partners separately to gather data from each perspective. The medical partners individually completed an on-line assessment to yield personality information for developmental insights and to better understand them as a group. Dr. Foster then designed a series of meetings and interventions with the partners as a group, facilitated individual confrontation and helped analyze the impact of various solutions to their key problems. As a result of this process, the partners realized they wanted to renew their commitment to work as an effective partnership. They agreed upon a mutually enforced set of values as a guide for relating with each other and to provide the alignment necessary to achieve an uplifting and gratifying work culture for all staff. They established a communication feedback loop within the group, providing a safeguard against future conflict escalation and agreed to annually revisit the matter.