Consulting and Coaching

Rabbinic Consultation and Coaching

Individual meetings may be scheduled to address personal or professional issues with one of our experts, who are graciously giving of their time. Scheduling is available at the Ayelet Registration Desk.

David Altshuler

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Development Consultant

  • Organizational planning
  • Leadership training
  • Financial resource development
  • Strategic philanthropic investment

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Emily Axelrod

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Professional Coach

  • Brain based coaching
  • Leadership development
  • Individual development
  • Team development/coaching
  • Strategic planning and visioning

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Dick Axelrod

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Professional Coach

  • Brain based coaching
  • Leadership development
  • Individual development
  • Team development/coaching
  • Strategic planning and visioning

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Terry Bookman

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Rabbinic Coach

  • Transformational leadership
  • Communities of collaboration
  • Team building
  • Transitional training
  • Visioning

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Larry Dressler

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Professional Coach

  • Advises CEOs, elected officials, social activists, and rabbis
  • Strategy formulation, member engagement, high-stakes decision facilitation, and leadership development
  • Staff supervision, constructive confrontation, consensus-building, and personal renewal
  • Fierce conversations

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Martha Hausman

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Negotiation Consultant

  • Mediation
  • Clergy employment
  • Contract negotiation issues

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Natalie Hyatt

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Professional Coach

  • Successful transitioning
  • Lay and staff leadership development
  • ‘Peak Performance Leadership’—from the core to optimal potential!
  • Strategic planning and execution
  • Working in partnership with lay leaders

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Sam Joseph

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Rabbinic Coach

  • Lay and staff leadership development
  • Strategic planning
  • Successful transition
  • Change management
  • Jewish education

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Steve Kaye

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Rabbinic Coach

  • Vision, communication skills, leadership/management principles
  • Assistance in rabbinic search, including interviewing preparation, due diligence, compensation, and contract issues

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Abby Kelman

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Negotiation Consultant

  • Clergy employment matters
  • Contract negotiation or extension of existing contracts
  • Salary and benefit disputes
  • Retirement and end-of-contract issues

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Ellen Lewis

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Rabbi and Psychoanalyst

  • Dealing with difficult personalities
  • Self-awareness
  • Work/life balance
  • Professional supervision
  • Personal Therapy

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Linda Thal

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Spiritual Director

  • Maintaining awareness of God/the Holy in everyday life
  • Developing and deepening spiritual practice
  • Renewing a sense of K’dushah in rabbinical work
  • Staying connected through periods of spiritual aridity
  • Exploring the nexus between one’s own prayer life and leading prayer

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