Executive Coaches - Anita Howard, Ph.D.

Anita is an executive coach and organizational consultant with over 20 years of
experience in corporate, non-profit and educational settings. As a Master Coach in
Weatherhead's Center for Executive Education she has coached leaders and managers
in such companies as Sherwin-Williams, Alcoa, National City Bank, Sabre, Bendix, and
Eaton Corporation. In her work as an organizational consultant, Anita has designed and
led professional development and evaluation programs for numerous private sector
clients including Positive Innovations, Inc. in Jackson, MS; the Algebra Project, Inc. in
Boston, MA; the Cleveland Initiative for Education/Cleveland Teachers Academy in
Cleveland Ohio; and the Fund for Improvement of Higher Education (FIPSE) US-Brazil
Consortium.

Before coming to Weatherhead, Anita co-founded J. Howard & Associates, a
management consulting company where she developed training models to enhance the
performance of multicultural professionals in corporate settings and African American
students in U.S. universities and secondary schools. Anita also has worked in university
administration at Tufts University, Harvard University, and Radcliffe College where she
respectively served as director of the African American Center (Tufts University),
assistant to the dean (Harvard College), assistant to the director of undergraduate
affairs (Harvard College) and assistant director of the office of financial aid (Radcliffe
College).

Anita Howard currently is an adjunct professor at Case where she teaches courses in
organizational leadership and management. Anita's research program centers on the
role of positive and negative emotion in three related arenas: professional learning and
development; coaching intentional change; and use of emotional and social intelligence
competencies in performance settings. Anita is passionate about understanding the
conditions under which positive and negative emotional processing helps or hinders
human performance and about using this knowledge to promote professional growth
and desired change at the individual, team and organizational levels. Anita has
published articles on emotional intelligence and executive coaching in journals for
scholars and practitioners.

Education
• Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio
• Dissertation: An Exploratory Examination of Positive and Negative Emotional
Attractors' Impact on Coaching Intentional Change. Richard E. Boyatzis, Chair
• Doctoral Study in Social Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Merit Fellowship)
• Post Graduate Training and Certification in Family Systems Therapy, Kantor
Family Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• B.A. in Sociology, Metropolitan College, Boston University, Boston
Massachusetts

Professional Affiliations/Certifications
• Certified Executive Coach, HayGroup: Emotional and Social Competence
Inventory (ESCI)

Contact Information
Phone: 216.291.2030; Email: anita.howard@case.edu

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