Our Mission
The only constant in life today is change.
Our mission is to help leaders to develop adaptive leadership skills so they are future fit for change in work & life.
Coaching Adaptive Leadership for Succcess in Work & Life
High-achieving, successful CEOs and senior executives know that performance matters. But for many, success at work means sacrificing personal life - and even health. Using our Adaptive Leadership framework, we help these executives be future-fit so they can think from multiple perspectives, regulate their emotions and continuously unlearn and learn as required for innovation.
My name is Dr. Mindy Gewirtz, and I help clients deal with challenges and opportunities with less stress, more confidence, and better results.
In nearly every case, at some point my clients’ confidence, calmness and commitment increase to such an extent that they find themselves able to achieve greater things than they originally thought. When that happens, they have taken an important first step to transformation, a journey that becomes more exciting and rewarding every day.
Introducing Myself
Dr. Mindy is an MCC certified executive coach, author and entrepreneur. She is President of Collaborative Networks, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. She is Adjunct Faculty at Lewis University and Faculty and Honorary Director at Potential Genesis, Chennai India. Mindy currently teaches Coaching Methodologies in the Organizational Leadership Masters program, and her passion is coaching executives in leadership positions. Clients apply a systemic approach to integrating their purpose with impact in both their professional and personal lives. Executive coaching is often complemented by team coaching or leadership development workshops to amplify impact in the larger system. Working at the C-Suite level, we coach and consult in tech, government, nonprofits, and financial services.
Presidents, CEOs, COOs, SVP Talent Management, Recruiters, CLO, CHRO, connect with me to get access to my deep network in industry leadership.
Mindy's intrapreneurial portfolio consists of coaching senior leaders, and leading teams in complex engagements to drive business performance. Representative clients from Citi Group New York, The Teachers Retirement System, FAA, EMC, Evergreen Solar, Malden Mills, RWJ Foundation have engaged Mindy to conduct executive coaching, organizational development, talent development, and connect silos to leverage performance and drive innovation. Outcomes have led to accelerating the growth of leadership capability to innovate and execute in turbulent times.
Mindy's doctorate is from Boston University. She is a Board-Certified Diplomate in psychotherapy, and a Master Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is the associate author of one book, and co-author of five book chapters on teaming, top leadership, and integrating organizational change.
My Service Offerings
Adaptive Leadership Coaching
We help leaders learn to train their brain and install a new “operating system.” The resulting adaptive mindset shift awakens new possibilities for change. This happens as leaders discover and take action to master the beliefs, assumptions, and behavioral patterns that prevented reaching their goals.
Leadership coaching engagements are 60 minutes, 1 to 1 coach 2x a month for 6 months and availability of flash coaching sessions.
Career and Worklife Coaching
Career coaching is available for individuals looking to make an important transition in their life. The approach is to look at the whole person. What are their values? What is their purpose in work and life? What kind work and worklife would work for them? It is in this whole life context an individual can make the most considered decision for themselves.
A series of 12 weekly session of 60 minutes is the package most requested.
Team Coaching
Here, we help high performance teams build a sense of trust and psychological safety. Individuals feel comfortable to express diverse opinions without being shut down. The leader models and encourages civil conversations and diverse opinions.
Team Coaching is a six-month engagement of 90 minutes sessions 2x a month helping the team clarify their purpose, performance goals, stakeholders, roles, procedures, and interpersonal relationships.
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My Books
Taking the Leap: from Employee or Executive to Female Founder
Want to start or grow your own business?
Gain inspiration from 14 women - including me - who share inspirational stories of their journey from corporate work for others to self-empowerment through becoming female founders and owning their own businesses.
Extremely valuable and realistic business insight will be shared from those who have succeeded, offering suggestions on how to manage a business (including career transitions and challenges), balance business and personal life, and how to reach out for support and get help sooner rather than later.
Conversation Secrets for Tomorrow's Leaders
Transformational conversations are a leader's superpower. It is estimated that 75% of work gets done through conversations.
Leaders who practice these Conversation Secrets empower themselves and their teams to ignite innovation and transform organizations. Leaders learn to be more adaptive, to lean into the language of possibility, and thrive through uncertainty. Their powerful conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust, connection, and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community. Learn these 21 Secrets to unleash your leadership superpower.
The authors have thousands of hours of executive coaching experience which they mined to develop these 21 conversation secrets. These secrets represent the areas where leaders consistently needed support to drive up their overall impact by having powerful conversations. Specifically, these conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community.
Cracking the Rich Code - Volume 14
This book offers powerful thought-provoking entrepreneurial insights, stories and strategies from a diverse lineup of 20 coauthors from around the world. Chances are this book contains exactly what you need to excel your business into the top 5% in your category worldwide.
Created by top peak-performance expert Jim Britt and Kevin Harrington from the hit TV show Shark Tank and 20 empowering entrepreneurs and their stories: Jim Britt, Dr. Mindy Gewirtz, Tanya Steele, Andrew Hurst, Eric Lopkin, Jennifer Jehl, Sue Bodine, Lucie Leduc, Mike Oglesbee, Onyx Jones, Luz Maria Villanueva, Michael Jacobs, Dr. Jason I. Henderson, Jennifer Brown, Tammy Vallieres, Sallyann Angerami Martinez, Diane L. Smyers, Dr. Ken Rochon, Nathalie Plamondon-Thomas, Jane Williams, Manny Lopez, Yolanda Martinez
Client Testimonials
"Mindy is an invaluable asset."
“Mindy is a results-oriented executive and leadership development coach. Her significant experience with emerging growth companies and deep understanding of the complex challenges in leading a senior management team make her an invaluable asset. She uses practical insights to help people lead in volatile situations and modify behavior from reactive to thoughtful and productive. I highly recommend her.” — Peter Vandermeulen, Founding CEO of 7AC.
"Mindy is the 'coach's coach'"
Dr. Mindy Gewirtz MCC, a top Executive Coach and Mentor Coach. I experienced Mindy as an effective “coach’s coach,” mentoring global executives and coaches like myself who are applying for their master level coaching certification with the International Coaching Federation. As an Indian executive living in Saudi Arabian, I found Mindy, who is based in the NYC area, to be cross-culturally sensitive and authentic, yet direct and on point." - Prof. Raju Vir, Dream Incubator of CEO's
"Mindy was flexible and available"
“I found Mindy to be an amazingly quick study with uncommon perceptiveness and a breadth of knowledge across industries that allowed her to be extremely helpful to me from the get-go. She was flexible and available for face to face and phone conversations. My transition to my new position was made efficiently and cost-effectively thanks to Mindy's sound and focused counsel. I enthusiastically recommend her as an executive coach." - Elizabeth Drolet,
Director of Development
"Mindy's insights were very well received"
"Dr. Gewirtz was a guest lecturer in my MBA course Managing Strategic Transformation at Rutgers Business School. I invited her to speak because not only is she is a research expert on the human resource effects of change management initiatives but she also has substantive practical experience in a business transformation too. Her insights and observations were very well received. She is capable of providing advice to businesses and individuals in this regard." - Leon Fraser, Executive
"I recommend Mindy to boards of nonprofits"
"Coaching is invaluable as an Executive Director as it is easy to work in isolation. Her coaching allowed me to move forward and make decisions and to pass along these coaching skills to my staff. I highly recommend Executive Coaching to executives and boards of non profits and specifically recommend Dr. Gewirtz." - Julia Schwartz-Leeper, Nonprofit Executive Director
"Mindy inspired our team"
"Mindy recently co-led a very successful, 6 month leadership development and coaching initiative for 20 non-profit executives in NYC, in which I was one of six lead trainers and master coaches. I highly recommend Mindy, as she inspired our team to excellence from the initial strategic planning and design phase to the very successful execution, through her calm and collaborative leadership, training and master coaching skills." - Jamie Levinson, MS, PCC, Executive Coach