Manya Arond-Thomas, M.D.

Manya Arond-Thomas & Company’s approach to effective leadership draws on a variety of disciplines and business assessment instruments that bridge psychology and adult development, executive and business coaching, and organizational development.

About the Founder: Manya Arond-Thomas, M.D.

Manya brings over 2 decades of experience in human and systems development to my work as an executive coach, consultant, trainer, and facilitator. Trained initially as a physician, my coaching approach offers what I believe is a powerful perspective on the integration of individual performance, personal development and well being with business results. In being able to work as an executive and team coach in support of excellence, leadership, and organizational effectiveness, Manya found the perfect arena that allows her to integrate her passions, training and experience in health care and well-being, leadership development, emotional intelligence and personal development, team and organizational effectiveness, systems thinking, and transformational change management.

As an undergraduate at Harvard, she majored in Social Relations, an interdisciplinary field that integrated Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Anthropology and Sociology. These studies provided a rich foundation for looking at human behavior and systems. At this time, she was also fascinated with the inter-relationship of body, mind, and spirit as a system, and how that interaction supported healing and wellness. This interest led to her first career as a massage therapist, in which she provided therapeutic massage, counseling and healing services. Manya’s focus was on wellness and helping people mobilize their innate healing resources. She subsequently became a physician and practiced Internal Medicine and Psychiatry for 5 years. This experience and her 25 year history working with human and systems development led her to begin working as an executive coach and organizational consultant.

Manya holds a B.A. from Harvard in Social Relations and Human Behavior, an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts, with post-graduate medical training from Brown University and the University of Michigan. She is a Certified Business Coach, and is also trained and certified in a number of behavioral and organizational change methodologies and business assessment instruments. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the International Consortia of Business Coaches.

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