Press Room:
Steve Lishansky Biography
 Steve Lishansky is the founder and President of Optimize International, the
successor company
to Success Dynamics that he founded as one of the first executive coaching firms
in the United
States. He is recognized as a leader in the fields of building high-value relationship
skills,
executive coaching and development, and improving organizational alignment and performance.
Steve is also the founder and Executive Director of the Executive Coaching Institute
(ECI), the
oldest coach training organization dedicated to elevating results by educating top-level
executives and coaches in the principle-based, highly effective work he pioneered.
Since starting his consulting, coaching and facilitation company in 1992,
after a distinguished 20-year career founding and running companies, Steve
has worked with senior leaders and their
organizations producing results through: executive coaching; consulting; delivering
customized
educational programs and keynotes; and facilitating executive meetings, retreats
and strategic
planning sessions. His specialties include working with senior executives, top leaders,
and
designated future leaders in:
- Building high value relationships – utilizing effective inter-personal
communications
and influence skills for increasing the clarity, value, impact and results
with clients,
stakeholders and employees, leading to high level alignment, high value relationships,
and consistency in bringing out the best in their people
- Mastering the dynamics of effective leadership: producing high-impact, sustainable
results with their people and organizations through authenticity that informs
effective
presence, communications, and alignment around their vision, mission, goals
and
strategies
- Improving overall team and organizational results – developing the coaching,
mentoring and leadership skills that maximize leaders’ leverage with their
people, their
people’s effectiveness with each other, and high level alignment of vision, mission,
goals
and strategies
A brief listing of the types of services Steve offers, and clients he has
worked with include:
- Executive coaching with senior leaders at MetLife, Freddie
Mac, New England Financial, State Street Corporation, State Farm Insurance,
Glaxo Smith Kline, Johnson
and Johnson, Novartis, Eastern Bank, Cisco, Canadian Tire, Ketchum, Camp
Dresser &
McKee, Arby’s (the corporate franchisor), AMC Networks (division of Cablevision)
- Designing and running educational programs on leadership
for top executives at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Novartis, Johnson and Johnson, The US Department
of
Labor, OSHA, Fleet/BankBoston, SunAmerica Securities, MetLife, Keane Consulting,
CDM,
New England Financial Information Services, and Tri-Gen Energy Corporation
- Customizing his Building High Value Relationships™ programs to
transform and
reorient the culture at New England Financial Information Services, Fidelity
Investments Systems Group, MetLife, State Street Global Advisors’ IT Group,
Oakley,
CDM, Accenture, Novartis, Johnson and Johnson, PHCS’ IT Group, Arbys, and
AMS
- Facilitating senior executive groups to produce high-level alignment of
their vision,
mission, goals and strategies at organizations as diverse as: Freddie Mac,
EMC, New
England Financial Information Services, Agfa, Harvard Clinical Research Institute,
Johnson and Johnson, Booz Allen, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, State Street Global
Advisors’ IT Group, NASA, Canadian Tire Corporation, The Coast Guard Foundation,
and The Federal Aviation Administration
- Speaking to numerous executive groups on leadership, organizational effectiveness,
building high value relationships, executive coaching and development, and
building
sustainable corporate cultures that thrive on innovation and change
Steve is one of the first Master Certified Coaches with the International Coach Federation
(ICF),
and a past President of their largest chapter, ICF-New England. He is also the Past-President
of the New England chapter of the National Speakers Association, and the designer
of the
personal transformation program Vision to Reality, as well as the interpersonal mastery
program Building High Value Relationships™. His book on transformational leadership
and
organizational alignment: Avoiding The Expertise Trap™ –
Why Being Right Is Insufficient for
Being Effective in the 21st Century will be published in the fall of 2008.
He can be reached at (978) 369-4525, via email at Steve.Lishansky@OptimizeIntl.com,
and via the web at www.OptimizeIntl.com.
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