Dave Bushy

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Dave Bushy is a founding member of Boston Executive Coaches, a highly regarded consortium of experienced executives.  BEC specializes in coaching, consulting and professional development for leaders and teams in the US and Europe.   

Dave specializes in coaching corporate executives and their teams and has extensive experience with individuals in the C-Suite.    He works with clients to help them build awareness about their developmental needs, utilizing the Denison Leadership Development 360, interviews with team members and in-depth conversations with the client.  From that awareness, action plans emerge which help develop leaders to expand their range and capabilities.  In the process, the leader becomes more effective and learns to see her or his team as a system, with outcomes that include improved communication and effectiveness.  

Boston Executive Coaches (BEC) provides Team Coaching.  Dave and his colleague Susan Clancy have worked together on such engagements for a number of clients.

Dave has coached professionally for the past eight years and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).  Mentored by the late Richard Hackman, PhD, of Harvard Business School, Dave strongly adheres to Hackman’s research and findings on successful teams. 

He has served a variety of clients in the public and private sector, including United Airlines, Oman Airways, High Purity New England, Decision Resources Group (DRG), the New York City Department of Education (DOE), Delta Private Jets, and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority in New York.  He currently works with many other clients throughout the world.

As a respected former airline executive with 35 years of leadership and operations experience, Dave was a leader in transforming cultures and facilitating change - his passion was building teams and coaching them.  Dave served at Delta Air Lines for 25 years, as a pilot and eventually Senior Vice President of Flight Operations, where he managed more than 10,000 people.  He served as JetBlue’s Vice President of Flight Operations from 2003-2006 and then at Cape Air/ Nantucket Airlines for seven years as its first Chief Operating Officer (COO) and then President.   

A former U.S. Army officer, Dave is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.  He earned his M.S. in Industrial Relations from the University of New Haven and has worked extensively in labor relations throughout his career.  Dave graduated from the Coaching Certification Program at the Gestalt International Study Center (GISC) in 2014 and continues to work with the center as an instructor and volunteer.  He also participates regularly in a coaching supervision group.