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Professional Services

Executive Coaching
One-on-one sessions to hone leadership skills through
  • data-driven feedback
  • personal reflection and challenge
  • leading to behavioral changes
​This coaching is goal-centered with a limited time frame, focused on helping the client execute effectively and enhance relationship skills in the workplace.
360 Feedback
Individual and team assessments to ensure
  • complete and honest feedback from multiple perspectives
  • based on data from quantitative results of electronic surveys ​
  • as well as in-depth face-to-face interviews
Debriefs to participants include action planning and coaching on next steps.
Life Coaching
Individual coaching sessions over a set course of time, centered on addressing
  • personal and professional difficulties
and enhancing effectiveness in
  • relationships
  • self-awareness
and uncovering one’s skills and abilities for increased growth and contributions.
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Team-Building
Working from a data-driven perspective to help teams increase
  • functioning
  • and address problem areas that are inhibiting their desired performance and outcomes
Team improvement will be driven by
  • an understanding of the roadblocks currently in place 
  • drawing from data from the team and its customers
  • and as a result improve effectiveness around the team’s goals, roles, processes, and interpersonal relationships
Large Group and Small Group Facilitation
Trying to come to decisions in a group setting can be very cumbersome and often ineffective.
Johanna will employ a number of different facilitation techniques to help your group
  • large or small
  • permanent or ad hoc
create and execute action plans, centered around shared goals and processes.
Cultural Assessments and Interventions
Identifying problematic cultures is an elusive target, but doing so allows an entire organization to move from stagnancy or dysfunction into
  • higher performance, cohesion, and delivery to its customer base.
By gathering data about the existing culture and where it needs to be changed, Johanna will work with your organization to identify the current state as well as desired future state, and create a plan to move toward the desired goal and outcomes.
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Process Improvement
Assessing your organization’s ability to efficiently deliver on desired results is essential. However, getting under the processes and systems and determining how each can be maximized can be tedious and often does not get the attention it deserves.
Johanna can help you identify
  • problematic areas within your organization
and introduce some relatively simple but extremely helpful methods of finding process points that can be improved upon by reducing
  • duplication
  • errors
  • and unnecessary effort
Leadership Training
Johanna can help your organization identify your
  • leadership and management needs
  • design a curriculum
  • and offer training in the area of executive effectiveness for multiple levels of your organization.
Career Planning
Helping employees identify their dream jobs and ideal careers is one means of developing your workforce and enhancing the performance of all.
Johanna has created a 4 step online process by which an employee can reflect on their
  • successes
  • strengths
  • and desired future state
in order to build skills and abilities to reach that future.

​Over 35 tools are available to assist any individual to take a tailor-made approach to designing their own desired career path.
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Chandra Lovejoy, Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs and Quality at Sierra Oncology

"Johanna has been a thoughtful and trusted advisor for many years. She consistently provides an insightful and compassionate perspective in the assessment of complex and critical issues related to leadership and team dynamics that are often encountered in the workplace. Johanna’s advice takes into consideration not only the points that are shared in the discussion, but also the nuances of the individual involved, and she always presents a compassionate view. Johanna’s extensive experience with both large and small organizations, and her deep sense of humanity are intertwined to provide a uniquely meaningful analysis of any leadership puzzle.

In situations where I have found particular challenges daunting, her advice has not only resulted in a solid understanding of a path forward, but also the comforting satisfaction that comes with the certainty that the path is the right one for the individual and the organization overall. I hold her in the highest regard."

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