To stimulate insights and elevate a leader's awareness into action is core to his approach.
BOSTON, MA, August 13, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- David Sollars has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Sollars is the distinguished founder of MLG, Mindful Leaders Group, a developmental coaching, facilitation and consulting group based in Boston, USA and supporting success with a wide variety of global leaders with international commercial interests. Since establishing the group in 2012, he has been at the forefront of applying a global leader's developmental discernment towards the critical decision-making capabilities that are at the core of balancing daily tactical and strategic centered activities.
His practical approach to developing expertise in self, through both practice & application is aimed at overcoming a leader's "conditioned response". From his lived experience of walking beside leaders and their teams during times of great challenge, there has emerged a consist observation. "When leaders become an expert of themselves and leverage their well-developed business acumen through a new lens, that's when solutions come into focus and next steps are taken at the level of team with contagious committed action."
Our team and I have supported international clientele through deliveries including global cultural transformation consulting, facilitation of meetings and senior level individual and pairs coaching with Novartis, British Telecom, Exact Sciences, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Elsevier (RELX), PTC Therapeutics, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Campbell Communities, Gilead, Sanofi, wellforce, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Tesco, Roche Pharma, Honda of America, Tufts Medicine, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, ThoughtWorks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Kimberly-Clark LATAM, Heineken USA, Philips and multiple global engagements for Unilever.
To stimulate insights and elevate a leader's awareness into action is core to his approach.
"Think of it this way", says Mr. Sollars, "what do you notice yourself repeatedly doing, a similar pattern, a version of a consistent response during conditions you perceive as threatening, time deprived, requiring more control, conflict laden, high-risk, complex with escalating levels of unknowable uncertainty, especially under increased pace? What is your own personal relationship with that part of you that reacts instead of responds?" Knowing where your own leadership preferences and blind spots originate in your initial thoughts and feelings are foundational to Mr. Sollars's practical applications for leaders. He goes on to say, "Be a leader of yourself first. Pausing, sometimes for only a breath, to apply one of your own practices, gives you an edge on outcomes through consistently elevating quality discussions and decisions. This aspect is critical to sustainable success, especially now during such global volatility." Senior leaders and their teams have leveraged his expertise in experiential learning gained from a wide range of commercial and non-positional leadership pursuits over a span of several decades.
"A leader that inspires confidence in others must also discover their own full spectrum of sustainable personal resources, while developing the confidence, compassion and courage to take action beyond how they are already conditioned to react," say Mr. Sollars.
Mr. Sollars is dedicated to on-going developmental adaptation in his own practices and is matched in commitment by trusted colleague's growth and innovation in their own specialties.
What this might look like to an observer of his methods includes employing systemic developmental coaching, systems analysis, creating measurable impact leadership metrics to guide organizational strategy, facilitation of dialogue across differences and transition & succession consulting.
He creates "direct lived experiences" for senior leaders through intact team developmental workshop facilitation. He and his team work closely with commercial leaders to design and deliver experiential learning insight programs, and developmental transformational coaching that elevates the impact of existing business acumen through discovery & application of rapidly emerging insights.
Grounded in his commitment to support developing leaders, Mr. Sollars has published several works on developing the mind & body, options for self-care, and leadership, among other topics on which he has explored and established himself as a respected voice. As a result of his work across various fields, he has earned several certifications and completed workshops to enhance his professional skill set; most recently, he attended workshops with Phase 1 & 2 of Coaching Constellation in 2024 for deepening of understanding dynamics of systems, advanced facilitation skills for communities and teams to work across differences with Essential Partners in 2023 and completed The Cape Cod Training Program through the Gestalt International Study Center in 2022.
In exploring all his interests and diving into various disciplines, he attributes his success to his ambitious purpose for co-creating impact in the world around him coupled with channeling his own path of personal development.
Mr. Sollars discovered a divergent coherence emerging in his own professional path, which he chose to follow as a red thread and subsequently gained experience and established himself as a respected figure in global leadership development. Looking forward, he is committed to furthering the sustainable impact made by the most senior leaders that face the discomfort and pressurized systems from high-risk threat and instability. "What I look for is a leader's heightened awareness in noticing their pervious ways of working are no longer working to serve their focused purpose. They and their teams are struggling with creating a better version of sameness. They know a transition must take place, they see it and just don't always know how to do it…yet! I believe they do know and are the key to a sustainable unlock for growth in themselves and the business."
His approach to each leader's situation is bespoke and often uses methods that may integrate developmental methodologies with data, diagnostics and measurable leadership distinctions. The gap between desired ambition and lived outcomes is rich with insights and understanding for landing critical next steps. Mr. Sollars brings a wide variety of experiences to his work including having been on the coaching cadre for both MIT Sloan Executive Education and Harvard Business School, building on his completion of the facilitator's training for Immunity To Change frameworks create Dr. Robert Kegan and Dr. Lisa Laskow Lahey; Certification in the Cape Cod Model of individual & team coaching from Gestalt International, Shadow Work course & coaching along with certification in Essential Partners Basic & Advanced Facilitation for designing facilitated sessions that elevate judgement & criticism in teams and communities through insights that build mutual understanding & sustainable actions.
Grounded in his commitment to support developing leaders, Mr. Sollars is publishing a book with his granddaughter "Scarecrow Finds a Heart" that allows parents of children and leaders of systems, a path for creating new kinds of dialogue when communities experience breakdowns in communication that result in breaking trust and hurtful differences. He has also co-created A Leader's Edge, designed as an integrated or stand-alone program to support a leader's vision through developing internal talent, sustainable succession planning, with measurable and scalable practices and practical applications for achieving their highest potential while fostering thriving environments within their organizations.
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