Beth Hand helps leaders, teams and organizations with significant growth goals or a complex challenge impacting the mission, think, learn and work together to achieve results now and in the future.
She is a speaker, author and trusted advisor with over 15 years hands-on, in-the-trenches experience working with leaders, teams and organizations. Her work across industry sectors with fast-growing small businesses, mid-size to Fortune 500, and types–for-profits, nonprofits, associations, and foundations, public and private sector, has honed her ability to help leaders gain clarity and insights that inform strategy and to increase people’s capacity to think, learn and work together driving results and fostering a healthy organizational culture.
Earlier in her career, she consulted on $250 million up to $1 billion dollar information technology and transformation initiatives. She was one of a few women consultants engaged by the Turkish General Directorate of Revenues to assist with setting the overarching framework, program and change management strategy for a country-wide information technology infrastructure project. She’s an award-winning, credentialed executive coach to Fortune 500, mid-size and small companies. Beth contributed to NASA’s Academy for Program / Project Management and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) receipt of the Prism award for developing a coaching culture and becoming a learning organization.
She earned an M.B.A. and has lived in Paris, France and Salamanca, Spain. Her travels include Western Europe, Central America, Central and East Asia, and North Africa. Beth has competitively sport-fished which taught her about the importance of having an effective strategy, preparation, teamwork and the ability to navigate changing conditions.
Publications
Beth Hand (l) being interviewed by Wendy Mann (r), radio host, and, CEO, CREW Network.
The Leadership Hand® book series offers practical, proven strategies to help leaders solve complex challenges. The 6th book, Hidden by Gender, hit #1 on Amazon for Women and Business.
Beth’s writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Enterprising Women Magazine which reaches one million readers in 185 countries, the British journal, The Knowing Field, the only international English-language journal devoted to an innovative systems change approach, in the peer-reviewed Library of Professional Coaching and in Peace x Peace Voices from the Frontline which reaches peacebuilders in 120 countries. She is a contributor to Hayden’s book 50 Ways Coaches Can Change the World, and featured in Hayden and Traditi’s book Get Hired Now!™
Representative Certifications
- Advanced Organizational Constellations, Bert Hellinger Instituut, Groningen, Netherlands
- Million Dollar Consulting® College, Summit Consulting, Providence, Rhode Island
- Organizational Constellations, Human Systems Institute, Portland, Oregon
- International Organizational & Systemic Constellations, IOCTI, Morelos, Mexico
- REN Coaching, Top Human, Beijing, China
- Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation, Lexington, Kentucky
- Graduate Coaching Certificate, Newfield Network, Boulder, Colorado
- Appreciative Inquiry Field Practicum, NTL Institute, Alexandria, Virginia
Behind the Scenes
There are a handful of people who contribute their talents to Leadership Hand’s operations: Dennis B., Joanne G., Laurel B., Grant P., Christina A., Sara M., Shannon B. and Stephanie J.
What People Say…
“[Beth Hand’s] strategic guidance to FFAR laid the groundwork for a collaboration that went beyond executive decision-making to establishing trust and increasing member’s engagement . . . The end result is a Consortium that’s on a solid foundation poised to meet partners’ business interests and to serve humanity with innovative crop research. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Leadership Hand and give it our highest recommendation to mission-driven enterprises worldwide.”
-John Reich, Interim Executive Director
Crops of the Future, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
“Leadership Hand excels at helping leaders and their organizations achieve business objectives more quickly. They are diplomatic and direct—telling the truth while strengthening relationships and building consensus among stakeholders. They help you stay focused on what’s important amid organizational distractions, and will help you make significantly better strategic decisions. Leadership Hand is an excellent investment when you really value the success of your project!”
-Paula C., Project Manager, IT Industry
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“We selected Leadership Hand to support in the design and facilitation of a workshop addressing a complex, global challenge. Leadership Hand quickly grasped the role of our division, and provided advice that contributed to our strategic objectives for the workshop and beyond. Their expert facilitation of the working session resulted in highly productive knowledge-sharing, idea generation, and work product that will be the basis for a bank-wide commitment. We look forward to working with them again.”
– Catalina Aguiar Parera, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector, Inter-American Development Bank
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“The workshop you delivered for 87 women in STEM from the Middle East, North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and Central Asia was everything we could have asked for and more. After weeks in a community designed to support and empower these emerging leaders, cultural differences as they re-enter their own countries can create significant challenges. Your workshop content was outstanding: relevant, powerful and practical. It prepared participants to overcome challenges and to recognize it as a lifetime skill. Your interactive style, skill working with a large group and one-on-one with so much cultural diversity was just what we’d hoped for.”
– Molly Pyle, Program Officer, TechWomen, Institute of International Education
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“Beth Hand’s preparation for and facilitation of Creative University’s retreat resulted in more focused strategies for the team as well as individually. At the end of the day, the leadership team was energized and aligned, international initiatives prioritized and high leverage actions identified. Through Beth’s coaching and guidance, there was been more “team efforts” and clarification since the retreat. With closer collaboration and better defined strategies, Creative University has a better chance of success.”
– Constance O. Castrence, Senior Associate, Creative Associates International
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“When we began [working together], I was growing my division into the largest revenue generator for our company. While challenging, I wanted to take on a more strategic role leading the company to mature its processes, increase corporate revenue and keep it an enjoyable place for all to work. As you know, within 1.5 years I was selected as a Vice President and am well-positioned for a C-level position. The benefits from our work together continue to unfold. What I also appreciate is that our high-trust relationship and those coaching conversations with their balance of challenge and support, continue.
The gains that coaching contributed to me were my: taking a more strategic view from the top of the corporation, and to be more strategic with my division; engaging my team more effectively in strategy formulation and problem resolution; shifting my focus to implement process improvements enterprise-wide; increasing my political savvy; and helping me identify and engage in thinking and behaviors commensurate with the next level of leadership and above. It is my pleasure to recommend you and your company…”
– Tom M., Vice President, IT Industry
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“The work you did with our team and the tools you brought to the fore have helped significantly in re-energizing the group and reconnecting our lines of communication. This is invaluable to our team as we move to establish important value propositions that will drive our association activities in the future.”
– Roger W., Executive Director, International Association
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“It takes more than subject matter expertise… The formula needs to include cultural adaptability, people skills, and considerable patience. Beth exhibited all of these qualities. She has an eagerness to learn about people and languages… a sincere interest to understand the organizational and ethnic cultures… In preparing for this tour she did her homework on the Turkish Republic, its culture, politics and Islamic religion…It is difficult for any organization to change its ways after doing business in a particular manner for many years. Turkish Government procurement practices are no exception. She effectively communicated her proposed changes and the underlying rationale… [General Directorate of Revenues] officials were truly impressed with the ease in which she was able to capture their ideas…”
– Candace Hardesty, Director, Office of Tax Administration Advisory Services, Internal Revenue Service
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“One billion dollars and more in services and products is sizable for a division, however; the real measure is in the value we provide our customers and our commitment to increasing that value. You were a key player in that progress by tapping into and drawing out the potential in me in my role as Executive Director, and in the Deputy Director. You have collaborated with us as coach, advisor and friend.”
– John Ely, Executive Director, IT Acquisitions, IRS
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“You have a mission in life to serve others, and your dedication to that mission drives all of your actions and choices. You are a beacon of integrity, scrupulously honest and conscientious. You place a high value on duty and responsibility, and carry through that value to everything you do in the world. You are a fierce champion for the people whose lives you touch, never permitting them to listen to the inner critic, and always pointing out their gifts and strengths.
You have the personal qualities of a true leader. Added to those are your global perspective and strong desire to bring people together for everyone’s benefit. It’s a combination that makes you capable of significant contributions to any environment in which you find yourself.”
– C.J. Hayden, MCC * Author, Get Clients Now! (R) Wings Business Coaching www.Getcientsnow.com
