William F. Pilder, Ph.D. Profile

Areas of Expertise Senior Leadership Coaching Leadership Transition Team Coaching Talent Retention Performance Improvement Competency Frameworks 360 degree Feedback Job Profiling and Skills Lexicons

William is an educator, an entrepreneur and a seasoned executive coach. He has been a founding partner in three entrepreneurial ventures, each related to providing career development and transition services to individuals and major corporations in a wide range of industries. In this context, he has been involved in major change management initiatives in the steel, energy and auto industries. He co-authored a series of eight books published by Prentice-Hall on the career transition process.

William is experienced in the coaching of senior executives using competency frameworks and 360 degree feedback as an integral part of the coaching process. He has been coaching senior executives since 1975.

He has developed a coaching skills training program for managers, now being used by a major corporation.

In his coaching work, William emphasizes the importance of developing strengths rather than a focus on weaknesses. He is a skilled and intuitive listener with a great deal of business experience. He seeks to make the coaching experience one where executives find a place to confide, reflect and bring wisdom to their daily work life.

William also provides a Leadership Transition Program to support managers in assuming new positions that combines coaching, interviewing and team development to insure successful integration of the new manager into an organizational unit. The Leadership Transition Program is supported by a Web-based tool that enables it to be effectively used with virtual teams that are globally distributed. The Web-based tool generates valuable organizational intelligence that can be integrated into a coaching program. The combination of a 360 degree view of the organization developed by the Website and 360 degree feedback provides an exceptional foundation for a powerful coaching experience. See www.leadershiptransitions.net

During the last decade, William has produced innovations related to the application of web-based services and technology to the career development and transition process. He helped design a comprehensive talent management system that supports career profiling, development planning, performance management, 360 degree feedback and skills gap analysis.

William is a certified administrator for the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strategic Leadership Development 360 assessment instruments. William's undergraduate degree is from the University of Dayton. He has a Masters Degree and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.

Major passions include:

• Exploring the relationship between creativity, spirituality and contemporary work life.
• Servant Leadership.