My passion is partnering
with dynamic, smart, creative people who are making a difference

NAISH PARTNERS

People often ask me, who are the partners in Naish Partners?

First, my clients are my partners. I believe that partnership is key to success.
Second, I collaborate with other independent coaches and consultants in organizational development, market research, and marketing, which allows me to offer a wealth of resources to clients.

MY BACKGROUND

For more than 40 years I’ve been employed by and consulted with companies in the Fortune 500 to start-ups, for profit and nonprofit, and it’s always been about moving the people and the company to the next level. 

I am passionate about guiding executives in their journey to be more inspired, courageous, and conscious leaders so they can make a greater difference in their organization and in the world.

For the first 15 years of my career, I was on staff in companies:

• Marketing and Brand Management positions at:
  The Walt Disney Company, Consumer Products
  The Clorox Company

• Executive Vice President of Marketing at YES! Entertainment, a start-up children’s toy company

• CEO of The Flavia Group, a privately held licensing and publishing company

Naish Partners began in 1997. Coaching and consulting clients have included: American Express, Avery Dennison, Charles Schwab, ConocoPhillips, Foundation for Santa Barbara City College, Happy Family Brands, Lovevery, Wall Street Journal Online, as well as many small businesses and nonprofits.

From 2007-2015 I was the Executive Director of Congregation B’nai B’rith, a Reform Jewish Synagogue in Santa Barbara, CA, where I was instrumental in transforming the culture, expanding our community, and tripling the revenue.

While at CBB I continued coaching part-time and in 2015 returned full time.

My formal education includes an MBA from The Kellogg School at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and a BA from Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.
I am Certified in Conversational Intelligence® & ACE (Accelerating Coach Excellence)completed the Playing Big Facilitators Training with Tara Mohr, and have studied with several others in the domain of leadership.

Over the years I have been an active board member for several nonprofit organizations. I had the honor of being named Business Person of the Year by the Santa Barbara Business Digest and I was a Leadership Foundation Fellow of the International Women’s Forum.

I had the privilege of being an Instructor in both the Masters in Organization Management Program at Fielding Institute and in the Marketing Program at University California Santa Barbara. I am a Mentor in the Technology Management Program, New Venture Competition at UCSB.

EXAMPLES OF NAISH PARTNERS' IMPACT

STRATEGIC THOUGHT PARTNER AND LEADERSHIP COACH

Long-term clients:

Corporate manager who became the leader of a division of a multi-billion-dollar company

Co-founder of a consumer products company – who started working with me at the business plan stage for what is now an international multi-million business that was acquired by an international multi-billion-dollar company; I work with the senior team and several departments on leadership, organizational design, and process development for this high-growth company. This person went on to start another multi-million dollar company.

Entrepreneur who developed a compelling identity in his field and became a very well-known expert

CULTURE / STRATEGY / TEAMS

Instrumental in changing the culture, doubled membership, and tripled revenue while working as a strategic leader with staff and volunteers at a nonprofit

Evaluate staffing structure, recommend, and support changes for several companies

Work with partners during transition for a retiring partner and a new partner

Lead teams in developing dynamic strategic visions, annual and multi-year plans – for small to mid-size companies, divisions of multi-billion dollar companies, and nonprofits

Facilitate values identification processes and ways to make them living values

FACILITATION

Engage people in dialogue, bring them to the table when tempers are hot and trust is low, and move them to action

Facilitated the renewed commitment to a long term partnership between a company and its major vendor