Nancy Wonders
Be Brilliant, Unforgettable...Powerful
Nancy C. Wonders is the founder of a Dallas-based firm that specializes in transformational change coaching for leaders and organizations. The firm is especially effective in high-stakes situations, where the ability to recognize and make some important change - in yourself, in your relationships, in the way you do business - is the key to having a life and a business that you really love. The firm's clients routinely improve the bottom-line health of their businesses and the quality of their professional and personal relationships. Nancy's clients achieve a heightened sense of mission and purpose as well as a strong sense of accountability. They leave sessions confident in their ability to wholeheartedly move forward in their work and their lives.
How It Works
The Courageous Change Process is a step-by-step approach to
change that accelerates progress while substantially reducing the anxiety that
typically accompanies important transitions. You work first to understand what's
really going on, because the real opportunities are usually not on the surface
of things. What you think needs to change and what really needs to change are
not one and the same thing. Then you honestly explore what the real change -
the one that will transform your business or your life - will require of you
and the people around you. Finally, you move courageously to make the change
and so create a future that you and the people who work for you can love!
Selected examples in action include:
- Facilitated The Hockaday School through a high stakes top leadership change. The school community needed a smooth transition of its headmistress with as little resistance to this change as possible. Courageous Change helped the stakeholders focus together on their on their hopes and dreams for a shared future, instead of their differences and fears related to change. The process substantially reduced the anxiety and the resistance to change that was threatening to slow, if not kill, the substantial opportunity represented by a change of leadership.
- Designed a conversation process for The Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission that representatives of several of Dallas' racial communities used to fully hear each other and creatively discuss their problems. As a result, over 85% of the participants evaluated the experience as successful and the agency adopted it as their standard dialogue process.
Who It Serves
Nancy's clients are open to true transformation, want more
energy in their lives, and are willing to do the work to get results. Most of
Nancy's clients come to her searching for the next level of personal or
organizational growth or in some sort of crisis -- mid-life, spiritual or career
for individuals or market shifts, competitive threats or growing pains for
businesses.
Business clients include for profit and not-for-profit organizations' leadership teams and executives from a variety of industries. Individuals include business executives and professionals such as CEOs, other coaches, professors, lawyers, administrators, and men and women from many occupations.
About Nancy
Nancy's research-based work combines the latest discoveries
of neuroscience as well as psychology and organizational development.
In addition, her earlier corporate career with a major accounting firm provides
her with a keen grasp of how to achieve change in a corporate world for her
clients.
She is an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and a certified Strozzi Embodied Leadership and Somatic Coach. She created and taught a 21st Century Leadership course for University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She also serves as faculty member for the Leadership Certificate Program offered by Southern Methodist University and The Center for Non-profit Management.
Nancy has a M.S. in Counseling Psychology and a B.B.A. in Accounting. Additional education includes facilitation training in the following methodologies: Collaborative Strength Based Planned Change; Dialogue and Dynamic Dialogue; VISIONS (a personal approach to multiculturalism), The Immunity to Change discovery process of Robert Kegan, Chair of Adult Development at Harvard University and Lisa Lahey; She draws extensively from the work of James Hillman, psychologist and philosopher; and David Whyte, poet, philosopher, business consultant and many others. Her solid results with overcoming "stuck conversations" have been guided by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey's work and that of the Public Conversations Project of Cambridge, Ma.
Nancy C. Wonders
nancy@courageouschange.com
Office: 214. 946. 4181
Fax : 214. 946. 5952
Mobile: 214. 564. 6226
Be Brilliant, Unforgettable...Powerful
