Barbara Eiser |
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Barbara Eiser is a nationally-recognized executive coach, career development coach, and organizational development consultant specializing in change leadership, team building, and action learning. She provides the following services to academic medical centers, hospital systems, Fortune 500 companies, and universities:
Executive Coaching and Career Development Coaching:
- Executive Coaching consisting of in-depth leadership competency assessment, co-creation of a customized leadership development plan, and proactive coaching for results-oriented performance.
- “Onboarding” Coaching to accelerate the effectiveness of leaders in new positions.
- Career Development Coaching, including assessment, planning, and implementation.
Change Leadership and Team Building:
- Facilitation of executive strategy sessions and board retreats.
- Assessment, consultation and facilitation to build productive intact, cross-functional and virtual teams.
- Mediate conflict and improve communications to maximize teams’ ability to achieve results.
Action Learning:
- Design and deliver customized, highly interactive leadership workshops for immediate skill development.
- Examples of topics are: persuasion and influence strategies; negotiations; productive team practices; developing resiliency for career success; conflict resolution styles and techniques; effective mentoring.
Barbara partners closely with clients to understand their challenges and develop customized solutions that incorporate their organizational culture, policies and processes to accomplish measurable results.
With her line and management experience, Barbara quickly establishes credibility and trust. Prior to founding Leading Impact, she held senior positions in major firms in New York and Chicago, including as Vice President and National Training Manager for Northern Trust Company. She has spearheaded strategic planning and change initiatives, managed teams, created career path systems, and served on executive task forces for computer systems conversions, product innovations, company startups and acquisitions. She has extensive executive coaching and career development coaching experience, including physician leaders in academic medical centers, scientists and other professionals in pharmaceutical companies, Fortune 500 Division Presidents, U.S. Navy Admirals and high-potential global managers.
Barbara has also worked extensively in the health care field. For example, she has facilitated the strategic planning process for the CEO and executive team of a specialty hospital, coached individual leaders and led an interactive change style leadership workshop for a health system executive team, and designed and facilitated an offsite retreat for a national medical certification board. Some of her recent medical clients include:
American Board of Internal Medicine Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
AAMC (as of November, 2008) St. Christopher’s Hospital
Barbara is a certified coach in numerous leadership and team assessments. She holds an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Master in City Planning from Harvard. She has taught a course on Leading Organizational Change in an M.B.A. program, served as the Keynote at Drexel University College of Medicine’s Annual Faculty Development Day, authored leadership and organizational articles in the Center for Creative Leadership’s Leadership in Action and in Physician Executive, and presented national leadership workshops.