Bio
Abby Thies is a coach and organizational development consultant with over 20 years’ experience working with individuals and teams to achieve their strategic goals. She helps align and build momentum through individualized coaching, somatic awareness, small group facilitation, strategic planning, course design and implementation, and leadership development. She has successfully assisted leaders and organizations in tackling their toughest challenges, including strategies for large change efforts, overcoming long-standing collaboration problems, and creating practices to support long-term development. Abby partners with her clients to craft evidence-based approaches tailored to the unique needs of the leaders and teams with whom she works. She fosters a positive lens to help clients recognize and examine strengths and constructively address challenges.
Abby applies her practical experience to growth and development challenges from her time managing teams in the US federal government, successfully directing a consulting and training business in Australia for 10 years, and working on OD projects and coaching across public and private sector clients. She has helped organizations integrate change by providing real-time data collection, leading OD off-sites and interventions, facilitating management courses and seminars, and collaborating with leadership coaches as appropriate to bring all facets of these processes together in a practical way and immediately back to the workplace. Her individual coaching practice incorporates somatic (body-based) awareness through practical approaches such as meditation, yoga, breathing exercises and aikido.
The struggle is great, the task divine - to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.
— Epictetus