Jeanne Gray Carr has over 30 years’ experience in executive coaching, team/peer coaching, leadership consulting, program design/facilitation, and corporate Human Resources. Prior to launching her coaching career, Jeanne served five years as the CEO/president of a tri-state women’s healthcare agency and VP of Human Resources for a 40-state specialty retail chain. Her focus has always been on accelerating the development of high potential people, building high performing teams, and executing strategy to achieve business goals. Jeanne has worked with global for-profit and non-profit organizations undergoing pandemic-related disruption, leadership changes, and restructuring in health care, education, transportation, the arts, financial services, manufacturing, research & development, and conservation. In addition, she has written 17 Playbooks on a wide variety of leadership topics.
Jeanne’s coaching style is based on her belief that people are the CEOs of their own careers. She creates a safe environment for clients to build self-confidence and increase their self-awareness. Jeanne gives “straight talk” feedback in a caring, respectful way accelerating clients’ learning. She believes that clients’ mindsets determine what they think, drives what they do, and determines their results. It is foundational to her success and the on-going success of clients. Jeanne helps clients confront workforce challenges in complex business environments by demonstrating the value of a collaborative approach to coaching, learning, and wellbeing.
In her work with clients, Jeanne has:
▪ Coached executives and their teams to achieve personal and business goals with measurable results.
▪ Worked with clients to identify and develop high potential talent.
▪ Designed and facilitated training programs in a variety of areas: emotional intelligence, critical thinking, executive/team coaching, engagement, teambuilding, career development, and strategic human resources.
▪ Developed and delivered 360° feedback as an integral part of executive coaching, professional development, and performance/talent management.
▪ Designed and delivered team building simulations and workshops to help teams be more engaged, productive, cohesive, and accountable.
“Thank you again for all you have done for me over the past year. Without your coaching, I would not have become more self-aware, leveraged my strengths, built high performing, actively engaged teams…and be where I am today as CEO. It’s been a meaningful journey.”
Client Results:
Coached the CEO/president of a large medical group comprised of over 175 physician practices and 22 members of his executive leadership team. With executive coaching, Jeanne focused on increasing collaboration, developing political acumen, and holding people accountable. With cohort-based team coaching, she focused on identifying and developing talent, succession planning, and holding themselves and each other accountable. All leaders developed and completed individual action learning plans, and the executive team built a solid bench of nurses/medical assistants. The medical group continues adding new practices.
Coached a Chinese American woman at a Fortune 100 global freight organization over a period of seven years, multiple coaching engagements, and a series of rapid promotions. Most recently she “skipped a level,” was promoted to corporate VP, and serves on the 15-member executive leadership committee. Jeanne concentrated on her executive presence, communicating to other executives in a focused, clear manner, and building an actively engaged, high performing team. The client’s success resulted in cascading promotions of team members, multiple media requests for interviews and speaking engagements, and writing a book.
Coached an African American woman from her initial manager’s role at a large metro school district through multiple promotions and a job change to a large national organization focused on dramatically improving educational outcomes for U.S. public schools. Most recently because of an impending promotion to CEO, Jeanne focused on building internal/external coalitions, assessing and developing high potential team members, and ensuring that the client’s vision and goals cascaded throughout the complex, multi-state organization. A recent internal survey affirmed the client’s promotion to CEO and her early success as a visionary, inspiring leader.
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