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Ira Chaleff

January 31, 2012 By Ira Chaleff

“Executive Coach” President
Coaching High Performers to Better Results

Ira Chaleff
Ira Chaleff is the founder and president of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates. He has been named one of the top 100 leadership thinkers by Executive Excellence Magazine. He practices the high-stakes art of helping talented people prepare for and succeed in senior level roles. Whether working in the public sector with Senior Executive Service leaders or in the private sector with CEOs and leadership teams, he brings clarity to core success issues, and provides savvy and supportive guidance in tackling them.

As a coach, Ira provides a stimulating and safe environment for executives and their teams to examine and improve their leadership and followership styles and processes. One-on-one onsite or remote coaching identifies and focuses on the strategic, organizational and political challenges and opportunities his clients face. When interpersonal dynamics need remedying, he involves all those who have a stake in the change process, analyzes their input and provides frank, constructive feedback. While focusing on the individual client, he engages the wider group in supporting the coaching process to give it the time needed to achieve the desired 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, and the Strategic Planning Retreat workshop.

As an author and speaker, Ira focuses on the vital relationships between leaders and followers, exploring the rarely examined dynamic styles of followership that contribute to leadership and organization success. His groundbreaking book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, 3rd edition, is recognized as a classic in the field and has been translated into multiple languages. The text book he has co-edited, The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Make Great Leaders and Organizations  has been chosen for the highly esteemed Warren Bennis Leadership Series. Ira speaks about and conducts workshops on leader-follower dynamics for a wide range of organizations. For more information about this work see www.courageousfollower.net. Ira’s most recent book, Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do Is Wrong was named the best new leadership book of 2015 by the University of San Diego, and is attracting attention from senior levels of the military to those engaged in early childhood development. For more information see www.irachaleff.com

Ira was a founding partner of the Institute for Business Technology, US. IBT now known as PEPWorldwide, conducts its popular “Personal Efficiency Programs” globally, 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.

Ira has served as executive director of the Congressional Management Foundation, a non-profit group providing management training and consulting to congressional offices. He has facilitated over a hundred team building and planning retreats for individual congressional offices and has authored and edited several books and studies on management in political environments, Ira is now Chair Emeritus of the foundation.

Ira’s clients have included a wide range of organizations, among them:

  • Private Sector: Ernst and Young, LLP, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, Volvo
  • Non-Profits: AARP, Council of International Schools, Credit Union National Association, Georgetown University, National Democratic Institute, National Public Radio, Radio-Free Europe, National Rural Electric Cooperatives
  • Government: Federal Executive Institute, NASA, The Smithsonian Institution, US Department of Agriculture, US Army, US Navy, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, EU Commission

Ira holds a degree in Applied Behavioral Science and is a Board Certified Coach from the Center for Credentialing and Education. As of January 1, 2018 he completed two terms of board service for the International Leadership Association and is a Visiting Leadership Scholar at Cambridge University in England. Ira lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Washington, D.C., where he is adjunct faculty at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This work at times includes designing and facilitating sessions internationally for organizations supporting democracy growth or even for the political leadership of emerging democracies themselves.

This work at times includes designing and facilitating sessions internationally for organizations supporting democracy growth or even for the political leadership of emerging democracies themselves.

NIGERIA

Ira Chaleff was asked to design and conduct a strategic planning retreat for the leadership of the Senate of Nigeria which was held on February 3rd and 4th of 2001. The leaders and/or deputy leaders of the three major parties were present as well as several key committee chairmen. The retreat was sponsored by the National Democratic Institute which is deeply involved in helping Nigerians develop their democratic institutions after many years of living under military government.

We established four objectives for the retreat, all of which were met:

  1. To develop the foundation of a shared vision, mission and values on which to build a strategic plan that has the passionate commitment and support of the Senate Leadership.
  2. To identify mission-critical goals which the Leadership will proactively pursue for the balance of their term, and the processes for successfully implementing them.
  3. To provide an experience of strategic planning which the participants can transfer to their other roles as party leaders and heads of their individual Senate offices.
  4. To prepare the Senate Leadership for leading the full Senate Retreat the following week and maximizing the opportunity to win the strong support of their colleagues for their strategy to develop the institution and strengthen Nigerian democracy.

While political parties inherently vie with each other for power within a legislature, the Nigerian Senators demonstrated an impressive commitment to working together to strengthen their democratic institutions.

In a country of one hundred million citizens, in which ethnic and regional differences threaten the cohesion of the nation, National Unity emerged as the single most shared value to guide the political and policy choices the Senators would need to make during the remaining two years of their term.

The other widely shared values which emerged were Justice and Fairness, Fear of God (which I interpret to mean accountability to God), Service, Accountability and Transparency, to which the Senators individually, and collectively, committed themselves.

Six goals were drafted to form the core of the institution strengthening effort over the next two years, for discussion, modification and ratification at the full Senate retreat. The goals covered the issues of Institutional Development and Independence, Leadership Process, Budget Process, Intra and InterParty and Executive Relations, Committee System and Public Education on the legislative process.

It was an honor to work with such motivated, focused and collaborative political leaders, determined to seize the opportunities that history presented them to make a difference. The group adopted as its motto, “If not now, when?”

A similar, scaled-down version of the planning retreat was also held for the leadership of the House of Representatives. There was similar enthusiastic response to the tools offered them to help form a unified vision and plan.

In February 2004, Ira returned to Nigeria to help facilitate another retreat under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute for the full Senate of the National Assembly following the elections of 2003. This four-day retreat was attended by 102 of the 109 members of the Senate. It resulted in a communique outlining its resolutions for strengthening the workings of the Senate in the performance of its legislative duties. An implementation process has been established and will be closely monitored to ensure maximum benefit is derived from the excellent work that was done at the retreat.

The approach and processes used by ECCA in facilitating strategic planning are always adapted to the unique needs of the organization, its prior experiences, culture, governance structures, resources and preferences. When there is sufficient commitment to the process by an organization’s leadership, the group emerges not just with a written document, but with a “living” shared vision and set of values that the leadership team uses continuously to guide the organization.

SIERRA LEONE

In June, 2008, Ira Chaleff traveled to Sierra Leone to co-facilitate a Leadership Development and Planning Seminar for the leaders of the 3 political parties in the Sierra Leone parliament.

His co-facilitator was Ken Nnamani, former president of the Senate of Nigeria. Senator Nnamani and he autographed copies of their books for the parliamentary leaders.

The retreat focused on clarifying the roles of parliamentary leaders and the processes for maximizing collaboration across party lines. Mutually agreeable goals were identified for the leaders to bring back to their party membership as a step towards increased collaboration and parliamentary effectiveness.

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Emily Barnes

January 30, 2012 By Emily

“Executive Coach” Senior Associate

Emily Barnes
To organizations and individuals adjusting to recent, current or anticipated change, Emily Barnes brings the strategic focus and competencies gained during fifteen years of diverse experience with various leadership, relationship, performance and communication challenges.

A consultant and strategy coach, Ms. Barnes helps clients create and implement new success strategies. She coaches diverse professionals to align their individual achievements to organizational goals, identify critical success factors for both, and streamline essential job functions. Her experience with work and people management issues common to professionals in positions of authority informs her skill in helping others navigate leadership, relationship, performance and communication challenges inherent in their roles. Ms. Barnes serves public and private sector clients facing short-term, troublesome problems as well as threats to their long-term success.As one executive stated, Emily Barnes is the empathic listener, sounding board, interpreter, and strategist wanted in tight situations.

LEADERSHIP – RELATIONSHIP – PERFORMANCE – PRODUCTIVITY – COMMUNICATION
The project summaries below provide a snapshot of Ms. Barnes’ work in these areas.

Government Agencies

  • Small Business Administration. Targeted assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs guided the planning, development and implementation of business start-up seminars.
  • The World Bank. Conducted personal efficiency programs throughout agency. Measurably improved productivity among several teams by aligning work habits and systems to role expectations.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture. Coached team of research scientists to improved performance in work management, leadership, and communication.
  • U.S. Department of State. Coached information technology manager and core team to integrated performance and improved productivity resulting in faster turnaround times for customer service requests.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Led the installation of work organization processes for legal team members who reported improved performance and less stress.
  • U.S. House of Representatives. Coached several representatives’ staff members to improved work management and personal efficiency.

Global Organizations

  • A team consulting effort focused on relationship management strategies designed to redefine, support, and strengthen leader-follower relationships.
  • Interpersonal communication vital to team-based projects created problems for managers during collaborative efforts. One-on-one coaching closed the gap between performance expectations and skills.

Media Organizations

  • Guided highly successful managers and support staff of international newspaper to analyze and improve team performance following restructuring.
  • Strategist and sounding board for senior staff member of national news staff resulted in decision making clarity and improbable success regarding career-threatening issues.

Private

  • New self-management and relationship management strategies along with no-lose problem solving resulted in better relations and outstanding performance among team members previously experiencing personality conflicts at a top ten university.
  • Negative performance ratings in certain communities required strategic planning, program development, and implementation of diverse projects for medium-sized bank.

Nonprofit

  • Increased lagging productivity among core training staff for national association serving senior citizens after a restructuring of departmental roles and positions.
  • Restructuring plus results from 360 assessments informed the team coaching strategy to prepare managers of national credit union association for expanding leadership roles.
  • Coordinated the planning, development and implementation of leadership programs for thirty-six high performing professionals in seven states.

AFFILIATIONS

Advisor – Council for the Advancement of Small Business, a George Washington University program which prepares MBA students for business management.

Consultant and Coach – Executive Coaching and Consulting Associates, a consortium of highly effective executive coaches and consultants who collaborate to meet the developmental needs of senior executives and their management teams.

Productivity Coach and Trainer – Institute for Business Technology, proprietary owner of Personal Efficiency Programs (PEP), training executives, managers and staff in eighteen countries to work smarter.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
B.A., International Affairs, concentration in Psychology – 1988.

Effectiveness Training Institute, Solano Beach, CA.
Completed experiential coursework, Effective Communications – 1995.

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David Grau

January 29, 2012 By Ira Chaleff

“Executive Coach” Senior Associate

David Grau
David Grau is an executive and leadership coach in Bethesda, MD, with an in-depth consulting background in organization development and change management. He has over 17 years of coaching and consulting experience in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. For 9 years he served on the Senior Leadership Team at the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), one of the Centers of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for the safety of the nation’s food supply. He has particular abilities in assisting executives in identifying and making maximum and appropriate use of their strengths and identifying their opportunities for increased effectiveness as a leader.

David is a retired US Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Officer, Navy rank Captain. He has had his own coaching consultancy since 2007. He blends a unique background in health care, as a former hospital dental department director and in information technology, as a health information systems analyst designing and developing software that led to improved patient care at Veterans Administration hospitals nationwide. As a former director of training and development at FDA, David worked with senior executives to develop a leadership competency model for current and future Agency leaders.

In his Senior Leadership Team role as senior management consultant, he led a highly successful multi-year initiative to transform CVM into a high performance organization that resulted in the Gallup Corporation designating the Center as a “best practices government organization.

As an executive coach and consultant, David provides expertise to leaders in the following areas:

  • Identification and development of leadership competencies for personal and organizational success
  • Elimination of derailing behaviors that impede realization of one’s full potential or can negatively impact employee performance
  • Creation of a workplace environment where employees can do their very best work
  • Conflict resolution (interpersonal or group)
  • Group coaching for leaders and managers
  • Leaders leading change– Ensuring buy-in, shared purpose, accountability, successful implementation and sustainment of that success over time
  • Development of effective executive sponsorship and support of critical projects and initiatives

Certifications

  • 360 Degree Multi-Rater Feedback Assessments: Korn Ferry (Lominger) VOICES, OPM Executive Core Qualifications, PROFILOR, and customized 360 degree assessments
  • Strengths Deployment Inventory (TotalSDI)
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory (TKI) instrument
  • William Bridges Change Management
  • Lominger Leadership Architect and Lominger Interview Architect

A representative sample of clients includes Marriott International, General Mills, Dyno Nobel, Inc., Digital Gateway, Inc., Yuma Regional Medical Center, Ecompex, Inc, Greenpeace USA, Mission of Mercy, Department of Justice, US Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and the Association of American Feed Control Officers.

EDUCATION

  • Graduate Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University
  • Graduate Certificate in Organization Development, Georgetown University
  • Master of Arts, Education, focusing on Education Technology and Workplace Performance Engineering, San Diego State University
  • Doctor of Dental Medicine, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
  • Bachelor of Arts, Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Kari Uman

January 28, 2012 By Kari

“Executive Coach” Senior Associate

Kari Uman
Kari Uman, Senior Associate of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates in Fairfax, VA, has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a coach, consultant, and trainer. Her particular experience and interest in gender issues, and their impact on relationships and performance, enables her to help individuals change behaviors that are undermining their best efforts. As a professionally certified coach, Uman’s approach and methodology has helped executives and managers enhance leadership skills, improve relationships, develop better self-management capabilities and manage conflict more masterfully. In her work coaching women executives, she helps them become aware of self-limiting behaviors and attitudes, create a more positive self-image, explore the myths and beliefs that are undermining their effectiveness and develop both behaviors and strategies that enhance their success. Ms. Uman was recently featured in an article in Kinfolk Magazine, In Conversation: Group Dynamics.

Ms. Uman also works with teams: the interplay of one-on-one coaching with members of a team while simultaneously focusing on team dynamics has helped her clients develop collaborative behaviors and increase trust among team members, improve personal and team accountability, and improve productivity by individuals and the team as a whole. Ms. Uman specializes in gender dynamics within teams, woman-managed teams, and teams where women are in the majority. She helps these teams identify the behaviors that undermine others, and develop both an attitude and behaviors that help the team members and leaders become more powerful and effective.

As a certified organizational consultant, Ms. Uman specializes in conducting organizational assessments and developing reports that illuminate the patterns and themes of organizational behavior, enabling organizations to move positively and effectively into a successful future.

As an organizational trainer, Ms. Uman designs, develops and conducts a broad array of workshops including leadership development, teambuilding, career development, running effective meetings, and managing gender differences. She has received the certification as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designated by the International Coaching Federation.

Her clients include:

  • Crestline Hotels
  • Georgetown University
  • Intelligence Community
  • National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health
  • JBS International
  • Russell Reynolds Associates
  • American Psychological Association
  • Software Engineering Institute

Ms. Uman holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a Master’s in Education from the University of Maine, and certificates in Organization Development and Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Her experience includes serving as an instructor at George Mason University, Georgetown University, Northern Virginia Community College and Mt. Vernon College. She is certified in aa array of assessments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) EI.20 (Emotional Intelligence) and EI 360, Change Management (Prosci) and was also certified by William Bridges and Associates to conduct workshops and provide consulting services on managing organizational transitions.

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Rosa María Barreiro

January 27, 2012 By Ira Chaleff

Strategic Management & Human Resources Consultant

Rosa María Barreiro

Rosa María Barreiro is an innovative leader, business strategist and change agent with an extensive background and success in global operating environments throughout the USA and Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Rosa María has repeatedly been recruited to design and execute change management, employee engagement, leadership development and performance improvement initiatives for a wide variety of organizations and companies.

Rosa María has held senior positions in Europe and America, as Vice-President of Human Resources in Alstom HQ, Director of Human Resources at Alstom Transport, Principal and Owner of Dinámica Empresarial Consultores (DECSA), Director of HR in the Organization of American States (OAS), and Senior HR Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).

Rosa María has a solid academic background in Business Strategy, HR and Communications. She holds an Executive MBA from the University of Texas-Austin and Tecnológico de Monterrey, attends yearly continuous education programs in Wharton University and Aresty Institute, and has a Master Degree in Liberal Arts at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

She currently leads Persona Global Latin America as CEO and offers consulting and coaching services for D.C and Latin America-based organizations interested in acquiring strengths in strategic HR, leadership training and engagement. She is very keen in Leadership coaching in Spanish Language. She is particularly interested in Social Impact Projects for women, youth and high-potential individuals.

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Beverly Jones helps executives bring new productivity to their organizations, and works with professionals to restructure and re-energize their work lives. Throughout her varied career, Bev has engaged in leadership and change management activities, and today she coaches accomplished professionals and executives who want to become more effective. Bev’s current and recent coaching clients include attorneys, other professionals and small business owners, and also executives with university systems, with a national laboratory, and with a major brokerage firm.

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Rosa Maria Barreiro - Strategic Management & Human Resources Consultant

Rosa María Barreiro is an innovative leader, business strategist and change agent with an extensive background and success in global operating environments throughout the USA and Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Rosa María has repeatedly been recruited to design and execute change management, employee engagement, leadership development and performance improvement initiatives for a wide variety of organizations and companies.

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Kari Uman - Senior Associate

Kari Uman, Senior Associate of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates in Fairfax, VA, has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a coach, consultant, and trainer. Her particular experience and interest in gender issues, and their impact on relationships and performance, enables her to help individuals change behaviors that are undermining their best efforts.

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David Grau - Senior Associate

David Grau is an executive and leadership coach in Bethesda, MD, with an in-depth consulting background in organization development and change management. He has over 17 years of coaching and consulting experience in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. He has particular abilities in assisting executives in identifying and making maximum and appropriate use of their strengths and identifying their opportunities for increased effectiveness as a leader.

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Emily Barnes - Senior Associate

To organizations and individuals adjusting to recent, current or anticipated change, Emily Barnes brings the strategic focus and competencies gained during fifteen years of diverse experience with various leadership, relationship, performance and communication challenges. A consultant and strategy coach, Ms. Barnes helps clients create and implement new success strategies.

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