Cheryl D. Foss


Summary Cheryl Foss, President of Strategic Innovation Associates, specializes in Leadership Development, Team Dynamics, Strategy Development, Organization Design, and Change Management. She integrates extensive experience and deep knowledge in these areas in her work as a consultant and coach to elevate high-performance in complex systems and help organizations and executives achieve unsurpassed results. Specifically, she works with whole systems and individuals in corporations, small businesses, government agencies, and non-profits. She also helps design structures and processes, integrate new businesses, learn how to accelerate the rate at which organizations identify, raise and resolve issues, develop leadership and management skills and align key stakeholders in systems. Cheryl draws from her experience as a leader and manager as well as her years of consulting experience, offering her clients a powerful balance of operational expertise and consulting expertise. She has successfully partnered with leadership groups and Boards of Directors on many highly visible, organizational system-wide change efforts.



Experience At A Glance Over 18 years as a coach and consultant working with CEOs, CFOs,COOs, Senior Leadership, Board of Directors, managers and across organizational systems.

Deep experience in several industries including healthcare,telecomm, hi-tech, academia, financial, government and energy.

Conversant in coaching and consulting in Merger and Acquisition environments, strategy development and deployment, organization restructuring and organizations undergoing significant change.

Experienced in many assessment tools including DiSC, MBTI, LIFO,PRSI, LPI, Firo B and various others.



Education MSW, Clinical and Occupational, University of Maryland, Baltimore

BBA, Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst



Publications and Presentations
Success Psychology - November, 2011

Strategic Planning for Rapid Results - October 2007

What is corporate culture . and how can we change it? - August,2002

The Secret to a Smooth Merger: Culture Clash and integration nightmare. or win-win collaboration.- August, 2002






What Our Clients Say About Our Work

Coaching:

"Cheryl builds relationships with her clients that make it easy for her, as a good coach, to check in, follow up, and make sure the changes put in place are working and producing the desired results. In addition, during a session when we asked Cheryl to help our organization transition from people managers to performance coaches, she taught us what good coaches do, but more importantly, she demonstrated with us how good coaches are. "

Gordon, R&D Director, Avago Technologies