Ellen Wingard

Ellen is an executive coach and organizational consultant with over 20 years of experience working with senior leaders and their teams in financial services, academic medicine, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, publishing and higher education. As a pioneer in the field of executive coaching, Ellen has been working with leaders since 1982 to achieve business results, build collaborative teams and foster innovation while promoting resilience and renewal. Since 1990, Ellen has been a key contributor to the design and delivery of corporate coaching programs linked to strategic business objectives at several Fortune 500 companies. She has received consistently high satisfaction ratings in linking executive leadership effectiveness to solid business results.

Ellen's extensive experience working with high performing senior leaders and their teams spans financial, clinical, research, educational and scientific environments such as: Citizens Bank, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Business School Press, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MIT Press, Morgan Stanley, Museum of Science, New York Times, Northwestern Healthcare System, Partners Healthcare, Pfizer, Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tufts Health Plan, Wells Fargo Bank and Zurich Investments.

In 1996, Ellen partnered with Linkage, Inc., an international corporate education firm, to launch their executive coaching practice. She contributed to the original design of the annual Global Leadership Development Conference chaired by Warren Bennis, the Women in Leadership Conference, the Executive Coaching Forum and the first International Coaching & Mentoring Conference, London, England.

In 1999, Ellen received recognition from the Women's Financial Association for contributions to advancing women leaders in the financial services industry. Ellen was an original contributor to the Executive Coaching Handbook, Boston, Massachusetts, a publication cited as one of the most comprehensive white papers on the ethics and standards of creating coaching partnerships within organizations.

A graduate of Boston University, B.A, 1974, and Antioch College, M.Ed., 1980, Ellen has extensive post-graduate training in systems thinking, team development, mediation and executive assessment. As a former student then staff member at the acclaimed University of Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic with Jon Kabat-Zinn from 1986 to 1994, Ellen was trained in behavioral medicine tools that are the basis for "emotional intelligence" research applying mindfulness practice to leadership effectiveness. She is the co- author of Strengthening Leadership Skills Through Coaching in Culture Shift (AHA, 1997) and the co-editor of Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

Ellen views business as a social responsibility, a perspective that is instrumental in supporting her clients to make a positive impact in the world while enhancing the moment to moment fulfillment and satisfaction of their leadership expression. Her experience teaching mindfulness to corporate executives has been a foundational aspect of her work, where the practices of insight and self-awareness foster wise action, candor and the courage of conviction to make a difference.