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Nora Bouchard

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
New York, NY
Email:  rb*******@************up.com
Phone: (646) 831-7430

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • MA, summa cum laude, Michigan State University, Instructional Design
  • BA, cum laude, Michigan State University, Broadcasting
  • Certified Coach, Newfield Network USA
  • Certified in a range of contemporary assessment and typing tools including Hogan, MBTI, and Realise2 Strength (Individual and Team Accredited)
Publications

Nora is author of the well-reviewed Mayday! Asking for Help in Times of Need, Berrett-Koehler, 2007. Mayday! explains why it is critical to request help, especially on the job, and gives tips on how to create a supportive work environment.

Professional Experience

Nora is an accomplished executive coach with 25 years of experience developing corporate leaders. She coaches eager-to-learn, emerging leaders, as well as experienced executives ready to enhance their existing capabilities. In addition to customized coaching, Nora works with teams to enhance trust, inspire each other, deal with change, and deepen leadership bench strength. Nora encourages her clients to shift perspective to see options for action that have been hiding in plain sight. Rather than targeting what’s wrong, Nora capitalizes on the strengths and innate motivations of the leader.

Nora’s clients speak of her ability to set them at ease, get them refocused and re-energized, and most of all, her insightful ability to challenge assumptions. She is able to create a comfortable space for pragmatic problem solving and, at the same time, track expectations for continuing accomplishment. Nora enjoys partnering with leaders who don’t settle – even after many years of great success.

Nora is also adept at meeting and training facilitation. She leverages a Master’s degree in instructional design to create effective customized leadership development opportunities. Recent workshop topics include values-based leadership, asking for help in work environments, shadow and projection, inspiration through appreciative inquiry and re-establishing trust in the workplace.

An early adopter of coaching methodologies, Nora began coaching leaders in 1995. Having coached leaders in IT, finance, marketing, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, and law, Nora understands how difficult it is to grow as a professional in full view of key stakeholders.

Recent Coaching Assignments

  • CEO of marketing firm to create a positive support team within his peer group during a time of slow business growth and high stress
  • CIO of a Real Estate Investment Trust to clarify his own leadership philosophy and develop a team of high-potential leaders
  • COO of a marketing and advertising agency to purposely develop as a leader and to deepen skills within her leadership team
  • Deputy General Counsel at multinational investment firm to balance internal customer needs with fiduciary responsibilities
  • SVP of a Fortune 100 manufacturing plant to modify his unproductive behaviors and to repair damaged relationships within his team
  • SVP & Deputy General Counsel of investment firm to re-establish difficult relationships and to create new approaches for outreach using her natural introverted strengths
  • SVP of a leading energy company to promote and grow a centralized safety department through fine-tuning her executive presence in front of the Board of Directors and through personally connecting with others at all levels of the organization
  • SVP of Strategy for a Fortune 100 insurance company to enhance her ability to influence key stakeholders
  • Vice President of a Fortune 500 IT department to rediscover her self-confidence after a year of unsuccessful challenges
  • Vice President of IT marketing and advertising to deepen his executive presence, especially when working directly with customers
  • Vice President of pharmaceutical company to influence others to adopt new marketing and pricing strategies
  • New Vice President of a consulting firm’s marketing department to lead a highly experienced team by tapping into their existing strengths and letting go of old perceptions of how a leader should act
  • Managing Director of a futures exchange to smooth the transition of new staff after a large acquisition, and to demonstrate inclusive behaviors to the organization as a whole
  • Marketing Director of a Fortune 500 technology company to let go of micro-managing behaviors and learn to trust the abilities of his direct reports
  • Executive Director of a high-tech organization to move beyond a feeling of burn out and re-ignite his passion for work
  • Senior Director of pharmaceutical firm to re-create her relationship with more senior leaders and to elevate her sales team’s rankings nationwide
  • Senior Director of pharmaceutical firm to inspire troubled employees to greater levels of performance
  • Director of pharmaceutical company to improve communication and influence capabilities
  • HRBP in a pharmaceutical firm to establish work/life boundaries and to re-focus her energies on her next career move
  • New Senior Director of a trading operations center to develop her leadership style and to find effective approaches to bring together US and remote teams located in Singapore, England and Northern Ireland
  • New Director of a large data center to assist him in terminating twelve underperforming employees and hiring qualified replacements, and then establishing a new team with a clear vision, strategies and goals
  • Senior Account Executive of an international advertising company to recognize how his stress levels were affecting those on his team and to create practical approaches for dealing with that stress
  • Senior Researcher at an advertising agency to successfully influence demanding clients through humor and confidence
  • Senior Market Analyst at a large investment firm to modify his communications and interpersonal relationships so that others without his extensive mathematics, statistics and analysis background could better understand his recommendations

Career History

Independent Executive Coach (1993-Present)
Nora provides executive coaching to individual leaders and develops teams through interactive and thought-provoking team workshops.

Arthur Andersen & Co (1987-1993)
Senior Education Manager
Nora led multi-cultural teams of instructional designers and content experts to develop and deliver internal programs for the Litigation Services, Turnaround, Auditing, and Tax practices. While at Andersen, Nora delivered learning programs extensively in  Asia, Australia, Europe and Canada.