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Wendy Capland MA, MCC
Wendy Capland Quick Facts
Main Areas: Leadership and Talent DevelopmentBest Sellers: Coaching and Mentoring Programs in the Fortune 500
Career Focus: Consultant, Coach, Speaker, CEO, TV personality
Affiliation: International Coach Federation; Executive Coaching Summit; International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations, The Newfield Network, The Magic Parties
Wendy Capland is the founder and CEO of Vision Quest Consulting and The Magic Parties. Founded in 1987, Vision Quest Consulting provides executive leadership development coaching, training and consultation for top executives and their management teams. Vision Quest Consulting's programs and services help leaders leverage themselves increasing their personal and business impact, communications, and strategic relationships. Wendy Capland and her team are experts in developing leaders in organizations. The results are typically dramatic. Organizations stabilize, productivity increases, turnover declines, revenues improve, key talent is enhanced, developed and retained, and interpersonal conflicts and silos decrease.
In 2006, Wendy founded The Magic Parties®, an on-line and in-person community of women supporting women to become their best selves and answer the question, "What's next for me and is it enough?" The Magic Parties provides women with personal development tools, resources, and programs to reassess and re-craft where they are, what they want, and how to best get there; using the unique sprinkling of sisterhood, spirit, and a little chocolate!® www.themagicparties.com
Wendy brings over 20 years of experience in the human resources, marketing and sales, personal mastery, and organization effectiveness arenas. Her work in the areas of personal and organizational transformation and communication are leading edge, dramatically enhancing results achieved by leaders, executives, and organizations. Wendy is past Chairman and a current member of the Executive Team of the Executive Coaching Summit, a worldwide network of senior executive development experts who are responsible for researching and integrating best practices in the field. She is a founding member of the International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations which creates a global dialogue and research community dedicated to excellence in organizational coaching.
Wendy has worked with many market leaders, including AT&T, Hale & Dorr, Arthur Andersen, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Bank of America, Unisys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fidelity Investments, MetLife, OneBeacon Insurance, Wachovia Bank, IDG, Partners Healthcare, Children's Hospital Boston, and ScotiaBank and hundreds of courageous women changing the world one woman at a time.
Wendy holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology, with a concentration in Business Management, from Boston College, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She holds a Master Certified Coach certification; the highest international commendation awarded to coaches by the International Coach Federation and is a founding member, board member and Past President of the New England Chapter, the largest chapter worldwide.
In addition to "Take it to the Top; A Guide to Executive Coaching and Mentoring Programs in America's Top Corporations", Wendy writes a popular monthly Leadership Newsletter which is distributed worldwide and has appeared on numerous national radio shows. Wendy's leadership commentaries have been featured in numerous business journals and she has been a featured speaker at Inc. Magazine's CEO Symposium, New England Council Leadership Forum, The Executive Council, Boston Women's Network, SIM Northeast Leadership Development Roundtable, and three International Coach Federation annual conferences. She has been a regular "Ask the Leadership" columnist for two insurance industry publications. Wendy was nominated recently for membership in the exclusive National Association for Female Executives and was instrumental in the planning for the 2007 International Coach Federation's Annual Conference New Learning for Master-level Coach conference track.
Other current and past affiliations: Human Resource Learning Forum, The Newfield Network, and the American Society of Training and Development, International Coach Federation, International Consortium of Coaches in Organizations, and The Executive Coaching Summit.
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Other Programs & Highlights
Leadership Training programs - http://www.visionquestconsulting.com/courses.html
Executive Coaching Results - http://www.visionquestconsulting.com/coachingResults.html
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Wendy Capland
Executive Coaching is a collaborative partnership between a middle- to upper-level leader, his/her organization, and an executive coach. The purpose of this partnership is:
• To facilitate both the leader's and the organization's learning
• To develop key core leadership mindsets, competencies, and skills
• To attract, retain, and develop the best talent
• To build a culture supportive of the organization's mission
• To foster networks across organizations to address complex, multi-sectoral issues and challenges
• To achieve identified business results
A successful coaching partnership is composed primarily of one-on-one interactions between a leadership coach and a leader and is supported, as needed, by others. Components that assist in making the Executive Coaching engagement successful include the following:
• It is based on agreed-upon ground rules, time frames, and specific goals and measures of success.
• The coaching partnership uses tailored goals and approaches, including:
- Skill building
- Performance improvement
- Development for future assignments
- Exploration, definition, and implementation of the individual's leadership and the organization's business objectives
In our view, effective Executive Coaching is coaching that creates the right behavioral changes that lead to improvement in the individual's ability to impact bottom-line business results.
As we know, Executive Leadership Coaching has grown in popularity over the last several decades. There are many reasons for this. One of the primary reasons is that leaders are being asked to demonstrate strategic business acumen and at the same time be masters of the "soft" skills required to effectively lead and manage people. In addition, factors and relationships that can support personal development and learning, an absolute must for effective leadership, are often lacking due to the pace and degree of change within companies. Executive coaches, among other professionals, have stepped into this gap, being tasked with helping to guide leaders and managers towards improvement. In general, masterful coaching appears to be a valuable tool to support learning and development.
Human capital is now being viewed as an organizational investment in a knowledge economy versus an organizational cost. Executive Leadership Coaching is a valuable and powerful tool for organizations who want to develop and shift the leadership capacity and competencies of its management talent.
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Getting Started With Wendy Capland
When asked about the secret of his success, Wayne Gretsky, one of history's greatest professional hockey players replied, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where the puck has been."
As leaders, we all need to develop our skills and talents to move,
influence and impact, where the business, products and services and the
puck is going to be.
"Leadership is discovering your company's destiny and having the courage to follow it." Joe Jaworski, MIT
