What We Do
We provide individual coaching, both short and longer term. We create a safe, confidential space to share, reflect, learn, practice, and grow. We bring a wealth of skills and experience helping synagogues and Jewish organizations thrive.
Why Hevruta Coaching?
“Hevruta” references the Jewish tradition of deepening our learning in fellowship with one another.
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Jewish clergy and professionals often face challenges that will make or break the future of their organization. Yet, they may lack the training and support to make sound and strategic decisions.
For these complex challenges, we believe that a wise, empathic, and experienced thought partner is needed. In our work, we create a safe space to learn and grow. We strengthen leadership capacity through individual coaching, tailored to the unique needs and context of our clients.
Hevruta Coaching helps Jewish leaders sort through feelings, explore new approaches, try out new behaviors, and learn proven strategies. Our clients testify to the significant results that even a relatively small amount of coaching can yield.
How We Can Help
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Organizational Leadership
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Influencing Boards and Committees
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Crises and Turning Points
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Work-life Balance and Self-Care
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Supervising and Performance Reviews
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Working with Group Dynamics
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Difficult Conversations and Conflict
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Facilitating Effective Meetings
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Succession Planning
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Managing Resistance to Change
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Turning Vision into Action
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Presentation and Communication Skills
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Career Development
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Rabbi-President Relationship
Who We Are
David Trietsch
David Trietsch (he/him) has worked as an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator within the Jewish community and beyond for over 30 years. While at Greater Boston’s Jewish Federation (Combined Jewish Philanthropies - CJP), David founded and directed the Leadership Development Institute (LDI), providing consultation, mentoring, and coaching in the areas of group dynamics, leadership, and organizational change.
David is passionate about helping people and organizations succeed in not only meeting their goals and objectives, but in doing so in ways that develop and nurture both individuals and the organizational systems in which they work. Utilizing multiple frameworks for self-reflection and interpersonal dynamics, he works to weave differences into a tapestry enriching - rather than dividing - the organization.
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In his coaching of clergy, David has found two consistent themes: the misalignment of responsibility and authority, and the ongoing need for self-care and setting of boundaries. While at CJP, David created Siach, an ongoing forum providing a safe space for early career rabbis to share, learn and support one another.
David has led workshops and retreats for HUC’s Tisch Fellows and for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He has consulted to the Foundation for Jewish Camps Executive Leadership Institute and is a coach to Jewish Camp Executives. In addition, he has lectured and facilitated workshops at the national conferences of the URJ, NATA/NAASE as well as the Jewish Federations of New York, Baltimore, and Miami.
Among his volunteer activities, David is currently on the board of 2Life Communities and is a Steward of Beloved Garden, an organization whose mission is to support and nourish spiritual leaders who are creating new spaces of sacred belonging.
Margie Zohn
Margie Zohn (she/her) has more than 25 years of experience as an executive coach to leaders in nonprofits, academia, and the corporate world, and has also designed and led hundreds of trainings for a variety of audiences around the globe.
For seven years, Margie was a senior consultant for the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. There she designed programs and workshops and served a broad range of Jewish organizations with coaching, workshop facilitation, strategic planning, and board development. Margie was a featured speaker at the National Association for Temple Administrators annual conference, and a presenter at the URJ Biennial, among others.
From 2013-2022, Margie held a faculty appointment at Harvard University teaching public speaking and communication skills. She was recognized every year for Excellence in Teaching by Harvard’s Derek Bok Center.
In the corporate and academic sector, Margie has coached leaders at companies including American Express, Capital One, Google, Fidelity, The Federal Reserve, Wellington Management, and McKinsey, and has taught at executive education programs including Harvard, Columbia, MIT and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Margie has done pro bono work for Journey to Safety, a domestic abuse program of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, as well as Big Sister and the Make A Wish Foundation.
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Margie holds a B.A. from Brown University and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She earned a certification from The College of Executive Coaching and has completed post graduate training in organizational development.