Empowering Clients to Become Great Leaders
Leading Minds Executive Coaching, LLC empowers clients to manage stress, develop leadership capacity, and reach peak performance in all aspects of their careers. David Brendel, MD, PhD is the Founder and Director of the firm.
A Leading Minds coaching engagement is comprised of a thorough assessment, strong action plan, and sustainability plan to ensure ongoing success and development. By collaborating with you, your colleagues, and other key stakeholders, Dr. Brendel is able to gain a comprehensive view of where you are in your career and where you would like to go. The core of a Leading Minds coaching engagement is a powerful set of conversations that occur during regularly scheduled sessions. In addition, many coaching engagements also include the following services:
Focused Interviews
Behavioral Style Assessments
360° Evaluation with Key Stakeholders
On-Site Observations
Coaching Sessions
Practical Exercises Between Sessions
Executive Presence Training
Continual Freedback from Colleagues & Stakeholders
In addition to his work with individual clients, Dr. Brendel provides executive team coaching services. Dr Brendel is also co-founder of Strategy of Mind, LLC which provides leadership training and coaching rooted in great works of literature and philosophy.
Achieve Your Goals
Whether you are looking to become a more effective leader, advance your career, grow your business, or reach your professional goals, Leading Minds Executive Coaching, LLC can guide you. Dr. Brendel uses proven, evidence-based strategies and a coaching process to support clients in developing and implementing effective action plans for success. Each client has unique struggles, goals, and definitions of success. Dr. Brendel will address your personal needs and help you develop a customized plan.
Dr. Brendel has coached scores of clients to:
- Transition to challenging leadership roles
- Solidify a positive mindset for success
- Increase self-confidence and “executive presence”
- Develop and sustain healthy work habits
- Improve self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Enhance interpersonal relationships at work
- Manage stress and avoid burnout
- Achieve peak performance and personal fulfillment
Develop Action Plans and Solutions
Dr. Brendel uses a wide range of effective coaching strategies with clients. One of these approaches is Active Inquiry, in which he asks the client a series of thought-provoking and transformative questions.
When you reflect upon and respond to these questions, you realize the inner strengths and assets that you have to find solutions and move forward. Powerful coaching conversations empower you to develop strong, practical action plans for success. These coaching conversations are deepened by data from behavioral style assessments (such as the Myers-Briggs) and 360-degree feedback from colleagues and other key stakeholders. All Leading Minds coaching engagements conclude with a strong sustainability plan that ensures ongoing development and future success. Dr. Brendel remains available as needed for ongoing coaching needs beyond the conclusion of the formal engagement.
Coaching for ADHD and Other Mental Health Challenges
I am a certified executive coach and Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in coaching clients with mental health challenges including ADHD, burnout, and anxiety. Along with my highly accomplished and trusted Associates, I focus on helping clients to develop greater self-awareness, manage stress, and achieve peak performance.
The Leading Minds coaching approach integrates my extensive background in psychiatry and philosophy, employing evidence-based strategies to address clients’ unique challenges. The methods include thorough assessments, action plans, and sustainability plans to ensure long-term success. We offer personalized coaching sessions, practical exercises between sessions, and in some cases 360-degree feedback from colleagues and other stakeholders.
For individuals with ADHD, professional coaching can be particularly beneficial for improving executive function skills such as strategic thinking, priority setting, time management, and self-regulation — all of which are crucial for professional and personal success. Development of these skills helps to enhance executive presence, effective communication, and collaborative teamwork.
For those experiencing burnout and severe stress, I offer a multifaceted coaching plan. This includes empowering clients to make mindset and behavior changes to improve their self-awareness and performance of their roles. The goal is to improve functioning and support career growth while ensuring mental and emotional well-being.
I consider it essential to collaborate with clients on the development of a customized action plan tailored to their unique challenges and goals. The action plans are aimed at fostering effectiveness in their roles, self-awareness, relationship building, and avoiding burnout in order to ensure sustainable, long-term success.
About Dr. Brendel
Dr. David Brendel is an Associate Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation (ICF). Trained at Harvard Medical School, he has years of experience as a psychiatrist and hospital executive. He has published extensively on his approach to executive coaching, including articles in the Harvard Business Review. Dr. Brendel is Founder and Director of Leading Minds Executive Coaching, LLC The firm provides a wide range of executive and career coaching services to clients in the Boston area and throughout the United States.
Active Inquirey Method
Learn about the powerful active inquirey method Dr. Brendel uses in his coaching practice:
Interviews with Dr. Brendel
Get In Touch
Contact Dr. Brendel for a consultation to assess whether his Executive and Career Coaching services are a good fit for you.
Think Talk Create
A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.
What Others Say
I am a female in-house attorney for a mid-size national corporation in the construction industry. I called on David to help me find my way in my role and to improve my relationships with my management, co-workers, and staff. He was the perfect coach for my needs.RC, Boston, MA
I have worked with thousands of top tier leadership and executive-level executive coaches over the past 15 years. David is in the top 1% of the coaches with whom I have worked. He is masterful in his approach.Andrew Neitlich
Dr. Brendel’s background in psychology, philosophy, and executive coaching enables him to approach his work from a number of different perspectives. He is flexible and participatory; he works with you to find pragmatic solutions that yield the best possible results.Philosophical Counseling Client
Having a neutral sounding board allows me to reflect on sensitive internal matters. David also helps me crystallize my thoughts without putting words in my mouth.CTO, Biotech Industry
I think he has a nice interpersonal style, perhaps one that results from his clinical training. It can be a nice counterpoint to the often aggressive, extroverted nature many business people have.Sales Manager, Software Industry