Your January 2012 Career Coach

Happy New Year Everyone!   

I am Andrea Zintz, Career Coach for January 2012. I am once again happy to be your resource as you pose questions, ideas, and experiences about navigating workplace, relationships and career. 

A little about me: I specialize in executive and high potential leadership strategy, succession and development. I have over 30 years experience in Leadership Development, Change Management, Human Resources Development and Training. For 11 years, I have consulted to large corporations on leadership, team, and organization development. 

I cultivated my experiences as a coach within the diversified healthcare and pharmaceutical, defense, and retail industries. As Vice President of Human Resources and Management Board member of the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Ortho Biotech, Inc., I helped lead the growth of the company from $40 million to $500 million in a 6-year period, and launched breakthrough biotech products. I also led executive leadership development for North American from J&J Corporate. My special interests include executive women's advancement, diversity/inclusion, and mentoring. My doctoral dissertation was about mentoring: What constitutes effective mentoring for women who are stuck in their careers within large corporate settings? I received my M.A. and PhD. from Fielding Graduate University.

Today my clients include J&J, Sun Products, Allianz Global Investors, Boehringer Ingelheim, GE and Trinity. A specialty of our company is crafting powerful and strategic questions we can ask ourselves (and others) to access the best thinking. Since questions are a powerful leverage point for thinking, if we change our questions, we can encourage our best answers and this can help our thinking, decision, behaviors and results.

I enjoy coaching and my goal is to make a difference every day. I live in New Jersey, am married to an elementary school teacher and have two wonderful daughters, 16 and 19.

During this month, I will blog about topics such as:

• Using our unconscious mind and emotions to become more happy and resilient.
• How our questions can be used to access our best thinking.
• Developing our executive presence.

I hope you will feel free to comment and add your own experiences!

Warmly, 

Andrea Zintz, Ph.D., President

Strategic Leadership Resources LLC 

Shaping the Future!