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Meet Donna Dennis, PhD

I am a Certified Coach, the President of Leadership Solutions Consulting, LLC and MLQ Coaching. We specialize in four areas:
    Coaching for leaders who are seeking to move to the next level of performance; teams that are interested in becoming high performing teams; HR who wants assistance in finding resources or providing service to their clients.

    Career Management for those who are seeking a new career or want to learn more about what career options they have or are soon to be in a career transition.

    Training for leaders and their groups to increase transformational leadership or virtual and remote leadership skills. We also train internal coaches and peer coaches. We provide training and certification in the use of the MLQ, ODQ and Team MLQ. We design training for others to deliver.

    Assessment of leaders, teams, and organizations utilizing a selection of tools such as the Myers Briggs Type lndicator, CDR-3D Suite (Character, Drivers, Risk Factors), Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) or Organization Development Questionnaire (ODO). Assessment can be done in simulations as well as individually.

Current and former clients include individuals and teams from: Risk Metrics Group, Cisco Systems, BP, Layne Christenson Companies, Sutter Health, The University of Pennsylvania, Crown Cork and Seal, Princeton University, C.R. Bard, Inc., American Express, Johnson and Johnson, American Management Association, Lutheran General Hospital, The Department of Water and Fisheries, Montgomery School System, Verona School System and the former Lehman Brothers company.

I am a Published Writer and Researcher. My research reports and articles can be found in the resources of this website and include: Preparing for Leadership (What it takes to take the Lead), and the following articles: Bank on Your Network, Learn to lnspire, Organize for Success, Find Your Own Style, Maintain Your Edge, Score a Goalof a Different Kind, Leave a Lasting Leadership Legacy, and Building a High Performance Team. Research reports include: Coaching: A Global Study of Successful Practices, Leading in the Future: A Global Study of Leadership, The Quest for lnnovation and Building a High Pertormance Organizafion. (These reports are done with i4cp (lnstitute for Corporate Productivity where I am an Executive in Residence).

I am a Graduate of the Fielding Graduate Institute where I earned my PhD in Human and Organization Development. I have taken numerous certification courses in assessment tools and am master trained in some. I am on the faculty of the Gestalt International Study Center and the AMA. I have a Coaching certificate from Marshall Goldsmith Partners, and MLQ / International for use of MLQ products (MLQ, TMLQ and ODQ).

What's this add up to for you? A coach, trainer, mentor who has had corporate, academic and non-profit experience. Who bases all she does on evidence-based tools and the best research available to provide you the best coaching, teaching or mentoring.

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