The Goodenough Company’s highly tailored, supportive coaching and assessment approach helps clarify the unique career aspirations, worries, and experiences of each client to develop personalized, realistic, and dynamic career goals and strategies. We invite you to explore our core services by clicking on the buttons below:
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CAREER COUNSELING
Background
Career Counseling can benefit everyone, from recent graduates embarking on a first job, a mid-career executive seeking reinvigoration, or professional simply defining new goals. Such counseling is particularly useful for individuals who want to make a major change in their career path but are having trouble identifying and/or taking needed next steps. Each individual comes to us at a unique stage of self-awareness, life experience, and readiness to make a change. We have consistently seen lives and careers evolve in tremendously positive ways as a result of career counseling.
Services
We blend decades of career coaching experience with in-depth, personal assessments, a diverse array of screening techniques, and strategic and tactical goal setting. We recognize the inextricable link between emotional health and career development and offer practical ways to help our clients work through personal and professional issues and experiences from the past that might be preventing them from seeing their potential or achieving their ultimate goals.
Our Career Counseling approach helps individuals risk safely and productively and, ultimately, to realize their untapped potential. David Goodenough’s background as a licensed mental health counselor gives him the unique ability to meld rich quantitative and qualitative data together, providing clients with a holistic assessment of the interplay between their personal and professional qualities. He takes a deep dive into each candidate’s character, background, and temperament—something that personality and professional aptitude tests alone cannot do. His sensitive yet direct style challenges clients to address with their issues, confront their fears, and move forward by empowering themselves in their individual careers or leadership roles and responsibilities.
Experience
In addition to his four decades of career and leadership coaching for individuals across sectors and fields, David also brings years of experience in family counseling and Collaborative Law to the table. His practical knowledge of what is feasible in the workplace combined with a deep understanding of the emotion and educational foundations necessary to make changes and functionally re-enter the workplace enables him to provide significant support and guidance to individuals at all stages of their professional development.
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David is simply one of the finest career counselors and executive coaches in the business. He has unmatched intuitive gifts and years of experience that allow him to meet each client exactly where they are and guide them gracefully to the creative choices they have before them. …he is a magnificent sounding board, a visionary, and a kind soul. I can say—as can hundreds and perhaps thousands of others—that he has helped me find a path closer to my natural wants, skills, and aptitudes, and I am grateful.
Expert Witness – Collaborative Law Divorce Cases
Services Offered for Collaborative Family Law Divorce cases
David provides Career and Vocational Assessments or Expert Witness services to attorneys and their clients who are going through divorce proceedings within Collaborative Law or Mediated processes.
Through a combination of his years as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Career Therapist and his expertise interpreting career assessment surveys, David provides a very personal, supportive approach to helping clients prepare for their divorce proceedings, develop realistic, dynamic career goals, and strategize for the future. David’s practical knowledge of what is feasible for clients in the workplace makes him a unique addition to the legal professional’s presentation of their client’s status and plans for career transition.
David does in-depth assessments and reports of individual career status,
employability, and career development needs makes him an ideal addition to the family law services for individuals who are using Collaborative or Mediated divorce process. In that context, he evaluates a number of critical features, which include but are not limited to:
- Assesses previous employment history, and successes or failures.
- Explores educational background to assess qualifications for future
employment. - Assesses mental health status, including whether a client’s divorce has led to some form of emotional trauma that might cause the client to be
unemployable or need time to heal their mental health issues prior to taking on full or part time employment responsibilities. - Evaluates of a client’s overall ability to return to work based on parenting status.
- Provides professional evidence via written depositions and/or oral testimony in court on behalf of the client to the Collaborative Team or the Mediator.
- Creates written and/or oral reports based on interviews with client, data from surveys administered, and market research on professional or career goals and desires.
David Goodenough is the best at what he does. I know numerous people – all gifted, intelligent, discriminating professionals – who sought his help …. People who would take advice only from someone they judged as “high level” as themselves. Without exception, they reported to me how David helped in ways no one else had. How he had changed their professional and/or personal lives for the better. David is a gifted, insightful, skillful,
LEADERSHIP COACHING
Background
Great leadership is an art form, inspiring enthusiasm and trust, and catalyzing creativity and productivity. Ineffective leadership can negatively impact staff morale and retention, as well as an organization’s bottom line. Yet very few leaders ever receive formal training to prepare them for influential roles. Those who do, and the organizations they serve, report transformational benefits. Indeed, a global survey of coaching clients by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Association Resource Centre, Inc. noted a seven-fold mean return on investment (ROI) for companies investing in coaching, with over 25% reporting an ROI of 10 to 49 times.
Services
We focus on building skills and confidence to allow leaders to be effective and accountable in their roles, helping them safely and honestly examine their strengths and weaknesses and hone their skills. Organizations hire us to help executives and senior-level employees develop specific skills, such as effective listening and delegation, team and meeting management, as well as strategic and tactical goal setting and implementation. We often help individuals and Boards of Directors navigate big changes, such as reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and changes in leadership personnel. Additionally, we work with individual executives and senior employees to develop their capacity and skills to address discrete, well-defined organizational issues that focus on specific topics or content areas.
Our approach helps individuals risk safely and productively and, ultimately, realize their untapped potential. David Goodenough’s background as a mental health counselor gives him the unique ability to meld rich quantitative and qualitative data together, providing clients with a holistic assessment of the interplay between their personal and professional qualities. He takes a deep dive into each candidate’s character, background, and temperament—something that personality and professional aptitude tests alone cannot do. His sensitive yet direct style challenges clients to address with their issues, confront their fears, and move forward by empowering themselves in their leadership roles and responsibilities.
We offer individual coaching services for individuals, as well as focused workshops and retreats for Boards and teams.
Experience
Steeped in four decades of leadership coaching experience, our approach is tailored each individual and organization’s specific circumstances, needs, self-awareness. We have conducted leadership coaching for multinational corporations and non-profits, government agencies, as well as small and mid-sized firms. We have worked closely with individuals, Boards, and teams within every sector on both multi-year projects and one-day workshops and retreats. /p>
Visit our Client page for an extensive list of organizations and sectors we have served.
Visit our Testimonials page for impressions of our services.
Please Contact Us so that we can learn more about your needs and how we can help.
David Goodenough is the best at what he does. I know numerous people – all gifted, intelligent, discriminating professionals – who sought his help …. People who would take advice only from someone they judged as “high level” as themselves. Without exception, they reported to me how David helped in ways no one else had. How he had changed their professional and/or personal lives for the better. David is a gifted, insightful, skillful,