Dorothy Siminovitch, PhD,MCC

Founder, Gestalt Coaching Works

Dorothy E. Siminovitch is founder and president of Gestalt Coaching Works, LLC. She is an international coach, consultant, speaker, and author. Dorothy is the founder and co-owner of the Gestalt Coaching Program in Istanbul, an ICF-ACTP coach training program which she serves as Director of Training and as faculty. She is co‐founder of the Gestalt Center for Coaching, which delivers ICF-accredited coach training workshops and extended programs internationally.

Dorothy earned her PhD through Case Western Reserve University’s prestigious Department of Organizational Behavior. She pioneered the application of Gestalt theory, concepts, and practices in the service of professional coaching. She honed her rich coaching, teaching, and consulting skills while serving in leadership and primary educator roles at renowned Gestalt study centers, and has expanded her knowledge and wisdom by co-presenting with fellow thought-leaders in the coaching field. She provides world‐class training in innovative and adaptive Gestalt-based coaching, resulting in transformative personal and professional development and learning for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Dorothy specializes in coaching for signature awareness of one’s presence, leadership peak performance, overcoming derailment, and working with high performance leaders, groups, and teams. She presents additional training and development opportunities to ICF conferences and chapters and by invitation to commercial and non-profit organizations worldwide. Her book, A Gestalt Coaching Primer: The Path Toward Awareness IQ, is recognized as a classic introduction to professional coaching for those well-practiced and novices alike. She is co-developer and co-author of the Awareness 20/20™ leadership assessment instrument, a quantitative analysis of leaders’ awareness and the demonstrated ROI benefits of the self-aware leader.

Dorothy exudes warmth, inspires trust and intuitive wisdom and here are three takeaways:

The real problem may not be that we couldn’t think, but that we have a crisis of imagination : Bring the best and most radical change and design leaders together – listen, pause, reflect, and imagine what is possible
Strategic thinking and relational thinking are both required for success : You need both, a strategy and relationships
When you are truly present, you have an impact on others : You trust yourself and the other person will do the same and trust is needed now more than ever. Presence is the ability to know what to do in the present moment, to adapt old knowledge to serve in the present moment. “Your perception of me is a reflection of you, my reaction to you is an awareness of me.”