stephen-carr

Coaching and Consulting Experience

Stephen is a certified Executive Leadership Coach with over 30 years of experience in coaching, consulting and managing at sales, general and executive management levels. Stephen integrates strong leadership experience, communication skills, and business background with a natural talent for seeing the best in people. He works with his clients to bring focus to the opportunities inherent in the challenges they are facing and utilizes his systems approach to support sustainable change in thinking, behavior and results. Stephen helps his clients transform their executive performance, leadership presence, interpersonal communication and organizational results by helping them to recognize and utilize their natural and unique strengths with increased skill and confidence. His experience, enthusiasm and commitment create a positive, productive environment for learning and change. Stephen has been described as a natural coach, who delivers high value, focused outcomes, and long-term results.

 

Business and Organizational Leadership Experience

Stephen’s broad leadership experience scaled to teams of 1800 employees and $800M in revenue. He leverages his extensive experience as an executive general manager with P&L responsibility and a successful record of creating profitable business results as he coaches, advises and consults his clients to meet the challenges of leadership and management in a constantly shifting business environment. He has worked with executives, managers and teams in technology and services, software, engineering, medical devices, financial services, publishing, public relations, advertising, pharmaceuticals, government, higher education, and consulting. A sample client list includes Harvard University, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The MITRE Corporation, Novartis, Red Hat, Schneider Electric Buildings, Siemens Business Services, Volvo Financial Group, Volvo Trucks, and Mack Trucks. Stephen also works with senior global leaders as individuals and teams as an Executive Coach for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Programs.

Education and Certifications

Stephen graduated with honors with a BA in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation with accredited training through The Coach Training Institute and the Executive Coaching Institute. He is certified in several assessments, including the Hogan Leadership Assessments, the Kantor Individual Baseline Instrument & Team Baseline Profile, and is a Results Accelerator Master Coach and Facilitator. Stephen is also proficient with the LMAP Profile, CQ Inventory (Cultural Intelligence), the Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Leader 360, and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument.