Dr. Lew Stern has forty years experience as an executive coach, organization development consultant, and consulting psychologist. He received his Masters degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. He has served as an adjunct faculty or guest lecturer in business, management, and organization behavior and development at many colleges and universities. He served as President of Focus Consulting and Stern Consulting, Vice President at ODI, and Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting. Lew consulted to and coached hundreds of senior leaders in varied industries around the world including healthcare, biotechnology, higher education, manufacturing, transportation, power, high technology, retail, healthcare, financial services, non-profits, the public sector, and telecommunications. He volunteers as an advocate for environmental sustainability and action to address climate change and drive for eco-justice on Cape Cod as the Leader of the Environmental Action Team at UU Falmouth and as a member of the Leadership Council of the Faith Communities Environmental Network of Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative. Lew co-founded and served as the Co-Director of The Executive Coaching Forum, co-founded and served as President of the New England Society for Applied Psychology, served as a Founding Board Member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching, and founded and directed the Graduate Certificate Program in Executive Coaching (at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology). He founded and served as Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for International Leadership Coaching. He served as Senior Advisor to the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and on the faculty part-time at the Medical School. Dr. Stern has researched and authored or co-authored many articles and books on coaching including most recently: Supervision in Coaching, The Executive Coaching Handbook 6th edition; The Executive Coaching Competency Model; Executive Coaching: Building and Managing Your Professional Practice; Executive Coaching: A Working Definition; Education and Development Guidelines for Coaches; What Progress Has Been Made in Coaching Research (2008-2012); Multidisciplinary Approaches to Leadership Coaching; Beyond Strengths- Practical Coaching Techniques to Help Senior Leaders Change Bad Habits; and Bringing Assessments in Coaching Into the 21st Century.