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Ingrid Joy Wolfson, MCC

Ingrid Joy Wolfson is an Executive Coach who specializes in developing effective, innovative, and healthy leaders by helping them gain focus, build capability, and discover new possibilities to achieve sustainable results.

Ingrid has been a business owner, organizational change strategist, and executive coach for the past twenty years, acting as a facilitator to organizations, management teams, and individuals who are planning for and implementing organizational and personal change. She has hands-on experience working with executives and their staffs in environments ranging from Fortune 500 companies to new entrepreneurial businesses. Ingrid has specialized in:

• Coaching executives and managers on leadership effectiveness, organizational redesign, managing change, strategic planning and implementation, strategic alliance and relationship building, team development, communications, creativity and innovation, people management, style issues, and work/life balance
• Partnering with individuals, entrepreneurs, and management teams to develop creative change strategies for achieving desired business goals
• Developing and implementing customer-driven strategic plans
• Designing and facilitating planning sessions, workshops, team meetings and staff meetings
• Designing and facilitating business process redesign initiatives to improve operational efficiency and staff productivity
• Developing and implementing organization-wide leadership development strategies aligned to business objectives

She offers her clients a unique blend of business experience, an experimental mindset, and valuable insights into the psychology of individuals, organizations, and relationships. Clients learn structured methodologies proven to help effectively manage change and achieve results. They benefit from a confidential, supportive, nonjudgmental forum to explore possibilities, take risks, and make changes. Ingrid inspires her clients' creativity while helping them stay focused on their most critical goals. Her clients learn to integrate and balance personal and professional goals to increase the likelihood of success.

As a senior consultant with Unisys, Ingrid worked with executive teams in the U.S. Coast Guard and other government agencies to design and implement organization-wide change initiatives. Previously, she was Manager of Training for Keane, Inc., a $500m software development company, and worked in both human resources and training for American Hospital Supply Corporation. Before joining Keane, she was President of Wolfson & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in managing the human resource side of mergers and acquisitions.

Ingrid holds degrees in psychology and business from the University of Illinois and has done extensive graduate work in organizational development with Loyola University and National Training Labs. She is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute and is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation.