Bonnie Wentworth

Master Leadership Coach, Group Facilitator and Adjunct Instructor at Stanford Graduate School of Business

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  • Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Stanford Graduate School of Business

Bonnie Wentworth has a proven 30-year track record of catalyzing strategic change and facilitating transformational results for executive leaders, their teams, and companies. Built on her foundation of managing people, strategy, processes, and services, Bonnie coaches and consults to executive leaders of successful organizations, from early stage to Fortune 10. Bonnie works across diverse industries including Technology, Financial Services, Biotech, Private Equity, Management Consulting, Not-for-Profit and Health Care, with C-Level executives and emerging leaders who are ready to raise the bar.

Bonnie’s reputation for providing direct feedback, asking tough questions, and safely acknowledging sensitive subjects in the workplace such as co-founder conflict, racial equity, power dynamics and executive level transgender transition, has earned the deep trust of executives at the top of their game. Prior to founding Wentworth Consulting Group (WCG) in 1998, Bonnie led a nationwide team as a Director at Charles Schwab in San Francisco, where she was recognized as an award winning leader.

Bonnie has taught hundreds of students and professionals as adjunct instructor and leadership coach at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she has worked in teaching, facilitation, and coaching roles for over fifteen years. Bonnie is an International Coaching Federation Master Certified level coach with 10,000 hours of individual executive coaching experience. She is a Founding Fellow for Harvard Medical School’s Institute of Coaching and has completed coach training through the Hudson Institute, Peter Bregman, New Ventures West, Stanford University, Marshall Goldsmith, and Harvard Executive Education.

With an undergraduate degree in Classics and Master’s in Organizational Psychology, Bonnie brings inquiry, rigor, and discipline to bear in her client relationships. She has served as the Regional Board Chair for Playworks, a nationwide nonprofit, an Advisory Board member for the Women’s Cancer Resource Center and for the past ten years, Bonnie has co-led a pro-bono coaching program for national political leaders. Bonnie responded to the COVID crisis by convening a weekly virtual pro-bono support group for Women Urban Education leaders.

Bonnie coaches the whole person in her client relationships. She brings 20 years of insights from mindfulness meditation and yoga; additionally, she is a certified Reiki practitioner, avid gardener, and amateur photographer. Bonnie has lived and worked internationally; she integrates her life experiences as a leader, competitive athlete, mother, volunteer, adventurer, life-long learner, and change catalyst in her work.

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