Gretchen Pisano

About Gretchen Pisano

A thought leader widely renowned as a masterful coach and expert consultant, Gretchen…

Experience

1. Co-founder & CEO

   Plink Leadership

   Jan 2013 — Present

   Gretchen Pisano co-founded pLink to transform the way people lead and enable positive change in the world. She has grown the team to 10 coaches + 5 staff.\\\\n\\\\n“We transcend traditional leadership development with a focus on competency, character, and consciousness.”\\\\n\\\\npLink has developed proprietary content to include 42 learning modules and 7 flagship experiential programs delivered to hundreds of participants and licensed to multiple organizations.\\\\n\\\\npLink ORIGINAL\\\\n• PositivePace: For leaders on the leading edge\\\\n• PositiveVibe: Healthy striving, vitality, and composure\\\\n• Equus Coaching: Immersive leadership experience like nothing else\\\\n• Leader as Coach: Coaching skills for leaders of leaders\\\\n• ShePeak: Women’s leadership program\\\\n\\\\nKEY ACHIEVEMENTS\\\\n\\\\nMulti-year programs\\\\n• Leadership initiative for Top 50 Leaders: Cohort learning + 360 feedback + individual coaching\\\\n• Leadership and professional development initiative for organization of 60: Cohort learning + 360 feedback + individual coaching + full organization Equus Coaching\\\\n• Leadership and professional development for organization of 25: Cohort learning + individual coaching + full organization Equus Coaching + optimizing team performance\\\\n• Individual executive coaching dissolving career limitations across industries: managers to c-suite\\\\n• National Leadership Academy (est. 2009, ongoing)\\\\n\\\\nOther leadership and coaching\\\\n• Next-tier leadership team development for 1-yr succession plan\\\\n• Partnership with Minerva at KGI, a state-of-the-art university, to design and deliver multi-year coaching program for graduate students\\\\n• Strategy and leadership development for senior teams in sales, tech, finance, IS, research, social media, hospitality, communications, autonomous driving and advertising.\\\\n\\\\nWomen’s leadership\\\\n• Domestic, international workshops for women: Women in Leadership - A Linkage Institute; Facebook’s AWLD, Advertising Women in Leadership Day\\\\n• Brooking’s Executive Education Women’s Leadership Program\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• University of Southern California

  BS, Marketing/Business Administration

  1985 — 1988

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master's degree, Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP)

  2009 — 2010

• UC Santa Barbara

  General Education

  1984 — 1986

Skills

• Graphic Design
• Nonprofits
• Employee Engagement
• Management Consulting
• Action Learning
• Coaching
• Entrepreneurship
• Emotional Intelligence
• Public Speaking
• Stress Management
• Research
• Change Management
• Small Business
• Executive Management
• Strategic Planning
• Inspiration
• Executive Development
• Leadership Development
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Facilitators
• Strategy
• Presentation Coaching
• Team Building
• Wellbeing
• Positive Psychology
• Leadership
• Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Training
• Life Coaching
• Career Development
• Proposal Writing
• Talent Management
• Personal Development
• Employee Benefits
• Business Coaching
• Organizational Development
• Online Moderation
• Staff Development
• Report Writing