"FOSTERING CHANGE REQUIRES A BALANCE OF
GUTS AND GRACE"
WHO IS BRIEN
A valued advisor, skilled facilitator, passionate instructor, and seasoned coach, Brien Dunphy marries an uncompromising commitment to his clients with a true passion for creating engaging learning environments to catalyze unprecedented growth in teams, individuals, and organizations.
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Drawing on a rich background as a professional counselor, non-profit executive, and business consultant, for the last twenty years Brien has driven change and improvement at every organizational level.
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With wry humor and hard-hitting truth, he has helped senior executives develop innovative strategies, line managers discover untapped efficiencies, and individual contributors develop and leverage new capabilities.
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He is genuinely interested in getting to know his clients, learning about their context, and empathizing with their struggles. But he also committed to relentlessly challenging them in order to help them get out of their own way.
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He has a particular passion for clients hungry to optimize their time, opportunity, and potential. As a busy professional active in both the corporate and faith-based sectors, who is also the father of ten children, he has tremendous empathy for men and women seeking to accomplish the most, in the face of great responsibilities and limited opportunities.
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MEET OUR ASSOCIATES
ANDREA
HARVEY
Andrea brings over 25 years of diverse, global experience coaching and consulting executives to enhance their personal and professional leadership development particularly in the areas of Communication, Executive Presence, Influencing Style, and Strategic Agility. Her years of experience as a business leader in Global Talent Management and background in Organizational Psychology has enabled her to develop a deep understanding of the attitudes and behaviors exemplified by most successful leaders across functions, industries, and cultures.
KEN CARLSON
Ken has over 17 years of experience as a corporate leader and since then has over 11 years of experience as a coach and trainer. Ken is a certified coach with experience coaching hundreds of unique clients from all over the world. Ken’s roles have included an Implementation Director of a Fortune 300 organization, Instructor of Chemistry at a Chicago area university, Owner of a Leadership Training & Coaching organization, and father of two adult children; he understands the challenges of being on the fast track at work while also wanting to make a lasting impact in all areas of life.
ANNE SPOLDI
Anne is a Leadership Coach with over 30 years of leadership experience in multiple industries: Pharmaceutical, High Tech, Consulting and Scientific Equipment. In her roles, she has coached hundreds of employees to become outstanding managers and executives. From her corporate experience, she understands first-hand how large organizations work. Anne specializes in leadership and executive coaching, working with emerging and mid-career, high-potential women in IT/STEM and enabling them to maximize their potential and purpose.
CORE VALUES
The best value statements aren’t framed on a wall or printed on memo cubes; they are decision-making tools. An organization’s values should guide its choices, and thereby shape its culture and determine its identity.
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THAT’S HOW WE USE OURS:
CONVICTION
We only do work we believe in
COURAGE
Hard truths produce transformative results
QUALITY
We only do work which can be done well
COLLABORATION
Success is a destination reached through partnering
PASSION
Our work should challenge, excite, and energize us
