Our leaders speak for themselves.Executive Leadership Case Study
Neal Patel
Chief Information Officer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
What my team has found with Jonathan is that he's extremely intentional. He’s not just doing the same things everybody else does.
“We have a large leadership group. What we found over time—especially with technical teams—is that individuals become leaders because they were wonderful individual contributors, but they haven’t had much coaching in how to build trust and work with peers. We wanted to put in a program that would really elevate the skill level and the competence of these individuals. That's really what led me to Jonathan. I asked my team, ‘What do you think? Should we go with a firm? Should we do it internally?’ And then Jonathan's name came up and everybody's eyes lit up.”
“What my team has found with Jonathan is that he's extremely intentional. His temperament and the way he can facilitate a group leads people to lean in. He has a subtleness about him. He’s super smart, working in the background, weaving things together, and all of a sudden, before you even know it, he's made a framework or a model relevant and applicable to the situation, instead of it becoming theoretical and academic. He’s not just doing the same things everybody else does.
Don’t let his youthful look throw you, and underestimate him.
There has definitely been a shift in my team since working with Author Leadership, and it's not like you can be one and done and all of a sudden some of your team is great. Just recently, we went through a major go-live that took a lot of strain, a lot of anxiety, and at times, created a lot of frustration with each other, because everybody was pulled in different directions. The group came together and said, ‘Maybe it would be good for Jonathan to come back in and kind of get us back on track, because we may not be communicating with each other as well as we should.”
“Don't let his youthful look throw you, and underestimate him. I am extremely impressed with his acumen, his knowledge and storytelling. It allows people to be themselves and for him to draw them in—he is not one of the typical consultants who engineers cookie cutter techniques. The way he approaches situations is extremely methodical and intentional.”
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