"Being a leader changes everything. Before you are a leader, success is all about you. It's about your performance and your contributions. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Your success as a leader comes not from what you do but from the reflected successes of the people you lead. Great leaders recognize the importance of continued improvement with external support via coach, act as role model, and support the concept of a learning organization. Hence, selecting a coach is a key strategic decision a leader has to make in their career. Personally, during my selection process, I was looking for a coach that has:

• experience coaching leaders at my level and above

• thought leadership, reinvented themselves successfully, and has helped many others do the same

• done what I want to do and accomplish

• Energy, style, approach and view that fit with my style

• strikes a balance between supporting and challenging me

In Dave Marmonti, I got all these attributes and more. In one year of Daves’ engagement results came in surpassing expectations. His approach, style, and bringing realization of high performance team ‘key elements’ brought me and my team together very quickly that

• increased accountability, trust, transparency to the strategic agenda I wanted to deploy

• focused attention on simple programs that drove significant business growth

• initiated divestment process of non strategic piece initiatives to double down on key programs

The impact internally and externally with customers is so highly visible that I have extended Dave’s engagement to work with me and my team on number of other key initiatives in the company. I recommend Dave to other sr. leaders that are looking for individual coaching or to work with their sr. leadership team in evolving, transforming, and achieving their strategic agenda."