Ilona brings a unique blend of expertise, empathy, and strategic insight to every coaching session. She has a remarkable ability to listen deeply, ask thought-provoking questions, and provide guidance that challenges and empowers you to reach your full potential. She creates a safe, supportive environment that fosters self-awareness and personal and professional growth while offering practical strategies to overcome challenges and seize opportunities. What truly sets Ilona apart is her genuine investment in my success.
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DR. KERRY BUCKLEY, Vice President, MITRE, Center for Integrated Transportation FFRDC Director, Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)
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Working with Ilona as my leadership coach has been an incredibly valuable experience. Using a Leadership 360 evaluation, she helped me identify my strengths and areas for growth, and together, we created a tailored leadership development plan. With her guidance, I’ve already noticed growth in myself as a leader. Ilona is easy to work with, thoughtful, and insightful, bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise in leadership and coaching. I truly appreciate the opportunity to grow under her leadership.
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NON-PROFIT LEADER, NOVEMBER 2024
Ilona designed and facilitated an offsite for my team in August 2024. She listened to what I wanted to accomplish with the session and came back with a compelling agenda for the day with some great, interactive activities. In facilitating the program, Ilona connected with each one of us and helped our whole team connect better with each other. We deepened relationships, tapped into our creativity and had a meaningful day thanks to Ilona’s professional, warm and insightful facilitation.
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Sharyn Nerenberg Vice President, Communications & Government Affairs, Vice President, Communications & Government Affairs, W. R. Grace
In my current position, I facilitate the Deloitte Global Managing Director promotion process. I connected Ilona with a candidate who was looking for a coach that could help him address developmental feedback and really up his game. As a result of the coaching and this candidate’s hard work at his own development, the promotion panel unanimously supported his advancement, recognizing him as one of the strongest candidates to be evaluated in recent memory. Ilona went out of her way to ensure he was a success – connecting with me to understand the program and being there when the candidate needed her, even if that meant a debrief the night before his interview at 10PM.
We will certainly look to Ilona again when we have a candidate who needs coaching support to help bring out their best.
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Christina Lexa Organization Development Manager, Deloitte Global
I enjoyed your class instruction this week and I feel very much encouraged and empowered. I am passionate about leadership, professional, and organizational development and this week has sparked a bit of “light” in me. I’m excited to self-improve, employ some of the techniques I’ve learned, and to learn more along the way. Hope to cross paths again!
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AUDIT MANAGER AT A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY
Ilona is smart, skilled and delivers on her ideas with professional style. We connected with Ilona for ideas and strategic direction for our new industry mentoring program, and she is a wealth of knowledge and solid recommendations. She created two customized webinar programs for us to connect our mentees and mentors with each other for a virtual dialogue. She shared practical tools to build their mentor relationship, which we now have as an ongoing resource. We are grateful for Ilona’s time, energy and expertise and would work with her again anytime!
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Marjorie D. DePuy Vice President, Industry Relations and Education, Healthcare Distribution Management Association
Ilona and colleague were critical partners in helping us shape and deliver NRECA’s leadership development program that was customized to help drive organizational culture change. Ilona was a great sounding board and advisor with interesting ideas on how best to create a program that would have immediate impact and long-term sustainability. She and her partner have run five different cohorts for people leaders and individual contributors over the past 18 months. The HR team has received numerous accolades from program participants and their managers on the strength of the program. I highly recommend Ilona to any organization seeking leadership development and coaching consulting.
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Shaara Roman Senior Vice President, Human Resources, NRECA
I invited Ilona to present techniques on handling Difficult Conversations to a roundtable group of seasoned senior executives. They were impressed by her knowledgeable command of the topic and her credibility. She provided them with very practical and useful techniques that could be applied immediately to their own employee issues. Within the first week of her presentation, I’ve heard positive results from applying the techniques. I was impressed by her ability to create a “dialogue” with the group on the topic versus simply “educating” them, which is essential for senior audiences.
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Carin Gendell Forum Leader at Renaissance Executive Forums
Thank you very much for a terrific presentation and facilitation of our World Café. At my weekly management team staff meeting today, your portion of our two-day program stood out as one of the highlights. Feedback has been positive, with folks really enjoying the opportunity to work together in developing solutions.
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Senior Executive Government Agency
My manager rated my performance for FY14 as “Materially Exceeds Expectations,” which is the highest rating. I wanted to thank you for all your guidance and help this year. I owe this rating in part to your mentorship and coaching.
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Senior Leader Commercial Transportation