Ann Badillo Coaching

The Acceleration Offsite

Accelerate Your Work and Learning.

Gather your team and get more work done. Release from locked up thinking and elicit the best insight, ideas and perspectives from your team and decide on immediate course of action. This program is ideal for high priority projects, initiatives, and year end planning and can be customized for any organization that needs to accelerate results quickly.

• Blend learning and real work
• Surface needs and explore new concepts
• Think the unthinkable
• Collaborate in new and different ways
• Drive action planning
• Get 3 months of work done in 1 day

 

Five Benefits of Executive Coaching

1. Continuous one-on-one attention
2. Expanded thinking through dialogue with a curious outsider
3.  Self-awareness, including blind spots
4. Personal accountability for development
5. Just-in-time learning

Author Christine Turner conducted a research study of executives who were working with coaches to learn the benefits, limitations and success factors, and she isolated some real-life examples of how coaching influenced executives' business skills.

This study was conducted by the Richard Ivey School of Business of  The University of Western Ontario

Clients

Academic
Stanford University
MIT--WhiteHead Institute for Biomedical Reseach
UC Berkeley

BioPharma, Medical Device
Conceptus
HopeLink
Pfizer

Community
Paly Debate Society
Palo Alto Rowing Club
Downtown Streets Team
Kalamazoo Youth Open Space Conference

Technology
Cisco
Hewlett Packard
Informatica
Nortel Networks
SGI
Symantec
Quantum
Xerox PARC

Coporate Engagement Profile

2006
Open Space Event Design
Mercury Interactive (Now HP)

Youth Open Space
Kalamazoo Word Up Word Out Youth Conference

Executive Coaching
Private Practice Clients

2005
Brand Strategy
Informatica & Ten Thousand Feet

Customer Knowledge Wall: Patterns, Insight & Visual Collective Conscious
INFA WORLD 2005, Washington D.C.
Informatica & Ten Thousand Feet

Executive Summit
Informatica & Ten Thousand Feet

Brand Learning Program
Informatica & Ten Thousand Feet

Strategic Counsel and Leadership Development
Private Clients Practice

Collaborators

Here's my network of the most creative knowledge workers, facilitators, and collaborators.

Alphachimp Studio
The Grove
Kinetic Energies
knOwhere store
Sterling Insights
Loosetooth
Griot's Eye
Opening Space
J. Fairchild

FAQs

About the Practice

What industry sectors does the Badillo Practice work in?
We work in the technology and life sciences sectors. Please see our clients and profiles.

What types of companies does the Badillo Practice work with?
We work with companies of a variety of sizes and stages of development, from Fortune 1000 to early start-ups.

What types of projects does the Badillo Practice offer?
We work in all phases of strategic development, planning and launch.

What kinds of engagements are offered?
In addition to Business Strategy engagements, the Badillo Practice provides strategic counsel and corporate advising. Principal Ann Badillo sits on advisory boards of local Silicon Valley businesses and helps manage their corporate strategy.

What are the Badillo Practice's strengths and areas of expertise?
• Deep understanding of current business drivers and economic conditions
• A working knowledge of a variety of corporate cultures
• Strategic guidance based in domain expertise
• Sharp insight into interpersonal dynamics and behavior
• The ability to both see the whole picture and target problems in complex systems

Leadership Consulting

Focus
The Badillo Practice offers Leadership Consulting as an extremely flexible mode of helping corporate clients reframe, rethink and recast.

The service is designed for rising entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and self-employed professionals seeking insightful guidance on both near and long-term business challenges. Together, we work on issues that involve many levels of complexity and interdependencies:

• Growth
• New markets, customers, audiences
• Corporate transitions
• New ventures

Structure
Our Leadership Consulting engagements are structured to provide access, consistency and affordability. We work with clients on a custom basis. A six-month duration is typical for clients seeking long-term results.

Please see our FAQ to learn more about engagements with the Badillo Practice or download our overview of services.

Results
Leadership Consulting creates new thinking and new options for action. As we help our clients solve near-term problems, we help them build a foundation and systems for strategic capability, performance and leadership. With strategic counsel, our clients have re-designed their businesses, defined new markets, accessed new customer bases, realized greater levels of performance, and created investment venues.

Clients
Our clients are Fortune 1000 corporations (company-wide or within divisions), as well as young and early-stage companies. They include executives working within corporations as well as entrepreneurs and other professionals who are self-employed, in private practice, or in significant transition.

Processes & Favorite Thought Leaders

Here's a collection of processes and thought leaders that I use in my practice:

Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology is an approach to organizing large-scale, participative meetings in which diverse groups come together for the purposes of managing complex issues in short periods of time, with no advance agenda, and minimal facilitation. This approach to meetings, most often attributed to Harrison Owen, generally results in a report of all topics and discussions generated by participants, isolation of critical "focal issues," and identification of next step actions. Open Space is widely known for its Four Principles: 1) Whoever comes is the right people, 2) Whatever happens is the only thing that could have, 3) Whenever it starts if the right time, 4) When it’s over it’s over, and its Law of Two Feet, which allows for movement of participants from discussion to discussion, given their judgment of where they can best learn and contribute.

See www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace

Business Strategy

Focus
The Badillo Practice works in all phases of business strategy, facilitating the critical decisions to be executed in development, planning and launch cycles. Our clients are technology and life science industry executives who must rapidly reframe and redirect their core business and/or develop a cogent business strategy.

We offer Strategy Programs in five areas:

• Market opportunity evaluation
• Value proposition development
• Business model development
• Market strategy development
• Product and service strategy

Structure
Our Strategy Programs follow a real-time, results-oriented process to break the churn of old assumptions and unfocused thinking that stunts corporate growth.

We design each program with our clients, following a core process to support rapid iterations (and redesign) of work. This process includes a brief immersion/audit phase, a one- or two-day event to generate specific actions, and a follow-on period to ensure traction. During our process, we prefer to work within a client's extended organization, with cross-functional teams and key customers, partners, and others who play a critical role in the business.

Please see our FAQ to learn more about engagements with the Badillo Practice.

Results
Our Programs enable integrated strategy and client traction. Specific outcomes are addressed in detail at the beginning of the program design process. This work becomes the roadmap for focused work in functional areas and/or project teams. The strategic work in our engagement profiles reflects a variety of objectives and deliverables.

Clients
Our clients are Fortune 1000 corporations (company-wide or within divisions), as well as young and early-stage companies

Top Ten Reasons to Hire a Coach or Strategist (Corporate)

• When you have a complex business problem
• When you are in an early market, or early to market
• When you need creative thinking
• When time is not on your side
• When you must engage a diverse team of outside stakeholders
• When you need synthesis and action, not just analysis and thought
• When you need to jump-start internal teamwork
• When you must maximize decision-making capabilities
• When you need cross-company alignment and buy-in
• When you need a different process and results—not just another meeting

• When you have a complex business problem
• When you are in an early market, or early to market
• When you need creative thinking
• When time is not on your side
• When you must engage a diverse team of outside stakeholders
• When you need synthesis and action, not just analysis and thought
• When you need to jump-start internal teamwork
• When you must maximize decision-making capabilities
• When you need cross-company alignment and buy-in
• When you need a different process and results—not just another meeting

• When you have a complex business problem
• When you are in an early market, or early to market
• When you need creative thinking
• When time is not on your side
• When you must engage a diverse team of outside stakeholders
• When you need synthesis and action, not just analysis and thought
• When you need to jump-start internal teamwork
• When you must maximize decision-making capabilities
• When you need cross-company alignment and buy-in
• When you need a different process and results—not just another meeting