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Art Sponseller

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Midland, MI
Email: as*********@************up.com
Phone: (916) 425-7302

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • JD, Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University
  • BBA, Eastern Michigan University
  • Certified Professional Coach, University of California, Davis
  • Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
  • EQ Profile Practitioner, Learning in Action

Professional Experience

Art’s extensive senior leadership experience prior to his coaching career included 34 years of leading CEOs and Senior Executives of hospitals and health systems in committee, governing board and public policy initiatives. In internal leadership roles, Art focused on building high functioning teams and creating cultures of psychological safety, vulnerability, and purpose.

Art has coached leaders in hospitals, other healthcare, tech consulting, not-for-profit service organizations, and a variety of very early stage for-profit firms.

Recent Coaching Experience

  • CEO over four hospitals facing a challenging relationship with his corporate boss to develop more effective relationship strategies
  • A COO at a large and growing hospital whose management team faced increasing responsibilities and decreasing resources and who was perceived as arrogant and closed learned to lead through inquiry and vulnerability. His key leaders become less dependent upon him and able to achieve more.
  • A healthcare COO in a highly political organization in transition to a corporate operating model from a holding company model to lead with integrity
  • A hospital CEO with a dysfunctional leadership team, to set clearer expectations and develop the courage to hold team members more accountable, leading to significant improvements in team performance.
  • General Manager with a long and successful track record, to modulate an overly operational focus and a desire to be right in the face of criticism. Helped him to develop more openness and more strategic engagement with colleagues, leading to a promotion and a voice within the parent organization.
  • A new Divisional President hired to turn around the financial and operational performance of a moribund organization, to develop relationship strategies needed to address resistance and to lead the turnaround more successfully.
  • A depleted and exhausted hospital CFO to rediscover joy and energy for the competitive challenges facing her organization
  • A senior leader at a tech consulting firm to overcome her lack of boundaries and telling management style and to focus and grow her team to become one of the largest and highest producing
  • An entrepreneur overwhelmed by success to transform his business with standardization, automated systems, and clear expectations of others
  • A newly promoted Chief Nursing Officer at a large hospital to become an effective leader of her former peers
  • CEO of a small rural hospital facing board and operational challenges to overcome his excessive need for certainty before taking action
  • First time Senior pastor at a 1,000-member church to believe in himself as a leader, articulate his mission, values and vision for the church, and to overcome perfectionism by learning to embrace experimentation
  • A newly promoted Chief Nurse Executive to increase her effectiveness in the C-Suite and to better balance the needs of nursing staff with the operational needs of the hospital
  • A hospital department director to develop a more open and curious communication style and win over physicians and other stakeholders
  • A hospital department director with a large span of control to become an effective leader and developer of people

Career History

Independent Executive Coach (2018 -present)

President and CEO (2005 – 2018)
Hospital Council of Northern & Central California

Senior Vice President, COO (1998 – 2005)
California Hospital Association

Adjunct Professor (1994 – 2001)
University of Southern California, MHA Program, School of Public Administration

Senior Vice President, Member Support Services (1984 – 1998)
Healthcare Association of Southern California

Instructor (1984 – 1998)
University of La Verne