Roosevelt Thomas
is Linkage’s most requested speaker in the field of diver-
sity. He is also a Wall Street Journal
“top 10” executive educator. Roosevelt is a
widely published author. His many publications include Building a House for Di-
versity
and Beyond Race and Gender.
Roosevelt generally coaches executive
teams (as opposed to single individuals), and his work may impact the entire or-
ganization. He is the founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity.
Sally Helgesen
uses a unique anthropological approach to coaching. She en-
gages in a deep narrative study of how leaders in the organization do their
jobs, in the context of the organization’s culture. Sally builds upon her back-
ground in journalism to ask the right questions and try to uncover the deeper
answers. She is the author of
The Female Advantage
and The Web of Inclusion,
two of the most successful books ever written about women in leadership.
Gifford Pinchot
is predominately focused on helping organizations achieve
greater levels of innovation. His best-selling book, Intrapreneuring: Why You
Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become
an Entrepreneur,
set the
ground rules for an emerging field: the courageous pursuit of new ideas in
established organizations. Gifford helps individuals and teams turn innovative
ideas into successful business propositions.
Strat Sherman
is on the board of the Leader-to-Leader Institute and was
recommended by Frances Hesselbein. Along with being a master practi-
tioner, Strat is the coauthor of the bestselling Control Your Destiny or Some-
one Else Will,
the first serious study of Jack Welch’s transformation of GE.
His coaching practice is devoted to helping successful senior executives and
high-potential leaders expand their capabilities in the context of change.
Like Marshall Goldsmith and David Ulrich, Gary Ranker
was listed in
Forbes as one of five leading executive coaches. Steve Kerr, the dean of corporate
CLOs, also recommended Gary. Gary has a great track record of coaching in
GE and in the financial services industry.
David Dotlich
works with organizations, teams, and individual executives to
help create positive change. He is a world authority on action learning, and one
of his many books is Action Learning: How the World’s Best Companies De-
velop Their Top Leaders and Themselves.
David is one of the few top coaches
with extensive experience in the business, academic, and consulting worlds.
Leigh Fountain
has been one of the highest rated coaches and facilitators
at Linkage’s Global Institute for Leadership Development
(GILD). Leigh
combines both coaching and consulting in a process he calls Embedded
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