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Steve Lishansky

Steve Lishansky is an executive coach, facilitator, consultant and educator working with talented current and future senior leaders and their organizations. Since 1992, he has been developing a unique method of executive coaching, what he calls 3-Dimensional Effectiveness™, an exceptionally high- and well-balanced level of personal, inter-personal, and organizational learning.  He specializes in building high value relationships, mastering the dynamics of effective leadership, and improving overall team and organizational results through executive coaching, consulting, delivering customized educational programs and keynotes, and facilitating executive meetings, retreats and strategic planning sessions. 

Prior to starting his coaching and consulting company, Steve had eighteen years as a senior executive and CEO running high growth consumer goods companies.  He is also the founder and managing director of the first coaching school dedicated exclusively to developing top notch executive coaches – The Executive Coaching Institute, the oldest coach training organization dedicated to elevating results by educating top-level executives and coaches in the principle-based, highly effective work he pioneered.  His clients have included senior executives at companies and organizations as diverse as MetLife, Freddie Mac, Cisco, EMC, Johnson and Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Agfa, State Street Corporation, Canadian Tire, NASA, and The Federal Aviation Administration.

Steve is one of the first Master Certified Coaches with the International Coach Federation (ICF), and a past President of their largest chapter, ICF-New England.  He is also the Past-President of the New England chapter of the National Speakers Association, and the designer of the personal transformation program Vision to Reality, as well as the interpersonal mastery program Building High Value Relationships™.  His book on transformational leadership and organizational alignment:  Avoiding The Expertise Trap™ – Why Being Right Is Insufficient for Being Effective in the 21st Century will be published in the fall of 2008.