Brief Bio for BART
MILLER
Bart Miller is an executive coach and corporate consultant. Bart blends
the passion, team focus, and body awareness of an elite athlete with the logic
and savvy of a Fortune 500 consultant to offer a unique perspective and an
ability to catalyze change in organizations and individuals.
Coaching and
Consulting Experience
Bart's areas
of expertise include executive coaching, organizational change, cultural
integration, project management, and leadership development. He supports people
and organizations in undertaking wrenching change and breakthrough growth.
As a coach to managers and executives, Bart has helped clients take on
new assignments requiring new skillsets, manage large teams of new reports, and
transition from less-than-effective authoritarians to respected stewards on the
path to integrated leadership. Bart moves clients to new ways to communicate and
to engage in more successful business relationships. Clients enhance their
ability to navigate through the organization and harness their power. Bart
supports clients in focusing on their growth and developing their own drive that
is embodied in the success of the organization. As a business consultant, Bart
has assisted organizations and their people in managing change, driving large
projects, adapting marketing programs, integrating new cultures, and shepherding
the development and design of organizations. Bart has spent over 15 years
working with the people in large international organizations and start-ups in
the areas of strategy, finance, product management, merger integration, and
program management effecting measurable, sustainable growth. His work with
senior leaders and corporations drives organizational effectiveness, retention,
and productivity in times of change. He has worked with Wells Fargo, Stanford
University, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Johnson & Johnson.
Bart's work is inspired by his years of creative outdoor pursuits
surfing towering waves at Mavericks, coaching and playing rugby, mountain
biking, and climbing glaciated mountain peaks.
Education
Bart holds a
Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
with a Psychology minor and a Master of Management degree from Northwestern
University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management with a major in Organizational
Psychology/Behavior.
Bart keeps in touch with the business school community as a
business mentor for the umbrella Entrepreneurship class at the Haas School of
Business at the University of California in Berkeley. Here he advises teams in
all aspects of business planning including their funding presentation given to
VCs at the course culmination.
Coaching Value Proposition
“Through a professional relationship that is grounded in
mutual trust and respect, directed toward a set of clear outcomes, guided by
presence, we achieve results together.”
-
James Flaherty of Integral Coaching
Every so often we pause and make note
of the person we have become and the one we are becoming. Sometimes this reflection
is prompted by professional circumstances, like a promotion, performance
review, job change, or lack of advancement. Often it emerges from the
“rest of life” – as through an illness, family issue, or the beginning or ending
of a relationship. Whatever the origin, these experiences can feel like an
opportunity or a burden, a chance to develop or a painful lesson and often
both. How we make sense of these experiences often determines what actions we
take, and this, of course, influences our competence and fulfillment in our
profession and in our life. It is at these moments that we benefit by having
someone by our side to ask skillful questions, listen deeply, be fully present
with who we are and what we say, point out our blind spots, and custom-design
practices to help us move forward. I have a strong intuitive sense allowing me
to be attuned to others and helping foster a high level of trust. If we are
self-aware, have a greater understanding of what drives our reactions and
responses, we will see that we have more choices and possibilities for action. I
offer clients new perspectives and help them see how emotions show themselves in
their bodies and their language as well as those of others. Together we map out
a plan with reachable outcomes and harness awareness and practice to build deep
competencies that are self-correcting and self-generating. The result is greater
fulfillment and deeper meaning in our work and our lives.
Bart