Say Hello To Our November Coach!

Hi my name is Ilene Fischer I am the Womenworking.com Career Coach for November 2015, a little background about me...

I have 25 years of expertise and experience working with clients to:

Establish an environment for organizational transformation and extraordinary performance to occur
Create alignment and collaboration around essential business mandates
Execute on strategic initiatives and key projects
Engage individuals in the execution of organizational strategic initiatives while expressing their passion for work
Coach executives to think systemically and produce breakthrough results.

I have sold, managed and led complex engagements with clients in industries as varied as healthcare, financial services, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, banking, food and beverage, telecommunications, paper, government and consumer products.

Some of the companies I’ve consulted with: Coca Cola, Odwalla, NASA, Pfizer, Towers Watson, CARA, International Paper, El Paso, Momenta Pharmaceutical, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.

I am the Founder, Board chair and former CEO of WomenLEAD; an online women’s leadership development platform to advance women leaders. WomenLEAD was a 2013 Mass Challenge Finalist and a 2013 Verizon Powerful Answer Award winner.

I was CEO of WEST, a non-profit organization whose mission was to advance women in (STEM) science, engineering, technology and math; in their career. I served as Managing Director for consulting services for the Tom Peters Company. Tom is the author of In Search of Excellence and Re-Imagine! I was a Partner at PA Consulting; managing the Organizational Learning and Change practice in the US. I was a Partner at Innovation Associates (IA), founded by Peter Senge, Professor at MIT Sloan and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Science of a Learning Organization .I was also a Quality Manager at Honeywell’s electro optic division, and a chemical engineer at Raytheon.

Ilene Fischer has a B.S. in Chemistry and studied business at Harvard University. She published an article on culture change in Business 2.0 and she was a contributor to The Fifth Discipline Field Book by Peter Senge and is a regular blogger for Huffington Post Women.