Testimonials from our clients
RIGHT AT HOME
“Rosemary reinforced and showed me that a happy and engaging staff can make all the difference when running your business. Empowered employees are more accountable, reliable and give you the most precious commodity of all, time! Rosemary, thanks for your invaluable coaching.”
Walter Ochoa
Owner, Right at Home
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
“Rosemary Bova was my coach several years after I assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer at NYU Langone Health. Her work with me was invaluable in developing my management skills. I had little experience as a manager when I assumed my role, having been a clinician prior to becoming CMO. I needed to acquire the tools of effective management in an efficient way. I was experiencing significant challenges managing both down and up. Rosemary was asked to customize an executive development program for me. Within a short period of time, she taught me skills and “tricks of the trade” that I use to this day. My performance, as evaluated by my manager, improved dramatically, and I have risen further within the organization. I would like to attribute my improvement to my acumen as a student, but realistically I think it was primarily due to Rosemary’s skills as a teacher. I have mentored many subordinates since Rosemary’s engagement, and I regularly teach them the skills she taught me and have enjoyed observing their resultant growth as leaders. Without a doubt, Rosemary is largely responsible for my success in managing up, down and across the organization. I highly recommend her as an executive coach. I would be happy to speak with prospective clients in greater detail.”
Robert Press CMO, MD PhD
Former EVP, Vice Dean and Chief of Hospital Operations
SETTLEMENT HOUSING FUND
“Ms Bova worked on a multitude of projects over the 25 years of our
association. During that time BEI provided a plethora of services including strategic planning, organization design, staffing and succession planning, executive coaching, conflict resolution, team building and staff development. BEI’s President Rosemary Bova is a creative, innovative strategic thinker and highly skilled consultant and communicator. BEI was our “go to firm” for organization development issues. I would highly recommend you work with BE.”
Carol Lamberg
Former ED Settlement Housing Fund, NYC
GRIMALDI YEUNG LAW GROUP
“Strategic coaching helps identify bedrock business and personal goals based on the basic values, or the first principals, of your business operation. It helps you define success and then forms the basis of collaboratively creating a plan to make success possible. This usually involves a new way of seeing your operation and discarding long-held assumptions as you opening new doors and learn tools that foster growth.”
Joanne Seminara, Partner
Grimaldi Yeung Law Group
FMWR FORT HAMILTON ARMY GARRISON
“Shortly after becoming Director of Family Morale, Welfare and Recreation (FMWR) at Fort Hamilton Garrison it was apparent we needed team and morale building. I engaged Rosemary Bova of BE, inc. to assist in revitalizing the organization. Rosemary, met individually with my leadership team to get their perspective on the issues facing the organization. She then designed a strategy which initially utilized Wiley’s Everything DiSC and Conflict Management products. Garrison Command and leaders also participated in the conflict management seminars.
Presently, Rosemary is conducting a customized series of managerial leadership seminars for my top twenty people. Rosemary’s passion and ability has enabled her to connect with my staff. Her delivery has brought understanding between various personalities in our workforce therefore importing a cohesion that did not exist prior to her working with us. Knowing my team individually coupled with a commitment to everyone learning she’s able to provide direct coaching and feedback to them as appropriate.
After 29 years of managing teams and training initiatives I find Rosemary’s approach to be one of the most effective, well-received, and having lasting impact”.
Robert Vogt
Chief, FMWR
CATALYSIS UNIT, SHELL OIL RESEARCH & ENGINEERING
“A dual career ladder system, separating scientists and engineers from the managerial ranks, was causing difficulty in this unit. The GM wanted to understand why things were not operating smoothly. In particular one highly valued chemical engineer was labeled “impossible to work with”. The requisite analysis conducted by Ms Bova found the individual in question was actually thirsting for recognition. His current and future potential was above that of most of his peers and his boss. This scientist, with extremely high potential capability should have been working for an EVP with global responsibilities. In actuality he was being managed by a general manager whose own capability, properly matched to his role in the organization, was beneath that of his subordinate scientist. We recommended the scientist be assigned to an EVP and be given the freedom to dream as he could find the company’s next major exploratory site.”
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANIES
“Ms Bova partnered with another firm to design and implement a mentoring system for their HIPOs. As the senior OD person on this assignment I designed the architecture for a multifaceted program for their high potential VP & Director level employees many of whom were being poached by startup companies. The program lasted 15 months during which time participants were mentored by senior executives and attended developmental, and mindset workshops every other month. The initiative had multiple goals. Develop participants into more well-rounded managers, encourage more informed risk taking and shift their thinking encouraging more out of the box approaches. A less obvious objective was to build a community across divisions so that they’d see opportunities within the company before looking elsewhere. Anecdotally two people who met in the program were able to figure out an out of the box solution to a problem saving the company millions of dollars. They would not have known about one another without the program. Highly successful, after its conclusion the program was copied on a smaller scale in local centers.”
