John Schaffner
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I would like to extend my deepest congratulations to those graduates of 2020 (of which I too hail as I just completed my doctorate in...
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Unleashing a Passionate Workforce through Coaching Excellence
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Through leadership development, cultural strategies, compassionate coaching, and organizational development you can achieve new levels of success.
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Dr. John J. Schaffner
"Schaff the Coach"
Dr. John J. Schaffner is focused on elevating leaders at all levels of an organization and instilling sustainable skills to make a long-lasting impact. As a practitioner-scholar, he is curious about what flourishing will look like in organizations and for individuals in the future and wants to be a part of painting that picture. Coaching has driven his primary purpose since receiving his coaching certification from Columbia University in 2010 and his MBA in 2000. Presently, John serves as Director of the Coaching Program and teaches in the Management Department at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business where he has won five teaching awards. He is also a core facilitator for the Columbia University Coaching Certification team as well. Upon receiving his doctorate in Management and Sustainable Systems in 2020 from CWRU his research has focused on coaching millennials and centennials, complexity theory, and flourishing workplaces.
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Executive Coaching
My approach to Executive Coaching is all about partnership and co-creation. I take VIP (you) from where they (you) are to where they (you) want to be. It is a journey towards flourishing (not fixing) and is supported by an evidenced-based root system of what works in leadership development and sustainable behavior change. I am a certified coach, coach supervisor, and professor with over 12 years of experience.
Team Coaching
The focus of Team Coaching is to work with a team to help them unlock higher group potential and understand how to more effectively work towards common goals together. Clients of Team Coaching will leave with a deeper understanding of how to tackle team goals innovatively.
Speaking Engagements
Business conferences, board meetings, or company seminars: enlist John to speak on the invaluable content of compassionate coaching, leadership, or cultural strategy.
Corporate Classes & Workshops
Partner with John to bring his award winning classroom experience to your office (virtually or live). He's happy to build out a short or long-term workshop to deliver value and establish foundational competencies around effective leadership and coaching to your corporate teams. John is certified in several relevant assessments and programs including Situational Leadership, Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI), Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace Questionnaire (CWQ), Ohio State's Leadership Assessment: BUILD, and Leadership Through People Skills (LTPS).
Consulting Services and HR retainer
Some clients need help aligning their People operations train cars whilst going through rapid or tumultuous change. John is available to work as a retained consultant for a singular engagement or on retainer while a permanent position is filled or HR function is more fully defined.
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my approach
Framing…
My approach to coaching is informed by three major streams
jazz improvisation (and road managing for Wynton Marsalis)
emotional/social intelligence (Richard Boyatzis was my PhD advisor)
whole-person coaching (gleaned from my Columbia certification)
Each lends itself to my approach leveraging an individual’s strengths in service to a flourishing future. This focus on flourishing is an important distinction. I do not use coaching as a tool to fix but to inspire.
Foundation…
My aim is to inform my role(s) as a team coach, executive coach, coach trainer, and/or coach supervisor, through my work as an academic with a foot in evidence-based research, a mastery of sustainable systems, and a professional career arc that ranges from the arts to retail to digital marketing to manufacturing. A few further foundational elements of my practice include:
•Engendering safe spaces for truth-telling and transparency
•Showing up as I am and honoring clients to do the same (judgment-free)
•Leveraging the power of language, emotion, metaphor, and imagery as important key data sets
•Thriving as a client’s cheerleader whilst providing the accountability structure a good coach should provide
•Having a deep theoretical and scientific root system in studying Millennials and Centennials and coaching
•Providing models and frameworks that emerge from my own research and management science scholarship
Role & Ideal Clients…
Millennials, Centennials, mid-level leaders and learners, academic institutions seeking to build coaching programs, digital, non-profit and creative organizations, international entities seeking a universal coaching model or with M&A challenges, executive and startup teams seeking high performance through team alignment
Value…
My clients (students and professionals) assert that I am authentic, direct, supportive, creative, funny and unwaveringly their advocate. I endeavor to make these statements as true as they can be.
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Fundamentals First
For those 3 of you who have read some of my posts, baseball plays an archetypal role in my business, coaching, and teaching life. This...
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Product is to Marketing as Culture is to Recruiting
What's in your Petri dish? In light of recent articles about both Amazon and Zappos' corporate cultures (remember Amazon owns Zappos,...
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