NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peggy Klaus has won a Gold Stevie® Award for Coach of the Year in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. She also picked up a Bronze for Woman of the Year in Business Services.
The Stevie Awards are the world’s top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run. All individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The 2016 awards received entries from 31 nations and territories.
Klaus’s coaching career began in 1991, when she was caring for a dying friend. This experience inspired Klaus – already a successful actor, producer, talent coach and director, with Paramount Pictures, NBC, and Warner Brothers on her resume – to create a coaching program to help doctors better communicate with patients.
Two years and many hospitals later, Klaus shifted her prodigious energy and expert Hollywood skill-set to executives. Friends climbing the corporate ladder were asking her for communication and presentation training, and she fast became one of the country’s top executive coaches, with clients like JP Morgan Chase, the NFL, Gap, Goldman Sachs, and Johnson & Johnson.
At the core of the Klaus oeuvre is behavioral change. But results are what prompt companies to ask her back again and again. Take, for instance, the executives terrified after a sudden sale of their company. Or the “high-potential hire” who didn’t get along with people. Or the executive who didn’t trust her instincts or value – until Klaus came along.
“Changes aren't made overnight,” Klaus says, adding “It takes a lot of hard work.”
And so does a career that tops the charts for 23 years.
About Klaus & Associates
You may have seen her on the
Today Show and 20/20 or read her advice in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, and O magazine. For
two decades, executive coach Peggy
Klaus has helped thousands of professionals succeed by teaching
skills essential for great communication and leadership. Author of BRAG!
The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It and The Hard
Truth About Soft Skills, she engages audiences with high-energy and
often hilarious keynotes and programs. Klaus, based in Berkeley, Calif.,
has lectured at UC-Berkeley, Harvard, Wharton’s and Smith College’s
Executive MBA programs, and she is on the Young Women’s Leadership
Network board. www.peggyklaus.com
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards competitions receive
more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60
nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people
behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the
workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
