Bernadette DeVoe

Family Business Consultant

·        McCann & Associates: Consulting Coordinator and Consultant. Work with family businesses in the areas of succession, communication, conflict resolution and the development of the next generation.

·        Part of a multidisciplinary team to help financial and legal advisors gain an appreciation and understanding of the unique issues related to family businesses and family wealth.

·        Facilitator (2007-2010): Served as liaison and trust-builder during own multi-generation family business succession planning process.

·         Independent health-care contractor: since 2004.

·        Vitaderm, D.S., Founder 2005: Business owner, formulator and marketer of medical practice private label nutritional supplements company with dermatologist partner.

·        Educator, Naples Community Hospital/North Collier Hospital 1988-1998: Provided training to health care professionals on the psychological, emotional and physical impact of and interventions related to acute and chronic pain.

·        Cardiac, Medical & Surgical Intensive Care Nurse and Clinical Coordinator (Acute & Chronic Pain Management) 1983-1998: Over 15 years experience medically treating and emotionally supporting families and clients in crisis.

Life & Executive Coach

• Center for Leadership Design: since 2001. Advanced life & executive coaching training focused on supporting individuals and teams in identifying life's passions and goals and creating pathways to reach their full potential. Empowerment strategies and techniques include developing effective communication skills, relationship building, stress management and conflict resolution.

What You’ll Gain:

·        Skills and distinctions necessary to better manage the complex dual roles family members navigate in all Family Businesses

·        The awareness you will need to create powerful authentic relationships

·        Explore the causes and costs of disempowering listening styles. Gain lifelong tools to create the kind of listening for others that enlarges them in your presence and elevates their productivity.

·        Uncover how and why you developed your core personal beliefs, how they shape your reactions and behavior, and how they often limit your professional and personal possibilities. By understanding them in yourself you can better understand them in others.

·        Examine your human tendency to go into upsets and conflicts that disrupt professional and personal relationships. Gain lifelong tools to help you head off upsets or deal with them effectively with yourself and others.

Education, Training and Affiliations

• Collier County Circle of Change, advisory board, 2005-2006: Fundraising, advocacy and organization of anti-bullying diversity workshops for local teens.
  
• The Family Firm Institute
  
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
  
• R.N., B.S.N. University of South Florida, magna cum laude (1987)

• Center for Leadership Design

What Others Say About Bernadette DeVoe

"Bernadette was a life-line in a very stressful time. She provided a calm, safe environment to express myself yet encouraged me even when it meant some risk on my part. Her compassion and genuine interest helped me get back on track and find my voice again."