Gifted Leaders

The Gifted Leaders Blog is the official blog of Gifted Leaders, LLC and a growing collaborative community of coaches and consultants who are passionate about liberating personal and organizational potential.

We understand what it feels like - as an employee or even sometimes as the pointy-headed boss - to be trapped inside a real-life Dilbert comic strip. So we inspire success and significance through coaching and consultative services that empower people and equip organizations to achieve excellence.

We envision people who are excited to live and work in an atmosphere characterized by collaboration, trust, mutual respect, and appreciation of individual gifts and talents.

Gifted Leaders is a collaborative and diverse network of talented coaches and consultants who can help you realize individual and collective potential. We’re known for our emphasis on a positive, strengths-based, team approach that capitalizes on the power of coaching and strategic collaboration.

Jeff is the founder of Gifted Leaders, LLC. His passion for leadership and effective organizational culture has developed over a 23-year professional career including experience in both private and corporate sectors. An International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach trained at the Adler School of Professional Coaching, Jeff has a strong interest in liberating personal and organizational potential. His passion is to help people live authentic and meaningful lives.

VCC provides personal and professional coaching and consulting services. In addition to Jeff, team members pictured include from l. to r.: Sally Starbuck Stamp, BSN, MC; Sandy Somers, RN, MS; and Mark W. Hanna, BS, MSEE.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

"Leadership today, like coaching, is awareness based. It takes reflection - noticing impact, internal and external - deep listening, less talking and telling, and more asking. It takes soliciting feedback and the courage to hear it. It takes authenticity, vulnerability and caring - qualities which historically have not been highly valued in the corporate world." - Adria Trowhill, 2008 Canadian Coach of the Year

“It is a sad fate for a man to die well known to others but unknown to himself” - Francis Bacon

"Purpose is the place where your heart's deepest gladness and the world's greatest need intersect." - Richard Nelson Bolles

"Test lots of things. Fail often." - Seth Godin

"To the extent that people can become clear about the purpose of their lives, the mission they believe they have been placed on this earth to accomplish, and the values they hold close to their hearts, they will have more fulfilling experiences, especially if they're able to connect those values and goals to their roles at work." - Thomas Crane

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Timeless leadership is always about character, and it is always about authenticity. Discover and cultivate that authentic self, the part of you that is most alive, the part that is most you. Finding and nurturing that authentic self is the one sure way of becoming a leader." - Warren Bennis