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Bill Wilkie, founder of Charism Advisors and creator of the Charism Model for Leadership, is a Senior Executive Advisor-Coach who partners with inspired leaders, top contributors, designated successors, and high-momentum entrepreneurs who expect excellence to create and align values, vision, and action in order to create unprecedented growth in results, innovation, contribution and rewards.
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Coaching Credentials:
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Bill
has created an integrated leadership coaching model for
exponential change that drives his work with senior leaders
to evolve from excellence to mastery. He considers excellence
a "trap" and mastery the ultimate goal. Coach training
via Coach U and member of ICF. Prior to coaching and advising,
Bill spent 20 years in brand and business strategy working
with senior leaders at A-list clients at top advertising
agencies in NY, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, including
JWT, McCann-Erickson, Mullen, and Weiden+Kennedy, where
he was strategic planning director. He has created national
and global strategies, consulted on organizational change
and strategic leadership development, and advised senior
leaders for Amazon.com, Gillette, Miller Brewing, Microsoft
(several business lines), Radisson Hotels, Swiss Army,
General Motors, AGFA, Fidelity Investments, Bank Of America,
and many more.
Professional highlights:
- 20 years experience in brand, business, and organizational strategy and ideation
- Worked with 20+ global clients, usually consulting to CEO/president
- Clients are leaders or primary challengers in their category
- Innovated in integration of business and organizational strategy
- Spoke at national strategy and ideation conferences: general session and breakout
- Specializing in creating futures, changing the game, and making a sustainable difference in the market
- Managed client business up to $100M
- SVP at world's largest, and global award winning, advertising agency
- Strategy director at world‚s most award-winning creative agency
- Facilitated senior leadership development programs with Center for Creative Leadership
- Rare combination of experience and perspective in creativity, innovation, communications, organizational change, strategy, and values-based decision making
- A history of innovation in professional and personal life
Personal highlights:
- Studied jazz guitar at the New England Conservatory of Music.
- Masters degree from Yale University.
- Earned one degree in music, and two degrees in religion/philosophy/ethics.
- Recorded music for national TV commercials, performed with recording artists, appeared on nationally distributed CD, currently records loads of loud and soft music in tricked out home studio.
- Has made a life of integrating creativity, vision, and effectiveness in the real world.
- A lifetime student of music and comparative religion/philosophy, and a lifelong fan of food and comedy.
- Lived in Boston, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, NYC, CT, Chicago, and Burlington, and worked on the ground in London, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Milan, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Munich, and Milan.
- Trained in coaching at Couch U.
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Coaching Style, Philosophy, or Specialty:
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I live to help leaders live and work from their unique core essence, to innovate ideas, galvanize people and markets, achieve their highest possibility, and leave a powerful legacy. Charism Advisors is my life's work. It takes everything I know and puts it in the service of leaders. |
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Types of Clients or Situations:
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Senior leaders, C-level execs, designated successors, and entrepreneurs. |
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Services and Format:
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Individual coaching relationships, leadership advising, and sessions with critical teams and selected broader populations. |
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Fee Structure:
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