Morrie Shechtman | Arleah Shechtman | David Shechtman | The Company
As Chairman of Fifth Wave Leadership, Morrie has consulted with hundreds of top executives worldwide about managing disruptive change, merging corporate cultures, and effectively mentoring an increasingly demanding workforce.
A highly sought-after speaker, he has lectured on personal transformation and productivity to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. He has also authored two books, Working Without A Net: How To Survive And Thrive In Today's High Risk Business World and The Internal Frontier: Creating The Personal Transformations That Lead To Success, that examine the close connection between personal growth, bottom line profitability and stakeholder value.
Morrie has been interviewed on Good Morning America and has been a frequent guest on PBS and major market radio talk shows. A number of political figures have recognized him as one of the most influential minds of our generation for his strategies for thriving in today's high-risk business culture.
Morrie lives with his wife, Arleah, and three dogs in Montana.
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Arleah is a partner in Fifth Wave Leadership and currently serves as Executive Vice President and Director of Professional Development. Her work focuses on the personal and professional growth and development of key decision makers at the executive and senior management levels. She has a broad range of experience with leaders of large corporate organizations, high-growth, mid-market enterprises, and small, fast-moving entrepreneurial businesses.
The emphasis of her work is on teaching people how to more effectively use change, uncertainty, and unpredictability to improve the quality of their lives, and to significantly raise the level of their professional performance. Her particular expertise is in helping individuals identify and remove self-imposed blockers to the achievement of their most important and valued life goals. Put succinctly, Arleah helps people get out of their own way.
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David's consulting experience with Fifth Wave Leadership has included work with companies in the financial services, automotive, professional services, travel & hospitality, and telecommunications industries.
David’s work has primarily focused on organizational effectiveness, with extensive experience connecting employee competencies to organizational strategy. His typical project work includes meeting with top organizational sponsors to determine client needs, develop project structures and systems, manage project lifecycle, and maintain client relationships.
David has recently led client projects concerning the development of Learning Communities in a large organization, the establishment of Change Management best practices for a global company, and the facilitation of an international Future Search conference in Beijing. His experiences include applying a variety of proven, researched learning and change methodologies to various organizational environments using a variety of approaches, including keynote lectures, workshop facilitation, team building, and one-on-one coaching. The goal each time is to establish a collaborative and generative partnership with the client that focuses on immediate success and long-term sustainability.
David’s background in Organization Development ensures that he takes an engaging process approach to facilitating the change experience with his clients.
David is a regular presenter at the Organization Development Network Annual Conference.
David and his family live in Los Angeles.
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Fifth Wave Leadership is a management consulting firm specializing in human capital development. Our goal is to help our clients establish and maximize the connection between personal growth, bottom line profitability, and stakeholder value. This goal is driven by our underlying core assumption that growing and developing people has become the prerequisite for organizational success.
Building on this connection between personal growth and professional performance, we assist our clients in dealing with a myriad of issues generated by constant and unrelenting change, by the merging of corporate cultures, and by the challenges of mentoring an increasingly demanding workforce. In order to be effective in this role, we need to be able to help both individuals and organizations change their belief systems and shift their paradigms.
The vehicle for accomplishing this is to teach clients how to achieve deeper levels of self-information and relationship-building, which helps them address a number of key management challenges - chief among them being the recruitment and retention of highly sought after talent. This ability to drill down beneath the level of chronic and recurring symptoms makes it possible for organizations to clarify and articulate core values, overcome blockers to peak performance, eliminate destructive conflict, and fully participate in the explosively expanding new economy.
Fifth Wave Leadership offers assistance with strategic planning, organizational change, conflict resolution, retreat facilitation, blending cultures of merged or acquired businesses, recruitment and retention, and other relationship-driven issues.
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