Elevating Excellence: Advanced Strategies for Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Coaching and Mentoring are key to retaining top talent and building a leadership pipeline. While coaching typically focuses on enhancing current job performance, mentoring programs can reduce and reframe personal, structural, and cultural barriers that may be holding emerging leaders back from achieving their full potential. Those who mentor and advocate for others are perceived as more effective leaders. Great leaders need to be mentored and great leaders need to mentor.
If you've found yourself nodding or saying "yes" to any of these questions, this event is tailor-made for you.
Brace yourself for an engaging session where Chris will skillfully navigate vital topics, unravel key questions, and provide the answers we crave. By joining the webinar, you'll gain the tools and knowledge needed to enhance your coaching and mentoring abilities, skyrocketing your team members and overall team performance and ultimately significantly impacting your bottom line.
By attending, you will understand how to do even more effectively:
Chris DeVany is the Founder and President of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands, global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team”, has been published by McGraw Hill, and is helping thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues. He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster’s International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation. He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
