Dr. Paula Butterfield - Executive Coaching and Business Seminars from Butterfield + Lanning

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Paula S. Butterfield, PhD, PCC

Butterfield + Laning, LLC, was founded by Dr. Paula Butterfield a performance psychologist with over 15 years of corporate experience. Paula helps leaders tap into and expand their emotional intelligence in order to get the results they want.

She works most effectively with individuals who understand that powerful leadership flows from who and how they are, not just from what they do. Her leadership coaching helps them explore and develop their most important resource – themselves.

Paula’s seminars on high performance and emotional intelligence have been delivered to audiences in over 20 states, and consistently draw high acclaim for their clarity, warmth, humor, and practicality Her message is simple yet powerful: high performance takes guts – not just courage but a whole world of knowledge hidden beneath our THINKING brain. When you discover how to tap into it, what you get back are the kinds of things on every leader’s wish list … things like

Greater resilience in the face of change
Higher retention of your best performers and customers
More trust and commitment among those you lead
Higher levels of personal accountability.

Paula has logged over 7,000 hours advising and coaching individuals in developing the skills, behavior, and emotional literacy that make for top performance. If you're willing to look inward and grow, she's willing to coach you on the journey.

Here's a bit of her history:

Working

Ten years as an executive coach, seven as owner of a leadership development business
More than 15 years in management and leadership roles in private, government, and non-profit organizations
Professionally speaking and training since 1987
Author of over 2 dozen articles
Entrepreneurial early years: artist, freelance editor, custom dressmaker and costumer

Learning and teaching:

Credentialed by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach [PCC]; founding member and past president, central Ohio chapter
Professional member of the National Speakers Association; former co-chair of NSAOhio's MARS mentoring program
Member of the Federal Executive Institute's executive coaching pool
Certified practitioner for The Leadership Circle Profile™, a true breakthrough among 360 degree profiles that reveals the relationship between patterns of action and the internal assumptions that drive behavior
Member of the American Psychological Association, and licensed with the Ohio Board of Psychology since its birth
PhD from The Ohio State University [OSU] in counseling and psychology
Detours through fine arts, foreign languages, and law school
M.A. and B.A. with distinction in English literature, also from Ohio State
Past faculty appointments with the OSU Graduate School, the OSU College of Medicine, and Franklin University

Living and playing:

Avid traveler and single mom (my son's a college art student)

Favorite activities are weight lifting, sailing, tennis, and an 1892 restored inner-city Victorian house and garden