Facilitation and Teambuilding
Be intentional about creating great culture and clear expectations for your team. Team building engagements are tailored to meet your team’s specific needs, such as improving collaboration, building shared commitments, or navigating change and conflict. And let's be real: Every team goes through tough times. The right teambuilding experience can be what pulls you through to the other side as a stronger, more cohesive team. Contact Lead Forward Co. today to see how we can help your team succeed!
Are you planning a strategy session? Does your team have an important decision to make together? Would your next retreat benefit from outside planning and facilitation? Contact Lead Forward Co. to see how we can help!
Mission, vision, and values statements are an integral part of an organization’s culture. They are also deceptively hard to get right. Most often, writing or re- writing these statements devolves into tedious wordsmithing and people agreeing to go along with something that they don’t love in exchange for being "finished.” But it doesn’t have to be that way! Mission, vision, and values statements are an opportunity for organizations to articulate what matters most. It doesn't stop there. We can also plan to make these ideas come to life in the organization’s culture. Contact Lead Forward Co. today to make your mission,
vision, and values statements meaningful and impactful!
Has your organization done mounds of leadership training over the years, but been less successful than you'd like at making leadership stick as part of your culture? Are you tired of spending too much time and money for too little impact? Does everyone roll their eyes at the prospect of starting over with new programs or consultants?
What if there was a framework that helped you establish a vision for your organization's leadership culture and bring all your past, present, and future leadership development efforts together without "starting over"?
The Lead Forward Co Leadership Development Framework isn't just another training program. It's a framework for continuous leadership development that doesn't depend on one source of education and keeps the focus on the unique needs of your organization. Ready to learn more? Click the button below to set up a no cost consultation to see if your organization is ready to build its own comprehensive leadership development framework.
“Andy worked with our Senior Leadership Team pre-pandemic and during the pandemic when our healthcare system was stressed and emotions were high. Andy has a common sense approach to workplace culture that connected with our team. We are not a touchy-feely group and his recommendations and insight were presented in a way that was not intimating or interpreted as 'unachievable'. I highly recommend Andy if you've tried different approaches to achieve high functioning teams and have been unsuccessful in the past.”
-Melissa Strong, CNO, Mason General Hospital
Executive Coaching
When leaders and professionals seek one on one coaching for themselves or someone in their organization, it’s nearly always for one of two reasons:
1. They’re experiencing change
2. They want to create change
The right coach at the right time makes all the difference.
Andy has worked as a coach and leadership development consultant for nearly a decade with executives, managers, and professionals.
Andy's background as a licensed family therapist gives him deep insight into the psychology of relationships, conflict, emotion, motivation, and change. He helps his clients to develop emotional intelligence and leadership skills in a variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, government, utilities, technology, food and beverage, and more.
Andy is low-pressure, engaging, and disarming. He loves helping leaders develop their strengths, and also has a knack for helping leaders navigate difficult situations in realistic ways. He meets clients where they are without judgment.
Andy doesn't just tell people what to do, but rather helps them explore their options and work out a course of action that helps them get where they want to go. He believes that each client is that expert on their own experience, and that the role of a coach is to help develop relevant skills and awareness, not to make decisions for them.
Executive Coaching
When leaders and professionals seek one on one coaching for themselves or someone in their organization, it’s nearly always for one of two reasons:
1. They’re experiencing change
2. They want to create change
Whether you want help with change for yourself, your team, or your organization, the right coach at the right time makes all the difference. Without a doubt, the most important thing when choosing the right coach for you and your situation is “fit”. There are two factors to consider:
Andy has worked with executives, managers, and professionals for nearly a decade as a coach and leadership development consultant. Prior to this, he worked in behavioral health/integrative medicine at a pain management clinic and in private practice as a licensed family therapist. The combined training and experience in leadership development and family therapy gives Andy a unique depth in human psychology, relationships, conflict, emotion, motivation, and change. Andy has a special interest and expertise in helping others develop emotional intelligence and leadership skills, especially at times when they are confronted with difficult challenges such as change, challenging workplace relationship dynamics, critical feedback, and managing difficult situations. Andy has experience in a variety of industries, including healthcare, city governments, utilities, electric cooperatives, technology, food and beverage, manufacturing, and more.
Andy’s approach to coaching is low pressure but engaged. While Andy is approachable and easy to talk to, he isn’t shy about asking tough, relevant questions to keep the conversations productive and moving toward accomplishing coaching goals. Pursuing well-roundedness is a path to mediocrity. Your strengths and your weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. Learning to lean into your strengths and navigate your weaknesses and their impact effectively (rather than trying to eliminate them) leads to growth and your best work. Andy often uses the CliftonStrengths assessment to help coaching clients recognize their talents and strengths-based growth opportunities.
There really isn’t any such thing as completely separating your personal life from your professional life. You take your self with you everywhere you go, and working on your relationship with yourself, your work, and your emotions is always a great investment.
"Andy has a unique ability to expore the nuances of leadership while not only building up a person or team, but also driving them forward. The support and guidance I have received from Andy in my role as CEO has truly empowered me to thrive and grow, both personally and professionally"
Mia Fehl, CEO, Munchen Haus
Education and Training
