Empowering Organizations to Thrive
We cultivate a relationship-first mindset that frees your organization to perform beyond its limits.
Our Approach
We fundamentally believe that relationships are the primary driver of organizational culture
and a key to better business performance.
We strengthen your relationships in three key ways:
EXECUTIVE MINDSET
We work with your executive leaders to develop the necessary commitments and leadership behaviors to generate breakthrough results.
MANAGER
SUCCESS
We design shared experiences that challenge your front-line and middle managers to collaborate, build resiliency, and engage and lead their teams.
TEAM
DYNAMICS
We facilitate team development by first focusing on trust, the cornerstone of strong relationships. We then work with teams to develop a shared purpose, aligned goals and mutual accountability leading to extraordinary performance.
Services
Our services are customized to the context of the challenges you face within your organization. We design and deliver approaches to developing your executives, managers, and teams in ways that expand their capabilities to achieve transformative results.
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While working with you will be unique and distinct, the following are examples of potential initiatives:
Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching engagements to support expanding an executive’s leadership. A blend of in-person intensive experiences with ongoing virtual connection for up to 12 months. Includes 360 feedback and other assessments to drive self-awareness and relevant approaches to development.
Offsite Facilitation
Facilitated team off-sites, executive retreats, and company-wide meetings to develop a sense of team, clarify and align strategic direction, and inspire higher employee engagement.
New Team Formation
Designed specifically for newly formed teams, programs to build trust, clarify roles and responsibilities, ensure alignment with goals, and establish norms for communication, collaboration, and accountability.
New Leader Integration
Coaching new managers through the critical first 120 days, leveraging continuous feedback, relationship building, alignment of expectations, and objective accountability to ensure new leaders are set-up for success.
Cross-Functional Team Development
Experiences that build stronger interdependent teams by focusing on alignment to a set of behavioral norms for collaboration, decision making, managing change, and transparent communication. Organizational success often depends on interdependent teams working together effectively.
Frontline and Middle Manager Development
Cohort-based experiences that blend learning across multiple channels: Assessment, classroom learning, experiential learning, and peer-to-peer coaching. We invest in managers every step of the way, ensuring leadership excellence.
Tools & Resources
We use a variety of tools and resources to support our work including the following:
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Hogan Assessments
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Myers briggs Type Indicator
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Thomas-Killman Conflict Mode
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Firo-B
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Social Styles
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DiSC Profile
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BEQ - Behavioral EQ
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Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Robert Avinger
President and Founder, Avinger Consulting
For over 30 years, Robert has worked with individuals and organizations to empower and guide their growth and development. A seasoned facilitator and leadership coach, Robert has delivered developmental experiences to thousands of individuals and teams across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, hospitality, retail, and professional services.
Robert has held strategic and executive HR roles inside organizations leading talent management, learning, organizational development, and cultural engagement functions. He delivers leadership and talent development programs, team building facilitation, culture measurement and development, and large-scale change management.
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At his core, Robert believes that leadership excellence begins with self-awareness and flourishes through the cultivation and nurturing of strong relationships. He firmly holds that human connectedness is what takes the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Other Interests
Robert and his wife Jane live in Nashville, TN and have three children and a son-in-law. Robert’s first job out of college was in outdoor education as an Instructor with the North Carolina Outward Bound School and he has maintained a love of outdoor adventure ever since! He spends time trail running, hiking, and traveling. He is also a novice woodworker.
