Hope is a gifted consultant who can help organizations develop high performing management teams. She is able to put people at ease and help them understand themselves and others in a non-threatening way. Working with senior management, Hope is able to create a safe environment where people can learn to trust one another, which is the fundamental building block to developing high performing teams.

I highly recommend Hope to your organization if you are in need of transitioning your group of individual managers into a high performing team.

Richard Neugent
Chief Executive Officer
St. Francis Hospital
Greenville, SC

When I first met you in 1990, I was skeptical of the value of leadership consultants. However, within a year, you created a major event with all the mid-managers that brought out their frustrations and helped them share these with the officers. Departmental silos were opened and managers began to take more responsibility.

The biggest shift for me came when I did a Lifeline with you. It helped me recognize how my leadership approach had developed. I began using your interpersonal circle to shift to a more effective style. The changes I made led to being named President of my firm.

The Executive Coaching program you designed and completed with our key managers was very successful. Each of them seemed to have much more self-awareness and got much better buy-in, performances and effectiveness. Each of us was able to better balance our lives, which has resulted in enhanced workplace relationships and thus productivity.

Al Fansler
CEO and Owner, Family Farm and Home 

Hope works well with all levels of organizations, whether she is coaching executives and managers individually or facilitating strategic planning, team development or training meeting with teams and groups. She uses psychologically-based models, but applies them to daily business issues in such a way that people at every level of the organization can understand how it applies to their situation.

She uses the MBTI, FIRO-B and Personal Styles Inventory to help individuals and groups understand themselves and others. She makes these psychological instruments less threatening, as well as more useful by making sure to apply the results to individual, business and team issues using examples and ideas that everyone understands.

Ted Britton,
HR Director

You were able to get a group of highly intelligent, well-educated managers to work together in a non-confrontational way so that their efforts were spent on productive efforts rather than on personal ego related gratification. Previously consultants had helped design "fixes" but no one had ever looked at how to carry out new plans from a human systems perspective.

William Viklund
CEO-Retired
Long Island Savings Bank 

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