Gloria T. Witt

About Gloria:

Gloria Witt is an awarding winning communicator and community advocate that boosts performance outcomes as an executive coach, consultant, facilitator, and keynote speaker.  She is certified in Linkage’s Advancing Women Leader’s products and Leading with a Mindset of Inclusion.

She employs more than 30 years of experience within the energy sector in operations and organizational development supporting executives to achieve measurable results.  She is known for her ability to establish credibility and rapport, while consistently engaging clients with a dynamic, empowering leadership style orchestrated to ensure leadership behaviors achieve desired business goals.  Her coaching style is that of a distiller of stories applied to leverage the power of questions that responds to the needs of the client to achieve desired outcomes.

Background & Experience:

Gloria is an exceptional coach, trainer, and facilitator in a variety of environments including energy (multicultural matrixed setting), pharmaceutical, academia, government (local, state, and federal), construction, criminal justice, and nonprofit.  Her versatility has honed her ability as an articulate communicator skilled at uncovering and facilitating collaborative solutions for her clients that drive organizational results.

Her expertise includes executive coaching, assessment, talent and succession management, conflict management, team performance and race relations facilitation.   She has led various organizational change initiatives and recently worked with a client to implement an executive leadership driven cultural transformation that significantly enhanced employee engagement measured by improvement scores using Gallup Q12.  In addition, she has designed and facilitated strategic leadership development programs with the latest being a senior executive solution aimed to connect organizational and people objectives to optimize performance results.

Education & Training:

Gloria is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation. In addition, she has the following credentials: Business Coach Institute Business Coaching, Master Human Capital Management Strategist (MHCS), The Art of Facilitation, Korn Ferry 360 Voices and viaEDGE Instruments, Korn Ferry Competency Profiling,  HoganLEAD Assessment Instruments, Leadership Practices Inventory Assessment (LPI), Advancing Women Leaders 360 Assessment, The Leadership Challenge, Covey Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Mediation, Instructor of Collaborative Team Skills, and PPS Interaction Styles.

She has a B.A. degree in Communications with minors in Sociology and Economics from Randolph Macon Woman’s College and a M.B.A. from Capella University. Gloria resides in Central Virginia where she enjoys family, friends, reading, and advocacy for youth, social justice, and entrepreneurship.