Profile of Mikel Vanry
Mike Vanry, President of Vanry & Associates Inc., is a leadership consultant, who for the past twenty-fiveyears, has helped senior executives strengthen their leadership skillswhile accomplishing their corporate and career objectives.
With extensive consulting experience in the energy, utility and information technology sectors both in North America and abroad, Mike brings to each engagement a comprehensive and concise understanding of the current demands upon executives. He understands the approaches which best support senior people increasing their own effectiveness. Mike focuses on his clients’ expanding their range of capabilities for meeting the business challenges they face.
The foundation of his work is a synthesis of then emerging thinking in the three fields of cognitive biology, philosophy and linguistics. Mike was introduced to the work of Dr. Fernando Flores and Dr. Humberto Maturana in 1980. He studied informally with them for a number of years and eventually was licensed by, and worked together with Dr. Flores on a number of consulting engagements in North America. Since then Mike has made his own contributions to this field, now known as the Language Action Paradigm.
Weshow how listening, building relationships, alignment, co-ordination and leadership are an integrated and well-articulated set of observable behavioural practices that can be learned by anyone.We work on developing our clients’ ability to observe and reduce hidden “waste” and see “quiet opportunities” in their business relationships and interactions with others.
In work with his clients, Mike has produced remarkable and measurable results in:
- Developing and implementing change leadership strategies that result in significant improvements in the ROI of strategic initiatives
- Increasing levels of respect, trust, coordination and alignment between:
- Leaders and their people
- Executives and their peers
- CEO’s and their Boards
- Successful navigation of complex and adversarial political environments’ in order to accomplish strategic objectives
- Facilitating the reinvention of a strategic direction for the organization and co-designing the plan for implementing that strategy
- Rekindling his clients’ ambition to make a significant positive contribution to their people, their colleagues, and their company.
- Supporting executives through significant role transitions
- Accelerating the career advancement of his clients
The skills development flows together with the real-time demands of executives work. By focusing his client’s development work inside the practical issues they are facing, Mike is able to have his clients learn and grow by doing real work in new ways. Mike’s clients work in such sectors as Electric Utilities, Oil and Gas, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Sales and Service, Construction, and Consulting.
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