Sharon Lebovitz Richmond MBA
Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Facilitator

Sharon’s value as a coach and consultant results from her focus on each client’s important business outcomes. For nearly 20 years, she has partnered with executives build the capability, culture, structure and leadership crucial to their organization’s success. Sharon specializes in leadership coaching, building high-performance leadership teams and creating agile, competitive organizations.

Sharon works from the belief that leaders are made, not born, and that by building on your strengths, and broadening your leadership choices, you can improve your leadership success in the ways that most matter to you.  

In one client’s words, “Working with Sharon helped me see how I’m impeding the very progress I espouse. She guided me to practical action steps for getting out of my own, and my team’s, way.”  

Sharon has partnered with leaders from CXO through manager, across industries including biotechnology, business services, consumer services, education, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, and utilities. Since beginning her career with Touche Ross management consulting, Sharon has worked with leaders at companies spanning the organizational life-cycle, from venture backed start-ups to Fortune 50 companies.

Consulting Experience:

Over the last 20 years, Sharon has helped hundreds of leaders accomplish many important objectives for their businesses. Some examples:

• Executive team broke stalemate on strategic objectives, effectively allocated key scientific resources, and expedited completion of critical Phase 1 drug studies
• Executive leadership team in competitive technology sector identified critical performance gaps from company-wide survey, engaged employees to resolve them, and led their organization to more than a 6% increase in annual operating profit, well above sector performance in a down cycle
• Leadership team articulated their unique service-delivery culture, re-aligned operating practices to support key elements, and achieved greater customer satisfaction, reduced cost per hire (>20%), and improved retention (twice industry standard), all while growing 32%

Sharon’s work is always tailored specifically to each client’s situation, and focuses on helping achieve measurable improvements in performance. Some ways she might help your organization:

• Identify gaps between how your leaders see themselves and how they are seen by the organization, then aid in closing these perception gaps
• Customize 360 feedback to help you better understand how you’re impacting your team or organization
• Assess organization culture and identify what impedes your success
• Design and facilitate meetings for your leadership team that address your critical business issues while developing your team’s skills

Relevant Affiliations:

• Advanced Facilitator of the Interpersonal Dynamics course, and Master Leadership Coach at Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Western Region Chair, International Association for Psychological Type

Education & Training:

• Certified MBTI® Practitioner and national speaker on psychological type and leadership
• Experienced with a variety of assessments and organizational tools, including EQ-i, MSCEIT, Thomas-Kilman Conflict Instrument, FIRO-B
• MBA, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, emphasis on Strategic Change and Leadership
• BA, Duke University

Personal interest:

• Voracious reader
• Visual artist – textiles, mixed media, and drawing
• Lives with husband, Bruce, and daughter, Rachael, in Palo Alto, California.

An interesting question she likes to ask:
What is holding you back from accomplishing your goals?
Click here to see his answer

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