Our talent is in developing “leader readiness” and fostering productive organizational cultures. We bring strategies geared to your circumstances, environment, and vision that will ensure sustainable, visible results.
Leadership Development: Our customized award-winning leadership development program, Leadership Alchemy, offered since 2002 at NASA, is a "whole person" approach to leadership taking into account how leaders show up in language, body and emotions. We guide leaders to put their new skills into action through practices that help a person embody their learning.
We help leaders set the direction, establish the mood, cultivate the desired culture and build and sustain cohesive teams. Our approach builds on:
- The Language of Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Somatic Presence
Organizational Culture Change: We provide customized approaches to organizational development built on the needs and aims of the organization. We provide:
- Individual and group assessments
- Strategic planning
- Executive coaching and development
- Skill-building
- Leadership development program
- Facilitation of challenging situations
- Coaching and mentoring programs
Executive Coaching: Because of our strong business background, our clients utilize executive coaching to help them see greater possibilities, make better decisions, take more effective action and reflect on their challenges as well as their strengths to achieving the desired results. We provide tools and practices that help leaders implement the processes they need to be successful.
Instructional Design: We design customized training and development programs for honoring diversity and inclusiveness, leadership development and coaching and communication skills.
Kanu Kogod, PhD, MCC is the founder and president of Bridges in Organizations, and co-creator of NASA’s award winning Leadership Alchemy program. Kanu helps her clients learn, evolve, adapt, and transform challenges into opportunities. From top women leaders in Rwanda (40% of the group of 22 were elected to Parliament in the past two elections) to corporate executives, she coaches leaders to express more of their potential to make bigger contributions, improve their productivity, deepen their well-being, and increase their value to others.
In the past 21 years, through her consulting company, Bridges in Organizations, Inc, she has worked with leaders and worked on culture change at NASA, National Institute on Aging, Lockheed Martin, Crown Central Petroleum, American Red Cross, Maryland Park and Planning Commission and Hepburn Health Systems.
Kanu is an anthropologist and a master certified coach (MCC) as defined by the standards of the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified practitioner of the Values Centered Assessment Systems (VCAS), an invaluable tool for insights into the coaching conversation. Kanu has written two books on diversity and has received several awards for her instructional design including the Training Officers Conference Award in 2006. She works with youth leaders and serves on the Board of Youth Leadership of Greater Washington.
Catherine A. Parrish has worked with both profit and non-profit companies for more than 25 years in improving executive leadership, effectiveness, communication and productivity. She has worked with the executives and chief executives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, India, and Australia.
Her area of expertise is helping leaders and their organizations to create the right environment for people to express their full potential and exceed their objectives.
Catherine helps individual managers and executives to increase their self-awareness, sharpen their focus, enhance their personal productivity, and advance their career satisfaction and sense of well-being. Her work with individuals includes private coaching and leadership development. She helps leaders to build trust and challenge their perceived limitations. She helps them to listen and communicate-for-action, and maximizes their effectiveness at producing results in partnership with other people.
Her clients include Toyota Motor North America, CEMEX, Conoco-Phillips, Adobe Systems, Kaiser Permanente and many others.
For years, Catherine served as a chief executive and leader in the world of Not-For-Profit and humanitarian organizations. Her work to help improve the quality of life for people living in conditions of poverty has taken her to Africa and India, as well as Latin America, Eastern Europe, and throughout the United States.
Catherine holds several degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She played tennis on Cal's Women's Team and then on the women’s professional tennis circuit before returning to graduate school. She serves on the boards of The Soul of Money Institute, Conversation Peace, and The Turning Tide Coalition.
Isabelle Anderson is President Performance Communication, a company she founded in 1995 in New York City to offer coaching in leadership presence, public speaking and communication skills. She has coached CEO's, senior executives, authors, designers and celebrities in public speaking, media skills and leadership presence. Through seminars and private coaching she has worked with clients from Citibank. Wachovia. Lehman Brothers. National City Bank. HSBC. Goldman & Sachs. Random House. NBC -Telemundo Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals.. Cushman and Wakefield. Miramax Books. Simon and Schuster. National Geographic and many more.
Isabelle has developed a distinctive procedure for coaching speakers - The Isabelle Anderson Method. Her unusual and highly effective techniques are drawn from her background in theater. Adapting theater's time proven techniques for building presence, audience connection and powerful message, Isabelle created a 4-step process for business executives to build the presence and vocal tone that support a leader's effectiveness. Her special skill is her ability to readily diagnose where a speaker is blocking and limiting his or her possibilities. Isabelle Anderson frees people to find their individual communication style. This is the key. She shows the strengths of that style and how to build it to maximum effect in order to persuade, to communicate and to inspire.
Isabelle has an Honors degree in English Literature and Drama from Queensland University, Australia and is a qualified voice and speech teacher. She studied theater in Europe with the renowned acting teachers Jacques Lecoq, Jerzy Grotowski and Cicely Berry. She spent 20 years as an actress and director for theater, film and television. She has played many roles from Lady Macbeth to Blanche Dubois. Although she has left her acting career, she occasionally returns to the source of her inspiration for this work. Her latest film appearance was in Great Expectations for Twentieth Century Fox. She taught acting on faculty at Columbia University and New York University and currently is on faculty of the MFA program in classical acting at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington DC, in conjunction with George Washington University
