Neil Yeager is a partner with and an owner of the Charter Oak Consulting Group, an organization development consulting firm. Neil has thirty years of experience designing and delivering customized leadership courses to leaders at all levels, from Corporate Boards and C-Suite to front line supervisors, and twenty-five years of experience as an executive, managerial, and leadership coach. His recent client engagements have focused on executive, management and leadership development through individual and team coaching, as well as custom course design and consultation in leadership, change management and team development. He also has extensive background in Work/Life Integration and “Whole Person Leadership” (see cocg.com for more information). Current/Recent Leadership Development activities include:

• Designing a customized Leadership and Teamwork course for High Potential new Executives at several Fortune 100 companies. Course content included Emotional Intelligence, Building High Performing Teams, Creating Higher Levels of Employee Engagement and Managing Effectively in a Matrix Organization and included follow-up “Application Workshops.”

• Designing a “Capstone Experience” for a year--long program for High Potential new leaders including a one-day training on Emotional Intelligence and Action Learning Program for a major insurance company.

• Designing and delivering Leadership Development Training including courses for several Fortune 100 companies in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia including Train-the-Trainer Programs. He was responsible for revamping Leadership Development curricula for several companies’ new manager, high potential, and new executive programs.

• Coaching over fifty senior leaders of the U.S. Navy (NAVSEA) including the Supervisor of Shipbuilding and the Commanding Officers and the Chief Civilian Executives of two shipyards as well as several leaders at Naval Sea and Air Command at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Organization is responsible for overseeing the building and maintenance of nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy.

• Coaching thirty senior managers at a large pharmaceutical company on workplace and career issues. He also designed and delivered programs designed to teach skills in implementing the organization’s core values and worked with clinical project managers to improve team performance. Neil is a frequent speaker at large scale corporate meetings specializing in helping organizations create high impact learning in limited time periods. He has expertise in the development of competency models for the purpose of conducting 360˚ feedback at the executive and managerial levels and in the creation ofcustomized corporate mentoring programs. He also conducts web-based leadership training on a global basis.

 

Neil is nationally known in the areas of career and organization development and has written seven books in the field including:

• The Seventh Prism (2008)

• The Leader’s Window (1994, 2001,with John Beck)

• The Career Doctor (1991)

• Power Interviews (with Lee Hough, 1990, 1998)

• Career Map (1988)

Four of his books have been published by John Wiley & Sons. His book, Power Interviews, was on the 1998 Best Seller List of theWall Street Journal’s National Business Employment Weekly (160,000 copies in print). His book sales have exceeded a quarter of a million copies.

Neil is a frequently quoted expert, and his comments have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Money Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications.

 

Neil is a former senior faculty member in the Masters in Management Program at Cambridge College where he taught courses in organizational theory and behavior. He was the founding director of the Adult Career Transitions Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which he ran for ten yearsand which won a national award for innovation. For several years he was affiliate faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Executive Development Program (2012-2017). While on faculty, the Executive Development program he was teaching in was ranked by the London Financial Times in the top ten universities worldwide for Executive Education and the faculty was ranked #2 in the U.S. He has a Doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Applied Group Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1986) and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (1976) and Bachelor’s degree in English (1974) from Central Connecticut State University.

When not in client systems Neil conducts executive retreats, train-the-trainer programs and individual executive coaching at the Seventh Prism Retreat on his twenty-one-acre farm in western Massachusetts. He is on the board of directors of the Center for Responsive Schools, which he has served on for over twenty years. While on the Executive Committee he was responsible for the recruiting and on-going evaluation of the CEO.Clients have included:
• Alcoa  • Applied Materials • AT Kearney • Fidelity Investments • Bear Stearns • Biogen-Idec • British Petroleum •

Lowe’s • DDB Advertising • Digital Equipment Corporation • Stratus Computer •  J.M. Huber • Intel • JP Morgan Chase •

McKinsey & Company • Price Waterhouse Coopers • Bay State Medical Center •Northeast Foundation for Children •

Northeastern University •Saint Gobain • FedEx • Sepracor Pharmaceuticals • Travelers Insurance • United States Navy

• United Technologies • University of North Carolina

Endorsements of Neil Yeager and his published works:

“Reader friendly, immensely practical, well-illustrated."
Illuminating! The Leader’s Window takes the highly successful Situational Leadership model to a whole new level. Then it brilliantly applies leadership styles to the four-phase process of building high-performance teams. This book is a guide to the aligning and empowering roles of Principle-Centered Leadership.
"A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 Habits at work.” Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Founder of the Covey Leadership Center.
“Neil Yeager has mastered the art of career management--and it shows. This book (Career Map) will enlighten you, inform you, and motivate you to reach your full potential. Buy it, use it, and keep it--it works.” Ken Blanchard, Co-author, The One Minute Manager and founder, Blanchard Training and Development.
“The Career Doctor is the best most comprehensive guide for career wellness I’ve seen. Dr. Yeager provides a spectrum of practical solutions for handling many kinds of career problems--solutions that really work. Joyce Lain Kennedy, widely syndicated career columnist.