Welcome To Leaders By Design!

The Power of Informed Leadership

Leadership can be learned, We are here to help!

Please contact us if you desire to have a positive, inspiring and productive effect on your companies and employees as they strive towards excellence and the delivery of challenging business outcomes.Executive Coaching is a confidential and discreet process delivered by seasoned coaches that allows a busy executive the space to reflect, imagine and deliver extraordinary results.

About Us

Peter J. Dean, MS, Ph.D. and
Molly D. Shepard, MS, MSM

Molly D. Shepard and Peter J. Dean have joined forces to help C-Suite Executives and Boards effectively and strategically address the challenges and opportunities that they face in leading dynamic and complex global workplaces. Using affirmative leadership principles and practices to inspire and motivate positively the challenges of employees, they use their decades of work coaching and advising senior leaders on how to build, enhance and maintain relationships with their Boards and teams to achieve great outcomes.

Molly D. Shepard, MS, MSM, Partner of Leaders By Design has more than 30 years of experience in career counseling, leadership development, executive coaching and executive search. She has served on many public and non-profit boards and has received numerous awards for her work. Molly is often tapped as a keynote speaker and moderator given her expertise and reputation as a thought leader in the field of leadership development. She is well known for her advocacy and coaching of senior women in business to increase their career opportunities and growth in their companies.

Peter J. Dean, MS, Ph.D. Partner of Leaders By Design, has over 30 years of experience in the industry. Peter has served as an international coach and consultant for many Fortune 500 and other companies worldwide. He has also held leadership positions and been on faculty at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ,Fordham University and the University of Iowa. Peter holds a Ph.D. in Learning Psychology and Human Resource Management. Peter has served as faculty at 5 universities and received 3 teaching awards.

Strategic Leadership in a Global Arena

Our Services

Leadership can be learned from the well-researched models, measures, metrics, and methods designed for senior executives over the years. Leaders By Design coaching services are based on tested research and methodology. With the collective experience of Peter Dean and Molly Shepard in the field of informed leadership, leaders will experience the most sensitive and insightful coaching available.

Cultivating Immediate Behavioral Change

A leader who is either unwilling or unable to adopt new behaviors to more effectively manage may encounter tough consequences to include termination. Confidential self-referral with a trusted advisor can help the leader to remove the obstacles preventing him or her from effectively dealing with change so that targeted outcomes are attained.

Developing Emotional Flexibility

Leaders must have the ability to listen, empathize and motivate others to sustain productivity and morale. These skills can be learned. The primary ingredient for being flexible during change efforts in organizations is to balance the use of power with others. Being able to differentiate when you are overly forcing change versus accommodating other points of view is key to their being emotionally agile during the ebbs and flows of change. A trusted advisor can help an executive keep negative ego surges at bay.

Coaching Executives

Leadership can be lonely. An executive managing a large team or the entire enterprise will often benefit from the discreet and confidential perspective of an experienced executive coach. Leaders By Design can provide the space for a busy and challenged leader to reflect on his or her leadership, strategies, and ideas with a learned advisor.

Managing Change in Role

When successfully integrating into a new role, whether a promotion, lateral or a new position outside your company, it can be important to be thoughtful and careful about the transition. A majority of new leaders fail in the first three months of their new role. This can be avoided by taking special steps to understand what your business imperative is and who the key stakeholders are who will contribute to your success. An executive advisor can be extremely helpful in giving objective advice and counsel during these difficult first three months and thereafter. Transitions have different shapes and forms. The other major transition a senior executive can experience is one of being involuntarily let go. Most senior executives have never really looked for a job. An experienced counselor can assist in the preparation, launch and execution of a career transition strategy.

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Leading Board Governance

One of the most important relationships a CEO can establish is with his or her board chairperson and Members of the Board. Understanding what their needs are for communication and what their expectations are for performance is critical. Spending enough time nurturing these relationships while running an organization is difficult but nessaccary for success. Likewise, it is important to understand how visible your key staff members need to be with the Board and how important their presentations and presence are. The trusted executive advisor can gather the information that is necessary for a CEO and his team to understand exactly what these expectations and challenges are and provide recommendations for achieving them.

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