“ L&A showed consistent sensitivity to cultural nuance and helped us forge a highly coordinated, results focused leadership team as we expanded throughout Asia. Dave Laveman provided executive coaching to me in my capacity as CEO of the region. He had a great grasp of the strategic, cultural and people factors that enabled our successful strategic implementation. Through our coaching relationship I grew as a leader and even more importantly, as a person. ”

“ Dave Laveman has been a trusted coach to me, my executive colleagues, and the broader senior management team. He earned our trust by quickly grasping the essence of our business, making excellent, practical recommendations and assisting with the implementation. His integrity and trustworthiness are of the highest caliber. ”

“ During his two years of coaching me and my leadership team at Cargill Ventures, we clarified our mission, created the right organizational structure for our objectives, and successfully reformulated our strategic priorities in the face of significant market change. Dave showed a rare sensitivity to the outer demands of leadership while guiding me to take much greater advantage of my own inner resources. He introduced practices and perspectives that I continue to apply successfully and whose benefits have been clearly noted by others. ”

“ Dave created a very effective development tool that helped me understand how I was perceived by others and what I could do to be more effective. He challenged (and guided) me to look in areas I often pay little attention to and that is where I made, what I know are, life and career changing discoveries. I now have a clear, conscious vision, a daily focus, and a renewed and sustainable enthusiasm. ”

“ During our company’s acquisition, Dave’s forward-thinking approach was pivotal in establishing clarity as we mapped out the future. This was invaluable to me both personally and at a professional level; I’ve also taken the lessons learned to my subsequent opportunities in a very effective way. ”

“ Dave Laveman and his team at L&A have helped me improve my leadership in significant ways. His questions are provocative and recommendations go to the heart of the issue. My ability to successfully envision the future I want to create and then do it has been of great value. ”

“ Dave prodded me to think ‘outside the box’ with an approach that was consistently empowering. This led to increased organizational presence and helped me appreciate my own capabilities as a leader at a much greater depth. In turn I was able to obtain a CAO position at a major Healthcare Organization. ”

“ Dave Laveman has been an advisor, and personal coach to me, our CIO and our executive team at Partner Healthcare Systems. He and the L&A team have done a variety of assignments including turning around major stalled initiatives, improving key processes and helping us cut our IT expenditures in half without any loss of either “lights on” effectiveness or research into new technologies. They identified the core issues in a concise and readily understandable way without oversimplifying the solutions. They helped us develop a clear, actionable and effective set of interventions. ”

“ Dave and his colleagues delivered a customized approach that developed our leadership team. Their flexibility, cooperativeness, and adaptability to our needs goes beyond a standard coaching engagement: they have helped us create relationships with individuals and companies outside of our normal network that support our key transformational initiatives and have provided valuable recommendations to us as individuals and as a team, significantly improve the way we educate and learn. ”