Stern Consulting Who We Are
Dr. LEW STERN has over 30 years experience as a leader, management consultant, executive coach, organization and leadership development specialist, and consulting psychologist. He focuses on helping boards, leaders and their teams develop skills and strategies and change their organizations and how they run them. He has worked with hundreds of leaders and would-be leaders to improve their leadership and accomplish their business and mission objectives on a very practical level.
  He provides a wide array of consulting and coaching including: Customized 360-degree feedback for leaders, executive coaching, leadership assessment and development planning, on-boarding consulting, succession planning, and development for high-potential leaders.
His past research has demonstrated 75% of his coaching clients to have been promoted or given expanded responsibilities within a year and doubling of the typical retention rate of leaders assigned to new positions.
Lew has extensive experience and has written many publications and presented not only in leadership development but also in quality assurance, process reengineering, customer focus, interpersonal communication, and team development.
He has served as President of Focus Consulting and Stern Consulting, Vice President at ODI, and Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting.
Dr. Stern serves as Advisor to the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and has a faculty appointment as Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Executive Director of the Foundation for International Leadership Coaching, a co-founder and Past President of the New England Society for Applied Psychology, and co-founder and Leader of The Executive Coaching Forum. He was a founding Board member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching and founded and served as the Director of New England’s only Graduate Certificate Program in Executive Coaching, at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Lew served as Director of the Annual Boston Conference on Executive Coaching for five years and is now on the Advisory Board for the Conference Board’s annual conference on Executive Coaching. He runs his own consulting firm and has an active practice as a management consultant, executive coach and organization development consultant. He has written many articles, books and guides on leadership, coaching, and related topics including his most recent book- Executive Coaching: Building and Managing Your Professional Practice (Wiley, 2008).
Sample Client List
Fidelity Investments, Boston Scientific, Brown Brothers Harriman, Analog Devices, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Rogers Corporation, South Shore Hospital, Omgeo, Johnson & Johnson and Northeastern University.
Education
Lew received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Stern is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and a Certified Health Care Provider. He has served as an adjunct faculty or guest lecturer in business, management, and organization behavior and development at many colleges and universities.
Stern Consulting is networked with many other consultants, coaches, and coaching and consulting firms and organizations. These collaborative relationships allow us to bring in leading coaches and consultants with special backgrounds and from different locations across the U.S. and around the world. Our consulting network provides a depth and span of consulting resources while ensuring special attention and high quality for each of our client projects. A significant portion of Lew’s time is dedicated to pro bono consulting and coaching for non-profits, government, and international non-government organizations.
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