Mindy Gewirtz is an executive coach and organizational consultant with over 25 years of experience. She specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, team development, change management, and transition management. Her background includes serving as president of her own consulting firm, managing director at another firm, and adjunct faculty at Boston University. She holds a PhD in Organizational Sociology from Boston University and has received several professional certifications. Her approach to executive coaching involves assessments, discovery of how others view the executive, development of self-awareness, and creating strategic development plans to improve leadership skills such as emotional intelligence. Clients praise her strengths-based and results-focused style for providing a dynamic environment for leaders to strengthen resilience and

1. MINDY GEWIRTZ, PhD
115 Broadway New York, NY 10006 ♦ Tel: 212 972-7400 ♦
www.wjmassoc.com
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Areas of Expertise:
 Executive Coaching
 Coaching Skills for Executives
 Leadership Development for high-potentials
 Facilitation
 Team Development
 Change Management
 Transition Management
Professional Experience:
 Collaborative Networks International, President
 GLS Consulting, Managing Director
 Special Projects to President, Malden Mills
Industries, Inc. (global manufacturing)
 Led EBC-Emerging Business Collaborative in
Boston
 Executive Team member, Non-profit Agency both
in Albany and Boston
 Adjunct Faculty, Boston University
Education:
 Post Doc, ODHRD, Organizational Development,
Human Resource Development, Boston Institute
of Psychotherapy
 PhD., Organizational Sociology, Boston
University
 MSW, SUNY Albany
 BA, Psychology and Education, Brooklyn
College, Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Affiliations and Certifications:
 MBTI Certification
 HOGAN Leadership Assessments Certification
 Board Certified Diplomate Licensure
 LICSW, Licensed Independent Clinical
Psychotherapist, NASW
 Who’s Who American Women
 Boston Facilitators Roundtable
 Greater Boston OD Network
Sample Book Chapters:
 “Network Weaving OD Strategies in 24/7
Cultures,” in Workplace Temporalities, Elsevier.
 “Sustaining Top Leadership Teams,”
Collaborative Systems Field Book, Josey-Bass.
 Teams Malden Mills Industries Theory,
Implementation, and Measurement of
Critical Success Factors,” Developing
High Performance Work Teams, ASTD.
Background:
Mindy Gewirtz, PhD has 25 years of demonstrated success in coaching
executives and leading teams in ways that drive business performance and
promote innovation. Her global experience includes guiding large-scale
systemic change and designing and facilitating leadership and team
development programs.
Mindy’s philosophy is that a discovery, assessment and intervention structure
to the coaching process accelerates and sustains behavioral change.
Executives discover how others view them, and develop self-awareness
through feedback from 360 interviews and psychometric tools. This feeds
into the assessment process, and informs their individual, strategic
development plan. During the exploration and intervention phase, executives
develop emotional intelligence, and practice productive ways to respond to
their individual and environmental “triggers.” Mindy has recently introduced
“buddy coaching” to her clients to sustain change after the close of the
coaching engagement.
Clients say that her warm, “strengths-based,” and results-focused coaching
style, provides a dynamic leadership “crucible,” for leaders to experiment
and practice new behaviors. They emerge with greater personal resilience and
improved interpersonal skills. Leaders strengthen their ability to think
strategically, influence across the silos, and harness the organization’s
collective intelligence to better anticipate, innovate and accelerate change.
Mindy has coached and provided leadership and organizational development
services to hundreds of leaders in corporate and non-profit clients such as
Citibank, EMC, MITRE, Teachers’ Retirement System of NYC, Evergreen
Solar, Malden Mills Industries, Goulston and Storrs, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and Riverdale Senior Services.
Client Results:
 Led with three partners and six associates, a multi-year organizational
transformation engagement, as a devastating fire, had demolished core
capabilities of a global manufacturing organization. Mindy et al, redesigned
the traditional hierarchical structure into a team-based organization, and
facilitated Operations, Executive and Divisional teams. Mindy worked with
the Union leaders, coached GMs, the HR Director, and Leadership Team
members. She assisted in the transition into a 24/7 manufacturing
organization. The result was not one union grievance throughout the
process. An independent ROI report concluded that process contributed
significantly to the $400,000 ROI.
 Coached high-potential leaders in a governmental agency to increase inner-
confidence, executive presence, and improve their influence and team
leadership skills across the organization. Executive management reported
experiencing significant leadership-oriented behavioral changes. This built
confidence in their bench strength as part of their succession plan.
 Co-led a six-day Coaching Skills workshop for Non-Profit Executives. The
MBTI and Hogan assessments and individual coaching complemented the
three-month process. In the spirit of learn one-teach one, each executive
coached a high-potential in their agency. The quantitative and qualitative
results reported by an independent evaluation group concluded that the
program was outstanding and life-changing, while increasing the
executives’ own leadership skills.