Belinda Collins is dedicated to serving the needs of her customers each and every day.
Belinda brings her experience, empathy, and enthusiasm to working with clients to help them solve their leadership issues and develop new, more effective leadership behaviors. With more than 30 years as a leader and executive at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she has walked firsthand the path that leaders follow. She knows at a bone deep level both the disappointments and thrills of creating successful projects and programs; of seeing staff succeed and sometimes fail; of dealing with ‘the system’ and figuring out ways to succeed within in.
Belinda is there for you as an experienced leader herself, enthusiastic about working with you to help you succeed in your own unique way. She combines her experience as a leader in a science and technology organization with her formal coach training to provide you with new ways of thinking and behaviors to help you succeed.
As you journey forward in your development, Belinda creates a confidential, safe environment for you to explore the challenges you face on a daily basis. She works with you to draw out your ideas, gain insights and create new possibilities for transition and change. She also helps you address ways to preserve your personal and work life balance and gain greater fulfillment through blending them in ways that reinforce. She works with you to develop sustainable action plans, building on your existing strengths to reinforce growth opportunities and career satisfaction.
With you, Belinda addresses your leadership challenges you identify for yourself or through formal assessments to help you create new possibilities and develop behaviors that lead to sustainable change. Using information obtained from these assessments, combined with growing personal insights, you will develop action plans for your own career development and growth, building new behaviors that you can sustain.
In addition to one-on-one coaching, Belinda offers classroom and webinar training for courses targeting career growth and development as well as facilitation for team building and growth.
Belinda’s Background
Belinda Collins is a Leadership and Executive Coach with more than 10 years of experience in coaching leaders and executives, both as an independent practitioner and as an award-winning leader in the Federal government. Her coaching focuses on developing leaders in organizations such as the National Science Foundation, Chemical Safety Board, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, American Association of Medical Instrumentation, International Monetary Fund Family Association, Leadership Fairfax, Leadership Arlington, and Share our Strength.
Belinda brings to coaching her ten years of accomplishment in the Senior Executive Service as Director and Deputy Director of Technology Services and then Senior Adviser for Voting Standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), plus extensive prior experience leading and managing high-performing professionals in scientific fields at NIST as Director of the Office of Standards Services and Leader of the Lighting Group. She is also an accomplished researcher in human factors and applied psychology with more than 70 technical publications at NIST.
Education
Belinda holds a Ph.D and M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Psychology from University of Mary Washington. Dr. Collins received her Leadership Coaching Certificate from Georgetown University and is an Associate Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation. She also holds certificates in Leadership Circle, DiSC, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Emotional Intelligence (EQ-I 2.0 and 360), Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), and a Certificate in Leadership for a Democratic Society from the Federal Executive Institute. Other coursework includes: Adult Development, Team Coaching, and the Art of Facilitation.
If you would like to learn more about Belinda Collins or the Leadership Coaching Services she offers, please contact her via web form or call at 703-407-5825