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Ira Chaleff • Executive Coach • President
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As
a coach, Ira provides a stimulating and safe environment for executives and
their teams to examine, evaluate and significantly improve their management
styles, skills and processes. Through targeted interviews, work-climate surveys,
and multi-viewpoint feedback instruments, he involves all those who have a stake
in the change process, analyzes their input and provides frank, constructive
feedback sessions. In consultation with his clients, he designs programs that
foster individual and team growth, and provides the coaching and
facilitation to achieve
desired outcomes. He simultaneously challenges and empowers the wider
group to support the process so it is not undermined before beginning to
demonstrate visible and sustainable results.
As
a consultant, Ira conducts in-depth analyses of organization strengths and
weaknesses and facilitates strategy reviews and organization retreats. He helps
clients streamline core business processes, navigate organizational and business
transitions and enrich internal communication. He helps boards and senior
executives clarify problematic situations, identifies options for addressing
these and guides the leadership team in moving the organization from its
existing state to a more desirable condition. He particularly enjoys working
with mission-driven organizations whose social value generates deep commitment
at all levels of the organization.
For
examples of the type of work Ira does, see cases histories, Merging
Exec Teams, Interpersonal
Conflict,
Gender Management
and the Strategic
Planning Retreat workshop.
Ira’s
background in the public and private sector informed his book, The
Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, which has received
wide critical acclaim. Since publishing this book, Ira has been invited to speak
about and conduct workshops on leader-follower dynamics for many organizations.
For more information about this work see Courageous
Follower Workshops.
Ira
is also a founding partner of the Institute for Business Technology, US. IBT
conducts its popular "Personal Efficiency Programs" in eighteen
countries, providing seminars and coaching in work flow management for many
Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Ira has published numerous
articles on Workload
Management in the information age.
Prior
to forming IBT US, Ira served as executive director of the Congressional
Management Foundation, a non-profit group providing management training and
consulting to congressional offices. He served as special assistant to over two
dozen U.S. Senators and Representatives, analyzing their management styles,
strategies, structures and processes. He has authored and edited several books
and studies on management in political environments and is currently chairman of
the board of the foundation.
Ira’s
clients have included a wide range of organizations:
