Drawing from behavioral science, we coach from an integrated, ontological perspective: exploring how you think about an issue (cognitive processing), how you feel about it (emotional processing), and how you act toward it (behavioral processing). And we examine how your thinking and actions fit within the entire system in which you operate.
We favor relatively short-term executive coaching, not dependency. Our objective is to help clients develop skills they can draw on for a lifetime.
Specific Techniques
We advocate evidence-based management, evidence-based coaching, and fact-based decision making. And yet, we tend not to use “assessment instruments” in coaching.
That might surprise you, especially if you know how fond so many other coaches seem to be of them. Our reason is simple: in our experience, such “assessments” or tests tend to be more limiting and restrictive than helpful.
We see coaching as an act of liberation — a means to break free from constrictions, to move beyond your current proficiencies to fulfill your innate potential — not as an exercise in labeling your past confinements.
When behavioral concerns or self-refinement is on a client’s coaching agenda, we often deploy an enlightening, narrative 360-degree interview process. By gathering candid feedback from about a dozen people important to you, you’ll learn about yourself and how you are perceived through the eyes of others. Our highly refined process allows for depth and nuance in a highly efficient manner.
Coaching Specialties
We work with accomplished, motivated people wrestling with complexity under pressure:
- Executives and professionals expected to meet critical challenges, especially those involving ethical or moral dilemmas;
- Executives and professionals facing great change (new expectations; new responsibilities; a new organization, new boss, new job…)
- Executive teams looking to increase effectiveness — especially by resolving their internal conflicts;
- High-powered people who need to build — or rebuild — trust within their team
Based in Virginia, we have clients in many time zones, and do a mix of coaching in-person, by telephone, and using all manner of electronic media.
History and Qualifications
Our principal certified coach, Don Blohowiak, honed his insights into effective leadership over 20 years of executive experience in Fortune-500 companies, high-tech firms, and not-for-profits in four time zones. He has also authored many management books and articles published around the world. He is credentialed by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Don Blohowiak. Certified Executive Coach. Don is also a subject matter expert for the American Management Association on managerial trust, formal mentoring programs, and managerial coaching. You may have seen him interviewed or quoted on CNN, Bloomburg News, Fox News, ABC Radio, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Reuters, AP, and many other major news outlets.
Don trained as an executive coach at Georgetown University earning a Graduate Certificate in Leadership Coaching, with additional training in developmental coaching at the InterDevelopMental Institute, while continuing his work on becoming a PhD in Human Development at Fielding Graduate University.
Don founded the Lead Well Institute in 1995 and has been privileged to provide leadership development, management training, and executive coaching to such top organizations as:
- Johnson & Johnson
- U.S. Marines Corps
- Publishers Clearing House
- Honda America
- New Jersey Judiciary; various other state agencies
- FedEx
- Wal-Mart
- American Society of Association Executives
- numerous national trade associations
Most of his clients are already accomplished, and hold significant positions of responsibility with advanced degrees. (About a third hold doctorates; half are women.) His client list includes several chief financial officers, senior executives and managers of all stripes, lawyers, psychologists, ministers, computer scientists, research scientists…
His work spans virtually every sector and industry (heavy construction to consumer marketing to health care to defense contracting to universities). He reserves a portion of his practice to assist leaders in charities and non-profits who work to make the world a better place.
For your complimentary, no-obligation coaching consultation, please call 1-888-LEADWELL (532-3935) or +1-434-295-6551.