EXECUTIVE COACH | HARVEY GREENBERG

Based in Boston, MA, Harvey Greenberg is an innovative, thoughtful and experienced executive coach, business leader, and consultant committed to creating effective workplaces. His more than 20 years of operations experience in technology and manufacturing senior management, coupled with 15 years in training and development, organization development, employee relations, and senior human resources management, has equipped him with a pragmatic, realistic approach to solving business problems from the human and organizational perspectives.

Harvey has coached mid-level through C-level executives in health care, manufacturing, non-profit, and consumer goods sectors. His coaching philosophy has adhered to four principles:

• Coaching is about results. The coaching process, while offering learning and developmental opportunities for the executive, is focused on the executive in his or her role and their successful performance in delivering results.

• Coaching takes a systems perspective. Every executive works within a system, and while their role is to impact that system, each executive is in turn personally impacted by that system.

• Coaching is a partnership; the executive, the coach, often the executive’s manager and a human resources manager partner together to ensure a successful coaching process.

• The foundation of the coaching process is developing a trusting relationship between the coach and the executive; the coach must maintain the highest level of integrity and agreed upon confidentiality throughout the process.

RECENT COACHING ASSIGNMENTS:

• CEO, Educational Publishing Company
  Two year ongoing coaching relationship with a CEO of an educational publishing company and 6 members of his staff. The firm is owned by a private equity company, growing quickly and headed for a liquidity, requiring executives to change behaviors from a “small team” to a larger organization open to public scrutiny.

• Entrepreneur
  Coached an entrepreneur of a high-tech printing materials organization regarding his inability to let go of the daily operating details of his business and empower his staff who were threatening to leave the organization for a competitor if they weren’t treated as competent executives.

• Executive Director, Non-Profit HR Services
  Provided coaching and guidance for the Executive Director of a not-for-profit human services agency around dealing with difficult staff members and raising the level of accountability within the organization.

• CFO, High Tech
  Chief Financial Officer of a high tech firm struggling with a CEO who was controlling. The CFO wanted to stay with the company and needed help determining strategies to allow him to be satisfied within that environment.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• MBA from Boston University

• MS in Human Resource Development from American University.

• BS in Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

• Taught graduate courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Human Resource Strategies at Boston University and at the MIT Sloan School.

• Certified in the delivery of Ariel Group Experiential workshops in Leadership Presence.