Barbara Mintzer- McMahonFor the last twenty-one years, Ms. Mintzer-McMahon has been working as an organizational consultant, executive coach and trainer. She specializes in leadership development, team building, change management and building strategic partnerships. In 1989 she founded The Center for Transitional Management (CTM) in Orinda, California. Ms. McMahon is also on the executive leadership team for The Alexcel Group and is currently the head of their Women in Leadership Consulting Division. For the last six years, she has been the senior lead, of the coaching faculty, for the Global Institute for Leadership Development. She facilitates workshops and consults both nationally and internationally for a wide variety of professional organizations including those in business, media, high-risk occupations, hospitality, mental health and education. She has keynoted and developed training programs for Women in Leadership, Strategic Partnering and Strategies for Successful Leadership for companies including Shell International, Intel, Pella Corporation, Nektar Therapeutics and many others.
Ms. Mintzer-McMahon was an instructor for over 20 years in the Graduate Psychology Department at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California, teaching Systems Theory and Group Dynamics. In 1999, she accepted a position as adjunct professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, teaching Group Process in the Graduate Department of Education and Counseling.
She is widely regarded as an industry pioneer in the use of multi-source assessment tools and is one of the first consultants in the U.S. trained and licensed to administer 360-degree instruments developed by the TEAMS organization. She is responsible for the design and development of ‘the rater team review’ as described in her article in Executive Excellence (August, 2002). This is a group process used to gain system-wide stakeholdership and support for the action plan created out of the multi-source survey.
Based on her specialization in leadership development, coaching and consulting, she is a contributing author to Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of leadership released in April 2005 .
Ms. Mintzer-McMahon is a psychotherapist and has accumulated twenty-six years of clinical experience, during part of this time she worked as a full time clinical consultant to a Police Department in Northern California. While working for the police she developed one of the first systemically oriented programs in Stress Management and soon became sought after as a consultant in Stress Management for both Business and Professionals in High Risk Occupations
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
Abar, Acushnet, Agilent Technologies, American Honda, Americorp, Analog Devices, California Board of Executive Realtors, Cargill Ventures, Chevron-Texaco Shipping Company, City of Chicago School District, Claremont Resort and Spa, Companion Care, Conscious Business Alliance, Conway Freight, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Invitrogen, Johnson and Johnson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Linkage Inc., KPMG, Mckesson, National Council on Healthcare Leadership, National Research Council of Canada, Nektar Therapeutics, Phoenix University, Pullman Hospital, Working Woman Magazine, Salon 201, Shell, South Financial Group, Sunoco, The San Francisco Newspaper Agency, Starwood Resorts, TJMAXX, US Steel Corporation and University Of Michigan Medical School. Some of Barbara’s non-profit pro bono work has benefited Business for Social Responsibility, Arizona State University, National Association of Professional Educators, Social Venture Network and Tides Foundation.
