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ELCircle Advisor – Maureen Metcalf

  • Maureen Metcalf

    Maureen Metcalf
    Maureen Metcalf

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    Maureen Metcalf, the President of Metcalf & Associates, Inc., bringing 24 years of business experience to support her clients’ leadership and organizational transformations. She is recognized as an innovative, principled, leader who demonstrates operational skills coupled with the ability to analyze, develop, and implement successful strategies for development, profitability, growth and sustainability.

    Maureen is passionate about helping individuals and businesses find sustainable solutions to the challenges they face in this dynamic world. Her speaking engagements are tailored to help her audiences develop, transform, and sustain their success.

    Maureen combines intellectual rigor and discipline with an ability to translate theory into practice in each of her client engagements. She designs and teaches MBA classes in Leadership and Organizational Transformation at Capital University. She was a finalist for the Tech Columbus Innovation Award – Women of the Year in Technology in 2007 and semi-finalist in 2012. She has published several papers and articles and speaks regularly on Level 5 Leadership, Resilience, and Organizational Transformation. Co-author of The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook – Winner 2012 International Book Award for Best Business Reference Book. She is a certified coach through the Deep Coaching Institute.

    As a Senior Manager with two “Big Four” Management consulting firms for 12 years, Maureen managed and contributed to successful completion of a wide array of projects from strategy development and organizational design for start-up companies to large system change for well-established organizations. She has worked with a number of Fortune 100 clients delivering a wide range of significant business results such as: increased profitability, cycle time reduction, increased employee engagement and effectiveness, and improved quality.

    Maureen is the Board President of Earthtouch Preserve, a land preservation organization focused on connecting individuals with nature.

    Following is a short video explaining Maureen’s award winning book The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. See the related ELCircle lessons below.

     

    Maureen’s ELCircle Content

    Innovative Leadership Series

    This seven part series is based on Maureen’s award winning book The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. Each of the six steps in this series take you throuh a development journey.

    Innovative Leadership – Introduction

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 1 – Creating your compelling vision

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 2 – Analyze your situation and strengths

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 3 – Plan your journey

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 4 – Build your team and communicate

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 5 – Take action

    Innovative Leadership – Lesson 6 Embed innovation systematically


    What is a Level 5 Leader?

    Level 5 leadership was introduced in Jim Collins’ Good to Great. In this lesson you will develop an understanding of what Level 5 leadership is as well as understand the surrounding levels. You will learn how the levels are measured and receive suggestions about how to use this information as an emerging leader.


    Defining the Expert Leader

    Level 5 leadership was introduced in Jim Collins’ Good to Great. In this lesson you will understand how the levels are measured, create an understanding of the characteristics of the Expert Level, and how rational decision making can enhance Expert effectiveness. Additionally, you will become armed with some questions for reflection that can improve Expert effectiveness.


    Defining the Achiever Leader

    Level 5 leadership was introduced in Jim Collins’ Good to Great. In this lesson you will understand how the levels are measured, create an understanding of the characteristics of the Achiever Level, and how rational decision making can enhance Achiever effectiveness. Additionally, you will become armed with some questions for reflection that can improve Achiever effectiveness.


    Defining the Achiever Leader

    Level 5 leadership was introduced in Jim Collins’ Good to Great. In this lesson you will understand how the levels are measured, create an understanding of the characteristics of the Achiever Level, and how rational decision making can enhance Achiever effectiveness. Additionally, you will become armed with some questions for reflection that can improve Achiever effectiveness.


    Creating Your Leadership Vision

    In this lesson on creating your leadership vision we explore a variety of perspectives on analyzing the world and your place in it as a leader. As a result of this lesson you will be able to:

    * Understand the current trends
    * Understand how requirements of leaders has expanded
    * Understand the impact great leaders can make
    * Define your direction
    * Define the results you want to create
    * Create a path

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