"Barbara Mintzer-McMahon has keynoted and developed training programs for Women in Leadership, Strategic Partnering, Mindfulness and Strategies for Successful Leadership for companies including Yahoo, Innovate Foundation, Shell International, Intel, Pella Corporation, Nektar Therapeutics, University Polytechnic in Madrid and many others."
Barbara Mintzer-McMahon, PCC, MCEC, MSW, MFT
Founder & President, Center for Transitional Management
Professional Certified Coach, ICF
Master Corporate Executive Coach, MEECO
Executive Coach, CoachSource
Marshall Goldsmith Certified Coach, Certified Leadership Circle Practitioner
Certified Coaching Supervisor, Goldvarg Consulting Group
CDR 3-Dimentional Assessment certification
member neuro science institute
Barbara’s wide-ranging consulting experience includes helping senior level executives throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, team building, change management, building strategic partnerships, and helping executives in transition. Her clients include large multinationals, governments, non-profits, and start-up enterprises. She works across multiple functions including IT, engineering, research and development, marketing, and communications.
As the head of the consulting group for Women in Leadership at The Alexcel Group, Barbara is well recognized in the executive coaching and leadership development field. For 8 years, she was the head of the coaching faculty for the Global Institute for Leadership (GILD) at Linkage Inc.
Barbara has keynoted and developed training programs for Women in Leadership, Strategic Partnering, Team building, Mindfulness, and Strategies for Successful Leadership for various Fortune 100 companies. Her leadership development and executive coaching clients include Agilent Technologies, American Honda, AmeriCorps, Analog Devices, Chevron-Texaco, Cargill Ventures, Con-way Freight, Dell, GRAIL Bio, HP, Intel, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Juniper Technologies, KPMG, Lawrence Livermore Labs, Life Technologies, Linkage Inc., McKesson Pharmaceuticals, Nektar Therapeutics, National Council for Healthcare Leadership, Shell, Sunoco, South Financial Group, Starwood Resorts, TJ MAXX, University of Michigan Medical Center, US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, US Steel, US Federal Reserve, Westfield Development and Yahoo/OATH.
For the last several years, Ms. McMahon has partnered with Alexcel Group and the Institute for Executive Development in a research project and paper on Best Practices for Executives in Transition. She has frequently been called upon to speak and consult on this topic.
Ms. Mintzer-McMahon was an instructor for over 20 years in the Graduate Psychology Department at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California, teaching Systems Theory and Group Dynamics. In 1999, she accepted a position as adjunct professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, teaching Group Process in the Graduate Department of Education and Counseling.
Ms. Mintzer-McMahon is a psychotherapist and has accumulated twenty-five years of clinical experience, during part of this time she worked as a full time clinical consultant to a Police Department in Northern California. While working for the police she developed one of the first systemically oriented programs in Stress Management and soon became sought after as a consultant in Stress Management for both Business and Professionals in High Risk Occupations.
experience
Former head of coaching faculty for the Global Institute for Leadership Development at Linkage, Inc.
National and International Keynoter and Trainer
Contributing author to Marshall Goldsmith's book, Coaching for Leadership
Associate trainer for Marcus Buckingham Company
Speaker on National Radio and Television
Head of Women and Leadership Consulting Division for the Alexcel Group
Specialties
Change Management
Mindfulness
Communication Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Influencing Others
Relationship Building
Teambuilding
Transition Management; First 90 Days
Women in Leadership
Coaching Supervision
Education/Certifications
Ms. McMahon has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation, and a Master Corporate Executive Coach from the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC).
Instrument Certifications/Trainings
Certified Coaching Supervisor: Goldvarg Consulting Group
Certified Coach: Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching
CDR 3-Dimensional Assessment Suite® Certification, CDR Assessment Group, Inc.
Leadership Circle Profile and Leadership Culture Survey, Profile Certification
Birkman Method Certified
Marcus Buckingham Company Associate Strengths Trainer®
International Systemic Team Coaching Certificate: Peter Hawkins, Academy of Executive Coaching
Instruments: Myers-Briggs (MBTI), FIRO-BTM, Emotional Intelligence, Hogan certified, TC360
Member of the Neuro Science Institute
Professional Partners & Affiliations
publications
Based on her specialization in leadership development, coaching and consulting, she is a contributing author to Nancy Parsons’ Fresh Insights to End the Glass Ceiling (2017), Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership released in April 2005. She is also a contributing author to Marshall Goldsmith's book on Coaching for Leadership showcasing her model for Transformational Change. (Click cover to find these publications on Amazon)
Articles
New Choice Magazine article: “Transformational Leadership: 5 essentials for leading in times of crisis”
By Terry H. Hildebrandt, PhD, MCC, MCEC & Barbara Mintzer-McMahon, MSW, MFT, PCC, MCEC
Leaders in almost all organizations have been focused on managing through the COVID-19 crisis for the last several months. During a crisis, leaders are often focused on the tactical details of managing and may deprioritize transformational leadership. By also focusing on the essential elements Clarity, Connection, Creativity, Confidence and Commitment, leaders can provide medium-term and longer-term vision, hope, confidence, and commitment required to deliver on organizational goals. Executive and leadership coaches are well-suited to support leaders through a time of crisis and beyond, by focusing on activating the required skills and processes of transformative leadership.