Bleeker Thinking Partners, our name for executive coaches, work with leaders to discover their unique style and capabilities. Thinking Partners support the effectiveness and engagement of leaders and their teams by growing their Collaborative Intelligence, the ability to think with those who think differently. Starting with exploring Mind Patterns and Thinking Talents, Thinking Partner sessions support leaders with decision making, managing through conflict, understanding and addressing bias, managing both up and down, and career strategy and tactics.
Build a High Performing Team
The Bleeker Workshop is the perfect solution for leaders seeking engaging, effective, and scalable solutions to support their teams with performance-enhancing training. Each Bleeker Workshop is facilitated by one of our certified Thinking Partners and can be delivered in-person or remotely.
The measure of your ability to think with those who think differently on behalf of what matters to us all. To access collaborative intelligence we must learn to dignify the differences in how we think and use them to face complex challenges. During this session, we uncover how attendees can leverage mind patterns and thinking talents to think well with anyone.
The unique way we focus our attention informs how we communicate and relate with others. Enhanced understanding allows us to better connect, build trust, and interrupt and challenge our narrative and biases. Over the course of this 60-minute workshop, we’ll introduce your team to the principles that will help individuals and groups contribute to improved team performance.
Our innate and energetic approach to problem solving; understanding what lights us up and what burns us out. By understanding Thinking Talents, we can maximize engagement and optimize for the type of thinking we need for the challenge at hand. Over the course of this 60-minute workshop, we’ll introduce your team to the principles that will help individuals and groups unlock your team’s optimum energy!
We all trust differently. Once we understand our own unique needs around trust - and can recognize the needs of those around us - we can build and maintain a strong foundation of trust. This session equips attendees with the tools and practices to build that foundation of trust with every peer, partner, and collaborator.
How you connect with colleagues and collaborators might be the most significant contributor to your success. Making certain that your team interactions are energetic, personal, and balanced, and making consistent efforts to explore outside of your team, bringing information back - these are the essential capabilities to producing unbeatable team.
Conflict is neither an embarrassment nor an enemy - conflict is an inevitability. Once we understand how to embrace conflict, we are capable of strengthening all of our personal and professional relationships. This session equips attendees with tools and practices to healthily navigate through conflict.
We believe in the power of diversity to unlock extraordinary outcomes. Achieving and maintaining diversity isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the effort.
We believe in the shift from distributive equity to relational equity; the right to meet as equals, regardless of where you are coming from or going to.
We believe in the importance of creating solutions that place the human experience at the center.
We believe in trusting people to operate with autonomy.
We believe in creating workplaces that embrace the differences among their people and encourage people to show up as their whole selves, balancing purpose with performance.
We believe in the extraordinary importance of earning and maintaining trust in organizations, relationships, and ecosystems.
All Bleeker Workshops are facilitated by one of our incredible Thinking Partners. Learn more about them below!
With more than 25 years of human resource experience, Bridgette M. Thomas founded Strongbridge Solutions LLC, a full-service HR consulting and executive coaching firm, in 2018. Viewed as a trusted resource and advisor, Bridgette has held numerous HR leadership positions within a variety of management consulting firms, including Prism Healthcare Partners, Wellspring Partners/Huron Consulting Group, and Century Business Services (CBIZ).
Alexys is the founder of The Kinship Advisors, a minority-owned agency, that creates alliances within the sports, entertainment and other industries, who are committed to personal development, social justice, strategic business expansion and sustaining impact in underserved communities. Alexys coaches and advises leaders in high-profile positions, athletes, creatives and professionals.
As a Leadership and Executive Coach, Kathleen helps clients reach their professional potential by putting self-awareness and reflection into practical action. She is most passionate about career and leadership development, and her practice focuses on building strategies to become a more agile learner in order to grow professionally.
Ajay is a Sikh-American immigrant who has lived in three countries and speaks several languages. He is passionate about team building, eliminating cultural barriers, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. He currently practices as an emergency physician at Duke University Hospital and also serves on the faculty at the school of medicine, where he teaches about health disparities. He is a DEI leader within his department and takes pride in mentoring junior faculty, residents and students.
The author of What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture, Luana has specific expertise in cultural intelligence, explicit/implicit bias, and art criticism/composition. Working as a professor and performing artist for 30 years, Luana honed skills in active listening, complex problem solving, critical/creative thinking, diverse learning, systems analysis, writing and leadership. She holds an M.A. from Mills College, and she supports a diverse range of creative clients in tech, apparel/footwear, finance, and food/agriculture.
Georgi is a serial entrepreneur who has more than 15 years creating businesses and corporate educational programs focused on highlighting and reinforcing individuals’ natural talents. A native Argentinian with a multicultural background, Georgi studied Advertising at FAEU in Argentina, and received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Hawaii; she is also tri-lingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese). She is currently supporting a diverse range of clients from investment professionals and financial services to marketing and operations specialists to educational leaders.
Marques Colston is the founder of Marques Colston Enterprises (MCE), a professional development services company, which empowers innovative organizations and growth-minded athletes, entrepreneurs, and executives to unlock creativity and possibility to experience sustainable professional success.
Ruthana is a values-driven coach and seasoned leader with deep experience across a unique blend of senior marketing, consulting, and coaching roles. She’s partnered with senior leaders (Directors, VPs, SVPs, C-suite, Founders) in organizations from start-ups to the Fortune 500 in technology, CPG, higher education, real estate, e-commerce, manufacturing, media, restaurants, professional services, private equity, and venture capital.
Nii Ato is a holistic career coach who helps ambitious professionals of color navigate their job search while remaining authentic to themselves. Recently named by LinkedIn as a 2022 Top Voice in Job Search & Careers, Nii Ato holds master’s level training in mental health counseling, allowing him to provide a holistic approach to his work with clients.
As a transformational leader, Mychal is skilled in community collaboration aligning higher purpose within the heart to create ripples of change in the world. Mychal’s capabilities expand in mindfulness, heartfulness, public speaking, mentorship, fierce compassion, critical & creative thinking, and purpose-driven dialogue.
