Provided Counsel on Challenging Issues Plus Blueprint for Enhancing Leadership
Paths to Change has provided leadership coaching to a range of organization and community leaders. Often the coaching process entails an assessment, and activites such as facilitating the leader’s problem-solving and providing counsel on challenging issues, working in collaboration with the leader and applying leading-edge models on leadership to craft an extensive Leadership Development Plan (a blueprint for enhancing leadership effectiveness over a 6–9 month period), offering ad hoc coaching on pressing issues as needed, and evaluating and renewing or continuously improving the overall process – if appropriate. One client commented on the Leadership Development Plan: "If I get two or three more gems like that in my life, I’ll be set – seriously."

Assessed Strength of Management Team, Developed Processes for Ongoing Improvement
Project lead on design and implementation of a Managerial Assessment and Planning System to assess bench strength of 800 managers in large insurance company. Worked with Executive staff, key HR personnel and others. Studied and applied research-based competencies, examined best practices from other companies, co-designed and facilitated pilot program in largest Field business unit, facilitated parallel process for assessing Executive staff, developed processes for overall continuous improvement.

Serves as Faculty Member for Healthcare Executives Retreat
Ongoing faculty member for facilitation, collaborative problem-solving, and diversity/equity training for annual Retreat of healthcare executives and other leaders, convened by one of the preeminent national organizations in the healthy communities movement. Healthcare has been an on-going focus of the work of Paths to Change, where we have worked with clients such as: the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Anesthesia & Analgesia Medical Group, Blue Shield, Health Research & Education Trust (HRET), Kaiser Permanente, Primary Care Associates, Sacred Heart Health System/PeaceHealth, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, and Washington State Hospital Association.

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