Biography - Leni Gurin, President, LGA Consultants
Leni is an ICF-credentialed coach, certified organizational change management consultant, and leadership and team developer, with over 35 years as a business owner and manager, principal organizational effectiveness consultant, trusted advisor, team leader, leader-developer and group facilitator. Leni has supported F500 companies, large and small professional services firms, manufacturers, non-profits, associations, federal and local governments, and small start-ups as a strategic and tactical consultant.
Coaching clients have included C-suite and senior organizational executives, boards of directors, leadership teams, mid-level managers, as well as individual educators, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, other professional services practitioners and artists. Leni founded LGA Consultants / Leadership Growth in Action in 1987 and Harvest Resources in 2008 and has managed departments of national and international consulting firms.
Leni’s clients include mature and emerging leaders, teams, partners and individual professionals who are navigating disruption, overwhelm and/or key transitions in their lives and careers. In these complex and uncertain times, they’re steering through unprecedented challenges, opportunities, question marks, turning points and sticking points - muscling through while longing for renewal and re-creation. Some are embarking on new or different careers, arenas, life stages after successful careers. Leni helps sharpen their focus on what’s happening here and now and what really matters to them both next and for the long term - enabling them to see fresh choices, collaborate effectively, and act with greater freedom, clarity, confidence, impact, satisfaction and peace of mind – at all stages of life.
Leni’s clients value her deep listening, thoughtful questions, relevant reflection, and her objective, pragmatic and compassionate perspective. Clients name, claim, frame, and revise their outdated assumptions, perceived obstacles, negative projections and old stories that can get in the way of what’s truly important to them. They revisit, reframe, reclaim, and re-envision existing strengths, values, purpose, resources and meaningful goals. They refresh relationships, talents, and commitments in ways that line up with what most matters to them. Leni’s clients coach themselves between sessions by applying, practicing and integrating new ways of seeing, making choices, behaving, communicating, assessing results, and taking action in their day-to-day and ongoing lives.
Professional Credentials/Affiliations
International Coach Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach since 2008Newfield Network Certified Coach since 2007
MS in OD/Behavioral Sciences and Fellow in Change Management from Johns Hopkins University
Member of Adult Development Community of Practice
Member of Chesapeake Bay and National Organization Development Associations (CBODN, ODN)
Member of International Coach Federation (ICF) DC Metro Chapter
Certified Narrative Coaching Enhanced Practitioner
Certified in PROSCI Organizational Change Management, Myers-Briggs, DiSC, Campbell Leadership Index
Additional training in Adult Development, Developmental Coaching and Transformative Coaching
Contributing author/editor to Neil Rackham’s The SPIN© Selling Fieldbook
Organizational Experience & Representative Clients
Manager / Consultant: MITRE Corp., Jupiter Corp., Huthwaite, Arlington County, A.T. Kearney, Ernst & YoungPrivate Sector Clients: TRW, Coca Cola Foods, Whirlpool, District of Columbia Bar, Prism Public Affairs., DynCorp, GE Consulting Services; SAIC, Arnold & Porter, American Petroleum Institute, American Association of Community Colleges, Sound Exchange, The Aspen Institute.
Government: Veterans Administration, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), FCC, Health & Human Services, Census Bureau, NIH, Montgomery County Government, Arlington County Government
