Self knowledge is the best business strategy
Thank you for visiting my website. In the past two decades, I have applied my psychological training and organizational leadership experience to helping high functioning CEOs and executives create excellence in themselves and their organizations. Leaders who seek consultants to improve their businesses are often left without a sound and comprehensive understanding of how to continue increasing their organization’s capacity to create desired futures. Rather than developing into the change agents themselves they rely exclusively on external consultants to direct organizational change. Understanding how human beings function individually and collectively in organizations requires a specialized knowledge base. Many capable business leaders correctly identify issues that must be addressed in their organization but may underestimate the complexity and subtleness of human functioning in implementing change. Most qualified consultants and executive coaches do a good job within the domains of their expertise, but often lack the skill and understanding to help others engage in transformational learning that actually enhances their capacity to create.
Our perspective is that structure influences behaviour, and that components of a system cannot be changed without affecting the whole. Change must start at the top but be informed by the entire enterprise.
We seek to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together as integrated wholes. This is no easy task. It requires a thorough understanding of how human beings function collectively and individually to achieve performance levels that can make innovation routine. Proper implementation is crucial if the organization is to become vibrant, resilient and conscious. In essence, we help transform organizations into enterprises that are capable of learning and enlarging their capacity to create.
Bio: William D. Anton, PhD
William D. Anton, PhD is founder of CEOeffectiveness.com and is currently president and CEO of Anton Holdings, Inc. He advises CEOs, directors, and senior business leaders on people and culture issues. Drawing on his experience in business, higher education, and psychology, he engages clients in confidential conversations to enhance their understanding of complex psychological factors influencing their effectiveness, business performance, and morale. The structure of the relationships allows for the exploration of issues that cannot be readily addressed in internal or external business environments. Confidential assessment of CEO organizational strengths can be used to objectify executive development and coaching.
Over the past two decades, Bill has applied his psychological training and organizational leadership experience to helping high-functioning CEOs and executives create excellence in themselves and their organizations. During that period, he served as director of the USF Counseling Center for Human Development, where he headed a large professional staff of PhD psychologists, MD psychiatrists, and related doctoral-level disciplines. In this role, he was responsible for APA-approved pre- and post-doctoral training and comprehensive clinical/consultation services for a population of more than 50,000 students, faculty, and staff. Concurrent with this, he assumed AVP responsibilities from 1998 to 2007. These additional responsibilities included creating a learning organization, strategic planning, total quality management, gap analysis, and heading reaccreditation for a division of approximately 500 faculty and staff. He also served on several major task forces and assumed numerous upper leadership responsibilities throughout his tenure at the university. He authored several publications and developed two published psychological tests that are widely used in counseling centers and EAP programs throughout the world.
Over the past two decades, Bill has applied his psychological training and organizational leadership experience to helping
high-functioning CEOs and executives create excellence in themselves and their organizations.
Bill is a licensed psychologist and holds a PhD degree in clinical psychology. He is currently treasurer of the Sant' Yago Educational Foundation, which has given away more than $1,600,000 to deserving minority students in need in the TampaBay area. In late 2009, he was honored by having an endowed scholarship, funded in perpetuity, offered in his name at the University of Tampa. He is also on the executive board of the Tampa Bay Business Transition Council.