Lory has 15 years of experience as a certified executive coach but she draws from 30 years as a senior leader of training and performance support organizations. At Intel, she led organizations of 20 to over 100 employees, serving customers globally. She worked with senior leaders at Intel, providing coaching and feedback to create a high performing culture and higher levels of leadership success. At both Intel and Risas Dental & Braces, she also has coached technical experts to become strong leaders, developing their skills as outlined in The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner. Her work has produced solid results, as documented in an example from Intel in the article Leadership Change: Ending Blindness and Igniting Intention (Measuring and Graphing Change), Library of Professional Coaching (2015).

Notable Client Achievements

• Collaborated with the Vice President to help transform the staff and cultural practices. Helped leaders develop new behavioral habits that allowed them to achieve all-time highs for output despite a 30% reduction in full-time employees. Overall staff improved 10% across all 5 leadership categories in 1 year.

• Influenced leadership development plans in support of a major organizational transition from 2 separate factory organizations into 1 merged site organization. Increase foundational leadership behaviors and sustain baseline behaviors.

• Designed and implemented a new process that resulted in leaders creating a memorable and unifying vision for the future. The vision is often referenced across the factory by employees at all levels.

• Collaborated with the Vice President for Strategic Capital and Planning for the Technology Manufacturing Organization who managed 5 disparate organizations. Identified 5 Strategic Focus areas with specific actions to improve internal and external connections; created a shared future and picture of winning; and targeted gap points of risks and practices to improve staff and employee morale. Successfully implemented a roadmap and improved cross-staff engagement and support to deliver critical capital and strategic capability.