Blaze Konkol

Blaze has over 20 years’ experience coaching leaders from Director to the C-Suite to become more effective and move critical conversations forward through coaching, training facilitation, and consulting. He combines his experience in management and psychology to help leaders clarify their intentions, develop insight, adjust their approaches, and productively hold challenging and constructive conversations.

As an experienced leader who has worked with executives across a variety of industries from professional services, higher education, manufacturing, to health care, Blaze understands the challenges that leaders face when driving change and performance. Blaze invests in understanding how his clients’ personalities and backgrounds influence their thought process and uses those insights to help them change their perspectives and approach.

As Senior Manager at Deloitte, Blaze worked in a variety of training facilitation, coaching, and talent development roles in the U.S. and Australia.

As Senior Director of Career Management at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Blaze created a global coaching team responsible for the development, design, and implementation of leadership and career development workshops and coaching for students and alumni in Chicago, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

• BA, English and History, University of Wisconsin Madison
• Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Northwestern University
• Provisionally certified Crucial Conversations trainer
• Certified in formal assessment tools including the Hogan LeadershipAssessment, Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, Korn Ferry 360, LeadershipVersatility Index and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

“Blaze blends business needs and bigger picture goals with each individual’s capabilities, personal styles and motivations. Whilst his experience provides plenty of best practice methodologies, he adapts approaches to best fit the situation and the individuals involved, empathetically and with respect.”