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Phil Harkins selected David Giber
to be the lead consultant
for leadership
development at Linkage. David has served as a coach and advisor in leadership
development for over 20 years. He has designed and implemented leadership
development programs around the world. David is coeditor of the Best Practices
in Leadership Development Handbook
as well as Best Practices in
Organizational Development and Change.
Very few people have more experience in managing large-scale leadership
development processes than Jim Moore.
Jim led the leadership development
efforts at BellSouth, Nortel, and Sun Microsystems. His work is well known
by several of the coaches on our list. Today, he coaches either the head of
human resources or the head of executive development in building strategies
to grow future leaders. Jim has taken what he learned as an internal coach
and is applying this with his new clients as their external coach.
Coaching for Organizational Change
Given the broad nature of organizational change, this category may have the
greatest amount of differentiation between coaches. Each one of the
coaches listed is an expert in helping organizations change. However, they
have very different areas of emphasis on what
to change and how
the change
process occurs.
Phil Harkins
is not only the CEO of Linkage but is also one of the
mostrequested and popular speakers on Linkage programs. Phil ’s publications
include Powerful Communications: How High -Impact Leaders Communicate
and Everybody Wins, a book focusing on RE/MAX ’s growth story and strategy.
He has had the opportunity to speak to thousands of leaders, and, through
the organization he founded, has impacted hundreds of thousands of people. Phil
could easily be put in the “coaching for leadership development” category. His
work involves facilitating teams across the organization. Phil ’s goals as a coach
include creating positive long-term change, increased organizational learning,
and sustainability.
Warner Burke
is Linkage’s most requested speaker in the field of organiza-
tional development. Warner is a professor at Columbia and faculty member in
their creative, multidiscipline organizational psychology program. Two of his
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