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Successful individuals and
organizations align their values, vision, and goals. Living and leading
successfully requires an ability to leverage your authentic vision, voice and
power to engage and inspire yourself and others.
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KADIMA delivers unique individual,
team, organization solutions to help you flourish professionally and
personally. Our services include leadership/management development, executive
and career coaching, organizational effectiveness consulting, and
raining/facilitation. Our programs incorporate leading-edge methodologies,
tools, and practices, that provide measurable, immediate and sustainable
results. We challenge our clients to grow and emerge as individuals and as
leaders. The results are that our clients develop the mindset, skills, and plan
essential for achieving sustained high performance. This enables them to lead
and succeed at their very best, and during times of change.
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We expect no more from our clients
than we expect from ourselves - a drive for uncommon achievement in everything
we do. Because of that, we continuously broaden and deepen our own knowledge so
that our clients can do the same. We incorporate the newest and most relevant
research on management, leadership, team-effectiveness, and career management
so that we can provide the most value to our clients.
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CONTACT US NOW FOR A NEEDS-ASSESSMENT
AT info@kadimacoach.com OR
323.938.0690
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| WHO WE HELP |
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Small, medium, and large organizations |
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Individuals with career or personal goals |
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Executives including leaders, managers and
high-potential individuals |
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Teams
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Businesses
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Independent Professionals |
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Coaches |
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| CLIENT SUCCESS |
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The results that our clients
achieve vary depending on their individual and organizational needs and the
customized program that we create together.Here
are just a few examples of our client
successes:
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"I
have been working with Melissa for over four months. Through our work together, I
was able to clarify my career strengths, skills, values, and
interests. This input
was invaluable as it allowed me to crystallize a better vision of my
long term career path in addition to defining the ideal job profile
for the next step in my career. We also worked together to
identify my management/leadership strengths and growth areas. In defining and implementing
improvement plans for my growth areas, I believe I have
substantially improved my effectiveness as a manager and
leader. Melissa also
helped me to understand the importance of my personal network in
helping to build my business, in landing new career opportunities,
and in creating a human resource, which I could employ to gain sage
advice in my professional dealings and career progression. We worked together to build
out my network and better exploit its value. She helped me focus on my
unique strengths to develop my personal brand and messaging so that
I could better promote myself within this network. Thanks to Melissa, I have
more than doubled the network of resources available to me and I
have energized this network to help me land numerous interviews and
open doors to other opportunities, which would have otherwise not
been available to me. I
recommend Melissa to anyone wishing to improve himself or herself
professionally or personally."
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Altera
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"Melissa’s knowledge and coaching style
was so valuable to me as I was working through what type of work
environment and business ownership opportunity was the best fit for
me. It seems in this century, we are given almost too many
opportunities for success, and with them, the "burden" of crafting
our own destinies! The
breadth of her coaching was great for me, given that I knew I was
starting out with career questions, but I also had entrepreneurial,
business owner and life balance considerations I knew would play a
role. I was glad to have a coach who could work with me on
whichever bent I needed guidance
with"
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Heile |
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“Melissa
provides a powerful combination of analytical exercises and
workbooks to discover my strengths and leadership skills, together
with her personal sessions where she is supportive and intuitive in
her approach. My sessions and exercises with Melissa have had an
immediate impact on energizing my networking ability with associates
and friends, and my enhanced leadership skills at my current job
where I have gained a much higher profile for the value that I
contribute to the organization. I have been inspired by learning how
Melissa discovered her own strengths, skills, and values and has
synthesized them into her own unique and successful career, company
and life. I definitely recommend Melissa Karz / Kadima
Coaching extremely highly and I have referred several of my
professional associates and friends to her."
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Heller, Executive |
| Jambotech |
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"Thank you for
your expert facilitation and change-management work
leading up to the facilitation. We all agreed that the
visioning and strategic planning facilitation was extremely
productive and overall a great success. We also agreed that the role
you played and the way you "managed" us was also a major contributor
to the success. I am very stimulated and excited about where this is
all going. "
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Sinaiko, CEO |
| Sinaiko
HealthCare Consulting |
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"Thank
you for facilitating such an informative workshop. I came out of the
workshop with a wealth of information that I can apply to everyday
business."
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Rose |
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Service Representative |
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“I approached Melissa
during a time when I needed to make a career transition in order to
improve my work/life balance. Melissa was particularly
effective in always being very cognizant of my career aspirations
in the context of my personal goals. She guided me through a
process that enabled me to find a new career that satisfied both my
professional and personal goals, and for that I am very
thankful.”
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Frankel |
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Recruiter |
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“I
contacted Melissa when I was at a monumental crossroads in
life. I asked myself: "Where should I go? Who should I be? What
should I do?" Thanks to Melissa, I was able to validate my interest
in technology and to understand what my dream job could be. Melissa
kept me in the game for over a year long job negotiation and now -
thanks to her - I accepted the job several months ago, and
now just received the most positive reviews from my manager
and am looking forward to a salary increase this
quarter”
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| -Caroline Ciccheti,Senior Consultant |
| Deloitte Consulting |
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"I have been working with Melissa for less than a
month and have already benefited heavily from her coaching. She has helped me
focus on what is most relevant to the development of my business, and identify
ways to use my skills to facilitate my business dealings. Results from working
with Melissa so far have greatly surpassed my expectations.""
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Leglise,Partner |
| Archmont Group |
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"I was struggling to find my way in my current
position, and to better define my long-term goals. As I was not receiving
needed mentoring at the office, I found Melissa – and what a difference! She
provides valuable insights into my strengths, asks outstanding questions to
guide me towards growth, and has a fantastic set of tools and resources to help
me. In fact, in just under two months, she’s helped me see how I can manage my
career, my twins, *and* going back to grad school to get my MBA.""
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| Ceira Technologies |
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"Melissa helped me sum up my personal and career
inventory and gave me the tools and resources to refresh my self-image along
the way. Now, I am constantly improving my strengths and building my character,
which can only help me in all arenas of life.""
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"Kadima coaching has been a huge benefit to me
personally and to my business. Melissa has helped me identify my goals and
solidify my plans as to where I want to take my business and to take action on
those goals now! I have integrated what I learned in my coaching sessions with
my marketing goals to create a dynamite promotional strategy for my business!
Most of all, Melissa's services have been beneficial in the day to day
communication interaction with clients and other important business
relationships that are essential to succeeding in my business.""
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"Working with Melissa helped me identify, very early
on, ways I could "maximize" potential at the job I then held, as well as
evaluate my priorities during my job search. I was particularly impressed with
her structured format, which allows for quick, yet thorough analysis of our
work styles and ways we can infuse optimal work habits into our job. Melissa's
coaching was a key element in my finding a new position (basically, my dream
job) offering me a lot of insight into avoiding poor habits and working smart.
I've since recommended her to several of my closest friends and would recommend
her to anyone who feels they could be performing better at their current
position or wants to identify and succeed in his dream job. ""
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"During my job transition, Melissa really helped me to
figure out what my priorities and expectations were for my work. Now, as we
continue to work with Melissa, she is helping me pinpoint and work on meeting
my career goals and shoring up areas that I may be weak in but need to master
in order to be successful." The self-analyzing work included in the process
will be beneficial throughout my career and life!""
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Marketing Software |
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Representative Client List:
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Some of KADIMA's clients include
individuals from the following organizations. (Individual clients have engaged
with KADIMA either directly or through their organization)
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Sony
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Mckinsey
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Amgen
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Pepsi
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O’neil
Industries
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Sinaiko
Healthcare
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Deloitte
Consulting
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Mattel |
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DiscusData Marketing Software |
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Imagination Entertainment |
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Ford |
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PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Independent professionals and entrepreneurs
including coaches, graphic artists, physicians |
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Big Wheel Entertainment |
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Archmont Group |
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| CASE STUDIES |
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A newly promoted female
entertainment industry executive in her thirties engaged with us in a coaching
relationship to gain more credibility in her new position. Through our work
together, she desired to shift her communication style from overly diplomatic
to more assertive. She was neither comfortable with nor experienced in managing
a team. Up until now, her performance had been measured on her technical
abilities only. Through KADIMA's leadership development program, she learned to
better target her communication style. The first step she took to this end was
to pinpoint those specific communication behaviors that were limiting her. More
importantly, she learned to understand her team's differences and needs in
order to more effectively support them. She has made significant changes in her
communication style. This has become evident by her increased level of
confidence, her ability to more frequently and effectively challenge the
process, and her enhanced skill at giving constructive feedback to and
motivating her team.
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A
male in his thirties who had worked in Marketing for nine years hired us to
help him make a successful career change. After years of being on the marketing
track, he desired to shift into a finance position with a different industry.
He was looking for a greater level of fulfillment and challenge in his career.
We took him through the KADIMA career coaching program so that he could get
clarity around his values and priorities, what he excelled at, what skills
would be most transferable, and how to best position himself. We worked with
this individual to create his action plan and get him excited about his action
steps. After three months of ongoing powerful coaching, he made a successful
career transition. He is now in a finance position and on a career track with
which he is thrilled!
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A brand new management
team of four at a digital start-up company in Los Angeles came to us for help.
They were struggling with balancing their own individual styles. Through the
KADIMA team coaching program, we helped the team establish clear and common
goals that were understood and accepted by all members. Next, we engaged in a
number of team building exercises to help members appreciate the diversity of
styles and to teach them how to work more cooperatively together. We also
clearly defined team roles and responsibilities and spent some time practicing
effective and useful feedback. During the coaching program, we met with the
team both as a group and individually to coach them on successfully
implementing their action plan. As a result of our work together, the team has
more easily and quickly begun to accomplish its critical organization goals,
and work more effectively together, and enjoy the process. We continue to coach
this organization.
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We
consulted with an independent professional who owns a marketing firm. She had
been in business for a little over one year when she engaged in a coaching
relationship with us. Up until that point, she utilized few formalized systems
and processes in the day-to-day operations of her business. She desired to
change not only the way she conducted business, but also the type of clients
she attracted. We worked together to get her to begin thinking more
strategically. Through our work, she created her unique organizational vision,
mission, and values. From there we designed her business strategy, and
developed her business and marketing plans. She continues to put new systems
and processes in place and is progressively attracting her target clients. She
now feels she is steering her own ship, and has the appropriate direction and
has the confidence she needed to continue to make better business decisions.
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| KADIMA TEAM |
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Melissa Karz, Founder and
President, helps highly capable people lead and live more powerfully and
achieve results more rapidly. She has worked in consulting and coaching in
California for 12 years. Melissa's background combines substantial business
consulting experience with leadership development,executive and career coaching
expertise.As a coach, Melissa specializes in working with several types of
clients: Fast track program directors, managers, team leaders, specialist who
are moving beyond their technical expertise to become effective leaders, and
executives and business owners who are leading and growing their organizations.
As a consultant and facilitator, Melissa brings strategic insight, extensive
project leadership experience, and leadership development expertise to
corporations, startups, and professionals. She has an
MBA from UCLA, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania
in cultural Anthropology , is a graduate
of the Coaches Training Institute, and is a Lore International
Institute Certified Executive Coach.
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Before founding KADIMA, Melissa
guided executives of major companies through large-scale organizational change
and Human Resources transformation during her work with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Since beginning her career, Melissa has partnered with executives at more than
15 clients in healthcare, technology, consumer products, entertainment, and
Internet companies. These include Sony Entertainment, HealthNet Inc,
Pacificare, Agilent Technologies, Providian Financial, Hewlett Packard, and a
variety of start-ups and businesses.
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KADIMA Affiliate Coaches:
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KADIMA maintains affiliate
relationships with more than 20 coaches and consultants. This diverse group of
professionals provides services that enhance and complement KADIMA's offerings.
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Headlines:
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Melissa Karz and Kadima Coaching and Consulting has appeared in the Los Angeles
Times, Fortune Magazine and other publications:
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*The Los Angeles Times, Career
Builder Section, May 19th, 2002:
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*The Magazine of The Anderson School at UCLA, Spring, 2002:
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*Business
2.0 - Magazine Article - You're Stuck
... state of mind. "What you don't want to do is start getting depressed,"
adds Melissa Karz, founder of Kadima
Coaching. "Be what you ...
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35704,FF.html
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Other Articles
on the Benefits and Return on Investment of Coaching:
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Nortel Coaching ROI Study Findings
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... employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%. The study
provided powerful new
insights into how to maximize the business impact from executive coaching.
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www.coachfederation.org/pressroom/
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