Founding Partner, Leadership Coaching, Inc., Rochester, New York

 

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John Engels launched Leadership Coaching, Inc. (LCI) in 1996 with a bold mission to strengthen families and family enterprises, and build healthy leadership teams across every sector of society. Nearly three decades later, LCI stands as a trusted global resource for leadership, rooted in self-awareness, self-responsibility, advanced relationship skills, and actionable coaching strategies.

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John’s path to this work is as distinctive as his approach. Trained as a journalist and steeped for decades in Bowen Family Systems Theory through the Georgetown Family Center (now the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family), he has worked as a consultant, teacher, and confidant to family business owners and senior leaders throughout North America, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. His direct yet deeply perceptive style travels seamlessly across cultures.

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Today, John mentors coaches, advises complex multigenerational enterprises, and contributes to the field’s thought leadership. He is a Fellow of Cornell’s Smith Family Business Initiative, where he co-authored the eCornell Family Business Leadership Certificate Program. He also serves as an Advisor to the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family and to ERG, a racial-awareness initiative in his hometown of Rochester, NY.