Professionals, Senior Management and C-Suite Executives

Specializing in the areas of Finance, Healthcare, and Technology


         Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
• Former assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine
• Decades of experience in working with executives and organizations
• Experienced senior level executive and consultant with fortune 500 companies
• Author of the book Rethinking Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Existential Therapy 
•  Helping professionals with leadership, relationships, and personal growth

Its Business Not Personal
To be an executive or a professional in today’s complicated world is not an easy task. The demands of the work place are intense and expectations are high. To master the complexity of your position and produce satisfactory results is no longer enough to ensure success. To succeed you need to understand the culture and politics of the organization as well as grasp the psychological and interpersonal dynamics of your employees, peers and supervisors. While the expression “it is business, not personal” is often bantered around when companies decide to make organizational changes, anyone who has been affected by these changes knows it is very personal when you are the one the being written up, laid off, demoted or discriminated against.

Goals, Action and Focus
To flourish in today’s work environment you need to be more than an expert in your field, you need to understand the cultural vision of the organization and learn the new skills necessary to grow with the company. You have to have goals and actions plans in motion that meet leadership’s objectives, know how to manage expectations and stay focused on tasks. It is important to build strong relationships, be a team player, develop listening and communication skills and understand your personal strengths and weakness. One must manage stress, reduce irrational fears and anxiety, and not only know how to accept mistakes but learn from them so you are not blindsided by your deficits in the future. And if this is not enough, you need to balance all of this with a healthy and fulfilling personal and family life to ensure psychological well being. In these high pressure roles, work-related stress and performance anxiety are a common adversary.

The Psychology of Change
As a clinical psychologist, with over twenty years of experience working as a senior executive and consultant to numerous fortune 500 companies, Dr. Klein helped many professional improve their job situation from both a psychological and business perspective. He has worked with senior executives -- C-Suite - to improve their management style, assisted professionals experiencing hostile work environments, and helped individuals who are currently unemployed or are thinking about a job transition. He has mentored individuals who want to start or expand a small business and need help developing a business plan. For example, in his many years of practice, he has helped teachers who are having difficulty coping with school administrators, physicians dealing with changes in their practices or confronted with hostile hospital management, hedge fund and money managers stressed by the changes in the financial industry, small business man or women coping with a tough economic times, and middle aged individuals trying to get back into the workforce.

The Active Interactive Process
Unlike psychotherapy, coaching is focused more on the present and future than the past, more on goals and behaviors than emotions and emotional patterns, and there is a more active dialogue between the client and coach. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires. Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths.

Why Choose a Coach Who Is a Clinical Psychologist?
To have an executive coach with a background in both business and clinical psychology is a real asset. A clinical psychologist is trained to listen and observe, be flexible in his approach to meet the client’s needs, understand the individual from a more holistic perspective and be able to understand how individual personality traits and perhaps psychological and family issues can be contributing to his or her work related difficulties. A therapist can help you manage stress, alleviate burnout maintain mental health.

Martin H. Klein combines decades of experience as a licensed clinical psychologist, executive coach, organizational consultant, and educator to help leaders understand themselves, strengthen their leadership abilities, and navigate complex professional challenges. Unlike traditional executive coaching approaches that primarily focus on skills and performance, Dr. Klein integrates psychological understanding of motivation, relationships, decision-making, personality and human behavior.


Dr. Klein's expertise in the area of psychology and finance has been written about in Barron's magazine: Is Stocks’ Plunge Affecting Your Mood? It Could Be ‘Dow Affective Disorder.’
By Al Root March 18, 2020, 11:01 am EDT. 

www.barrons.com/articles/coronnavirus-stocks-plunge-affecting-mood-dow-affective-disorder-51584543539