What We Do
We provide individualized coaching—both short- and longer-term—tailored to each leader’s goals and context. Our work creates a confidential, trusted space for reflection, learning, and real-time practice. With deep experience in synagogues and Jewish organizations, we help leaders strengthen their communication, navigate complexity, and lead with clarity and confidence.
Why Hevruta Coaching?
“Hevruta” comes from the Jewish tradition of learning in partnership—where understanding deepens through conversation, reflection, and shared inquiry.
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Leadership in Jewish organizations can be both deeply meaningful and profoundly demanding. Clergy and professionals are often carrying complex decisions, sensitive dynamics, and competing expectations—without a consistent space to think, process, and grow.
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We believe that kind of space is essential. With the right partner—one who brings experience, empathy, and perspective—leaders can step out of reactivity and into more intentional, grounded leadership.
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Hevruta Coaching offers that space. Together, we help leaders explore new possibilities and practice more effective ways of leading. The result is not just insight, but tangible growth that strengthens both the leader and the community they serve.
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) brings more than 25 years of experience as an executive coach to leaders across nonprofits, academia, and the corporate sector. She has designed and led hundreds of trainings worldwide, with a particular focus on strengthening leadership, communication, and organizational effectiveness.
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For seven years, Margie served as a senior consultant with the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, where she partnered with clergy, executive directors, and boards across a wide range of Jewish organizations. Her work included coaching senior leaders, facilitating workshops, supporting strategic planning processes, and advancing board development. She has been a featured speaker at the National Association for Temple Administrators and a presenter at the URJ Biennial, among others.
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From 2013–2022, Margie held a faculty appointment at Harvard University, where she taught public speaking and communication. She was recognized each year for Excellence in Teaching by Harvard’s Derek Bok Center—an acknowledgment of her ability to translate complex ideas into practical, high-impact learning.
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Margie’s clients span leading institutions and organizations, including American Express, Capital One, Google, Fidelity, the Federal Reserve, Wellington Management, and McKinsey. She has also taught in executive education programs at Harvard, Columbia, MIT, and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her pro bono work includes partnerships with Journey to Safety (a program of Jewish Family and Children’s Services), 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, along with certification from The College of Executive Coaching and advanced training in organizational development.