Optimize Intl - About Us

Steve Lishansky is the founder and President of Optimize International, the successor company to Success Dynamics that he founded as one of the first executive coaching firms in the United States. He is recognized as a leader in the fields of building high-value relationship skills, executive coaching and development, and improving organizational alignment and performance. Steve is also the founder and Executive Director of the Executive Coaching Institute (ECI), the oldest coach training organization dedicated to elevating results by educating top-level executives and coaches in the principle-based, highly effective work he pioneered.

Since starting his consulting, coaching and facilitation company in 1992, after a distinguished 20 year career founding and running companies, Steve has worked with senior leaders and their organizations producing results through: executive coaching; consulting; delivering customized educational programs and keynotes; and facilitating executive meetings, retreats and strategic planning sessions. His specialties include working with senior executives, top leaders, and designated future leaders in:

Building high value relationships – utilizing effective inter-personal communications and influence skills for increasing the clarity, value, impact and results with clients, stakeholders and employees, leading to high level alignment, high value relationships, and consistency in bringing out the best in their people
Mastering the dynamics of effective leadership: producing high-impact, sustainable results with their people and organizations through authenticity that informs effective presence, communications, and alignment around their vision, mission, goals and strategies
Improving overall team and organizational results – developing the coaching, mentoring and leadership skills that maximize leaders’ leverage with their people, their people’s effectiveness with each other, and high level alignment of vision, mission, goals and strategies