erika lamont - managing director

Erika is a master executive coach, consultant, facilitator, author, speaker, founding partner, and Managing Director of Connect the Dots Consulting. Connect the Dots is a specialized boutique management consulting company with deep knowledge in executive coaching, team effectiveness, and leadership onboarding. Erika’s collaborative approach with clients and partners allows her to deeply understand the unique culture within an organization, identify its strengths, spot any shortcomings, and incorporate this insight into each personalized solution offered to clients.

Erika’s unique combination of hands-on corporate experience and leadership development expertise offers a valuable perspective to her clients. Her background includes various strategic leadership roles at Riverside Methodist Hospital within the OhioHealth Corporation and at Bath & Body Works, Inc., which shaped her passion for helping leaders find and be their authentic best.

Erika’s professional approach is centered around aiding leaders in identifying and fulfilling their potential – transforming their proficiency from good into great. Her coaching philosophy is leveraging leaders’ innate talents and strengths to achieve success in their current or future roles while positively impacting their teams and organizations.

Erika’s Education and Certifications:

  • Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC Certification) from the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches™
  • ICF Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered coaching
  • CliftonStrengths Coach
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Coach
  • DiSC Coach
  • The Six Types of Working Genius Facilitator
  • Prosci, Change Management
  • Miami University, BA Political Science, Business Administration

 

Erika’s Areas of Expertise:

  • Coaching leaders in:
    • Fortune 500 companies
    • Medium- sized for and not-     for-     profit organizations
    • Complex organizations including universities, medical centers, automotive, hospitality, and technology
  • Executive presence & strategic communication
  • Change leadership
  • Onboarding and transition
  • Team effectiveness
  • Navigating organizational dynamics

 

What Erika’s clients say about their work with her:

“Erika is hyper- tuned in to where the opportunity lies and works with deep empathy to home in on these. She never settled for or accepted complaisance and pushed for transformative growth. I owe Erika a debt of gratitude for her role in my own professional journey”

How she spends her free time:

  • Executive Leadership, Go Red for Women, American Heart Association
  • Board Member, The Contemporary Theater of Ohio
  • Hosting family and friends
    Working out with her fitness team
  • Reading, attending the theater, and traveling

 

Email Erika: elamont@connectthedotsconsulting.com

Our team-connect Survey Process

 

We start with thoughtfully diagnosing the team’s current culture by using available data, assessments and interviews.

This provides the team leader with a clear view of what is getting in the way of the team’s success.

We design a series of structured team sessions that:

  • Share the team culture analysis
  • Give team members the opportunity to talk through both processes and behaviors that need to be addressed
  • Productively provide feedback to one another
  • Develop both team and individual commitments that will lead to the team’s desired state

 

Measure progress by leveraging CTD’s team-connect Survey to:

  • Drive accountability and measure progress by collecting team feedback specific to one another’s engagement and behavioral change
  • Provide the team’s leader with a clear understanding of what he/she and the team need from each other to enable and support the team’s success
  • Share team and individual survey result reports