Part 1: Close Up Radio Spotlights John Lazar of John B. Lazar & Associates, Inc.

Forest Park, IL – John Lazar is the founder and CEO of John B. Lazar & Associates, specializing in leadership coaching and team development.

Lazar’s programs enable sustainable improvements in critical thinking, resilience, and leadership for individual and collective performance. Clients deliver more reliably on promised results by functioning and performing at higher levels, collaborating better, learning faster and becoming more adaptive.

At the heart of leadership is trust, says Lazar. People must rely on others. To set people up for success, good leaders connect, engage, support, empower, and inspire their teams by trusting them.

John has been a coach and performance improvement consultant since 1983. He has been coaching CEOs, executives, senior managers, and emerging leaders since 1995. Prior to launching JBL&A, Lazar was a performance consultant with AT&T Network Systems. It was there that he developed his experience leading teams.

“I had to develop trust with my colleagues on our team who would be developing instructional materials,” recalls Lazar. “I also had to develop working relationships with the technical staff, even though I did not have a background in telephony or electronics. What I could do was encourage them to talk about their challenges, ask good questions, listen well, and leverage their experience and expertise to guide us toward the best solution.”

“Learning isn't an event; it's a process,” says Lazar. Coaching enables a journey of developing self-reflection. self-awareness, insight, choice, and thoughtful experimentation.

For more information about John and his company, visit www.jblacoaching.com