Stephen Gianotti

MS. B. Ed., Based in the United States

Experience teaches practitioners that it is best to meet the client where they are and then through collaborative and strategic partnership and using constructive candor and data, guide the client to their defined desired state. This is best done by considering the whole enterprise and its interconnected parts using Systems Thinking and Transformational Dialogue development techniques. Make no mistake. Real change requires clear intentionality with a keen eye on sustainability. We have offered our clients on five continents the opportunity to go as quickly as possible and as slowly as required. TWG embraces this paradox in all of its work and invites clients to do the same. To optimize the chances for sustainable change, we incorporate a PRE, DURING, and POST Methodology deeply rooted in decades of organizational and systems experience, expertise, research and learning.

Expertise

  • Executive Coaching

  • Proven Alignment Strategies (One-on-One, Teams, Divisions & Organization-wide)

  • Strategic On-Boarding for new leaders joining established team/departments

  • Strategic board retreats using PRE, DURING & POST Methodology

  • Facilitated Leadership Development Programs (up to two years in length)

  • Assessments & Diagnostics for Complex Organizational Challenges & Visions

  • 360 Design, Implementation and Follow-up

  • Organizational Climate Studies/Employee Surveys

  • Employee Realignment

  • Behavior Interviewing Systems & Techniques

  • Keynote Speaking

  • TEDxPortsmouth - Speaker “Three Lessons From the African Elephant.” The largest TEDx venue in the world. Selected to be posted on TEDx International, a very rare honor and only one of four TEDxPortsmouth talks to have done so.

  • TEDxHarvardSquare – Speaker Coach

Education & Affiliations

  • Bachelors – Self Designed – Teaching Through the Use of the Arts

  • Masters in Business Education

  • Certified and/or trained in 9 business and leadership assessments

  • Dr. Daniel Kim – Apprenticeship 2009 to 2015 – Transformational Dialogue & Systems Thinking

  • Mentors: Peter Senge, Edgar Schein, Robert Fritz, Donald Kirkpatrick, Margaret Wheatley, Benjamin Zander, Richard Karesh and Robert Kegan

  • Currently the Board Chair for the Global Association for the Society for Organizational Learning and a member of Global Coaching Community of Practice.

  • Zoom Safari Guide for African Elephants - www.elephanthavens.org

Publications

Co-Authorship

  • Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader: Harnessing the Power of Loyalty & Motivation in the Workplace and in Life, by Stephen Gianotti, Hoh Kim, and Patricia Gianotti. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2026

  • “From Hidden to Limitless: The Secret to Reaching Your Highest Potential” by Alix Hogu, 2026 – Stephen Gianotti wrote the Foreword

  • Manager’s Guide to Effective Performance Feedback & Evaluation” – Cambridge Network Publication, 2017

  • Mentoring – 50 Minute Manager Series, by Gordon Shea and Stephen Gianotti. Perfect Paperback, 2014.

  • Mentoring: Make It a Mutually Rewarding Experience, by Gordon Shea and Stephen C. Gianotti. AXZO Press, 2009.

  • Making the Most of Being Mentored: Mentors Help, Mentees Do, by Gordon Shea and Stephen C. Gianotti. AXZO Press, 2009.

Other Published Works

  • Photography contributor to, Wentworth By The Sea – The Life and Times of a Grand Hotel, by Dennis J. Robinson. Ocean Properties, 2004.

  • Photography contributor to, Portsmouth & Coastal New Hampshire – A Photographic Portrait, by Dennis J. Robinson. Twin Lights Publishers, 2000.

  • Photography contributor to, Best of Photography Annual 1999. Photographer’s Forum Magazine, 1999.

  • Contributed to, Words of Praise – A Treasury of Religious and Inspirational Poetry, edited by John Frost. The American Poetry Association, 1984.

  • Contributed to, Hearts on Fire – A Treasury of Poems on Love, edited by John Frost. The American Poetry Association, 1983.

Stephen Gianotti, The Woodland Group LLC
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