Brad P., PCC

Brad is an experienced executive coach with a passion for creating effective coaching partnerships that help leaders work through current and future business challenges and become more impactful and effective leaders. He brings together an in-depth understanding of the complex environments leaders and teams face each day with human behavior insight and the ability to engage in intimate and intense conversations.

MY PASSION TO COACH

  • Brad draws on a variety of fields including adaptive leadership, neuroscience, innovation, psychology, and adult development. Clients describe him as engaging and provoking, creative, and challenging that leads to honest and open adult development experiences. He takes a holistic view of the client and the client’s situation to align culture, strategy, and leadership. Brad has 40 years of senior-level management and leadership experience working with leaders in diverse industries, most notably supply chain and logistics, consumer goods healthcare, financial institutions, insurance, commercial real estate, entertainment and media, high-tech, telecom, big pharma, manufacturing, professional services (law, accountancy and consulting) and non-profits.

  • Brad’s blend of experience as an executive coach, corporate business and non-profit leader, and training & development facilitator has helped his clients make transformative changes in their leadership effectiveness and outcomes. Brad works with executive, senior-level and mid-level executives, high-potentials, consulting partners, law and accountancy partners, and teams. Brad has had the privilege of working with leaders at UPS, The Home Depot, AstraZeneca, Solvay, BDO, Carrier, Comcast, Avery Dennison, Beam Suntory, The Coca Cola Company, Coned Nast, Kraft Foodservice, General Electric, Kaiser Permanente, LaSalle, Lazard, PVH, UBS, RBC, LexisNexis, Oracle, Houston Methodist Hospital System, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers and Waste Management to name a few.

MY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • For a Global Logistics Organization: Coached President on his transition to this role resulting in successful transition to his new leadership role.
  • For a Global Financial Company: CFO developed more effective creative leadership competencies, reducing her reactive and unproductive leadership behaviors, thereby increasing her own and management team performances leading to a successful company restructuring.
  • For a Global Healthcare Product Manufacturing Company: Worked with U.S. Chief Medical Officer on executive presence and awareness that led to his promotion to Global Chief Medical Officer.
  • For a Global Entertainment Company: Sr. VP experienced significant changes in her leadership effectiveness and team interactions reducing turnover by 75% and increasing business by 136% over a 6-month period.
  • For a Global Beverage Company: Helped Chief Strategy Office and his team through a major organizational transformation that led to innovative strategies in brand re-positioning.

MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Current Member, CEO Netweavers, Servant Leadership Not-for-Profit organization highly committed through an engaged and diverse community of current and former CEO’s and select group of trusted advisors committed to freely sharing their relationships, knowledge and skills while cultivating trusted relationships.  This is accomplished by actively engaging in outreach programs that help the business community as well as programs that help each other as we grow and expand our businesses.
  • Sales Director, Projections, Inc. Responsible for North America new client acquisition and development, prospecting activities and lead generation for both custom and production communication and training interactive resources. Responsible for leadership development | training social media campaigns including blogging and other social media avenues: LinkedIn, Twitter, and Scoop It.Company is a leader in developing custom and production internal branding and employee communications and training resources through multi-media formats for major North American organizations.
  • CEO, Arthritis Foundation, Responsible for leading and managing the organization’s 45-member Board of Directors, 14 staff and 154 volunteers in achieving annual tactical goals and mission. Also responsible for formulating and implementing strategic and tactical objectives; identifying strategic partners for the implementation of key fund raising sponsorships; related joint programming and public relations campaigns; provide leadership and effective implementation of diversified fund raising campaigns and program development; development and profit and loss management of annual $1.87 Million budget.
  • CEO, Manufactuers’ Agents for Food Service Industry, Responsible for leading and managing the organization’s 35-member Board of Directors, 95 volunteer’s and five member staff team in achieving annual tactical goals based on organization’s strategic goals and mission. Also responsible for formulating and implementing strategic and tactical objectives; identifying strategic partners for the implementation of key financial sponsorships; negotiating, developing and producing annual educational and exhibit conferences and venue negotiations; membership recruitment campaigns; public relation campaigns and development and profit and loss management of annual $1.3 Million operating budget.
  • Consultant, Smith, Bucklin and Associates, Responsible for prospecting, selling and closing new non-profit organizations, as well as strategic and daily management of five international associations. Responsibilities included formulating and implementing strategic and tactical objectives with Board of Directors and staff ; membership recruitment and fund raising strategies ; profit and loss management of annual budgets from $450,000 to $2M , securing business partners for key sponsorships and programming ; developing and producing educational conferences and exhibitions and public relation campaigns and the enlistment , management and motivation of diverse Directors and volunteers and staff teams ranging from 5 to 26 people.

MY CREDENTIALS

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coaching Federation
  • Master Practitioner in The Leadership Circle Profile (360 assessment), The Leadership Circle Culture Survey, The Enneagram, The Hogan Suite and Extended DiSC personality assessments and the Mindshift Adaptive Growth program.
  • B.S. in Finance and Marketing, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill