Tom Pierce
Thomas H. Pierce MBA, President
Tom Pierce has been leading, managing, and training people in corporate and non-profit organizations for over three decades. He founded Pierce Management Development to coach and train executives, teams, and boards—and to facilitate their critical meetings— to achieve higher levels of excellence.
Tom is responsible for executive coaching, including in-person and telephone sessions; creating and delivering on-site training; and designing and facilitating critical-issue meetings and retreats. He is certified by TalentSmart to administer and evaluate the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal ™ and to present Discovering Emotional Intelligence ™.
Tom’s coaching clients include top executives in associations, chambers of commerce, nonprofit and business organizations from D.C. to Kentucky to Colorado to California. He has trained teams and facilitated board retreats in organizations whose focus ranges from banking to accounting, from hospitality to horses, from chocolate production to skiing history preservation.
Tom’s executive coaching clients generally request confidentiality.
Here are representative examples of Tom’s training and/or facilitation clients:
- ASAE, American Society of Association Executives
- ASTD, American Society of Training & Development
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Management
- AAEP, American Association of Equine Practitioners
- ISHA, the International Skiing History Association
- Leadership Academy of the Georgia Society of CPAs
- New England SBDC, Small Business Development Center
- Lake Champlain Chocolates
After a successful twenty-five year career in broadcast management with CBS Radio in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and with Boston’s Knight Broadcasting Group, where he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, Tom founded his first management consulting venture, StayTuned.
In 1997, the multi-state financial services holding company Banknorth Group (now TD Bank), recruited Tom to become the financial services holding company’s senior vice president and managing director, marketing. In 2001, Tom formed Pierce Communications Group to share his expertise in marketing, motivating, and mentoring with businesses and nonprofits.
In 2002, Tom was named to the faculty of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Development, where he developed and taught management and communication courses for five years. In 2009 and 2010, he was selected by ASAE to be a facilitator / trainer on leadership issues at their Annual Meetings and Great Ideas learning labs. Tom created and facilitated the featured training session “Leading into the New Decade—Leadership Tools for Your Next Ten Years” at ASAE’s 2009 Leadership Conference.
From 2007 through 2011, ASAE selected Tom to be one of five executive career coaches serving members attending the Annual Meetings in Chicago, San Diego, Toronto, and Los Angeles. He currently serves as chair of ASAE’s Consultants Section Council in Washington, D.C.
In 2009, ASTD selected Tom to design and deliver their Webinar series “Essentials of Emotional Intelligence.” Because of the high participant evaluations of this innovative course, ASTD invited Tom back to deliver his session again in 2010.
Tom’s volunteer work has included serving as chair of the boards of Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Champlain College, Shelburne Farms, and Champlain Valley CrimeStoppers. He is a past president of Vermont Association of Broadcasters.
Tom earned a B.A. from Williams College, graduating with highest honors in English, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he focused on marketing and finance. He is an avid skier, golfer, writer, and reader.
