Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
- Disaster Avoidance Expert & Best-Selling Author
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Biography
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky has over 20 years of experience dramatically empowering leaders and organizations to avoid business disasters by addressing potential threats, maximizing unexpected opportunities, and resolving persistent personnel problems. Tsipursky authored the national bestseller on avoiding disasters in business and other life areas, The Truth Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide, and his Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters is forthcoming with Career Press in November 2019. Tsipursky’s cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 400 articles he published and over 350 interviews he gave to popular venues that include Fast Company, CBS News, Time, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Conversation, Business Insider, Government Executive, Inc. Magazine, and many others.
Tsipursky’s expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting and coaching for businesses and nonprofits. He serves as the CEO of the boutique consulting and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts, which uses a proprietary methodology based on cutting-edge research to help clients maximize their bottom line. His clients include Aflac, Balance Employment Assistance Provider, Edison Welding Institute, Fifth Third Bank, Honda, IBM, International Coaches Federation, Ohio Hospitals Association, National Association of Women Business Owners, Sentinel Real Estate, The Society for Human Resource Management, RealManage, The Columbus Foundation, Vistage, and over a hundred others who achieve outstanding client results.
Tsipursky also has a strong research and teaching background in behavioral economics and neuroscience with over 15 years in academia, including 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University and before that a Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His dozens of peer-reviewed academic publications include journals such as Behavior and Social Issues, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy.
His civic service includes over 4 years as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Intentional Insights, an educational nonprofit advocating for research-based decision-making in all life areas. He also co-founded the Pro-Truth Pledge, a civic project to promote truthfulness and integrity for individual professionals and leaders in the same way that the Better Business Bureau serves as a commitment for businesses. He serves on the Advisory Board of Canonical Debate Lab and Planet Purpose, and is the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal Behavior and Social Issues.
Gleb earned his PhD in the History of Behavioral Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011, his M.A. at Harvard University in 2004, and his B.A. at New York University in 2002. He lives in and travels from Columbus, OH. In his free time, he enjoys tennis, hiking, and playing with his two cats, and most importantly, he makes sure to spend abundant quality time with his wife to avoid disasters in his personal life. His website is DisasterAvoidanceExperts.com and his email is gleb@disasteravoidanceexperts.com.
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
- Disaster Avoidance Expert & Best-Selling Author
Coaching the Analytical Mind
Session length: 90 minutes
Do you want to be an outstanding coach for CEOs, CFOs, engineers, doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants, programmers, and many other clients who come to us for coaching with an analytical mindset? Do you struggle to connect with clients who are skeptical and demand hard data, evidence, and answers instead of intuitions, stories, and questions?
Do you feel frustrated when such clients push back against your authentic and courageous efforts to help them solve problems, and pull back when you try to build trust and intimacy? Fortunately, behavioral science research on emotional and social intelligence can help you help them get the coaching support they need.
This session offers case studies on effective use of emotional and social intelligence-based strategies by pioneering coaches to empower the growth of analytically-minded people, building on a series of ICF Core Competencies to provide you with clear take-aways on becoming an outstanding coach for analytically-minded clients.
ICF Core Competencies Covered in the Session
- Creating awareness in analytically-minded clients of their emotions and situations when their analytical mindset may be causing them problems
- Direct communication with analytically-minded clients, balancing hard data and research with stories and questions
- Establishing trust and intimacy with the client, through using the kind of evidence that’s convincing to analytically-minded clients
- Active listening, to determine whether your analytical client’s learning style is deductive or inductive and targeting their specific information consumption needs
Establishing the coaching agreement, focusing on preparing for the almost-inevitable conflicts and addressing emotions.
Key Learning Takeaways
- Identify typical challenges experienced by coaches in dealing with analytical clients.
- Learn how pioneering coaches use cutting-edge emotional and social intelligence research to overcome these typical challenges.
- Adapt best practices on coaching analytically-minded clients from these pioneering coaches into your coaching toolkit.