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

 

 

Nicholas V. Engels is a founder, master facilitator, and leadership strategist who believes impact at scale begins with people at depth: principled candor, clear roles, and earned connection. 

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For almost two decades, he has been the trusted confidant of family enterprises, professional firms, ownership groups, and C-suites seeking to upgrade their relational operating system. His work rewires how leaders see themselves, each other, and the systems they steward. 

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Each year Nick leads LCI’s Advanced Leadership Course, a selective 10-month intensive on interpersonal mastery, maturity, and high-trust leadership, now in its 26th year. Having recently merged the consulting firm he founded in 2016 into Leadership Coaching, Inc., he is actively navigating the succession of his own multigenerational family business – firsthand experience he draws on as a client advisor on ownership structure, accountability, and family legacy.

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Nick graduated from the National Outdoor Leadership School in Western Australia, holds degrees from Quinnipiac University and the University at Buffalo, and completed postgraduate training at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC. 

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He lives in upstate New York with his wife and son.