About My Approach

Executive Coaching Approach

I provide a unique coaching experience that draws on my leadership and therapy background as well as my psychiatric knowledge of the way brain wiring affects perceptions, interactions, experience, group dynamics and performance. I am driven to help individuals and teams embrace challenges and realize their ambitious objectives.

My clients are predominantly high potential emerging leaders, C-suite executives, physicians, and attorneys, in firms, start-ups, and more established companies. They are looking for creative, empowering solutions to complex problems. I help them find meaning, clarity, balance, fiscal success, and well-being. Purpose driven living and leadership are combined in a recipe for tremendous success. I help define and build mission statements, create business strategy and support execution to defined goals. I am both proactive in helping build and responsive in addressing stuck points.

With the best of intentions, we all communicate ineffectively, misinterpret cues and clues, and make poor decisions. I solve these interpersonal glitches, and move these impasses forward. I have helped teams coalesce, and have helped shift poorly performing individuals to star performers. I help leaders build effective teams, working with them to define mission and goals, and aiding the development and implementation of strategy in both big picture and detailed ways.

We regularly reflect on what is and is not working, address the blocks to success, develop and grow executive presence, manage complex work relationships and environments, and select their best use of time and resources.

Studies have shown that high level executives who get coaching are substantially more effective in their career trajectories over time. The myriad of skills required to function optimally, are not inborn. They can be learned, with help, over time. Executive coaching done well, addresses the above questions and more. As a premier executive coach, my goal is to help my clients realize their vision, make optimal use of their time and energy, and be their best selves.

By and large, clients come to me by personal referral from prior or current clients, and from professional colleagues. I bring a 40 plus year track record of success, the breadth of knowledge and expertise needed to tackle the specific challenges my clients face, and a passion to partner with them in developing and actualizing personalized plans for success. I work both big picture and tactically, meeting my clients where they are, and helping them get where they want to go.

More About
Dr. Wood

Leader, Integrative Psychiatrist, Executive Coach

Eve A. Wood, M.D., is an integrative psychiatrist, executive coach, and key note speaker, who is driven to help leaders build lives they love. She has served on the Colorado Supreme Court Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being, created by the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. She also developed the signature program: A HEALTHY LAWYER; A Sustainable Approach to Depression, Anxiety, Burnout, and Stress. She currently works with numerous lawyers and law firms as an executive coach.

Dr. Wood has been in the personal development space for over 40 years. She has been a professor in numerous settings, the Medical Director in many settings including an addiction treatment center, a general psychiatry center as part of a hospital, and one that was freestanding. She has been a senior medical consultant to the national health system in New Zealand, and the Chief Medical Officer for a large group of mental health facilities in Colorado. She spent 3 years as Medical Director of Integrative Services at Centura Health. She has been a psychiatrist, teacher, and mentor to junior colleagues the The Institute for Family Health in New York. She has been on retainer for a series of law firms and healthcare startups, and been contracted for quite a few individual engagements with key leaders and organizations over the past 6 years. She has also served on a series of boards and is currently a board president. She has spoken, taught, and presented all over the world, making her mark in the field by bridging body, mind, and spirit in an empowering model of whole-person healing and personal efficacy and development.

Dr. Wood has authored three books and two self-help kits; has won numerous awards for her writing (including the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice: Nonfiction for There’s Always Help; There’s Always Hope); was back-page feature columnist for Massage Therapy Journal (taking over for Bernie Siegel, M.D., when he retired); has been a radio host on Sirius Satellite Radio and Hay House Radio; was a professor for six years at the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine; and much more. But most of all, she is a deeply ethical and passionate human being who is concerned about sustainable approaches to work, life, and well-being, that maximize the individual’s innate capacity to thrive in a complex world.

Board Certification

Diplomate in the Specialty of Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties

Educational Background

University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 1980–1984
Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts, Biology, 1980
Concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior, Cum Laude, Honors, Distinction

publications

Relevant Publications

The Gift of Betrayal: How to Heal Your Life When Your World Explodes, Hay House, April 2009
What Am I Feeling and What Does It Mean? A Kit for Self-Growth and Healthy Relationships, Hay House, 2008
The Stop Anxiety Now Kit, Hay House, 2007
10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing, Hay House, 2007
There’s Always Help; There’s Always Hope: An award-winning psychiatrist shows you how to heal your body, mind, and spirit, Hay House, May 2006
Building Bridges, Saving Lives, International Journal of Healing and Caring, May 2005

Andrew Weil, M.D.
Director and Chair of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona

Learning to control emotions is both difficult and rewarding, probably one of the most important steps to attain optimum health of both mind and body. Dr Eve Wood has authored a detailed and practical guide to help you do it. I recommend this book and am completely in agreement with the philosophy behind it.

C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.
Former U.S. Surgeon General & Former Professor, Dartmouth Medical School

I have seldom been so moved by a book. There's Always Help; There's Always Hope is the only healing model that makes sense. Whether you are a healthcare provider or a fellow seeker, this book stands out like a lighthouse in stormy weather.