Client Comments Regarding Donald Levitt, Ph.D.

GLOBAL COMPANIES

“It has been my pleasure to work with Don Levitt as an executive coach. He has helped a number of our executives to improve their leadership styles and enhance their personal effectiveness. I would work again with Don any day -- especially in the area of improving interpersonal effectiveness, wherein I believe he has particular insight and expertise.”
Rochelle Hanley, M.D.
Executive Director, Metabolic Clinical Development
Pfizer
“Working in affiliation with our National Executive Coaching program, Don has been very effective coaching some of our high potential partners. Our coaching efforts are primarily focused on performance enhancement, and Don is particularly effective in this area.”
Chappy Bradner
Director, National Development & Deployment
Deloitte & Touche
“It has been my pleasure working with Don Levitt on an enterprise-wide talent management initiative. His expertise in executive coaching, organizational development and change management has been instrumental in retaining and developing key talent. I look forward to working with Don well into the future.”
Joe Rose
Manager of Succession Planning and Performance Management
Sprint Corporation
“Don was engaged to help us, as a corporation and as individuals, to improve our performance based on using better leadership techniques. He not only provided us with excellent communication and behavior tools, but with his psychology training he provided superb individual “counseling” with regard to interpersonal interaction. This was extremely beneficial for the implementation of performance-based leadership, and also helpful in other real-world situations. Don is truly an excellent, and very importantly, a direct and honest, communicator. I have noticed definite results from Don’s training.”
Daniel Chao
Executive Vice President
Bechtel Enterprises
“Don Levitt is a valuable resource to our executive management team, facilitating discussion and definition of corporate strategy, succession planning, and providing insightful feedback and coaching to our executives about their individual management and leadership styles. With Don’s considerable experience and gentle advice, I believe we have improved our effectiveness both as individuals and as a management team.”
Tony D. Damon
Chief Executive Officer
SSOE, Inc.
“Don was an effective consultant to my leadership team in helping us to clarify our vision and implement a plan for a major change project. His leadership in engaging employees at all levels in the transformation was also a key factor in our success.”
Glen Hiner
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (retired)
Owens Corning

FAMILY-OWNED AND CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES

“Our work with Don Levitt has resulted in a stronger family and business team. He helped our Executive Team and Board of Directors to gain a better understanding of our executives’ strengths and how each one can best contribute to the success of the business. Don has helped our entire management team function more effectively, particularly through the implementation of strategic and tactical meetings. Don has also facilitated a “family meeting” which included owners, spouses and teenage children that provided us all with a better understanding of the past, present and future of our third generation family business.”
Ed Brooks
President
Huron Automatic Screw Co.
“Don Levitt has helped us in our drive to become ‘the tightest ship in the tire and oil shipping business.’ His tools for improving employee accountability and communications – and for working more efficiently – have been particularly valuable.”
Joe Shrader
President
Shrader Tire and Oil
“Management behavior and results are tied together in today’s workplace. Don Levitt helped our management personnel to develop real-world skills that they can apply immediately to real work issues. Don’s style is results-oriented and provides powerful tools for today’s changing environment.”
Duane Jebbett
President
Rowmark
“Don Levitt has been a very insightful resource and an effective coach for our team members over the last year, as our organization continues to work through a very significant cultural change. Don has quickly gained our trust and respect and maintained it, while offering ideas and solutions that fit our rapidly growing (entrepreneurial) company."
Brenda Simmons
General Manager & Controller
Clarke Power Products
“Don Levitt has been instrumental in helping us to identify and create plans to remedy critical problems within the organization. His input will help both the board and the executive management team become more effective and professional. And throughout the process his feedback has been balanced and considerate.”
Bob Everett
Chairman
Hilgraeve, Inc.
“We have been doing strategic planning for ten years and needed to find a new facilitator. Don came highly recommended. We were impressed with his process for strategic planning, and pleased with the results. We will continue to use his services.”
Don Mennel
President
Mennel Milling Company
“This year we changed facilitators for strategic planning and began using Don Levitt. Don brought a breath of fresh air to our process. His insights and coaching skills have helped us to move to a higher level.”
Peter Diehl
President
Diehl, Inc.
“Don Levitt’s ‘Family Business Checkup’ workshop was the most helpful of the ‘family business meetings’ I have attended. I shared some of the ideas with my siblings in our annual meeting and it provided some common ground for discussion.”
Mark Makulinski
President
Lockrey Manufacturing

NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

"Don's executive coaching has not only helped me to be a more effective manager and leader in my field, it has also helped me to understand and develop a strategy for balancing life's multiple roles and challenges. Thanks to Don, I am now able to be proactive in the most important areas of my business and my life."
David Egner
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hudson-Webber Foundation
“Don is an outstanding facilitator. His knowledge, skills and assistance were instrumental in the University’s strategic planning efforts. Don’s personal executive coaching was invaluable to me as I led transformational change initiatives.”
Bill Decatur
Vice President of Finance and Administration
University of Toledo
“I found Don Levitt to be helpful as an executive coach. He gave practical advice and encouragement. He pushed me in areas that I didn’t necessarily want to be pushed – in a nice way. I also found that he had valuable insights which helped me to think about things differently. He was very good at praising me and others. I believe it was very helpful for me to have Don’s coaching.”
Director
University of Michigan
“An outstanding presenter who exceeds all expectations! Don Levitt delivers excellent content loaded with nuggets of good advice enhanced with pithy real life stories told in a clear and well organized fashion. Don Levitt adds value to any seminar.”
Shel Stark
Specialty Programs Director
Institute of Continuing Legal Education (The State Bar of Michigan)
“Don Levitt’s presentation on the sources and patterns of conflict in family business – and how these conflicts can be prevented or resolved – was very well-received by our members, most of whom work regularly with family-owned businesses. His passion for the subject, and his personal stories of helping these families, made for a compelling talk. His presentation was one of the highlights of our speaker series.”
Dennis M. Mitzel
President
Washtenaw County Estate Planning Council