Fifth Third Bank
Diane Egbers
What do clients want to know about you?
Celebrating 15 years as founder and President of Leadership Excelleration, Inc., Diane Egbers provides Executive Coaching, Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Management, and Leadership Effectiveness services. Diane has led HR functions in financial services at the Vice President level. Now, Diane is dedicated to serve financial services leaders as a dynamic coach, facilitator and management consultant. Diane works collaboratively with Fifth Third leaders to set and achieve goals that involve cultivating the strengths as an individual leader and realizing potential for success at organization, team and individual levels. This may include: coaching key leaders, facilitating leadership teams, Senior Leadership Team coaching as well as building capacity of leaders to assimilate as fully contributing leaders.
Diane holds a Master’s Degree in Executive Human Resources Development from Xavier University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Personnel and Industrial Relations from the University of Cincinnati. Diane is certified in Hay Group – Emotional Intelligence as well as Executive Coaching. She is a member of International Leader Association (ILA), International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a sought after speaker on leadership topics.
What type of clients do you serve?
Diane primarily serves Financial Services, Fortune 500, and Healthcare clients such as: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Countrywide Mortgage, Eli Lilly, Fidelity Investments, Fifth Third Bank, Nuveen Investments, General Electric, KMK Attorneys at Law, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Procter and Gamble, St. Elizabeth Health Care, TriHealth and WellPoint.
How would you describe your coaching style?
Diane’s passion for leadership development is contagious and she earns the trust of her clients by actively listening, asking thought provoking questions, and collaboratively determining development needs. Insights are offered to ensure accurate self perception as a foundation for attaining development goals. Diane’s comprehensive approach encourages a leader to be more effective at all levels including: manager, peer, direct report, and strategic relationship roles. Diane is a servant leader and has been an effective coach and advocate for many financial services leaders by offering practical strategies, tools and techniques to guide learning.
What are your areas of expertise?
Diane has engaged with Senior Executive leaders, VP’s, and Directors from diverse cultural and global business backgrounds. She enjoys coaching leaders to: enhance relationships, improve overall effectiveness, assimilate as new leaders, enhance leadership team effectiveness, accelerate career mobility, and achieve high performance in current roles.
What is unique about LEI Consulting?
With more than 15 years financial services coaching experience, 10 years leader assimilation experience and four years serving leaders at Fifth Third Bank. LEI Coaches have in depth knowledge of Fifth Third culture. They are uniquely prepared to integrate all new learning with existing leadership philosophy, models, and processes to explore new strategies with Fifth Third leaders. LEI coaches guide each leader to enhance awareness of strengths, style, and preferences as a foundation for enhancing individual leadership effectiveness and achieving desired results.
Karen Schenck
What do you want clients to know about you?
Karen has a passion for helping leaders, teams and organizations thrive. With more than 20 years of experience, she is an engaging, experienced executive coach and consultant who combines real-world experience with best practice approaches. Prior to consulting, Karen held leadership positions at Ernst & Young and Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Company). Her experience includes strengthening leadership capability, guiding the development of high performance teams and strategic plans, leading organization assessment and improvement efforts, as well as managing well-known consumer products (including P&L responsibility).
Along with an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Xavier University, Karen has the following certifications: Myers Briggs, DISC, Hay Group – Emotional Intelligence, Linkage – Coaching Leaders, and Total Quality Transformation (TQT).
What type of clients do you serve?
Leaders from across the globe who are interested in personal and professional growth. Clients have included General Electric (GE), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, St. Elizabeth Health Care, Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus), WellPoint Inc. and Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, TriHealth, Mead, Lexmark, Paycor, Kemper, Paramount’s Kings Island, and the City of Cincinnati.
How would you describe your coaching style?
Karen is a collaborative, growth-oriented coach with a partnering approach that builds a trusting relationship. She is an exceptional listener who demonstrates utmost respect for the client’s knowledge, experience, culture, and accomplishments. Karen’s emphasis on strengths, while acknowledging and addressing development needs and she encourages clients to understand and challenge themselves, stretch and achieve their potential.
How would your clients describe you?
Karen is a trusted partner who is a joy to work with; someone who listens, asks thought-provoking questions and provides creative approaches, resources and insights for tackling challenges and accomplishing goals; positive and encouraging; interested in partnering with you, not dictating to you.
What are your areas of expertise?
Karen has deep experience in providing consulting and coaching to leaders in world-class organizations. She is a senior executive who has expertise in a range of areas including Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Leader Assimilation, Interpersonal Relationship Development, People Management & Development, Leading Change, and Facilitating Complex Dynamic Teams and Projects.