Take Charge of Your Success: Why Are You Stuck?

Wendy Weidenbaum, noted author and speaker will address how you can better position yourself for personal and professional success for the upcoming year?  What simple actions will yield the biggest payoffs?  What's holding you back?  How you can take control through self-awareness and increased perceptions about the reactions you have?...
 

This workshop offers the opportunity to identify, clarify and then refine why you may be stuck, either personally or professionally. This is a chance to renew your commitment to creating the career and life you desire.  In this dynamic workshop, you will learn four questions that may help you become unstuck.  You will learn how to design your personal strategy for moving forward beyond obstacles to achieve your success.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill

Weidenbaum Development & Associates is a consulting firm dedicated to developing leaders, managers and teams become their potential.  Wendy R. Weidenbaum, the founder and CEO, customizes each product based on client needs.

Wendy has successfully driven strategic organizational change and helped to build high performing teams and organizations by identifying and developing leadership and team capabilities, practices and skills required for success in today’s fast paced business environment. 

Prior to starting her own firm, Wendy held senior level positions in global organizations within diverse industries such as financial services, consumer products, healthcare and hospitality.. She was an internal consultant to senior leaders on executive development, organization performance, and talent management. 

She holds a B.S. in Education from Boston University and has a Masters degree from Columbia University.  Wendy has spoken at national and international conferences for the Conference Board, Linkage and ASTD.  Wendy has presented on such topics as “Getting Ahead,“ “Networking” and “Take Charge of Your Success: why are You Stuck?” at both the Financial Women’s Association and 100 Women in Hedge Funds.

Wendy has co-authored two articles in Hedgeworld.com titled, “Managing Talent When You Would Rather Be Managing Your Business” and “Assimilating New Employees to Manage Your Risk”.  She is an adjunct professor at New York University and is currently teaching the classes, “Management Strategy and Communications,”  "Transitioning to Management" and "High Impact Decision Making."

Wendy has her Professional Coaching Certificate issued jointly by Baruch College and iCoachNewYork. She is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and FIRO-B instruments.

Her expertise in Leadership and Management Development includes executive coaching, facilitating team building interventions, developing and executing high potential programs, and designing and instructing leadership and management skills training programs and off-sites

Representative Consulting Engagements

* Designed and facilitated global leadership programs for newly promoted Managing Directors and
* Directors for a Fortune 500 investment bank
* Developed an on-boarding strategy aligned with staffing, performance management and talent
   planning at a Fortune 50 consumer products firm
* Worked with Board members to develop and facilitate peer advisory networks for senior women traders
   and portfolio managers, COO’s and lawyers
* Provided executive coaching to senior leaders leading to a number of promotions
* Designed, developed and facilitated an international team leadership program for the COO and her
   senior team; developed a teambuilding off-site for Controllers
* Conducted leadership program for 100 leaders focusing on growth and innovation and a management 
   development training curriculum for Fortune 50 real estate group
* Crafted the change management strategy and developed succession planning and talent management
   strategies for $5B not-for-profit organization
* Developed and implemented a global, strategic training curriculum

A BROAD BASE OF EXPERIENCE WITH CLIENTS INCLUDING:

Avon                                             Brown Brothers Harriman & Co
Accenture                                    Jennison Associates
Credit-Suisse                             The National Dance Institute
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals             The Atlantic Philanthropies
MetLife                                        Arden Asset Management
Discover Bank                           Charter Oak
100 Women in Hedge Funds   ING Clarion
Golden Tree In Site                   JPMorgan Chase
John A Hartford Foundation     Bank of Montreal
Johnson & Johnson                   Novartis