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Teresa Woodland

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Pittsburgh, PA
Email: tw*******@************up.com
Phone: +1 412-478-6235 (primary)

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • A., English and Education, University of Pittsburgh
  • I.M, Int’l Finance, Thunderbird School of Global Management
  • Professional Coaching Course, New Ventures West
  • Advanced Chinese language studies at Inter-University Program for Chinese Languages, Tsinghua University
  • Certified in MBTI, Leadership Circle Profile, Global Leadership Profile, Leadership Development Profile, Hogan Inventory, EQ in Action
  • Trained with leading leadership thinkers: Overcoming Immunity to Change (Kegan/Lahey), Theory U (Scharmer), Systems Thinking (Senge), Dialogue (Isaacs), Adult development (Torbert)

Professional Experience

Teresa coaches senior executives, high-potential leaders, and executive teams who seek to grow as they shape their future and deliver results in complex, rapidly changing, multi-cultural environments. She has been influencing, leading, facilitating change, and developing people in the US and in Asia for more than 30 years.

Teresa’s approach combines a sophisticated understanding of how adults learn and grow with deep listening, a systems view, keen insight, discerning intellect, and care. Her clients transform as they articulate, explore, and adjust the mindsets and assumptions that influence strategy and determine modes of operating. They adopt new behaviors, bridging the gap between intent and impact.

Recent Coaching Experience

  • Top ten global PE firm CEO, to understand how his communication and decision- making style was impacting the firm, to determine how changes in his approach would influence the firm’s future as he set strategy and defined governance, and to develop strategies and plans to amplify the development of next-generation leadership team.
  • EVP of a major European manufacturing company as he helped he North American business prepare for major industry disruption and parent-company spin out. Coaching focused on transitioning to an executive role, expanding skill and confidence in embracing risk, navigating organizational politics, shaping culture, and helping his group heads learn to lead through rapid change.
  • President and top team of a leading US heavy manufacturing company as it grew its country revenue from $1.2 billion to $3.4 billion over two years. Coaching focused on improving team effectiveness (e.g., constructive conflict, decision making, generative dialogue), engaging stakeholders, navigating complexity, and developing talent.
  • First local female Chinese partner in a magic circle law firm to solidify her positioning within the global partnership, expand her external reputation, establish a new practice area, and strengthen the office talent pipeline.
  • Vice President, R&D center for a semi-conductor company, to influence global board and engage stakeholders to bring end-to-end design technology closer to OEM customers and to pursue manufacturing partnerships.
  • Supporting a global PE firm’s partner selection committee by gathering and synthesizing feedback on a Chinese partner candidate. This context-rich feedback enabled to committee to evaluate the candidate against its global standards.
  • Regional Head of business development and licensing for a leading global pharmaceutical company to expand her influence at the highest level of the global organization and to build a local team that could lead the company’s non-organic growth in its fastest growing market.
  • Vice GM and Head of Product Supply, for leading global Pharmaceutical company, to support his growth as he established the company’s largest, most technically advanced manufacturing facility globally. Coaching focused on team leadership, overcoming significant technical challenges, and managing HQ expectations.
  • Senior leader in forecasting function for leading US electronics company, to increase presence in weekly high stakes forecasting meetings
  • Executive team of MNC bank charged with helping to transform a regional bank into a world-class retail bank. Coaching focused on team effectiveness and improving influence.
  • McKinsey Partners to increase client impact by improving team leadership. Coaching was part of an office turnaround and focused on helping leaders transform themselves and change the office culture.
  • VP of Sales for a European pharmaceutical company to lead the North American organization through a major strategy shift. Coaching focused on stakeholder engagement, managing complexity, and influencing organizational dynamics.
  • VP and head of $1 billion cross-border joint venture as he established operations and shaped culture. Coaching focused on influencing across cultures, embracing complexity, and managing stakeholders.
  • First Chinese female partner in leading investment bank, to increase deal flow by cultivating Chinese CEOs and bringing overseas partners into deals, expanding her network within the global organization, and developing local talent pool.

Career History

Independent Consultant and Executive Coach
China (2005- 2016) US (2017-present)
Focused on helping organizations cultivate leadership as a competitive advantage by using strategic challenges as a platform for growth. Coaches senior executives and top teams. Supports organizational transformation and joint venture integration. Helps organizations navigate industry disruption.

American Chamber of Commerce, China, Public Policy Development Committee (1999-2007), Vice chair (2007)
Spearheaded effort to improve the US-China commercial relationship. Developed business climate survey and wrote the business climate section of AmCham’s annual white paper. Led an advocacy strategy t effort that involved hundreds of AmCham members and laid out a post-WTO era advocacy.

Sabbatical, Advanced Chinese language studies, IUP at Tsinghua, Beijing, China (2004-2005)

McKinsey & Company, Greater China and Korea (1996-2004)
Helped McKinsey & Company establish its Greater China and Korea practices, playing a client facing role (e.g., change management, OD, organizational communication) and an internal role (e.g., communications specialist, coach, training designer and facilitator, and director of professional and leadership development). Focused on helping the first generation of McKinsey’s Asian consultants reach performance levels comparable to their peers in New York and London.
Independent consultant, Pittsburgh, PA; Hong Kong (1989-1996) Designed and conducted cross-cultural, communication, and leadership courses for Fortune 100 executives. Helped SMEs make make “go/no-go” decisions for China projects.

YanShan University, China (1986-1989)
Taught and helped develop the foreign languages curriculum a new tier-one Chinese university.