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CFAR: Consulting and Coaching
Business Consulting and Services
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2,622 followers
Helping leaders activate their organizations to achieve their highest aspirations.
About us
We at CFAR bring a commitment to unleashing potential and maximizing impact for our clients, through our management consulting and executive coaching services that deliver both desired outcomes and improved relationships. We have, for close to four decades, provided guidance and expertise to tackle the thorniest issues—ones often rooted in a misalignment between important organizational goals and individual beliefs about what it will take to achieve them. We come to our work as curious problem-solvers. Our heritage as the Wharton School’s only multi-disciplinary, applied research center lives on in our continued dedication to advising leaders on complex organizational issues where both people and performance matter. CFAR’s mission is to help leaders activate their organizations to achieve their highest aspirations—productively, meaningfully, profitably, and with impact. We take a multidisciplinary, systemic approach to consulting and coaching engagements, drawing on a seasoned team of experienced consultants from a variety of disciplines and with a broad range of training, credentials, and capabilities. Our clients lead organizations where mission and purpose are central and engagement and alignment matter—in healthcare, family enterprises, owner-led businesses, higher education, foundations, associations, and other corporate and non-profit entities. Together, we partner to first discover (sometimes hidden) obstacles to success and then break through them using research-based ideas, tools, and approaches. Ultimately, our work aligns strategy, strengthens culture, builds teams, and improves outcomes. Forbes has repeatedly named CFAR as one of America’s top management consulting firms. We serve clients from our offices in Philadelphia and Boston and through a network of coaches and colleagues from across the US and the world.
- Website
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http://www.cfar.com
External link for CFAR: Consulting and Coaching
- Industry
- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1987
- Specialties
- Family Enterprises, Owner-Led Businesses, Healthcare, Higher Education and Research, Foundations, Associations, Cultural Assessment and Change, Governance, Leadership Development, Leadership Succession, Organizational Change, Strategy Development, Talent Optimization, Executive Coaching, Organizational Change, and Executive Education
Locations
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Primary
1700 Market St
Suite 2140
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, US
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31 St. James Avenue
Suite 802
Boston, MA 02116, US
Employees at CFAR: Consulting and Coaching
Updates
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CFAR: Consulting and Coaching reposted this
In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, the boundaries between our personal and professional lives are increasingly blurred. This shift has made prioritizing mental health in the workplace more crucial, and the path to creating a mentally healthy workplace culture requires commitment from leadership and employees alike. In a new blog, Managers Jessica-Marie Hutchison, JD, and Sara E. Miller share tips and considerations for leaders to successfully cultivate a culture of mental wellness and psychological safety. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eWykNVGR
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This week's summer reading recommendation comes from Senior Manager Megan Helzner, MBA, MPA. "I'm reading "The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity & Success After Baby" by Lauren Smith Brody. Returning to work after my first child’s birth has been a big life moment; I want to do it well and am grateful for CFAR’s support."
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We are deeply saddened to share the news that Tom Gilmore, a CFAR founder, a friend, a dear colleague, and an amazing human being, passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2024, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Tom influenced the lives of countless leaders and organizations through his work and insight. He supported and guided leaders of foundations, academic medical centers, universities and civic organizations through times of enormous challenge and opportunity. He shared wisdom, curiosity, provocative ideas and applicable tools with all who were fortunate to spend time with him. Tom was judicious and prolific. Skeptical and reflective. Discerning and generous. He was a world traveler with advice about food and culture in cities across the globe, and an unwavering champion of his adopted home, Philadelphia. Together with his CFAR cofounders, Tom built a firm that aspired to be — and became — an organization that could outlast them. He was committed to doing all he could to ensure that the work CFAR’s founders cared so much about would flourish and grow in a next generation. Tom pushed us to write and to think, challenged and supported us and made us smarter and more capable without even knowing the fullness of his impact. As we look to the future, we know that we are building and growing on the shoulders of our founders. Today, we have lost a giant. We will continue to work every day to advance our mission with purpose, meaning, and the kind of investment in each other and in our clients that would make Tom proud.
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This week's summer reading recommendation comes from CFAR Senior Manager, Eliza Orleans. "You know when you’ve been waiting years for an author you love to release their next book? I waited 6 years, and it’s here!"
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This week's summer reading recommendation comes from CFAR Principal Barry Dornfeld. "I look forward to reading Ethan Mollick’s new book "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI." I have been following Professor Mollick’s writing on AI for some time and find it both theoretically provocative and ultimately practical as I navigate the complex journey of working and living with artificial intelligence."
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In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, the boundaries between our personal and professional lives are increasingly blurred. This shift has made prioritizing mental health in the workplace more crucial, and the path to creating a mentally healthy workplace culture requires commitment from leadership and employees alike. In a new blog, Managers Jessica-Marie Hutchison, JD, and Sara E. Miller share tips and considerations for leaders to successfully cultivate a culture of mental wellness and psychological safety. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eWykNVGR
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A robust and resilient culture is critical to a family enterprise's success — and for owner-led organizations to continue to grow and thrive, they need to adapt across generations. CFAR Manager Tom Warren Bonner shares his insights on preserving a business's founding leaders’ values and vision while making room for necessary innovations. Read Tom's blog, "Bridging Old and New," here: https://lnkd.in/eTu7hGFi
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Welcome back to CFAR’s Summer Reading Series! This week's recommendation comes from CFAR Manager Cecilia Madden. “I just finished 'The Great Believers' by Rebecca Makkai, which was recommended to me a few years ago by a colleague who was trying to encourage me to read more fiction. It is heartbreaking and revelatory and a true page-turner.”
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CFAR: Consulting and Coaching reposted this
Tensions in organizational culture can be viewed as a challenge or an opportunity. CFAR's latest edition of Fieldnotes from Culture Lab explores three cultural tensions we see in our work: 1. Continuity and change in family businesses 2. The orientation of a healthcare system’s culture towards patients or staff 3. Productivity and pace in the workplace Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewzcXwFx