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David Waggoner
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David brings 28 years of experience as a leader, coach, and consultant in leadership, human, and organization development. A proven track record exists of developing executives, professionals, teams, and advanced programs with over 5,500 hours of professional and team coaching.

David brings 28 years of experience as a leader, coach, and consultant in leadership, human, and organization development. A proven track record exists of developing executives, professionals, teams, and advanced programs with over 5,500 hours of professional and team coaching.

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Bio

David brings over 28 years of experience as a human, leadership, and organizational development leader. A proven track record exists of developing executives, professionals, teams, and innovative initiatives combining interpersonal effectiveness and organizational strategy. He has extensive capability in coaching, leadership and organization development, and change management. Practical experience, combined with his scholarly pursuits, enables David to distinctively advance leadership and organizational change in the most sophisticated and complex of contemporary professional landscapes.

While coaching, David has held concurrent senior leadership roles in learning and organization development among diverse industries and settings. David works industry-wide and cross-culturally in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Latin. America. The core principles that underpin David’s coaching are treating others respectfully and humbly with passion, enthusiasm, and energy. David coaches every level of organizational position from the President and Chief Executive down. David’s experience allows for a distinctive blend of specialist and scholar, helping him to empathize with the uncertainty and ambiguity those in organizations face.

David concentrates on bringing self-awareness to the core skills of human and organizational interaction: Communication, influence and persuasion, negotiation, managing networks, impression management, and dealing with conflict. David’s work is rooted in common sense, critical thinking, and social intelligence. He helps professionals address difficult subjects with techniques that are practical and easy to understand. David’s coaching is uniquely impactful because he makes you feel about what you discover: He empowers you and makes you care, creating years of continued personal resourcefulness.


Notable Client Achievements

  • Coached Sales and Distribution Team through a 30% increase in revenue with totals of over $5 million.

  • Coached Senior Vice President through a successful transition to Chief Financial Officer, now overseeing a global team of 500.

  • Coached Chief Communications officer and team through global restructure.

  • Coached the Chief Marketing Officer and team through a global restructure, resulting in a 20% increase in revenue.

  • Coached Chief Executive Officer over 6 months, leading to an employee attrition decrease of 30%.

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Work History
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Executive Director, Leadership and Organization Development
Viacom
Director, Global Organization and Leadership Development
Pacific Sunwear
Manager, Corporate Learning and Organization Development
Credentials
  • ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)
  • Evidence-Based Coaching for Organization Leadership
  • Birkman: Birkman Essentials, Career Planning, 360
  • Gallup: StrengthsFinder
  • Ken Blanchard: Situational Leadership II
  • Multi-Health Systems: EQ-I 2.0, EQ 360
  • Hogan: Leadership Forecast Series, 360
  • GE: Lean Capabilities
  • Wiley: Everything DISC Solutions Provider: Work of Leaders Specialization
  • Zenger/Folkman: The Extraordinary Leader 360 Assessment
  • PhD, Organizational Development and Change. Concentration in Evidence-Based Coaching
  • MA, Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education. Concentration in Systems Theory and Physiological Psychology
  • MA, Organizational Development and Change
  • Kilmann Diagnostics: Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
  • Six Team Conditions: Team Diagnostic Survey
  • Lencioni/Pfeiffer: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Industry Specialties
Professional Services, Real Estate, Human Resources, Management Consulting and more
Functional Specialties
Human Resources, Management, Project Management, Strategy Planning and more
Expertise
Career Direction, Improve At Networking, New Grad, Early Career and more

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