Ted Witherell

Senior Consultant

Ted is an experienced executive and leadership coach and facilitator who helps leaders see how they show up, uncover how they want to show up, and navigate the journey between the two. His practice is shaped by more than 25 years dedicated to developing impactful leaders and cultures as both an executive and consultant.

As an executive coach, Ted’s core strength is empathy. He uses his broad consulting experience to quickly grasp the current reality, form a deep working partnership with clients, and solve their business problems together. A trusted advisor, he is known for building collaborative partnerships that change people and organizations for the better. Ted brings decades of real-world executive and healthcare experience to his client engagements, having most recently served as Senior Director of Talent Management for the Mass General Brigham healthcare system (formerly Partners HealthCare). Ted holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and health education, and a master’s in counseling psychology from Boston College.

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EXPERIENCE

Ted Witherell is a Senior Consultant with FMG Leading, a team of advisors that helps clients create world-class organizations at the intersection of business strategy and human capital performance. Ted is an experienced executive and leadership coach and facilitator who helps leaders see how they show up, uncover how they want to show up, and navigate the journey between the two. His practice is shaped by more than 25 years dedicated to developing impactful leaders and cultures as both an executive and consultant.

As a business executive, Ted has guided the development of organizations and their most vital assets – their people. In roles like Senior Director of Talent Management for the Mass General Brigham healthcare system (formerly Partners HealthCare), he set strategy, led, and provided advice and counsel on the people side of businesses, including change management, team development, executive coaching, training, facilitation and leadership development.

 As an executive coach, Ted’s core strength is empathy. He uses his broad consulting experience to quickly grasp the current reality, form a deep working partnership with clients, and solve their business problems together. A trusted advisor, he is known for building collaborative partnerships that change people and organizations for the better.

 Ted’s past clients include organizations like WorldCare International, Copyright Clearance Center, QAD and Contemplative Leaders in Action. He has been a panelist at the NeuroLeadership Institute Annual Summit, Becker’s Academic Medical Center Forum, American College of Healthcare Executives and Gensler Workplace Survey Convention. He has been a keynote speaker for the Massachusetts Medical Group Managers Association, and CoreNet. Ted also served on the Healthcare Council of the American Management Association and the Steering Committee of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) where he chaired the NCHL Coaching Council.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Ted’s lifelong learning journey includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and health education, and a master’s in counseling psychology from Boston College. After teaching in Kingston, Jamaica, he completed additional coursework in curriculum and instruction at Columbia University. He is a faculty member at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and has been a guest lecturer at Northeastern University and Boston College.

 Ted has completed an executive coaching certificate program through Babson College and is completing a second certification through the Healthcare Coaching Institute. He is certified in the Profilor 360 assessment, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Strengths Deployment Inventory, Thomas Killman Conflict Mode Instrument and ProSci Change Management.

PERSONAL

Ted lives in Boston, MA with his wife and hero, their 2 cats, and sometimes their 2 adult sons. When not working, he enjoys watching his sons’ improv comedy shows and short films, sampling the many wonderful restaurants in Boston, and playing Disc Golf.

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