Avi Shai
| COACH
Avi brings a unique depth of experience coupled with a passion for mentoring and coaching using his framework, The Art of Being on Target.
Avi has a successful track record of over three decades with companies such as Google, VMware, NICE and as a co-founder and engineering leader of smaller startup teams.
Avi’s framework, The Art of Being On Target, helps leaders improve the critical skill of balancing listening, planning, and execution. With Avi’s mentorship, support, consulting, and advice leaders learn how to balance these three core leadership domains.
Avi is a highly skilled and experienced certified coach who has helped many people to be on-target with their organization’s goals, their leaders' development goals, and most importantly, their customers’ goals.
He uses inductive listening, the type of deep listening that will help you gain self-awareness, improve communication, and develop new perspectives right during the coaching sessions, and as you process your insights between meetings. Avi does not believe in ‘one size fits all’: his coaching style adjusts to adapt to each individual client to provide them with the exact support and guidance they need to reach their goals. His compassionate and supportive coaching style has always received rave reviews about his willingness to go the extra mile to facilitate his clients' success.
With Avi’s coaching, numerous leaders significantly improved their leadership and management skills leading to improved focus and performance of their teams, culminating in the overall achievement of their organizations’ targets and along with it - their customer’s higher satisfaction.
Avi holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC, CPCC).
Avi was born in Israel and has been living in California for almost 20 years. Married with two sons, Avi enjoys scuba diving in the big blue sea and listening to classical music.