William Murray, Executive Coach
William Murray earned an M. Div. degree from Yale, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and pursued additional graduate studies in organizational psychology. Bill is a graduate of Corporate Coach U, a Master Certified Coach and is also certified in Mediation, NLP, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and DISC. He served on the faculty of a large university where he taught and mentored business people in the MBA program. He exercised P & L responsibility as a line manager in a prominent retail firm. He was a Management Development Project Manager, training and developing leaders of major corporations and hospitals for 12 years.
- Bill has earned the designation of Master Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation(ICF). See this PDF article, “Why Hire an ICF Credentialed Coach.”
- Bill is a graduate and charter memeber of Corporate Coach U (CCUI).
- Bill is a Founding Member of the International Association of Coaches (IAC).
As both an internal and external Executive Coach and consultant, Bill has served organizations ranging from small businesses to leading corporations such as JC Penney, IBM, Ericsson, Westvaco, Zenger-Miller, Supermarkets General, and Freeport MacMoran.
Bill’s broad background of work experience, education, and training uniquely qualifies him for his executive coaching work. Bill coaches business owners and leaders, noticeably enhancing leadership skills, communication skills and emotional intelligence.
Bill is unusually talented in understanding organizational culture and in helping clients see what is going on around them in their organization. He developed this talent by alternating graduate education in organizational psychology at Yale, Harvard, and CUNY with hands-on business experience.
Bill is also unusually talented in assisting clients to devise new strategies to solve people problems and to improve their work relationships. He has cultivated this talent by participating in over 100 workshops on communication skills, leadership, coaching, and related topics offered by prestigious corporate training organizations such as NTL (National Training Labs). He has fine-tuned his coaching skills through 12 years of corporate in-house experience, and since 1993, as an Executive Coach.
Bill is also an excellent facilitator of his own TeleWorkshops and Workshops. He evokes the wisdom of the group, getting participants to share deeply and learn from each other. He creates a safe environment for people to learn new interpersonal skills.
Bill also has a long history of conducting successful conflict resolution sessions. In one hospital job, he was responsible for resolving conflicts among 140 managers and the entire staff. He is certified in mediation. Now he specializes in resolving conflicts among leaders and among family business members and in helping executives to enhance their team performance.
Executive Coaching Resume: For more detailed information on Bill’s background, see his Executive Coaching Resume (MS Word document).
