Ivy Gordon, MSOD
Ms. Gordon has combined her strong business and entrepreneurial success with her background and knowledge of human and organizational behavior, skills which help her understand the challenges and opportunities experienced by family owned businesses.
Ivy enjoys endurance horse riding, hiking in the canyons of the Colorado plateau, and playing tennis.
"I am passionate about inviting members of family businesses to build the kind of companies and families in which they wish to live. To help them discover the best of what they already created, and together, find ways to get more of it."
Ivy's Core Competencies
Ivy assists her clients in achieving balance between the goals of business prosperity, family harmony, and personal well being.
Her principal areas of expertise include helping clients:
- Create shared images for a preferred future
- Innovate strategy and systems to create that future
- Agree on the principles and values that should guide change
- Build a climate for collaboration and healthy challenge
- Develop strategic leadership
- Develop coaching programs at needed levels of the organization
- Increase capacity for strategic thinking, decision-making, and risk tolerance
Ivy focuses her consulting on change management and leadership development through appreciative inquiry and experiential learning. She is also a chairperson for TEC, the world’s largest membership CEO organization. Through TEC, Ivy helps members grow their companies and become better leaders, make better decisions and get better results. She has consulted with a variety of corporate, entrepreneurial and non-profit organizations.
Ivy's Track Record
Ivy co-founded Datafaction, which became the industry leader in database, business management solutions. An early pioneer in the computer industry, her clients included Fortune 500 companies and several of the then top six accountancy firms. She maintained an IT consulting practice for over 20 years with offices in the three major business centers of California: San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. She currently co-owns Saddle Sojourns which uses horses to create outdoor experiential workshops grounded in cutting edge theory that enhance leadership development and team performance for better personal and business results.
Ivy is a member of the Organization Development Network, a member of the Family Firm Institute, a past board member of the National Association of Women Business Owners in San Diego, and a founding member of the southern California MSOD regional alumni group.
Ivy has a Masters degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the State University of NY at Stony Brook. Ivy teaches organization behavior in the business school at Pepperdine University. |
