John Oyhenart
Senior Consultant
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
John Oyhenart is a certified executive coach, organizational performance consultant, facilitator/trainer, educator, and advisor to senior management. He specializes in helping leaders leverage their strengths to build trust, motivate teams, and create lasting change. John’s areas of expertise include executive leader assessment and development, executive and high potential coaching, team and organization development, leadership training, team facilitation, talent retention, and career transition coaching.
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
John’s passion is helping people, teams, and organizations unlock their full potential. Before transitioning full-time into leadership development, John served in in leadership positions for 25 years in the utility and consulting industries. During that time, he developed high-performing teams in disciplines including engineering, project management, accounting, consulting, marketing, and communications. John’s coaching approach draws on this considerable senior management experience, along with his deep understanding of leadership, team dynamics, and individual behavior in the workplace. Acting as their “thinking partner,” he works with leaders and teams to identify their key goals and objectives, envision the endgame, build self-awareness, and identify actionable steps that achieve desired outcomes.
John serves on the executive coaching faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and is a Mentor Coach in the American and Rutgers Universities’ Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance Programs. John has also dedicated a significant portion of his personal and professional life to serving the nonprofit community, in leadership positions in social service, arts, philanthropic, and professional organizations throughout the 1990s and 2000s. John is a native of Uruguay and grew up in the Washington, DC area. He is fluent in English and Spanish, both with native proficiency.
John has coached more than 400 leaders across a broad range of federal and local government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit organizations. Key market sectors include electric and gas utilities, pharmaceuticals, auto and steel manufacturing, banking and finance, communications, healthcare, higher education, national defense, retail, and humanitarian organizations. Clients have held positions including CEO, CFO, General Counsel, Vice-President, Senior Director and Director.
Coaching Approach
John enjoys helping leaders and teams recognize their strengths and explore how they can be leveraged to build trust, motivate teams, and create lasting change. For every level of leadership, John customizes his approach to meet each leader where they are in terms of personality preferences, professional development, and skill level. He supports their work by helping them: identify key goals and objectives, recognize what’s getting in the way, and create actions that create success. His coaching technique is based on a framework of Assess / Challenge / Support, drawing on his considerable senior management experience and his knowledge of team dynamics and individual behavior in the workplace.
Facilitation & Teambuilding Approach
With teams, John takes a holistic approach that works from the inside and out. First, he helps team members recognize their personality and stylistic similarities and differences. He then works with the team to identify the root causes of conflict and explore alternative paths to resolve it. Finally, he secures commitment across the team to leverage their strengths and minimize their differences in support of the organization’s goals. This process helps generate a deeper level of understanding, greater empathy, and increased trust and collaboration across the team.
Relevant Coaching Assignments
- Senior Leaders, Nuclear Power Industry. Focus: creating team alignment, fostering ownership and accountability to ensure safe and efficient nuclear power operations.
- Senior Leaders, Federal Agency. Focus: increasing self-awareness, overcoming conflict avoidance, communicating directly, and delivering meaningful feedback.
- Senior Leaders, Auto Manufacturing. Focus: resiliency in the face of changes in the industry that are radically affecting product offerings, resources, and organizational structures.
Relevant Facilitation & Teambuilding Assignments
- Senior Leaders, Local County Agency. Focus: developing greater trust and collaboration through
training and small group facilitation, using assessment tools including FIRO-B, Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator, and CliftonStrengths. - Mid- to Senior-Level Leaders, Federal Government. Focus: small group facilitation to build communication, conflict resolution and coaching skills using recorded role-play scenarios with self-assessment and feedback loops.
Education & Professional Affiliations
- MBA, Information Systems Management; BS, Economics
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation
- Professional Certificates – Executive Coaching and Organization Development
- Adjunct Faculty: American and Rutgers Universities
- Assessments include: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) 360-degree leadership assessment suite, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); FIRO-B Interpersonal Relationship Assessment; EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360 Emotional Intelligence Assessments; WorkPlace Big Five™; Hogan Assessments