Catherine Woods
Management Consulting and Executive Coaching
Catherine Woods brings over 20 years of national and international experience in management consulting, executive coaching, and business operations. Catherine has held management positions in the energy, information technology, financial services, and travel industries, and has consulted and coached executives, mid-level managers, and line supervisors in oil and gas, telecommunications, environmental and services firms, as well as non-profit and governmental organizations.
Ms. Woods is highly skilled at coaching leaders to achieve goals and optimize personal and organizational performance. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations to identify and realize opportunities for growth. Her areas of expertise include organizational design and development, large-scale change management, strategic and business planning, management system development and implementation, organizational restructuring, and business process reengineering. She has successfully implemented numerous developmental, transformative, transitional, and improvement coaching interventions for organizations, individuals, and teams.
Ms. Woods’ coaching philosophy: At its best, coaching focuses on helping a client comprehensively envision success and move effectively toward that vision. As a coach, Catherine commits to the client’s vision and acts as a resource partner for goal attainment. She respects each client’s professional and life experience and works to build from that base of strength. By actively engaging clients in assessing coaching needs and intended results, she focuses on creating an atmosphere of personal accountability whereby clients take responsibility for attainment of developmental goals. She believes in the value of clear, candid, and applicable feedback when exploring areas of challenge. By offering possibilities to consider along with practical tools and strategies, she enables clients to choose where to focus efforts to gain new skills and understanding. Individual milestones are established so that progress can be measured and mid-course corrections can be made to provide optimal coaching assistance and results. Catherine sees appreciation for each individual, pragmatism, laughter, and a passion for helping people realize positive change as core to her coaching approach.
Catherine is experienced in the use of numerous assessment tools including 360 Assessment, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, TTI-DISC, and the Thomas Kilman Conflict Instrument.
She has lived and worked in Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and is experienced in multi-national/multi-cultural coaching including executives taking on new assignments, employees going to or returning from national/expatriate assignments, and multi-national / multi-ethnic work teams.
Professional Training
Ms. Woods' education includes a BA in Economics from Willamette University, an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business EMBA program, graduate coursework in economics and marketing at the University of Munich, and Executive Programs at both Harvard and Rutgers Universities.
Speaking and Publications
Ms. Woods has been guest lecturer at New York University and a featured speaker to such organizations as New Jersey Organizational Development Network and the North Texas Center for the Study of Work Teams.
She has spoken nationally and internationally on the topics of Successful Business Restructuring; Sustaining Organizational Change; and Profitable Labor/Management Collaboration. She has been published in Practicing Organization Development, a Guide for Consultants, the preeminent guide to change facilitation in organizations.
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Catherine Woods brings over 20 years of national and international experience in management consulting, executive coaching, and business operations. Catherine has held management positions in the energy, information technology, financial services, and travel industries, and has consulted and coached executives, mid-level managers, and line supervisors in oil and gas, telecommunications, environmental and services firms, as well as non-profit and governmental organizations.
Ms. Woods is highly skilled at coaching leaders to achieve goals and optimize personal and organizational performance. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations to identify and realize opportunities for growth. Her areas of expertise include organizational design and development, large-scale change management, strategic and business planning, management system development and implementation, organizational restructuring, and business process reengineering. She has successfully implemented numerous developmental, transformative, transitional, and improvement coaching interventions for organizations, individuals, and teams.
Ms. Woods’ coaching philosophy: At its best, coaching focuses on helping a client comprehensively envision success and move effectively toward that vision. As a coach, Catherine commits to the client’s vision and acts as a resource partner for goal attainment. She respects each client’s professional and life experience and works to build from that base of strength. By actively engaging clients in assessing coaching needs and intended results, she focuses on creating an atmosphere of personal accountability whereby clients take responsibility for attainment of developmental goals. She believes in the value of clear, candid, and applicable feedback when exploring areas of challenge. By offering possibilities to consider along with practical tools and strategies, she enables clients to choose where to focus efforts to gain new skills and understanding. Individual milestones are established so that progress can be measured and mid-course corrections can be made to provide optimal coaching assistance and results. Catherine sees appreciation for each individual, pragmatism, laughter, and a passion for helping people realize positive change as core to her coaching approach.
Catherine is experienced in the use of numerous assessment tools including 360 Assessment, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, TTI-DISC, and the Thomas Kilman Conflict Instrument.
She has lived and worked in Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and is experienced in multi-national/multi-cultural coaching including executives taking on new assignments, employees going to or returning from national/expatriate assignments, and multi-national / multi-ethnic work teams.
Professional Training
Ms. Woods' education includes a BA in Economics from Willamette University, an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business EMBA program, graduate coursework in economics and marketing at the University of Munich, and Executive Programs at both Harvard and Rutgers Universities.
Speaking and Publications
Ms. Woods has been guest lecturer at New York University and a featured speaker to such organizations as New Jersey Organizational Development Network and the North Texas Center for the Study of Work Teams.
She has spoken nationally and internationally on the topics of Successful Business Restructuring; Sustaining Organizational Change; and Profitable Labor/Management Collaboration. She has been published in Practicing Organization Development, a Guide for Consultants, the preeminent guide to change facilitation in organizations.
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