Acorn Consulting’s President Selected as One of Stanford Business School’s Five Master Coaches

One of Nation’s Prominent Institutions Adds
Personal Coaching Classes to its Leadership Program Curriculum

Menlo Park, CA July 26, 2004 – Acorn Consulting announced today the appointment of its Founder and President, Andrea Corney, as a Master Coach for Stanford Business School’s Leadership Development Platform.  The program signifies the move by one of the countries cutting edge Business Schools to focus on leadership development with a year long program for first year students that emphasizes first-hand experience and one-on-one coaching. 

Acorn Consulting’s Founder, Andrea Corney, has worked with high tech management teams since 1995, helping them gain traction on their critical business issues.  Ms. Corney is a former corporate and employment lawyer who has held positions at Heller Ehrman and Wilson Sonsini.  Combined with her JD/MBA from Stanford, her experience enables her to bring a solid business focus to clients through her understanding of the strategic issues facing business leaders. 

Stanford’s leadership development program began in 2003-2004 with 60 students from the first year MBA program.  The select group of master coaches worked one-on-one with students on increasing their self-awareness and meeting the real-life challenges of leading others.

“For many students the coaching sessions are the first time they have truly faced their own individual strengths and weaknesses and come to grips with what it will take for them to be effective leaders.  We are in a knowledge economy now where human capital provides the competitive advantage and highly developed leadership skills are essential,” said Andrea Corney, founder of Acorn Consulting. 

Recognizing that part of effective leadership is the ability to coach others, the school has expanded the leadership program to include second year students.  Starting this fall, 30 second year students will participate in a new seminar on coaching while also acting as coaches for first year students.  Ms. Corney is one of five Master Coaches who have been selected to work with Professor David Bradford on developing the seminar.  The Master Coaches will also meet regularly with small groups of students to support them in their coaching role. 

For more information about the Stanford Master Coach Program or about Acorn Consulting’s full menu of service offerings, log on to http://www.acorn-od.com, or contact the Menlo Park office at (650) 329-8923. 

About Acorn Consulting

Since 1995, Andrea Corney, founder of Acorn Consulting, has been helping high tech management teams get traction on the critical issues that impact their bottom line.  With a JD/MBA from Stanford, she brings a solid business focus and understanding of strategic issues to the work of helping executives and management teams meet the challenges of leadership, management, and working with others.  Clients range in size from early stage start-ups to large public companies and include:  Actona Technologies, Allstate, Bravanta, Cisco, Evite, HP, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, and Virage Logic.

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