Meet Chuck
Chuck Bower: Transforming leaders and organizations
Chuck coaches business leaders to develop strong, profitable organizations solving their people problems and planning and execution challenges.
As a partner with Hawthorne Services, he provides innovative tools that make hiring, selection and succession a more objective process and are Simple, Human, and Smart. These tools include leading assessments in the DISC, Workplace Motivators and Emotional Intelligence space.
Chuck advises and helps businesses solve their hidden problems using diagnostic tools that identify missing or weak elements, using Organizational ReWilding solutions. Just as the Yellowstone ecosystem was rebuilt by returning the missing element (grey wolves), organizations struggle with visible and hidden problems that require infusing missing elements into the business ecosystem to achieve resilience, vitality, and dynamic order.
CEO and Key Executive Peer Groups (Warsaw, Indiana area)
Chuck is a Forum Leader for Renaissance Executive Forums, an organization that leverages the collective intelligence of its 1,700+ members to help them achieve a strong work / life balance and build more profitable and resilient organizations.
Chuck facilitates workshops where participants benefit from:
- Understanding and Enhancing your Emotional Intelligence with Useful Tips/Strategies
- Solving Hiring and Selection problems with Objective Tools
- Resolving Conflict, Communication and Related Issues with DISC and Other Tools
- Using Organizational ReWilding to Strengthen Your Business
- Improving the Dreaded Performance Review Process
His best work is with clients that:
- Are eager to develop better leaders
- Are willing to hear constructive feedback
- Are willing to innovate change in their organization
- Are supportive of their community
Chuck graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with a BA in Business. He am a member of South Bend/Mishawaka SHRM and the Michiana Human Resource Association. Chuck is a PXT Select™ Certified Professional, certified in the Talent Insight’s DISC, Motivators and TriMetrix® HD, and a Certified Advisor of The ReWild Group’s Organizational ReWilding solution.
The Hawthorne Services Story
Founded in 1997, Karen Kehr’s goal was to provide business improvement and talent management services to area companies. Making a significant career change, Chuck joined Karen in 2010. Originally known as Hawthorne Professional Development Services, the name would be shortened when the application for an internet domain blew up the registrar’s computer system. On a more serious note, Karen and Chuck have worked with hundreds of organizations to “make stars” and transform leaders.
Karen provided many years of services to diverse clientele, from corporate executives to self-employed entrepreneurs. Using her corporate training background, she created innovative training curriculum that improved business outcomes and leaders and strengthened leadership teams and skills. Karen’s coaching skills resulted in a growing number of testimonials, as leaders lined up to seek her help. Karen earned a Certificate in Family Business Advising and was a frequent speaker for Renaissance Executive Forums, SHRM chapters, and other business groups.
Priorities change, however. In 2020, after several years of gradually reducing her involvement in Hawthorne Services, she graduated to the role of “super grandma” for five impressive grandchildren. Northern Indiana’s organizational loss is her family’s gain!
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