Experience/Background:
Jim specializes in Executive and Corporate Business Coaching and team development. He has 20 years of executive coaching experience – evolving from corporate work of counseling to more focused approach on business issues and results desired in the workplace

I acquired my coaching expertise by studying with current practitioners in a study group of the Organization Development Network in New York City.

In terms of my coaching Approach and Practice, I partner with the client, be it an individual or organization, to achieve the results they are after by understanding and delineating what needs to be accomplished in order to achieve those results. I help them understand how thinking, acting and feeling influences both the intended and unintended consequences of his or her behavior. My approach to coaching is practical and thorough. I balance challenge with support, am direct and sensitive to client’s needs. My approach includes data gathering and assessment and can bring into play various psychological surveys as mutually determined by him and the client. Experience and special interests include working with senior executives and high potential global leaders, working with executives across cultural and other diversity dimensions, working with leaders and their teams to improve overall effectiveness by clarifying share purpose and alignment and working with minorities in senior leadership positions.

Systems theory plays an important role in understanding how change occurs and how I approach each coaching assignment. Interventions I make alter my client’s perceptions and actions which in turn affect the systems they work in. The goal of my work is to increase client effectiveness with unintended consequences which they do not desire.

I view coaching as a customized process that enhances effective action and learning agility within the organizational framework of management development. I believe that encouraging employees to engage in constructive inquiry, awareness stretching and self-initiated behavioral changes in the midst of ongoing work, ultimately provides the key to continuous improvement, more effective and satisfying employee relationships and organizational change. This activity is in the service of helping the individuals and the organization achieve the results they want. Increasing and maintaining client self awareness is a cornerstone of the work I do

All my coaching work offers a theoretically cohesive view of the how individuals learn and grow and how organizations can make sustainable changes that improve processes and procedures.

Each coaching situation, depending on the specific immediacy of demands, may proceed somewhat differently. However usually the process unfolds as follows:

1. Assessment and establishment of a coaching contract
2. Building and maintaining the coaching relationship
3. Raising awareness and expanding perceptions by challenging assumptions and inferences
4. Refining the contract
5. Facilitating change via thoughts, new choices and behaviors
6. Integration of learning, change, review and evaluation of process
7. Closure

Education:
Jim has a MSW in social work and a BS degree in education from New York University . He received his psychoanalytic therapy certification from the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis.

Clients:
JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Northern Trust, LPL Financial Services, Zurich Scudder Investments, New York Stock Exchange, Executive Risk Management, Scholastic Corporation, Curtis Instruments, The Home Depot, Pfizer, Sony Music Entertainment, Mitsubishi Chemical, Eli Lilly and Co. and Price Waterhouse Coopers.