Barbara Waxman Middlescence Life Stage Expert, Coach, Gerontologist
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Cultivate a New Kind of ROI

You can enjoy the rewards, influence, and impact of your leadership without sacrificing your energy, equanimity and the relationships that matter most.

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Lead with purpose
for meaningful results.

Expand your leadership
capacity, influence and impact.

Create clarity out of
chaos and complexity.

Increase your energy,
equanimity and resilience.

Live authentically aligned
with your core values.

Navigating today's complex challenges and the demands of leadership can feel depleting and isolating.

We’ve been conditioned to value productivity over passion, achievement over fulfillment, and associate success with long hours, minimal sleep and unsustainable personal sacrifice. These misguided norms undermine your leadership capacity and lead to less engagement, focus, productivity, joy and connection.

Are you feeling out of sync with an increasing sense of burnout and reactivity?

Are you overwhelmed and frustrated by your attempts to balance work and life?

Do self-limiting beliefs and internal naysayers diminish your willingness to take risks?

Are your relationships, personally and professionally, as strong as they could be?

Coaching for a New Kind of ROI

You don’t have to choose between successful leadership and depletion. Leverage Barbara’s experience and proven coaching methodology.

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"Before working with Barbara I did not understand the potential of coaching. Barbara has the ability to capture the essence of a complex situation and build a productive conversation around it."
Magnus Baarman
Magnus BaarmanCEO, AP&T, Sweden
Once I started working with Barbara, I identified ways in which I was working against myself work-wise, health-wise and even psychologically.
Alexandra Morgan
Alexandra MorganCEO, The Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House, San Francisco
"Barbara Waxman's empathetic and practical approach to inspiring people to embrace midlife is a marvel to watch."
Chip Conley
Chip ConleyCEO Modern Elder Academy, NYT Best Selling Author, Mexico
"Barbara was a strong asset as I prepared to step into an executive role. She helped me articulate what was holding me back; create a plan and confidently step into my new role."
Carolyn Graham
Carolyn GrahamExecutive VP & Chief Risk Officer, CWB Financial Group, Canada
"Barbara has a terrific tool box and is very results driven, thoughtful and organized. She helps me see different ways of viewing a situation which are transformational."
Julie Castro Abrams
Julie Castro AbramsCEO, How Women Lead
"Barbara pushed me out of my comfort zone which resulted in me taking more bold action in my business decisions. Barbara has an uncanny way of getting to the root cause of whatever issue you are dealing with..."
Garrett Hancock
Garrett HancockGarrett Haycock, Sr. Vice President
Barbara blends together wisdom, leadership, coaching and business acumen to help you achieve your own goals. Whether it's a career transition, a challenge in your current role, a desire to create a long-term plan..."
Laura Talmus
Laura TalmusCo-founder and Executive Director, Beyond Differences
"She helped me attain clarity of purpose, re-center myself on what I truly valued, and rechannel the courage that I deployed on behalf of everyone around me to courage in myself. "
Jaye Chen
Jaye ChenSenior Management
"With Barbara’s insights I have been more self-aware of my strengths and challenges and have been about to strengthen my overall leadership as a result."
Marsha NelsonFormer Head of Independent School
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New Report:
The Future of Resilient Leadership

Barbara shares resources to help you cultivate the pillars of resilient leadership: mindset, energy management, and work-life integration.

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MODERN ELDER ACADEMY

The Consciously Curated Life

During this Mastery Week you'll explore the new reality of Middlescence at the intersection of Chip Conley's concept of the Modern Elder to gain a new understanding of the growth and development that will allow you to create clarity out of chaos, regenerate and renew.

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Middlescence: A Life Stage Created by the Longevity Patterns of the 21st Century

Cultural norms and rampant ageism have labeled midlife as a crisis riddled with stagnation and decrepitude. The reality is entirely different and full of potential. Old constructs no longer apply.

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SMALL GROUP COACHING ONLINE EXPERIENCE

Five to Thrive in 2022

Increase your energy and resilience, gain the clarity you need to determine your next steps, and cultivate your focus and growth with pragmatic tools.

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Step into new ways of thinking and leading.

Take the Five to Thrive Quiz©

New and updated for 2021, Barbara’s science-based, proprietary Five Essential Elements process will enable you to discover how the Elements can change your life. Assess your current energy status and turn insights into action by creating an activation plan to cultivate clarity out of chaos, live authentically and expand your leadership capacity.

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Expert Coach, Caring Truth-Teller, Strategic Thought Partner, and Accountability Advocate

Barbara Waxman, founder of Odyssey Group Coaching, is passionate about building leaders’ personal and professional skills so they can thrive while increasing their ability to manage complexity and maximize their effectiveness. With more than two decades of experience coaching CEOs, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs, Barbara utilizes a holistic approach to help clients lead and communicate authentically, sustain high performance and expand their influence and impact.

Barbara’s coaching philosophy is simple: guide with integrity and compassion, inspire with honesty and a light heard, and share with strength and purpose. Her experience as a Gerontologist and coach has culminated in the proprietary transformative coaching model, Entrepreneurship Turned Inward©, and her science-based Five Essential Elements© process. Barbara has worked in the automotive, financial services, health care, nonprofit, and technology sectors, among others.
Leadership Coach Barbara Waxman
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Barbara Waxman Featured on CBS This Morning
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Barbara Waxman Featured in Thrive Global