About Us

At Frank Lee Associates, we believe that success is truly the result of motivated people working together collaboratively with a common vision and shared mission. This collaboration and this alignment rests heavily on the quality of leadership in the organization.Whether it’s starting an enterprise, turning one around, or taking one to the next level, the most profound and fundamental key to success is the advancement of leadership capability.

We combine 40 years of experience with cutting- edge advancements in leadership and management science to provide first-class Leadership Consulting Services and have consistently delivered real results for individual managers, teams, and organizations.

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Frank Lee Associates has been providing practical and effective tools for building and fostering leadership excellence to companies from Startup to Fortune 500 since 1972.

Expertise in every coaching area

Every Frank Lee Associates coach – facilitator is an expert in leadership, team, and organizational effectiveness, and has been in the field an average of 25 or more years. Business strategy, cross cultural effectiveness, company strategy and culture, and change management are additional areas of expertise that we all share.

We have been HR executives employed by or engaged with hi-tech companies (Internet, computer hardware/software, bio-tech, pharmaceutical, and research), retail, financial/consulting services, and distribution companies for the better part of their individual 25 years as consultants and facilitator-coaches.

Frank Lee

Cottage Grove (outside Eugene), Oregon

Frank Lee is the founder and principal of Frank Lee Associates, Inc. Frank’s areas of expertise include corporate strategy, culture alignment, change management, and executive 360 leadership-by-example coaching, and executive team building.

Frank has worked with a broad spectrum of organizations – from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies – in a broad array of industries, and is a consistently sought-after speaker and seminar leader.

Trish Bergstrom

San Francisco Bay Area

Trish, a senior consultant with Frank Lee Associates, is also co-founder of her own training and organizational development consulting firm, established in 1986. Trish specializes in leadership and management development, sales and negotiations training, team building, and management coaching.

Trish has over 30 years of experience designing and implementing training programs that focus on the human side of leadership effectiveness. She is also an extraordinarily gifted facilitator and individual coach, who has provided process consulting for strategic planning sessions, change task forces, and process improvement teams.

Gwendolyn Hanna

Sedona, Arizona
Gwendolyn Hanna has worked in the field of human resources management for over 32 years, with significant focus in the past twenty years in organizational development and management consulting in international environments.

Gwen has worked as an internal human resource professional or as an external organizational management consultant for various companies – ranging in size from start-up to large scale corporations – and has done extensive leadership development and organizational and cultural transformation work in international locations throughout Europe and Asia.

Mary Partridge

Austin, Texas

Mary Partridge began consulting in organization development and training after successfully holding various human resources and management roles in the oil and retail industries, as well as not-for-profits. Mary’s career focus is executive coaching and the design and implementation of feedback processes that develop management and leadership effectiveness. Mary is licensed to use such instruments as LIFO®, inQ®, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® in working with teams and individuals on interpersonal styles.

In addition, Mary consults with boards of directors and senior leadership teams on strategic planning, governance, and board self-assessments.

Sue Brenner

Aptos, California

Sue Brenner, a senior consultant and executive coach for FLA, has worked in talent development for 20+ years and launched a training firm in 2010. Sue thrives on developing leaders and has led successful programs for managers, executives, physicians, and engineers in global high-tech, health care, and finance.

She is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Certified MBTI® and HBDI® Practitioner, and holds an Advanced eLearning Instructional Design Certificate from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).

Quality and Diversity

All of our senior coaches have facilitated both seminars and management conferences with as many as 500 attendees. Two of our lead facilitators are fluent in Japanese; one lead facilitator is fluent in Chinese, and have all been engaged in programs in Asia and Europe, either with Frank Lee Associates or as independent facilitators.The diversity of our staff, our record of success around the globe, and our individual and collective attitude of being life-long learners supports our notion of respect and translates into our facilitative and inquisitive style of instruction.

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Custom In-Company leadership programs

Implement a world-class leadership development program that meets the needs, timing, logistical and budgetary requirements of the company. By customizing our most popular programs to the people, schedule and location of your choice.

Customization may include (but is not limited to):

Communication that supports company initiatives and culture
Coaching of your executive presentersTrain in-company coach-faciltator trainers
Action learning modules that seek to engage participants in addressing company or strategic opportunities
Frank Lee Associates or third party assessments for use in the program

Schedule Options

Multiple formats are available to suit your circumstances

World Class Facilitator Coaches

FLA facilitator-coaches have on average over twenty-five years of experience helping industry leaders understand and successfully address business, organization, and people goals and issues. They are deep in expertise and grounded in the practical realities of positively impacting organizations and businesses.

Whether working with a CEO or first-level manager, they understand the issues at hand, skillfully bring the appropriate tools and conceptual frameworks to bear, and facilitate breakthrough strategies that achieve high performance.

If our programs are not among the best leadership courses you’ve ever attended, we will refund your tuition!

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Beginning with a clear, consensus team vision, clear success metrics, an understanding of the role of the team and it’s rules of engagement, over a series of 6-7 dedicated meetings (typically off site), we build the trust, the team relationships, and the team norms and processes for high functioning leadership teams to get their organizations to the next level of success.

While not limited to it, we model our approach after Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, focusing on one dysfunction per off site, and building upon each previous off site(s), with the goal being the daily application of the key principles and practices of the model on the job. It’s this focus on daily application (walking the talk) that makes our approach both unique and highly productive. We also coach individual members along the way (to be both good team mates as well as domain leaders of their own subunits), build peer coaching (radical candor) relationships as we go, as well as individual and collective leadership competencies to effectively lead the business, the organizational units, and the middle management company-wide.

Executive team building is typically conducted within 12 – 18 months, with the budget and schedule depending upon the scope of the project, the size and geography of the various management groups, and the urgency of the project (budgets typically vary between fifty and one hundred thousand U.S., travel and purchase of third party copyrighted materials are additional).

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Often called a customized individual seminar, we bring all our experiences and resources to bear on helping you achieve your potential. Whether we are problem solving, brainstorming, trouble shooting, skill building, technique training, sounding board(ing), or confidentially advising, we are at all times, your trusted advisor.

Our domain expertise include intra-and interpersonal relations, performance management, executive communications and presence, strategic planning, executive team building, organization alignment and transformation, cross company and cross organization synergy, and company culture building.

Coaching engagements run from six to eighteen months, depending upon the scope and deliverables of the engagement, the size of organization and levels of management involved, and the learning ability, learning style, adaptability of the key parties involved.

The minimum budget required is fifty thousand U.S.

Our process typically include:

Assessments (leadership or organizational) to establish baselines
Complementary team, stakeholder, organizational, or business assessments
Key stakeholder interviews and periodic feedback
Individual tools, techniques, competency training, role practices, readings, and research
Post assessments to measure progress
We also provide optional key stakeholder meeting facilitation when advantageous to do so

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