Bill Sodeman
Focal Point Business Coach at Focal Point Business Coaching
About
I'm a Focal Point Business Coach, and I wrote Nobody Is Ready for first-time executives.
Experiences
- Focal Point Business Coach at Focal Point Business CoachingCoach new executives through their first 18 months
I'd always worked for somebody else. Opening my own practice through a Focal Point franchise was a bucket list item.
- 3Adjunct Professor at Clark UniversityStill teaching after 35+ years as a business professor
I chaired Hawaii Pacific's management department and ran MBA programs in Tennessee. Now I teach grad IS at Clark.
- Early lifeRan the mile and two-mile for a coach big on leadership
He was all about putting ourselves out into the arena. I've been a distance runner for over 50 years now.
- Podcast Host at The Perfect RouteTalk leadership and HR with 30+ guests on my podcast
Episodes on The Perfect Route cover conflict resolution, employee safety, e-learning and business coaching.
- Author at Nobody Is ReadyWrote a guide for new execs that admits my own mistakes
It follows two new executives, and I trace the famous '60 percent of new managers fail' stat back to its source.
- Chief Learning Officer (Dean of the Corporate College) at Seven Hills FoundationUpskilled middle managers spread across many locations
As Dean of the Corporate College, my team made me an OnCon L&D award finalist three years running.
- Chief Information Officer at Akahi Services, Inc.Spent my first weeks as CIO sure I was failing
I read the owner's silence as failure. Then I told him what I'd found, and he just said, "That tracks."
- BA in Fine Arts / Studio Art at William & MaryWent from studio art major to a PhD in strategy
Art meant face-to-face studio critiques. At Georgia I learned strategy comes from strategos, to wage war.