Richard Metheny & Associates LLC

Our logo, the Chinese symbol for awakening, pronounced jyue shing means to arouse from hibernation.

We believe that leaders and organizations can be aroused into leading at their very best by increasing their awareness. As Plato said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

Richard Metheny and Associates specializes in assisting leaders and organizations to improve business results. We help leaders and organizations become more aware of their effectiveness – to gain Insight. We then help leaders and organizations get the results they hope to achieve – to move insight to Action. At the heart of our practice is executive coaching. In addition we offer services that are designed to help leaders and organizations imagine (to create intention about the future), illuminate (to assess where they are currently) and ignite (to identify the steps towards realizing their intended future).

Our business has two primary Goals:

1. To enhance executive/organizational learning and development; more specifically, to develop the executive/organization to have greater Self-Knowledge (understanding of talents, values, interests, especially as these relate to the capacity to provide effective leadership) and Leadership Competence (the capacity to mobilize oneself and others to serve and to work collaboratively).

2. To help the executive/organization to facilitate Positive Change within their teams and organization. That is, to undertake actions that will help the team/organization to function more effectively and humanly.

We examine leadership development from three levels:

The Individual: What personal qualities need to be fostered and/or developed in the leaders of an organization? What personal qualities are most supportive of team functioning and positive organizational results?

The Team: How can the executive develop the desired, individual qualities (above), and also affect positive team/organizational results? How can the team become more congruent and committed?

The Organization: What organizational results must be achieved? What kinds of activities are the most effective in energizing individuals/ teams to achieve those results?