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"David was able to wake up our entire management team with a gentle tap. At the end of our session, the group was thinking, talking, and perceiving with a new clarity and direction." |
| - Beth Bagnold, President & CEO, L&M Production Design Group |
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| I just wanted to say thank you again for your excellent facilitation of our staff retreat last weekend, and also the time you spent on the side with me individually. Several of the staff said how impressed they were with you as a facilitator and a person. How wonderful, when your skills and energy are aligned with your "day job"! |
| - Holly K. Given, Ph.D. Director, Ocean Observing Activities JOI Division, Consortium for Ocean Leadership |
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"We have had David facilitate many retreats over the years.
Regardless of the personalities in the room, we always emerge as a more effective team. That result stands in sharp contrast to other more process-oriented strategic retreats we have tried. Sure, we come out of them with a new strategic plan document with action items and deadlines assigned to various members of the team, but they NEVER get completed. The work David does enables us to function more effectively as a team and move naturally in the right direction together. In other words, David\'s work produces meaningful RESULTS not a dust-gathering strategic document. |
| - Kenneth J. Lopez, President and CEO Animators-at-Law |
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| As an executive coach, David takes a humanistic, gestalt approach to addressing your problems. He will not let you divorce your personal life from your business life because of the complementary roles they play in defining you as a person. He will first gain your trust, then he will ask you very hard questions. Answering those questions is the first step toward self-improvement. |
| - Guy Wassertzug President & CEO InfoStructures, Inc. |
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| Even after meeting David, I was skeptical of the value of putting my skeptical team through a “touchy-feely” session. But I had the opportunity to get to know David a little better over a few conversations, and I took the Core Values Index and reviewed my profile with him. It immediately became clear to me that I needed to know the profiles of the rest of my executive team. And that we all would benefit from a shared understanding of ourselves and each other. I also realized that this sort of conversation would go a long way to improving our level of mutual trust, respect and cooperation. And, indeed, this is exactly what resulted from our time with David. Under David’s wise and steady hand, we enjoyed a sustained “real” conversation, frankly addressed some elephants in the room, and came away a much stronger team. And the change was not temporary; we have sustained the honesty and are carrying the conversation and skills deeper into our company, making it part of our culture. My team felt our time with David was the best we’ve ever spent together as a team. And I believe that day marked a turning point for Mind Over Machines. If we could run parallel universes from that day forward, with and without David’s coaching, I believe you would see our “new” executive team far outpacing the business success of our “old” team, and enjoying themselves more while doing it! |
| - Tom Loveland, Chairman and CEO Mind Over Machines |
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