Nora Bouchard

As a master-level coach, Nora is highly skilled in creating opportunities for C-Suite and other senior executives to discover personal solutions to their leadership challenges. Nora enables emerging leaders to be more effective as they transition from doing to leading.  Experienced leaders have increased their impact within their companies as a result of coaching.  She begins by creating trust with each leader through an easy-going, comfortable dialog. Ensuring coaching goals are in alignment with organizational direction, she works with the leader to create new mindsets and behavior change necessary to achieve those goals. To ensure sustainable, long-term progress for the individual and organization, Nora capitalizes on the leader’s innate strengths, personal values, and personal commitment to success. 

Business Background

M. Nora Bouchard is an accomplished executive coach with 25 years’ experience developing successful and inspiring leaders. For the last 15 years, she has coached both experienced technology executives determined to enhance their existing capabilities, as well as eager-to-learn emerging leaders. Nora inspires clients to shift their perspectives; to see options for action that have been hiding in plain sight. Rather than targeting what’s wrong, Nora capitalizes on the strengths and innate motivations of the executive. She encourages her clients to challenge the norm, the expected, and to tap into the unconventional wisdom of their own life experiences.  

Adept at meeting and training facilitation, Nora holds a MA in Instructional Design.  Having designed, developed, and delivered training with a global consulting firm, Nora creates powerful, interactive and customized learning opportunities. Nora is author of the book Mayday! Asking for Help in Times of Need.  A natural storyteller, Nora has hosted web-based radio shows, Barenaked on VoiceAmerica.com and Brainstorms on webtalkradio.net.  In addition, she has published blogs for both Forbes and Investor Business Daily.