About Us
At Collaborative Networks, we help high-achieving, successful CEOs and senior executives be future-fit so they can think from multiple perspectives, regulate their emotions and continuously unlearn and learn as required for innovation.
In nearly every case, at some point our 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.
About Dr. Mindy Gewirtz
Dr. Mindy is the founder and president of Collaborative Networks International, a firm specializing in leadership, team, and executive coaching for 25 years. Dr. Mindy’s leadership and entrepreneurial C- Suite experience underpin her clinical and coaching below the surface expertise. Executives strengthen their adaptive leadership skills and behaviors, preparing them for future success and advancement.
Her global, multicultural clientele spans the healthcare, high-tech, biotech, alternative energy, government, and nonprofit sectors. Mindy is a Master-Certified Coach accredited by the International Coach Federation (MCC), and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global). She also coaches executive clients from AceUp, a nationally acclaimed coaching firm.
Mindy co-led 4 partners, 6 associates, 7 figure revenue in our S-corp GLS Consulting in Boston·
Mindy’s specialty is working with engineers and scientists in many sectors. Her federal service experience includes working for 8 years and continuing for the (FAA) Federal Aviation Administration, R&D Tech Centre, as an Executive Coach, Team Coach, and Facilitator with Branch and Division leadership. She worked with MITRE a Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC) to help stand up a new FFRDC in Washington DC. Executive coaching and facilitation were provided over 5 years.
Mindy partners with (DCAS) the Division of Community and Administrative Services of New York City as a Preferred Vendor to conduct Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Training for executives since 2016 and provided Executive Coaching services for (TRS) The Teachers Retirement Services of NYC.
She worked in leadership positions in the nonprofit sector in Albany and Boston for 16 years.
Mindy earned her Ph.D. at Boston University and served as Adjunct Faculty at Lewis University, where she taught Coaching Methodology and Coaching/Mentoring courses in the Master of Organizational Leadership (MOL) program. Additionally, Mindy has mentored numerous coaches from the US, India, Saudi Arabia, and Germany towards their MCC accreditation. Also, a Board-Certified Diplomate (BCD) and licensed psychotherapist in Boston, she has held an adjunct faculty position at Boston University.
Mindy co-authored the 2024 book, Taking the Leap: from Executive or Employee to Female Founder, with Marcia Bench. She co-authored Conversation Secrets for Tomorrow’s Leaders: 21 Obvious Secrets Leaders Do Not Use Enough, with Carrie Gallant and Stephen Hamilton Clarke, published in 2021. In the 2023 volume of Cracking the Rich Code, co-authored with Jim Britt and Kevin Harrington, her chapter focuses on work-life adaptability. She has also contributed five book chapters on leadership, teaming, and change management.
She believes in giving back to the community as a group and individual mentor for coaches and student entrepreneurs in Boston University and Babson College. Mindy spearheaded the Coach Cafes for ICF NYC Chapter. Currently she is Director of DEIB for ICF NJ Chapter and a member of the Board.
Mindy and her husband will celebrate their anniversary with a tandem Skydiving Adventure.
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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
"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