Brien Dunphy
M.A., P.C.C.
NJ, USLeadership requires a mix of guts & grace. Once you understand people and yourself, you'll have the grace to influence behavior; and the guts to make the hard calls that truly define success.
Father of ten, a passionate motivator, and effective people leader, Brien Dunphy is a seasoned executive coach and business consultant. Perpetually managing a double digit team of tiny humans at home, Brien is consistently leveraging his leadership skills both in business and in life.
A Graduate of Rutgers University and PCC ICF Executive Coach, Brien helps senior executives develop innovative strategies, people leaders discover untapped efficiencies, and individual contributors develop and leverage new capabilities. He works with clients from Fortune 100 companies to small nonprofits and NGO’s. His clients represent a vast array of sectors including tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, funeral services and consumer products.
With a background as a professional counselor, non-profit executive, and business consultant, for the last twenty years Brien has driven change and improvement at every organizational level.
With over 23,000 hours of coaching and counseling experience, Brien brings insight and experience to every interaction from effectively leading his ten-person team at home to working with C-Level executives.
Brien delivers high energy, insightful, and humorous presentations focused on leadership, communication, and decision making. A dynamic speaker, he is passionate about helping others achieve their potential and know themselves better.
Using wry humor and hard-hitting truth Brien has an ability to get into people’s minds and hearts, and know what makes them tick. He is committed to relentlessly challenging and helping people to get out of their own way and to where they most desire to be. Audiences walk away motivated, transformed and knowing more about their teams, themselves, and their potential.
Father of ten, a passionate motivator, and effective people leader, Brien Dunphy is a seasoned executive coach and business consultant. Perpetually managing a double digit team of tiny humans at home, Brien is consistently leveraging his leadership skills both in business and in life.
A Graduate of Rutgers University and PCC ICF Executive Coach, Brien helps senior executives develop innovative strategies, people leaders discover untapped efficiencies, and individual contributors develop and leverage new capabilities. He works with clients from Fortune 100 companies to small nonprofits and NGO’s. His clients represent a vast array of sectors including tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, funeral services and consumer products.
With a background as a professional counselor, non-profit executive, and business consultant, for the last twenty years Brien has driven change and improvement at every organizational level.
With over 23,000 hours of coaching and counseling experience, Brien brings insight and experience to every interaction from effectively leading his ten-person team at home to working with C-Level executives.
Brien delivers high energy, insightful, and humorous presentations focused on leadership, communication, and decision making. A dynamic speaker, he is passionate about helping others achieve their potential and know themselves better.
Using wry humor and hard-hitting truth Brien has an ability to get into people’s minds and hearts, and know what makes them tick. He is committed to relentlessly challenging and helping people to get out of their own way and to where they most desire to be. Audiences walk away motivated, transformed and knowing more about their teams, themselves, and their potential.
The “My Style of Leadership” Myth
“My leadership style is….” These words are both well-intentioned and dangerous. How many times have you had a supervisor say this to you, or have even said this yourself? With the best of intentions and the worst outcomes, people pigeonhole themselves into a “style of leadership.” This limiting view of leadership has greater negative implications than most realize, impacting engagement, productivity, company culture, and ultimately an organization's “bottom line.” ...
Poor Communication or Clumsy Broadcasting: What is the Real Problem?
Is it poor communication or clumsy broadcasting? Spoiler alert, the problem is both. Communication must be nuanced… unless you are a politician. (In that case you don’t need nuance, just manipulation). But for the rest of us, integrity matters and we need to invest in our communication skills and messaging. The more important the conversation, the higher the stakes; and the more relationally complicated and intricate the situation, the clearer and more intentionally we must communicate....
Gilt-Edged Decision-Making
In finance, a gilt-edged investment denotes a high-quality item whose value remains fairly constant over time. Our decisions ARE our investments: investments in our people, our future, and the success of our organization. As such, they should be gilt-edged similarly to the investments we make financially. Being able to recognize the internal and external distractions that impede our best decision making is mission critical.
While the computer world is about...
Being Right Isn’t Enough
Leadership isn't about winning insignificant battles, it’s about winning monumental wars. It is imperative to have a big picture focus when we approach our people collectively as teams and uniquely as individuals. Along the way we have a myriad of interpersonal and organizational decisions we need to make.
Having the correct answer is not the most important component of leadership. Moving our organizations from its present state to its desired state effectively and...
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