Peggy Holtman: Practical Advice for Successful Leadership
Founder, Margaret (Peggy) has over twenty years experience as a
leader herself and developer of leaders in a variety of organizations. She is an author and consultant who, not only understands what it is
like to be a leader today, but also, offers practical advice for
successfully leading in changing and complex business environments.
Peggy's services include coaching for individuals, team development and organizational consultation. For individual leaders, she provides assessment, coaching and development support. For teams, she offers guidance and recommendations for enhanced effectiveness. For organizations, she consults on strategic talent management and effective organizational change that supports business goals.
Her key skills include Executive and Leadership Development strategies, systems and programs, talent management and succession planning, on boarding and retention strategies, executive coaching, team development, training delivery and meeting design and facilitation.
As a Leadership Development professional in several organizations, she has played a number of key roles all closely linked to leadership development including:
- Vice President of Talent Management, Hartford Insurance Group
- Vice President of Branch Management Training and Development, Smith Barney
- Director of Corporate Staffing Planning, Travelers
- Director of Sales Management Training and Development, Connecticut Mutual
Peggy is co-author of
Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from
the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition.
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Peggy has delivered presentations to a wide range of organizations including ESPN, Target, Kraft Foods, Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, Cigna, The Conference Board, Society of Information Management, LIMRA International and The Hartford Insurance Group.
Peggy is an engaging speaker on the many challenging aspects of leadership. Audiences have described Peggy as very present, authentic and energetic. She speaks with candor and credibility from her extensive background and years of leadership experience both inside and outside of organizations.
Certifications and Qualifications
Peggy Holtman has been awarded MBTI® Master Practitioner Designation. This certifies that the practitioner has successfully met all the requirements and standards of excellence set by Center for Applications of Psychological Type and CPP, the exclusive publisher of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument.
In addition, she is certified to administer the following assessments:
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
- (MBTI®) Step II®
- CPI 260®
- Firo-B®
- DISC®
- Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument
- Benchmarks® and Skill Scope®, 360 degree instruments, Center for Creative Leadership
- Career Architect® and VOICES®, Lominger Limited, Inc.
- FranklinCovey Productivity Workshops
- Leadership Through People Skills™
- Campbell Development Survey Suite (CISS®, CLI®, COSTM, TDSTM, TLP®, (Pearson Assessments)
Memberships
- Society of Human Resource Management
- The Cape Cod Human Resource Association
Education
- M.S. degree in Organizational Behavior, The Barney School of Business, University of Hartford
- M.A. in English, The University of Wisconsin, Madison
- B.A. in English, The College of New Rochelle, N.Y.
