“One of the best gifts I've been given at work was the opportunity to work with Plum Cluverius as my coach. Plum helped me clarify what's important to me, helped me identify obstacles to my success, which included my own self, and helped me create a strategy to translate my goals into reality.”
--Alpana Adair, Human Resources Senior Consultant, Wellpoint, Inc.
About
Plum Cluverius is an executive coach working with executives, emerging leaders and professionals who are determined to be the best in their chosen fields. Her clients become more focused, more influential, more productive and more satisfied with their lives as they work with her. Since founding her company, Vedere Consulting, in 2000, Plum has coached and consulted clients in corporations, small businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Among her clients are Bon Secours Richmond Health System, Anthem, Lifenet Health, Hanover and James City Counties, James River Financial Corporation and the Virginia Healthcare Foundation. She serves as adjunct faculty for the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, the University of Richmond’s Management Institute and the Virginia Institute of Government.
Early in her career, Plum recognized that emotional mastery and relationship building were critical to leadership and organizational success, and she has been working and studying in those fields since 1977. She is a professional certified coach, a designation she earned from the International Coach Federation. Plum has a Master of Arts in the Applied Behavioral Sciences from the Leadership Institute of Seattle and Whitworth College and a Bachelor’s degree in history and sociology from Virginia Tech. She is a graduate of the George Mason University and Newfield Network certificate program in Coaching and Organizational Learning and Newfield’s advanced coaching program. She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Conflict Dynamics Profile and in William Bridges Managing Organizational Transition Program.
Plum is a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Chrysalis and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. In 2005 and 2006, she served as executive coach and trainer for the United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg’s Emerging Leaders Program, an integral part of the its annual fundraising campaign, and is the facilitator for NAWBO’s executive dialogue program.
If you'd like to see a bit of how Plum thinks, please visit her blog, where she writes about leadership issues.
