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Optimum Associates have been a great business partner for the PBG Leadership Academy. Their insights are spot on and actionable. Their approach is high touch and instructive. The results have enhanced the careers of most participants, and our business performance. Participants often ask for continued access. They have all become better leaders.

Optimum Associates have been an essential resource in our leadership development efforts at BD for many years. They have coached and led executive development seminars for many of our most senior executives. At critical points in their careers, Optimum Associates has preventively coached many of our high potential leaders to help them prepare for key roles or to overcome major leadership challenges once in role. They have also been asked to intervene and work with key leaders who were already tumbling within a vicious cycle that threatened to lead to their derailment. Optimum Associates has helped save more than a few executive careers in our company. There are many people out there who profess to be executive coaches … Optimum Associates are the pro’s pro. Highly skilled and a world expert in organizational and political savvy, they have earned the highest respect of our most senior leaders through their professionalism, effectiveness and ability to provide confidential and courageous counsel.

Dr. Ed Betof
Vice President, Chief Learning Officer
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)

Grounded in science and the experience of thousands of coaching engagements, the most powerful aspect of Optimum Associates’ coaching is their ability to translate complex behaviors into practical understanding and concrete actions one can use every day to improve individual and group performance. After my first coaching session with them, I was able to apply the tools my very first day back in the office. Now, three years later, they continue to share new insights with me, and have worked with dozens of managers in our firm, raising the effectiveness of numerous individuals and groups within the organization.

I think every leader who aspires to increase their overall effectiveness would be well served to work with an objective professional coach. My relationship with Optimum Associates has spanned nearly ten years and I have found their guidance and input to be effective, engaging and useful in every circumstance. They helped me to increase my organizational savvy and self-awareness. I’m a better leader for having worked with them.

I have had the pleasure of working with Optimum Associates to implement the program ‘Encouraging Excellence: Evaluation, Feedback and Coaching Skills’ with our management team. They are brilliant! They have an incredible ability to engage managers at all levels of our organization and help them to develop their feedback and coaching skills. Given their years of experience in executive coaching, they share examples with our managers that ‘hit home’ and truly bring the skills to life. Their expertise in the business world gives them immediate credibility and enables them to provide a direct link between the impact of ‘people skills’ and our bottom line business results.

Optimum Associates has coached several of our senior executives with tremendous success. They are able to help executives clearly see the areas that hold them back from their full potential and implement a specific action plan that changes behavior and benefits both for the executive and the Company. Their methods are simple and practical, yet led to results that had a positive impact on our bottom line.

Optimum Associates have coached most of our senior executives at one time or another. They get rave reviews from all of their ‘students’, and are a valuable member of our extended team. The effect they have had on personal development for so many people is remarkable. They are truly gifted in that which they do.

Optimum Associates possess a wide range of high impact consulting skills. Their credibility is greatly enhanced through their own real business experience. They have a unique ability to simplify seemingly complex issues and offer common sense solutions. I have been fortunate to have worked with them over the past 15 years in a wide variety of interventions. They have particular strength in dealing with cross-cultural issues, both in and outside of the USA. Individuals who attend Optimum’s ‘Social Styles’ coaching session consistently remark about the resulting improvement made in their interpersonal relationships. For broader audiences, the feedback and coaching seminar they offer is simple and concise. I am convinced that employing the skills learned about giving and receiving quality feedback from their program are a business imperative. They have a ‘practice what you preach’ style. They are incredibly skilled at helping managers re-phrase feedback to deliver tough messages in a non-threatening, direct, and honest fashion. Optimum Associates are truly the best in their field.

Optimum Associates are terrific coaches and counselors. They have unique insight into both organizational dynamics and individual style. They understand the core of how to build effective leadership with integrity and passion.

Optimum Associates’ insights/perspectives have been invaluable over the last 15 years. They have been key to help refine and develop my own leadership style while also helping our future leaders of tomorrow do the same. They demonstrate an uncanny ability to identify the areas of opportunity that are the difference between being a good leader and becoming a great one.

Optimum Associates has done an excellent job, first helping me, then my key associates, to become more effective in understanding ourselves and developing better working relations with others. I have worked with them for over ten years now and I have found them to be an excellent partner in developing leaders among our top talents. Their own experience with Asian culture was clearly a big plus when they worked with my team.