In the past ten years Charlie has discovered that executives need a safe place to vent and think through difficult business issues. Charlie is a down-to-earth and highly productive creative. He excels at problem solving and creating simple and effective business and relationship solutions, including the design of organizational systems. Charlie Hedges works with executives on business development, staffing, and personal issues. With his 20 year of experience and personal approach Charlie has become the trusted advisor, coach and friend to several CEO’s of large companies. His accomplishments include:

Executive Partner in Thought

• Executive Coach and Advisor to CEO/President of the largest specialty food manufacturer in the US. At $750MM in revenues it was time for the president to become more of a CEO and less of a president. Charlie worked closely with the Board of Directors in the process. Advising in prioritization, delegation, and world-view helped the individual tremendously. The company has grown to more than $1.3 B in annual revenue.
• Executive Advisor to CEO and Chairman to one of the very few banks in California to make money in 2008-2010. They were rated the number one bank in California in the $600M to $1.2B in assets. He continues to work closely with all individuals of Executive Team and Board of Directors.
• Served as an outside “Chief of Staff” to the CEO of a lending institution generating just under $1B in loans annually. Helped talk CEO through managing the national recession difficulties.
• Executive Coach to a Foreign President of American workforce. Helped him modify his style for an American workforce resulting in highly increased respect (after having received legal warning of harassing American workers).

Corporate Consulting and Development

• Facilitated on-going Executive Team and Board of Directors sessions that successfully mitigated serious conflict issues that had been growing for the last ten years of operation. (The institution was responsible for $1 B in assets.)
• Designed and facilitated a series of conflict management, production improvement, and improved collaboration sessions with a World Class International Oil Company and its contracted Energy Services. Provider for a three billion dollar refinery upgrade project in Saudi Arabia. The two senior teams began highly adversarial and, fortunately, experienced a complete turnaround in attitude, work strategies, and productive interpersonal relations.
• Created and implemented an Executive Development Program for a $750 MM affiliate of a multi-national corporation, including competency models, 360 feedback, and personal coaching. Resulted in significantly improved management skills/behaviors for the company’s executives.
• Created a New Hire Performance Acceleration Process (a form of OnBoarding) that greatly accelerated the performance of new hires with a $5 B company.

Educational Background

M.A., WESTERN SEMINARY, Portland, OR
B.A., MARYLHURST COLLEGE, Portland, OR
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES—Awarded full scholarship for gymnastics