To drive your company's growth, you need skilled, resourceful, innovative, effective leaders. At all levels. Ready to rise to new challenges.
Our core purpose is to help companies recognize and develop those high performers who are key to the organization's future success.
Every company has a few high-performing managers who have the potential to become executives, but year after year they are designated “ready in two or more years,” with nothing specific done to prepare them. This is your company's deep leadership bench, the few individuals who are top performers and—if the company doesn't invest in them—are most likely to leave for other opportunities. We focus on these up-and-coming leaders, providing individualized answers and practical tools to help them address the leadership challenges they face today and preparing them to step into more challenging and expansive leadership roles in your organization.
Two programs address this cohort: Beyond the Ceiling for high-potential women and Bench Strength! for all high-potentials. They are six-month-long programs that combine professionally-facilitated peer coaching circles, proven leadership tools to equip participants to handle tough leadership challenges, and individual coaching sessions with an experienced external coach.
For more information, Contact Linda.
With more than 25 years of experience coaching executives and managers from multiple industries and disciplines, Linda Lubin Thompson gives clients the insight and feedback they need to increase their effectiveness, leverage their strengths, and build self-awareness of how their behavior impacts others. She excels at helping clients create new possibilities to achieve breakthroughs—in their goals, relationships, and team dynamics. She facilitates increased personal effectiveness leading to business effectiveness.
She has coached leaders from companies such as Adobe, Cisco, Merck, Life Technologies, Bank of the West, Plantronics, Adaptec, Synopsys, and IBM.
Our consulting projects, while always designed to meet the needs of each client, typically focus on areas such as:
Linda has extensive experience in design and development of learning programs in leadership and management development, including building the talent development functions from the ground up in two technology companies. Understanding the specific needs of each management culture and designing programs to support the strategic business direction as well as individual and team skills development is a challenge she loves to undertake.
As an executive coach and leadership consultant, Linda Thompson draws on more than 20 years of experience as a corporate vice president and director of human resources responsible for multiple areas of talent management and leadership/organizational development. Linda gives her clients the feedback they need to increase their effectiveness, leverage their strengths, and build self-awareness in how their behavior impacts others. She excels at helping clients create new possibilities to achieve breakthroughs—in their goals, relationships, and team dynamics.
Linda holds a Bachelor's degree from Skidmore College and a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed the Human Resource Executive Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business as well as the OD/HR Management program at Columbia University and is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Social Styles, Firo B, PDI 360, and Lominger 360. Her article, “Coaching Quicksand: Avoiding Hidden Dangers that Trap the Best of Us,” was published in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations. In addition to her educational and business experience, she is a recipient of the YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry Award, which recognizes women leaders who represent leadership role models for others.
I worked with Linda Thompson in a one-on-one mentoring relationship more than a decade ago. Linda is not only experienced in navigating difficult business situations and relationships, but she is honest, direct and not afraid to let her clients see how their behavior and reactions can contribute to such events. She is never judgmental, always supportive and somehow, everything just seemed easier and better once talking it over with Linda.
Linda is a coach extraordinaire!
For more years than I care to count, she has helped to guide me through difficult situations. While she does not solve them for me, she helps me to think through both my own, perhaps prejudiced perspectives, as well as the impact on my organization. She is a wise counselor and coach. I highly recommend her to all people who seek to develop their leadership capacity to the next level.
Linda Thompson has assisted my business in handling strategic personnel issues and helped me streamline my staffing needs and goals. She is an active listener and her intelligence is insightful. She provides clear concepts on how to optimize my management decisions for the best results. I called on her when I needed a fresh perspective to build a stronger team to guide us toward my long-term strategy and she was able to map out how to get there. Her advice is invaluable to me.
In the time I have been working with Linda she has become an invaluable mentor and advisor. She is always flexible and generous with her time when I need counsel, and with her breadth of knowledge and experience coaching executives, she can clearly articulate what a successful path for career growth looks like. Her counsel has helped me exploit many opportunities and overcome many challenges within my organization. With Linda's expert guidance I have grown into a larger role within my company that allows me to leverage my leadership skills to elevate my team's effectiveness and impact to a whole new level.
I have benefited from the executive coaching that I have received from Linda Thompson. Her extensive experience as a human resources executive makes her particularly qualified to provide recommendations to challenge and stretch my skill set that are relevant to my personal development and career advancement. The following are the skill areas that Linda's feedback support has impacted:
I whole-heartedly endorse Linda as a competent, caring, and insightful coach. She will help you maximize your strengths and expedite your skill development. And, best of all, you will thoroughly enjoy taking the journey with her!
Linda Lubin Thompson is a world-class coach. She combines her years of experience with creativity and deep insight to make real breakthroughs possible. She's able to quickly understand different situations and personalities and help people to identify outcomes that are positive and impactful for both organizations and the individuals involved.
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