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Coaching Philosophy

Dave Osh’s coaching philosophy is grounded in five core principles, each designed to create transformative outcomes by aligning leadership with organizational culture and strategic goals:

1. Leadership Effectiveness

At the foundation of Dave’s approach is a commitment to strengthening leadership effectiveness—a critical driver of organizational performance. By focusing on this cornerstone capability, leaders can achieve measurable success and amplify their impact.

2. The Transformational "One Big Shift"

Dave helps clients identify the most pivotal individual and collective behaviors that, when transformed, can significantly influence organizational success. This "one big shift" unlocks new leadership capabilities, enhancing both effectiveness and business performance.

3. A Developmental Lens

Rooted in adult development theory and vertical development practices, Dave’s coaching views leadership as an evolving journey. By helping leaders understand their current developmental stage, he provides a roadmap for growth centered around their "one big shift," enabling sustained progress toward their goals.

4. Concurrent Coaching

Dave emphasizes the dynamic interdependence between leaders and their teams through concurrent coaching. This integrated approach fosters a reinforcing cycle of growth, where individual and team success are mutually dependent, driving synchronized development at all levels.

5. Systemic Coaching

Systemic coaching is central to Dave’s methodology, focusing on enhancing collective team performance while fostering shared leadership. By engaging key stakeholders, he drives transformations that ripple through the broader business ecosystem, creating sustainable change.

These interconnected principles underpin Dave’s coaching approach, delivering transformational growth and alignment for leaders and organizations alike.

Experience Coaching with Dave Osh

Coaching with Dave Osh is an immersive and transformative experience. His presence during sessions is unparalleled—clients become his entire focus, benefiting from a profound connection free of outside agendas and dedicated exclusively to their success.

Dave’s coaching sessions are both fulfilling and demanding, as he approaches each interaction with empathy, vulnerability, curiosity, and an open mind. His goal is to empower clients to expand their capacity to achieve meaningful outcomes, unlocking potential that often lies dormant beneath unconscious fears and limiting assumptions.

Clients working with Dave undergo profound transformations, both professionally and personally. Many are C-suite executives, VPs, and directors who were already successful but discover through coaching that they can achieve even greater heights. Often, these leaders are held back by subconscious mental models—misinterpreted as fixed personality traits—that influence decisions and actions.

Through his coaching process, Dave illuminates these underlying mental models and supports clients in refining them. By rewiring internal frameworks, leaders overcome personal barriers and transform their mindsets, beliefs, and assumptions. This evolution enables them to think, feel, and act with newfound clarity and effectiveness, resulting in significant personal and professional growth.

Dave’s clients consistently achieve breakthroughs that yield remarkable results, elevating their leadership and unlocking potential for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Coaching Certifications

  • Master Certified Coach (MMC): International Coaching Federation (ICF)

  • Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC): International Coaching Federation (ICF) 

  • Immunity to Change Certified Coach: Minds at Work: Year-long residence with Harvard Professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey.

  • Certified Senior Practitioner in Systemic Team Coaching: Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI): 3-year program led by Henley Business School Prof. Peter Hawkins.

  • Adult/Vertical Development Advanced Practitioner: Global Leadership Associates (GLA): Year-long program led by Boston College Prof. Bill Torbert.

  • Maturity Coaching Intensive Certified Coach: Vertical Development Academy- Year-long program led by Dr.Susanne Cook-Greuter and Dr. Beena Sharma.

Coaching Education

  • Growth Edge Coaching - Cultivating Leadership with Jennifer Garvey Berger: 3 part one year adult development coach training

  • Certified Polarity Practitioner - Polarity Partnerships: Dr. Bary Johnson.

  • Leadership System Certified Coach - Leadership Circle: Bill & Cindy Adams.

  • Journey to Mastery -  Accelerating Coach Excellence (ACE): Dr. David Peterson and David Goldsmith.

  • Certified Executive Coach - Center for Executive Coaching

Assessment Certifications

  • Leadership Circle Profile & Collective Leadership Assessment  - Leadership Circle

  • Benchmarks 360 Assessments Suit  - Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) 

  • Hogan Assessments (individual and 360) - Hogan

  • Team Connect 360 - Renewal Associates 

  • Global Leadership Profile and Worldview Assessment - Global Leadership Associates (GLA)

Education

  • MBA, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  • BA, Economics, Ben Gurion University

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