Wende Gaikema, Mba, Pcc Email & Phone Number

I help leaders lead and thrive in meaningful work. My clients are senior leaders at market-leading firms in healthcare, insurance, entertainment, telecommunications, banking, financial services, tech (leveraging my engineering background), and marketing, to name a few. My deep corporate experience enables me to understand the challenges you are facing in your work, bringing a client-focused approach to helping you:UNDERSTAND YOURSELF as a Person and a Leader-assessments on skills, values, interests, priorities so you can know who you are, how you are viewed by others, where you want to go, and how to lead yourself and others in getting there-tools to build confidence and get you thinking your best, removing self-doubt-EQ work so you are aware of yourself and others-overcome leadership obstacles and difficult situationsMAKE THE DIFFERENCE YOU WANT TO MAKE-leadership and team coaching so you and your team can do your best work -overcome challenges in leading your team-accelerate career progression-gain skills and confidence to advance in your career-help your team function at their peak performance-EQ coaching to build self-awareness and grow personal impact-encouragement at every step along the wayI love teaching and training others so I also teach a 40-hour ICF-approved Essentials of Life Coaching class through PCCI and do ICF coaching observations through CoachRICE.

New York, New York, Us

Houston , Tx, Us

The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University is committed to elevating the leader capacity of all Rice students (undergrads, masters, PhDs & MBAs) and improving the practice of leadership education and development in higher education. The Doerr Institute was selected as the Most Outstanding Program for 2019 by the Association of Leadership Educators (ALE).- Provide one‐on‐one coaching to students based on their personal leader development plan- Provide group coaching to students and teams focused on overcoming common leadership challenges- Provide training, observation and feedback in ICF accredited training, CoachRICE, to aspiring leadership coaches- Team coaching of MBA's and Executive MBA's through Rice's Jones School of Business

Nashville, Tn, Us

I support Vanderbilt University MBAs and Vanderbilt staff via coaching sessions to build self-awareness, communication skills, confidence and leadership capabilities.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Progressed through roles in Marketing, Field Marketing, Operations, and Sales.- MARKETING - Led multi-functional teams to develop test markets and national introductions for multiple brands. Major player in development of high-scoring, consumer relevant concepts and packages, including advertising, media, sales and promotion plans, forecasting, competitive analysis and evaluation. Managed advertising and promotion budgets and oversaw agency direction.- SALES & OPERATIONS - Key part of various multi-functional teams calling on major national accounts, including Safeway, Kroger, Jewel, and American Stores. Consistently met or exceeded personal sales goals through both relational and analytical approach. Grew volume through customer collaboration.- AWARDED Chairman's Club Award for top 1% of P&G Sales organization.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing

Be, Electrical Engineering And Mathematics, Minor In Art History