Professional & Organizational Development

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Jeff Leinaweaver, Ph.D., GPHR — UW POD Consultant

Consultant Jeff Leinaweaver

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

Humans and organizations have boundless capacity for inventing and reinventing themselves, though at times they may become limited or get stuck due to mental blocks, conflict, force of habit, fear, or lack of vision. I bring a multi-disciplinary background in organizational theory, communications, innovation, and human resources, along with international experience working in large organizations, to help clients get unstuck, shift perceptions about themselves and their organization, resolve conflict, create new pathways for creative thinking, and become more effective, clear-headed, and engaged.

I coach individuals, facilitate workshops, and lead strategic retreats, often utilizing storytelling to increase communication competency, strengthen healthy narratives, and create positive results. Together, we can reframe your organizational story, team dynamics, or leadership narrative, vastly expanding growth and potential.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Training, Coaching, and Leadership

  • Training and facilitation
  • Executive coaching
  • Management and leadership development
  • Elearning and instructional design
  • Designing customized leadership programs, retreats and events
  • Keynotes and presentations
  • Transactional, transformative, narrative, and evidence-based coaching

Communication and Storytelling

  • Storytelling and strategic communication
  • Narrative leadership
  • Organizational storytelling
  • Strategic storytelling salons/retreats
  • Core story development
  • Intercultural communication
  • Communication skills development

Social Responsibility

  • Sustainability/social responsibility programs
  • Social impact and social responsibility auditing
  • Social impact research

Organizational Systems and Growth

  • Organizational design and development
  • Alternative governance systems for organizational design
  • Change management and culture-building
  • Systems and design thinking
  • Stakeholder engagement and design

Human Potential and People Skills

  • Human capital strategy
  • Global people skills/cultural quotient (CQ) development
  • Team building
  • Conflict, dialogue and deliberation facilitation

Innovation

  • Pitch coaching for entrepreneurial start ups
  • Social innovation design, incubator support
  • Creativity in the workplace
  • Human centered design and innovation

Equity and Strategic Inclusion

  • Global diversity
  • Impact equity analysis
  • Intercultural inclusion strategy
  • Transracial/Transnational Identity Coaching
  • JEDI Impact Assessment, mixed-methods research and organizational intervention
  • Facilitation of DEI issues in high conflict environments

Academic Teaching

  • MBA Graduate Faculty, School of Business and Technology, Capella University; received top faculty awards in 2013, 2015, and 2016
  • Adjunct Faculty, Business, Communication and Sustainability, University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies and UW International Programs
  • MBA Graduate Faculty, Management and Organizational Systems, Presidio/Pinchot University/Bainbridge Graduate Institute
  • MA Graduate Faculty, Permaculture Design and Sustainable Development, Antioch University
  • MA Graduate Faculty and Social Innovation Fellow, Fielding Graduate University, Institute for Social Innovation

CREDENTIALS

  • Ph.D., Human Development and Organizational Systems, Fielding Graduate University
  • M.A., Human and Organizational Development, Fielding Graduate University
  • M.A., Applied Linguistics Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of Surrey
  • B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies – Journalism, Spanish and Music, University of Arizona
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University
  • Communications Fellow, CMM Institute for Social and Personal Innovation and The Waterhouse School of Communication, Villanova University
  • Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR) Certification, HRCI
  • Evidence-Based Coaching Certification, Fielding Graduate University
  • Certified Core Graduate Coach, Coach U and International Coaching Federation
  • Sustainability Professional (SA) Certification, International Society of Sustainability Professionals
  • Social Accountability (SA) 8000 Auditor Certification, SAI
  • Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI)
  • Intercultural Effectiveness Survey (IES)
  • Organizational Culture Archetype Indicator (OCAI)
  • Pearson-Marr Organizational Archetype Indicator and MBTI, Center for Applications of Psychological Type
  • World Café, Appreciative Inquiry
  • Permaculture Design Certification and Advanced Certification in Permaculture
  • Racial Equity Institute – Certified Trainer

SELECTED CLIENTS

  • ISOS CSR and the ISOS Group
  • Low-Impact Hydro Association
  • Amazon.com
  • Karass Creative
  • Kyocera
  • Olympus
  • Intel
  • Apple
  • Coca-Cola
  • Salesforce
  • Johns Manville
  • Symantec
  • UmpquaBank
  • Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce
  • The International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)
  • OUR Ecovillage
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