Heidi Sparkes Guber - Executive Consultant & Master Trainer
As a master trainer and program consultant for Insight Education Systems, Heidi Sparkes Guber has led MicroInequities: The Power of Small for Campbell’s, Linksys, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Microsoft and Wells Fargo in the US, as well as for Cisco Systems in the US, Europe and throughout Asia Pacific. Her additional responsibilities include the design and delivery of the MicroInequities II: Maximizing the Impact workshops and the Train-the-Facilitator programs for Cisco Systems, Merck and Wells Fargo.
In her 25 years as a leadership development consultant, Ms. Guber has designed and delivered groundbreaking programs for thousands of people worldwide. Specializing in the application of vision and purpose to achieve strategic focus and breakthrough results, she has worked with a variety of organizations, including major corporations, government agencies and non-profits. In the past decade as an executive coach, she has participated in over 500 coaching interventions, including ongoing client engagements for up to seven years of leadership growth.
Ms. Guber currently leads the Global Executive Training leadership development program at the Nissan Management Institute in Hakone, Japan. Since 1994, she has also been the program director and lead facilitator of the Leadership in Change program at UCB Pharma in Brussels, Belgium.
From 1992 – 2002, Ms. Guber developed the Breakthrough Leadership Process™ at Citibank, Bank One, Finance One, Ford Credit and Ford Motor Company. In cross-divisional programs delivered for Ford Motor Company and Ford Credit, Breakthrough Leadership initiatives resulted in over $300 million in incremental corporate profits. As an integral part of these programs, Ms. Guber implemented a comprehensive leadership development and coaching process for senior executives and managers to achieve personal excellence while building high performance in their global teams.
While working with the Chairman and CEO of Ford Credit, Ms. Guber served as curriculum design director for Driving Fundamental Change in Business: A CEO’s Perspective, an MBA course at the University of Michigan. She is also a contributing author to the 2nd edition of The Change Handbook, a definitive resource on today's best methods for engaging whole systems.
Ms. Guber has served as Trustee of the Society for Organizational Learning, a global community of educators, researchers and business leaders dedicated to the study and practice of systems thinking, organizational learning and learning-based leadership. As a consultant to SoL, she facilitated the ongoing action learning collaboration of organizational members such as AT&T, DTE, Ford Motor Company, Harley-Davidson, IFC, Intel, NSA, Royal Dutch/Shell and Unilever. She also plays an active role in developing SoL communities of practice in consulting and executive coaching.
Ms. Guber has consulted to non-profit and social service organizations such as the International Dyslexia Association, National Center for Learning Disabilities and Omega Institute. She is a charter investor and activist for The Hunger Project, which funds Strategic Planning in Action and leadership development programs for women elected to village leadership in South Asia and grass roots activists in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Ms. Guber received her BA from Duke University and a Master of Professional Studies from Pratt Institute.
