​Executive Coach | Leadership Advisor | Adult-Learning Consultant
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Leadership isn't born. It's learned.
Being a great leader isn’t innate; it’s a set of learnable behaviors that help you build engaged teams, create better products, deliver better service, and achieve stronger business outcomes.
When you gain the clarity about what to do, how to do it, and why it works, your leadership changes everything.
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Your team shows up with more capability and commitment.
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The quality of work improves.
Your customers feel the difference.
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And your business starts performing at a higher level.
Outstanding leadership begins with understanding the impact of your behavior on others.
All the business knowledge, subject-matter expertise, experience, education, and intelligence in the world aren't enough.
If you can't inspire others to accept, share, and execute on your vision, you're not the leader you could be.
A confidential 30-minute conversation to talk about what’s going on.
Unique Challenges Leaders Face Today
Even highly capable leaders encounter challenges such as:
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Increased uncertainty
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Understanding and utilizing new technologies, including AI
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Teams that aren't fully aligned or engaged
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Communication breakdowns across departments
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Managing conflict among strong personalities
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Navigating rapid organizational change
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Making difficult decisions under pressure
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Feeling isolated at the top of the organization
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Technical expertise and experience alone are rarely enough to solve these challenges. Leadership requires the ability to influence, communicate, and inspire others. And a space to think things through in a confidential, non-judgmental environment.
Through executive coaching, leadership development, and strategic facilitation, Mitch helps leaders:
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Achieve their best thinking around key challenges and opportunities
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Navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change more effectively
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Create cultures where people perform at their best
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Strengthen communication and leadership presence
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Gain clarity about their leadership impact
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Forge teams aligned around shared goals
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Foster critical thinking and creative experimentation in their organization
How Mitch Helps
Philosophy and Approach
Mitch’s work is grounded in two guiding principles that shape effective leadership.​
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Leadership as Behavioral Awareness
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Leadership is not simply a role or title. It is an awareness of the impact of one's behavior on others, particularly in the effort to inspire people to achieve shared organizational goals.
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When leaders understand how their behavior impacts the people around them, they can lead with greater clarity, intention, and effectiveness.
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The Interaction Principle​
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Every interaction between two people either strengthens the relationship or weakens it. It never stays the same.
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Leaders who recognize this dynamic approach conversations, feedback, and decision‑making with greater awareness and care.
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Over time this builds stronger relationships, stronger teams, and stronger organizations.
Mitch Lippman is an executive coach, leadership advisor, and adult‑learning consultant who helps leaders strengthen the behaviors that make leadership effective and discover their own unique effective leadership style.
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Through The Mitch Lippman Group, Inc., Mitch works with senior executives and leadership teams to build clarity, strengthen communication, and align organizations around shared goals.
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His philosophy is simple: leadership is a learnable set of behaviors. When leaders understand the impact their behavior has on others, they are able to inspire stronger teams, deliver better products and services, and achieve stronger business outcomes.
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Mitch was certified as an Executive and Organizational Coach by Columbia University through the Columbia Coaching Certification Program (3CP) in 2014. He's now a Fellow of the Columbia University Coaching Center of Excellence (a partnership between Columbia Business School and Teachers College) where he works on many learning and research projects, and provides guidance to current students of 3CP.
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He brings more than three decades of experience in consulting, training, leadership development, and executive coaching.
About Mitch
About Coaching
In every performance-driven field—sports, the arts, leadership—top performers work with coaches. Not because they can’t perform, but because they want to perform at the highest level.
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Executive coaching provides leaders with a confidential space to examine challenges, explore decisions, test new ideas, and strengthen their leadership approach.
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Coaching is not giving advice. It's a structured process that helps leaders think about and explore their approaches to leadership and the business. Coaching presumes that the coachee has both subject-matter expertise and business acumen. The coach and coachee work together to co-create a space that helps the coachee do their best thinking, explore options, and create meaning out of uncertainty.
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Through support and challenge from the coach and thoughtful dialogue and reflection from the coachee, leaders increase awareness, examine their leadership style and behaviors, and discover new opportunities for professional and organizational success.
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Leadership-development coaching is similar to Executive coaching, although the former generally includes an element of teaching from the coach, in addition to structured coaching.
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Confidentiality is crucial to any coaching engagement.
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In an engagement sponsored by an organization, the coach has responsibility and accountability to the sponsor in addition to the primary responsibilities to the coachee. There are usually regular check-ins with the sponsor on overall trends, but the specific information shared by the coachee is NOT shared with the sponsor or anyone else.
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In an engagement sponsored by the coachee, there is also complete confidentiality.
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Any use of AI by the coach will be within a closed system where information will not be shared nor used to train the AI. Such usage of AI will be fully disclosed, and will only be made with the express permission of the coachee.
You may notice the name: The Mitch Lippman Group.
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So is it just Mitch—or a broader team?
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The answer is both.
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Mitch Lippman serves as principal—personally leading executive coaching, leadership development, learning consulting, and high-stakes meeting design and facilitation.
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When the work calls for it, he brings in trusted colleagues from an established network of experts—extending the scope of what’s possible while maintaining a consistent standard of quality.
That includes additional coaches, facilitators, and specialists across areas such as negotiation, communication, storytelling, inclusivity, recruiting, market research, and technical training.
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The result is a single point of contact—with the ability to scale thoughtfully based on your needs.
Scaling for Larger Engagements
A confidential 30-minute conversation to talk about what’s going on.