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Philip C. Bergey
Senior Design Partner

Executive Leadership Coaching

Phil Bergey has over 30 years of board and management experience in non-profit organizations, as well as business leadership experience as a partner in a three-generation family business for over a decade. Phil has committed much of his life to cultivating leaders, transforming established systems, and creating new structures that are dynamic, creative, and effective. Phil’s strengths are in the areas of listening, assessing, and helping others imagine and connect future possibilities with current realities.

Phil uses many tools in his work including humor, creativity, biblical story, personal experience and truth-telling to help people focus and maximize their niche in building up Gods kingdom.

Phil provided the clarity and focus needed to keep going through the wilderness of organizational change.

—Senior Pastor, US

Phil’s warm and inviting style enables a deep coaching relationship to develop quickly. His astute, attentive listening and thoughtful, disarming questions provided a context for me to gain new perspectives on the particular leadership challenges and opportunities that I’m facing.

—Non-profit Director, Canada

Leadership Processes

• Designing long-term adaptive organizational change processes
• Leadership innovation, transitions and role changes
• Imagining and reframing; emergent- and vision-driven discernment
• Helping groups develop shared meaning
• Trust building, team building; mission and values clarification
• Strategic planning process facilitation
• Aligning organizational purpose with structure

Phil Bergey is a personable, professional consultant who is able to move between the worlds of structure, people, leadership, and resources with ease. He listens well, is attentive to the context, and offers consistently thoughtful suggestions and advice. His personal faith guides his work and uplifts those with whom he works. I recommend him without reservation.

—Judicatory Executive, US

In addition to his business and non-profit experience, Phil holds degrees in human development (MA), theology & ethics (MA), and history (BA). He participated in several invitation-only programs for high potential leaders. Phil recently received the Professional Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF). A PCC coach is required to have received 125 documented hours of coach-specific training in an ICF-accredited training program and to have documented more than 750 hours of client coaching. He is currently in a PhD program in human & organizational systems at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California, concentrating on how leaders make meaning in their role as catalysts for change.

Phil and his spouse Evon live in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Phil enjoys reading and a variety of outdoor activities.

Approach & Methods

My life and world has never been so vertically integrated since beginning coaching sessions with Phil.

—Senior Software Developer, US

His professional approach has emerged from being involved in diverse leadership roles that have ranged from entrepreneur start-ups to senior leadership in systems as large as 100,000 members and as old as 300 years. In addition to basic assessments like 360 reviews, Phil uses deep listening, humor, and intuition to develop powerful discussions.

Phil is committed to walking alongside those with whom he consults and coaches. In the process of journeying together, Phil helps clients:

• Clearly define and express their current reality
• Become aware of and identify needs and possibilities–what to let go of and what to let come
• Realize a future that wants to emerge

Phil thinks innovatively and has the ability to help clarify the core values of an organization. He sees the larger picture in a system and empowers persons to claim a vision that will move them beyond what they had imagined.

—Judicatory Executive, US

Phil’s approach involves collaborative and integrative approaches such as:

• Adaptive Leadership
• Theory U
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Emotional Intelligence
• Carver Policy Governance
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• DISC
• Enneagram
• Myers-Briggs
• 360 Degree Reviews, and others

Education & Certification

• PhD. Candidate, Human and Organizational Systems, Fielding Graduate University.
• Professional Coach Certification, International Coach Federation, 2009
• M.A. Human Development (concentration in Evidence Based Coaching), Fielding Graduate University, 2009
• M.A. Theological Studies (concentration in Theology & Ethics), Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 1993
• B.A. History, Goshen College, 1991

Additional Training

Leadership Coaching

• Evidence Based Coaching: Certificate, Fielding Graduate University
• The Executive Link: Executive Coaching, International Leadership Exchanges, Indonesia & Guatemala
• Anti-racism training, Crossroads Anti-Racism (Chicago) & Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, PA)
• Mediation Training (John Paul Lederach, Speed Leas, others)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Pioneering Pathways of Profound Innovation & Change (Ed Schein, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer)

Religious & Non-Profit

• Strengthening Judicatories Program (Duke University Divinity School, Louisville Institute, Lilly Endowment)
• National Religious Leadership Program (Hartford Seminary, Howard University Divinity School, Pacific School of Religion, Alban Institute, Lilly Endowment)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Future of Faith Communities in the Information Age (Charles Henderson)
• The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University: Certificate, Principles & Techniques of Fundraising
• Yale Divinity School: A Crisis of Trust? Trust in a Culture of Suspicion & Spin (Miroslav Volf, Jurgen Moltmann)