President & Founder, LeaderXpress^®
Board Certified Coach, Leadership Strategy Consultant, Speaker, Author

Work Experience
Denise Brouillette is a leadership strategy consultant, Board Certified Coach, author, and president of LeaderXpress (formerly The Innovative Edge), a strategic leadership consultancy that she founded and has been heading up for nearly 20 years.

She honed her leadership development experience at two teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical School system and as vice president of a consulting firm in Boston before moving to San Francisco and launching her own consulting company.

For the past 20 years Denise has worked with a number of high-profile companies and clients in the Fortune 1000, consulting to and coaching executives, key leaders, and leadership teams seeking to optimize their performance as well as that of those under them in pivotal leadership areas. Those performance areas have included executive presence, leadership style, leadership brand, managing global teams, effectively working the power and political dynamics at the higher levels, exercising influence for optimal results, building sound communication and conflict-handling skills, leading change initiatives, progressing on a career path according to plan, and integrating meaningful work with a healthful and fulfilling personal life.  You can see the LeaderXpress client list here.

Education
Denise received her MBA from the Simmons School of Management in Boston, her BS with honors from Boston University, is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through the Coaches Training Institute, and has achieved the designation of Board Certified Coach (BCC) from the Center for Credentialing and Education, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. She has additional certifications in a host of best-in-class leadership assessments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step II Expanded, FIRO-B, Strategic Directions Leadership Effectiveness Analysis from Management Research Group, the full Lominger Leadership Architect Suite from Lominger International which now is a Korn / Ferry company, and Social and Emotional Intelligence inventories from the Hay Group -- all are global organizations.

Writing
Denise has authored more than 40 leadership articles, writes a leadership blog, and is writing a book that's based on her international webinar series of the same name, Influence Matters! Use It or Lose It: 31 Ways in 31 Days to Master Influence at Work. The book will be out in the summer of 2012.

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Denise teaches the courses Power and Influence: Women & Leadership and Women and Negotiation at U.C. Berkeley Extension and is an executive coach in U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business Executive Leadership Program. She has jumped out of planes, dived off cliffs, and is a former triathlete.

She divides her time between San Francisco and New York.