About Dorothy Siminovitch
ICF TORONTO CHARTER CHAPTER
Lifetime Achievement Award
This 2022 award is in recognition of Dorothy’s pioneering thought leadership and progressive dedication to excellence, globally and locally. Her ground-breaking connection of Gestalt psychology with coaching ignited an impactful intersection of modalities that continues to impact and advance the coaching profession. ICF Toronto recognizes and commends Dorothy on her contributions to vertical development thinking, somatic intelligence, and reflective learning. Dorothy demonstrates inspiring qualities of integrity while being collaborative, connected, highly respected, and committed to the growth and development of the coaching profession.
Meet Dorothy Siminovitch:
Master Certified Coach
Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, Master Certified Coach, is founder and president of Gestalt Coaching Works, LLC. She is an international coach, consultant, speaker, and author. Dorothy is the founder and co-owner of the Gestalt Coaching Program in Istanbul, an ICF coach training program which she serves as Director of Training and as faculty. She is co‐founder of the Gestalt Center for Coaching, which delivers ICF accredited coach training workshops and extended programs internationally. She has recently joined Hudson Coaching Institute as faculty for a core coaching program.
Dorothy earned her PhD through Case Western Reserve University’s prestigious Department of Organizational Behavior. She pioneered the application of Gestalt theory, concepts, and practices in the service of professional coaching. She began delivering Gestalt coach training in 1996 after earning her Master Certified Coach credentials from the International Coach Federation (ICF). Dorothy honed her rich coaching, teaching, and consulting skills while serving in leadership and primary educator roles at renowned Gestalt study centers, and she has expanded her knowledge and wisdom by co-presenting with fellow thought-leaders in the coaching field. She provides world‐class training in innovative and adaptive Gestalt-based coaching, resulting in transformative personal and professional development and learning for individuals, groups, and organizations.
Dorothy specializes in coaching for signature awareness of one’s presence, leadership peak performance, overcoming derailment, and working with high performance leaders, groups, and teams. She presents additional training and development opportunities to ICF conferences and chapters and by invitation to commercial and non-profit organizations worldwide. Her book, A Gestalt Coaching Primer: The Path Toward Awareness Intelligence (2nd Edition), is recognized as a profound introduction to professional coaching for those well-practiced and novices alike. She is co-developer and co-author of the Awareness 20/20™ leadership assessment instrument, a quantitative analysis of leaders’ awareness and the demonstrated ROI benefits of the self-aware leader.
Dorothy is best known by colleagues, clients, students, and presentation participants as someone whose inviting warmth inspires trust, hope, and intuitive wisdom. She was recently honored by the ICF-Toronto Chapter with the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award in Coaching. Engaging and observant, she practices a passionate commitment to being aware in the moment, to bringing her transformational presence to bear in every encounter, and to perceiving and offering new possibilities and choices.
Raves
The Gift of Working with Dorothy
To spend time with Dorothy is to give yourself the gift of time with a warm, deeply caring, honest and direct person. She’ll gently push buttons no one has pushed before in you, building awareness of your most pernicious patterns, then hold and support you while you work yourself out of your own way. Dorothy uses her mastery of these gifts and skills in many venues: as an executive coach, organization development faculty member and consultant/practitioner.
– Mark Hollen | Organization Development Consultant and Principal, MH Consulting
A Transformative Gift for Any Leader
Dorothy is a master—elegant, simple, provocative, deep and fully present to the moment and the opportunities at hand. Our leadership team gathers for a retreat and new learning each winter and last year we spent two magical days with Dorothy. Each leader on the team spends so much time teaching, coaching and consulting with individuals, teams, and larger scale organizations—the power of our presence in the months to come was profoundly impacted through our work with Dorothy—what a gift to any leader!
— Pam McLean, PhD | CEO, The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara
When Dorothy Leads, Teams Transform
My team came together to do some group work with Dorothy. I have to say that Dorothy’s skill at holding a group, facilitating their journey through areas of both business and personal lives and gently, yet firmly, moving everyone forward was nothing short of awesome. As an NLP Trainer, I’m used to elegant language and building effective relationships with groups – this lady is a true Master of both. What can I say? If you ever get the chance to work with Dorothy, grab it with both hands – in fact, I strongly urge people to MAKE the chance to work with her. You will never regret one minute of it!
— Ralph Watson | Founder and Principal Consultant, Dynamic Communication Ltd., Rugby, England