Our mission is to help leaders to develop adaptive leadership skills so they are future fit for change 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.
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.
For my full bio, see our About page.
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 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.
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.
Dr. Mindy has authored or contributed to multiple books.
See details on the Books page here.
"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
"Mindy was a very quick study and helped me make a key career decision."
“Mindy was highly recommended to me as an executive coach. I was transitioning out of a CFO/COO role with a global instrument manufacturing company and needed to make a career choice between remaining as a CFO or moving into a COO role. Mindy was a very quick study with a breadth of knowledge across industries. She helped me better understand my core values and skills resulting in my decision to remain a CFO for technology companies. Since that time, I have been the CFO of 7 different technology companies, leading 6 of them through a sell-side acquisition, leading to my ability to retire this week. Thanks to Mindy's sound and focused counsel. I enthusiastically recommend her as an executive coach.” -- D. Tyler Drolet, Experienced High-Tech CFO
"Dr. Mindy seamlessly blends multiple methods to help me play at the MCC level."
“Dr. Mindy Gewirtz helped me metamorphose from being a coach who focuses on solving clients’ problems to coaching clients to approach their situations from a different perspective that helps them attain their preferred solutions. She seamlessly blends cognitive behavioral coaching, neurogenesis and reflective inquiry into a rhythmic flow that helped me hone my coaching skills to play at the MCC level. I have received accolades for my coaching skills from my clients who are leaders in technology and engineering industries, as I have been able to help them experience their ‘aha’ moments by successfully employing the methods that Dr. Gewirtz mentored me in mastering.” -- Nanda Kishore Kalavacharla, MCC
"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