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DUANE WADE

Duane Wade is an independent business consultant who works worldwide providing services to clients. He focuses in the areas of executive coaching, creative strategic thinking, change management, organization development, team effectiveness and diversity. Duane has worked internally and externally as a consultant, including work with several Fortune 500 organizations. He has worked in various industries – pharmaceutical, insurance, healthcare, hospitality, banking, legal, entertainment and more.

Duane’s coaching practice focuses on executives from director level up. He also provides services for executive couples where each spouse or partner is an executive. Duane coaches other executive coaches and is a member of the International Coaching Federation. He applies the ICF ethical guidelines to his work with clients.

His approach to coaching is customized to each client’s needs - defining the issues and creating a plan based on each client’s unique needs, learning style and business imperatives. Duane has owned three businesses so he understands business pressures and deliverables that must be balanced with an ongoing need to improve leadership skills. He also has worked in a global organization at the executive level.

His work internationally has also enabled him to increase the creativity with which he offers services that require a particular cultural fit. Duane’s clients have included Booz-Allen-Hamilton, McKinsey & Company, CIGNA, Wachovia, Baldwin Preparatory School, SmithKline Beecham, Expedia Inc., Prime Therapeutics, Department of Education, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Gregory B. Davis Foundation and Aramark, as well as a number of individual clients.

Education

Duane has a Master’s degree in Human Development and Family Therapy. He is also a certified Organization Development Consultant. He is a life-long learner who brings his passion effectively to guide his clients.