Monica thakrar
HALC Faculty
Ms. Thakrar is an organizational consultant and coach with over 21 years of experience focused on strategy, organizational change management, leadership development, training, executive coaching, and mindfulness.
Monica brings to all of her work a deep understanding of leadership and organizational development based on years of working with organizations, leaders, and managers on leading change, creating high-functioning teams, enhancing leadership capacities, and working across organizational silos.
She has worked with individuals and organizations to enhance their effectiveness, realize greater efficiency, and develop increased capacities in leading people, change, and organizations.
Monica has worked with clients in the private sector (Hanley Wood, IBM, Marriott, MedStar, Nike, KPMG), the public sector (US Agency of International Development, US Department of Agriculture (ARS, NIFA, and NRCS), US Department of Health and Human Services (NIH, SAMHSA, ASFR, and ACL), NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the US Postal Service), and Academia (Columbia University and Georgetown University).
Clients describe Ms. Thakrar’s approach to consulting and coaching as intuitive, yet practical, which has allowed them to make lasting and positive changes. She ties coaching to practical, real changes going on in the organization and often uses 360 feedback tools to ground her coaching approach in desired outcomes for the individual, the team, and the organization as a whole.
Monica works closely with clients to jointly develop goals, provide unbiased support, ask powerful questions to test client assumptions, and create accountability that will result in sustainable transformation and change.
Through consulting, coaching, and training she delivers tangible results in the areas of strategic thinking, leadership presence, communications skills, developing teams/staff, leading change, emotional intelligence, generational differences, working across silos and developing overall leadership skills.
Ms. Thakrar is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is a PCC certified coach through the International Coaching Federation and is certified in the Myers Briggs assessment, the DISC assessment, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) 360 Assessment Suite, the LEI 360, the EQ-I 2.0 assessment, the Change Style Indicator, and the Healthy Leader Profile.
She is also certified in the Search Inside Yourself Mindfulness program. She is on the faculty of Georgetown’s Leadership Coaching Certificate Program.
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