Case Studies

As standard policy, we do not release specific details on our client work unless pre-approved by the client. The following case studies offer examples of our client work, without specific client detail. Upon request we can readily supply contact information for references and endorsements on the efficacy of our client work.

Entrepreneurial Organization

Challenge: Assist a highly charismatic entrepreneur in developing strategies that diminish the depletion of his energy and focus due to his tendency to micro-manage.

Solution: Through executive coaching first with the client, then with his team, Kellert worked with the team members to develop the tools and strategies necessary to improve communication and build trust.

Aerospace Corporation

Challenge: Turn around a team leader whose poor team leadership was leading to the potential termination of, and retraction of funding for, a projected 5-year project.

Solution: Kellert determined that the team leader lacked the leadership skills to inspire cooperation and team alignment. Through executive coaching, the team leader broke through the fears and behavioral patterns that were inhibiting him from asserting himself as a directed, powerful leader. Through work with the team, Kellert helped the team develop communication skills and the tools to build trusting relationships.

Results: The team got the project back on track and completed the 5-year mission in 4-years. Their efforts won the team, and the organization, an outstanding achievement award for their contributions to the aerospace industry.

Author/Consultant

Challenge: Help a client already successful as an organizational consultant focus his work in an effort to   become the recognized expert in his field of expertise.

Solution: Through personnel executive coaching and the use of her work, Dreaming Reality: The Seven Phases of Creating , Kellert worked with this client to innovate his body of knowledge and leverage his expertise by developing books, speaking engagements and a thriving consulting practice that create greater access to his work.

Results: The client is publishing a book and major organizations in the healthcare industry have recognized and implemented his work.

Manufacturing Firm

Challenge: Prevent a manufacturing client's possible plant closure by improving employee productivity to insure sustainability.

Solution: Through JoAnne Kellert's signature interviewing process, she determined that the employees did not have the commitment necessary to improve productivity because they were not asked to participate in decisions on how the organization functioned. Kellert worked with the organization to develop processes that brought decision-making to every level of the organization. Employees were encouraged to participate in developing strategies to improve safety, security, cost containment and productivity.

Results: Employees became actively engaged in the organization. Employee participation increased by 40% resulting in the proactive restructuring of marketing, sales and production processes. In addition to improving employee satisfaction, profitability increased by 20% and new avenues for revenue/profit generation were identified.

Manufacturing Firm

Challenge: As the result of a corporate merger, integrate two distinct corporate cultures into one organizational culture that reflected the values, strengths and missions of each organization.

Solution: Kellert, using her signature processes, determined that one of the two organizations was better at maximizing and generating revenues while the other organization's strengths were in the area of research and development. To meld the two distinct cultures required integrating the philosophies and values that supported each of the individual organizations strengths.

Results: The organization built a new organizational culture that embodied the best of both organizations. The new vision allowed the organization to excel at generating new products while maximizing the revenue potential of all products resulting in a 20% increase in revenue.