Dan Oestreich, M.A.,
Reflective Leadership Consultant, Speaker, Trainer, and
Coach
My
Services:
Coaching
Career Repair and Rescue
Training
Team Learning
Organizational Assessment
Keynotes and Other Presentations
Beyond the Edge Workshop
Team Trust Survey
High-performance
organizations demand
high-performance leadership, trust, and
innovation. Anything less is a source of "waste" and
a loss of energy, a cost taken against every potential
value an organization brings to its markets, an erosion of
every positive benefit an organization brings to the world.
Leadership
is not position or formal power. It is personal
impact on others and creative, positive contribution,
especially in those situations where there are unknown
opportunities, stress, and negative history. There are a
million contexts for effective leadership -- from corporate
guidance to raising a child, from political change to
writing a poem. And the first act of leadership is always
the act of leading ourselves, attending scrupulously to the
"self" that is a constantly evolving instrument of
influence and enduring, sustainable change. The key to
effective leadership is the practice of self-knowledge and
continuous learning -- through feedback, choice, growth,
and change. A leader is anyone who wants to use inner
potentials to make a conscious and positive outer
difference.
Trust is
what brings together any enterprise. It is the
opposite of control, and infinitely more powerful. It is
the product of connection, inspiration, personal and
organizational alignment. Without trust -- one on one, in
teams, across a whole enterprise -- the energy of leaders
is constantly about making others do what they do not want
to do. With trust, leaders galvanize an organization for
its possibilities with stunning results. Trust overcomes
fear, defensiveness, cynicism, and apathy -- the harpies
that destroy hope, meaningful action, and empowered
execution.
Innovation
is the minimum requirement to play. it's the
standard; not a nice thing to do, a plus quality, gravy.
The future isn't going to wait for anyone. Collaboration
rather than competition is the essential ingredient.
Without collaboration potentially powerful ideas never
fully unfold and people learn that competition and power
are the only real sources of reward, not their insight,
truth-telling, or willingness to commit to what is
new.
The Arc: Living the Full Story of Your Personal Power
Unfolding Leadership Newsletter
Dan Oestreich
Oestreich Associates • Renton WA USA • 425-207-8034
Grasps the Culture • A Change Agent • A Great Coach
“Dan has developed and facilitated some great material for our leadership. Surveys of the leadership work done by Dan have scored the highest over seven other leadership events. He is awesome to work with, quickly grasps the culture and behavioral attributes in the organization and he is able to fully integrate and connect his material to the aspects of the culture and behavior you want strengthened or diminished. He is a change agent and can and does extend challenging questions to conversations that skirt the hard issues. Additionally, Dan is a great coach, is empathic yet able to hold you accountable. If you're looking for leadership development, a change agent, coach or OD consulting work Dan is the person to call.”
--
Bev Banks Director of Learning & Development, PEMCO
Insurance, Seattle WA
.