The Brandt Principle




LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT—2007-present Executive, Leadership and Organizational Development coaching, consulting and training to optimize individual, team and organizational performance aligned with strategic business objectives:
• Customized Organizational Needs Assessment & Analysis • C-Suite Executive Coaching • Team Building & Development, including Workshops in Innovation, Consensus Building, Communications & Processing Styles, and more • Leadership & Management Training, including Ethical Decision-Making, Feedback, Strategic Communications and Organizational Justice & Equity • Culture Initiatives • Wellness Program Presenter
Clients include:
• Crum & Forster - a subsidiary of Fairfax Holdings (CEO) • Data & Society (ED and leadership) • Everybody At Once (CEO & C-suite executives) • EverydayHealth (part of Wellness Program) • Jacoby & Meyers (Co-founder) • National Foundry Products (CEO) • NorthStar Realty, LLC—owner of Ian Schrager’s hotels (CEO) • NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Head of Administration & team) • Sunny Bates Associates/Red Thread (CEO) • the cell theatre, New York (Founder, Co-Artistic Directors and team)
Academic Institutions
• Rutgers Business School, Entrepreneur Pioneers Initiative Program Instructor
• Organizational Development & Culture (2011-2018) • Innovation (2012-2014) • Time Management (2015-2018) • Executive coach (one-on-one private sessions with program participants) (2014-2018)
• NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Instructor
• Organizational Needs Analysis (2012-2013) • Organizational Behavior (2013) • Leadership & Management Intensive (2013-2014)
• The School of Visual Arts, Instructor/Guest Teacher (2004-2008)
• Directing/Collaborative Process for Filmmakers
PRIVATE EXECUTIVE/LIFE COACHING—1995-present Coaching for personal and professional values integration and performance surrounding relationships, professional development, career transitions, leadership skills, entrepreneurship, work/life balance, IPO’s, public speaking, presentations and media appearances. Clients include—Senior Executives & High Performers from such companies & organizations as:
• ARUP • Deutsche Bank • EverydayHealth • The Gap, Inc. • Goldman Sachs • JPMorgan Chase • The National Security Agency, U.S. • The New Museum • The New York Times • NBC • New York State Bar Association • Office of the State Comptroller, NY • Welch Family Foundation
TELEVISION APPEARANCES Live coaching featured on the British documentary NY-LON for Channel 4/ITV and The Learning Channel’s reality show FAKING IT FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, Mana—2013-2015 Identified, recruited and serviced relationships with collaborators, advisors and strategic partners for multi-media projects:
• Himself & Nora – theatrical musical produced Off-Broadway about James Joyce and his partner, Nora Barnacle. Identified, recruited and serviced key partnerships, including:
• PEN America • Penguin Books • The National Coalition Against Censorship • Irish America (print magazine)
• The Movements of the Soul – Theatrical play about the bringing of American Sign Language to the US (performed by a largely deaf cast). Identified, recruited and serviced partnerships, including:
• Dr. Oliver Sacks • The National Association of the Deaf • Sonic Alert • Hunter College Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program, NYC • Baruch Performing Arts Center, Baruch College, NYC
• The Dr. Gerry Show – television series featuring holistic health and wellness segments; Recruited key filming partnership with The American Museum of Natural History
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, Kroyt-Brandt Productions—2005-2008 Identified, recruited and serviced relationships with collaborators, advisors and strategic partners for multi-media projects:
• iDominion.us – proposed project for a multi-platform initiative to develop ethical decision-making in grade school children; recruited partners and advisory board of professors and specialists, including:
• The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, NYU • Dr. Pedro Noguera, Principal Investigator/Professor • Dr. Eddie Fergus, Director of Research and Evaluation • Frank Lantz & Kevin Slavin, Co-founders, area/code • The Facing History and Ourselves High School, NYC
• The Potter Box – proposed project for television series set in college ethics class; identified and assisted in the recruiting of several advisory board members:
• Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, NYU • Professor Jake Weaver, University of Georgia • Professor Jacob Needleman (leading figure in ethics education, PBS guest) • Professor Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
ASSISTANT TO THE CREATIVE DIRECTORS & PROJECT COORDINATOR, HBO—2007-2010 Provided support services to two creative directors, then project coordination for over 120 projects monthly. Highlights include:
• HBO High-Potential Grant (awarded annually to the top 1% of company employees) • Initiated and designed department systems & processes improvements, working with leadership and key stakeholders across five departments, designing and delivering training to over 125 employees in-person and remotely (via web); saved the department over $100K/year ongoing • Wrote and designed a presentation that secured funding for the third season of the short-form program EL PERRO Y EL GATO, which had been previously canceled • Developed key presentation and analysis for the Head of Department (SVP) regarding internal advancement trends, leading to a department-wide reorganization • Created first ever library of over 2,000 physical assets
SCRIPT CONSULTANT/WRITER/PERFORMANCE COACH, Liberty Studios—1997-2007
• The Recovery Network: Script consultant/co-writer/performance coach • The Starbridge Campaign: Copywriter for the IPO launch • My Brother: Script consultant/performance coach (2007 feature film); winner of over 25 industry awards • Script Consultant: Research and development for several feature film scripts by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker/producer Tony Lover.
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT—1990-2001 Development as an actor of new plays with such writers as Norman Mailer, Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman (won OBIE Award for that play), Joe Sutton (nominated for Pulitzer Prize for that play) et al. and The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, New Dramatists, The Actors Studio (Lifetime Member) & Soho Rep. FOUNDER & CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR – Healing Arts Haven, Inc. (NFP)—2003-2013 Groundbreaking non-profit organization dedicated to the integration of healing and the performing arts in clinically measurable ways, in collaboration with research scientists, medical and holistic doctors. Techniques were developed to boost the immune systems of both performers and their audiences; lecture/demonstrations included:
• Vassar College, Theater Department, faculty and students • NYU, Theater Department, faculty and students • Pace University, faculty from the English Department and the Masters in Nursing Program
PERFORMANCE COACH – professional performers & productions—1991-present Broadway, Film & Television Producers include:
• Channel 4-ITV London • Great Barrington Stage Festival • Hartford TheaterWorks • Innercity Theatre Group • Liberty Studios, NYC • The Susan Batson Studio • The Learning Channel (TLC) • The Roundabout Theatre Company • Waxman/Williams Productions
Performers include:
• Juliette Binoche • Laura Breckenridge • Patrick Dempsey • Estelle • Gabriella Hoffman • Harvey Keitel • Chris Kerson • Andrew McCarthy • Tatum O’Neal • Rudy Rush • Keri Russell • Amber Valletta
EDUCATION
• Master Certification, Ericksonian Hypnosis, NLP Center, New York • Professional Certificate in Leadership & Organizational Development, NYU • Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching/Leadership & Human Capital Management, NYU • 3-Year Certificate in Acting, The Central School of Speech & Drama, London • B.A., Yale University
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