Strategic Thinking & Leadership

Event cost: $20 for Members and $35 or non-members

Speaker: Nina Nowman, Managing Partner - Paravis Partners

Our Strategic Leadership & Thinking program is designed to improve the knowledge and capability of participants to focus and deliver on the organization’s most important strategic needs. To this end, participants build an understanding of what it means to be strategic at any level of the organization and learn important strategic thinking skills, including embracing inquiry and curiosity, using future-based thinking and perspective taking, and assessing impact and implications from an organization-wide lens, etc. They also learn strategies for enhancing their communication style so that they will be viewed as strategic thinkers. Finally, participants learn strategies for keeping the strategic focus front and center, a difficult but critical skill in successful strategic leadership.

Nina’s Bio:

Nina Bowman is an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development consultant who works with leaders and leadership teams who want, and need, to be truly impactful in their roles. With over 20 years of strong business experience, coupled with a deep understanding of leadership development, her clients benefit from a practical and goal-oriented approach to the leadership development process.

She has extensive experience assessing and coaching senior-level leaders from across the globe and has trained and coached hundreds of individuals in a wide range of sectors, including professional services, financial services, technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and education. Specific areas of expertise include 360 assessments, executive presence, onboarding, strategic management and leadership, senior-level communication, emotional intelligence, executive endurance, and executive transitions.

Nina brings experience working with small and early-stage environments as well as large, complex organizations. Prior to joining Paravis Partners, she was Principal and Founder of Bowman Consulting, a career management services firm for senior executives. She was also a Client Partner with Korn/Ferry International where she specialized in the recruitment and assessment of senior-level executives in the professional services and technology sectors. As a former strategy consultant with Accenture, and as a senior director of corporate strategy for a high growth consultancy, Nina has extensive experience advising senior leaders. She also brings a deep understanding of strategy and an appreciation for linking leadership development efforts to the strategic goals and priorities of the business.

She has been a coach and facilitator for several of Harvard Business School’s Executive Education programs, including the Professional Leadership Development Program, Advanced Management Program, and the Women’s Forum. She is also a contributing author to the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees and the HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically. She speaks and writes on career management and leadership topics.

Nina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in economics from Brown University. She received her leadership coaching certification from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Boston Facilitator’s Roundtable, Institute of Coaching, and International Coach Federation and resides in the Boston, MA area.