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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

Critter Doctor
Kirkland, WA

"I have to tell you, at one point someone questioned the value of the coaching work I've been doing with you. It made me think about how I feel about my career these days (100% improved attitude due to coaching!) and how I am grateful to be excited about my team rather than resentful of them.

So, I plan to continue becoming a gifted leader!!!!!  Thanks for being there for me."

Dr. Wendy Bernstein
Practice Owner



 

 

G bar N Veterinary Clinic
Newman, CA

"Jeff's coaching and insight has helped us understand and communicate with our staff as we move towards team based leadership. As they learn to understand and communicate with each other, team morale, efficiency, and satisfaction are on the rise."

Paul and Dr. Cathy Wallace
Practice Owners



 

 

Novartis Animal Health
Greensboro, NC

"Dr. Jeff Thoren's work with our team enabled us to bring focus back to our most important role as managers, leadership. We began with a workshop to identify our Management Team's Leadership Priorities for our business, and then set sail with applying assigned reading material into our everyday tasks. The results have been attention to the many opportunities that our team has to shape messaging and lead for success in our competitive marketplace. Our team now takes a fresh perspective into leadership on a more regular basis."

Jim Blacka, DVM
Regional Sales Director - North Region


"We worked with Dr. Jeff Thoren to enhance the coaching skills of each of our sales managers. The program included a live workshop followed by regular web conferences facilitated by Dr. Thoren that included pre-reading of pertinent articles, discussions of our takeaways, and a commitment to personal accountability among our management team.

Team members continue to refer to the study materials provided during the program and have applied what they’ve learned in coaching their own team members. This was practical learning that was applied immediately and produced a positive impact on our team members and on our sales results."

Dennis Truesdell
Regional Sales Director - South Region



 

 

TriQuint Semiconductor
San Jose, CA

"The team coaching helped bring the different groups together for sure. I felt that the facilitated meetings by a third party were a very powerful way to get folks to come to the table and define their common goals for success."

Mark Arrouzet
TQS/WJ Communications Integration Team Member



 

 

Mayo Clinic Hospital
Phoenix, AZ

"Dear Sally and Jeff,

Everyone loved the Art of Possibility workshop!  Thank you so very much for sharing your wisdom and talents with our group.  I believe we would benefit from further exploration of possibilities and facilitation.  Our leadership development, individually and as a cohesive group, will only benefit the organization. 

Thank you again for a wonderfully inspiring day!"

Cathleen M. Zehring, BSN, RN, MM
Director of Nursing Resources


 

 

A Leading Renal Dialysis Service Provider

"I can wholeheartedly endorse coaching as a critical component of leadership development in our organization. 

Not only have I experienced personal benefit from Jeff's coaching, but I also attribute much of the success of our newly formed Southwest Business Unit to the vision of the Business Unit President who enthusiastically made coaching available to his Regional VP's and Area Managers.  I believe that the outstanding performance indicators of our newest business unit are a direct result of the coaching services offered by Gifted Leaders and Valley Coaching Collaborative. 

There's no question that our investment in coaching has been money well spent."

Rick Duckworth
Senior VP Operations and President West Business Unit


 

  
Washington State University
College of Veterinary Medicine

"Jeff has participated in our experiential leadership programs and not surprisingly, found them to be a solid fit with his approach to principle-centered thinking and servant leadership.  At this point, we consider him to be a member of the Veterinary Leadership Experience (VLE) faculty family and are thrilled that he would give us permission to redistribute his e-newsletter to our alumni list.

Jeff is a huge part of the future of leadership in the veterinary profession."

Rick DeBowes, DVM, DACVS
Associate Dean of Development and External Relations


 

 

Phoenix West Animal Hospital

"Dr. Jeff Thoren’s work with my team has been a valuable experience.  Jeff helped our team build professional trust.  He helped us get to know each other better on a “working level”, but more importantly he helped us learn more about ourselves ... our own drives, interests and styles of relating to others.

Jeff’s approach to team building was interesting, fun, open and fresh. He started out by helping us look at the big picture for our work and team.  We began to realize that we all had very similar wants, goals and needs for our work place.  Once we were all on the same page, Jeff introduced the TKI assessment to help us learn more about how we approached conflict.  Once we shared the results with each other it dramatically improved job related communication amongst the leaders and the rest of the team, as well as amongst team members on the same level of authority.

Jeff then implemented the Myers-Briggs personality assessment.  We learned some useful information just from getting the test results back, but Jeff’s guidance and interpretation really made this tool come to life for our team.  We gained insight into how individuals learn, their comfort level with changes, and how they look at life.  We discovered our leadership team’s preference of operating was the exact opposite of the majority of our team members!  It was no wonder that we were having trouble implementing new ideas!  At that point we adjusted our ways to communicate with the team that best fit their needs and comfort.  Our next “change” at work went very smooth.  There was minimal stress and good compliance.  I was surprised at how easy it all went.

I am thankful and grateful towards Jeff.  Our lives have changed at work and at home.  My team members are better communicators, more emotionally intelligent, and are stronger as a group.

Jeff Thoren is a great resource. He has a wide variety of knowledge in leadership, human relations and groups.  But most importantly, he is sincere, energetic and wants to make people better at what they do in the world."

Marian Ansems, DVM
Hospital Director

 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

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