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Harold Massey arrives at this vital focus on coaching Black men from a life journey through Jim Crow's American apartheid in pursuit of personal wholeness and social justice. As the youngest of six siblings and the son of an uneducated father, Massey was born amidst domestic and substance abuses. He is a first-generation college student, Early childhood was spent on Air Force bases within a crucial ethos of command and control. Making sense of dysfunctional family and social injustice required a discernment of systems dynamics, those mutually reinforcing human behaviors that perpetuate human suffering and stifle spiritual fulfillment. The quest has created a certified behavioral scientist, consultant and a life/leadership/legacy coach. Exploring systems and relationships, Harold’s global experience expands over twenty-eight nations. Identity group intersectionality, cross-cultural dynamics, and self-hatred are unique distinctions of his work and learning, Harold provides clients both practical and analytic support. He serves leaders in non-profits, entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500 corporations. Harold is the first person of color awarded the D.B.A. in organizational behavior at Boston University, earning Beta Gamma Sigma honors while doing so. Doctoral study focused on group dynamics, emotional intelligence and leadership. He holds post-doctoral Gestalt psychology and ICF certifications after receiving a Kellogg National Fellowship to study conflict resolution in indigenous cultures worldwide for three years.
Experiences enriching Massey’s coaching expertise include designing interventions for the effective restructure of complex organizations, community dialogue and direct democracy and early training as a student counselor and executive consultant well before coaching industry credentialing was established. Dr. Massey utilizes theory-based interventions applying techniques as varied as mind-body awareness and quantitative analysis. Harold focuses upon facilitating a self-empowerment of clients, realizing any latent leadership potential at community and personal levels within non-profit and corporate enterprises. He effects a self-determined systemic growth and seeks seamless self-remediation of formerly dysfunctional dynamics. |
Dr. Massey's leadership coaching has been informed by rich experiences with corporate leaders, service on diverse governing boards, student, community and organization leadership. Unique roles in assisting international leaders have offered rich insights. Leveraging life experiences as a factory worker, a human rights activist, professional and consultant, and a graduate school professor, Harold shares leadership lessons and personal growth through a focus on healing and transformation. Varied engagements in individual and team executive coaching, process consultation for organizational selection and downsizing, citizen dialogues (in person as well as satellite & webcast), and collaboration for applying his skills in facilitating group dynamics have each enriched his worldview on transformational leadership.
Legacy is a verb, not a noun! Coaching services toward this end insist that transformational change is at the very heart of a unique legacy. The "rich and famous" who leave meaningful legacies are those who have achieved significant measures of transformation in their fields. Personal growth transformation is a prerequisite for establishing such a legacy; one needs to have surmounted a status quo of standards and challenged himself to abandon deeply held internal barriers. These are most often found in service of the ego. Deploying the fullness of resources accumulated from healthy relationships at intergroup and interpersonal levels demands an outstanding degree of humility if legacy is left to grow rather than simply being found on the name of a building. It is never too soon or too late to "legacy"!
Massey's client list includes (amongst others) Aetna, Inc., the National Council of Churches of Christ, Research Triangle Institute, the United Church of Christ’s Collegium of Officers, Harvard University, MIT’s Organizational Learning Center, United Health Group, Los Angeles’ Community Coalition, Five Colleges, Inc., the World Council of Churches of Christ, Boston Leadership Academy, America Speaks, Oberlin College, and a diversity of lawyers, doctors and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Massey’s professional career began with the U.S. State Department and the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society. He was certified as a mediator, a college counselor, a paralegal in civil law, and was an invited official international observer of Nicaragua's first public elections. Community activism for human rights preceded Harold’s leadership consulting and entrepreneurial efforts. His greatest passions pursue transformational service and cross-cultural experiential learning. Creativity involves Black men coming of age fiction & entrepreneurial partnership.
Harold Massey earned high honors at Amherst College prior to graduate education at Yale and Boston Universities. Board roles with various non-profit organizations and mentoring youth complement his work. Harold lovingly has partnered and parented for over four decades. Blessings from the journey are a successful wife and three socially- conscious and gifted children. Community engagements as a mentor, church leader, advisor and common neighbor have provided a grounded relevance of being.
Legacy is a verb, not a noun! Coaching services toward this end insist that transformational change is at the very heart of a unique legacy. The "rich and famous" who leave meaningful legacies are those who have achieved significant measures of transformation in their fields. Personal growth transformation is a prerequisite for establishing such a legacy; one needs to have surmounted a status quo of standards and challenged himself to abandon deeply held internal barriers. These are most often found in service of the ego. Deploying the fullness of resources accumulated from healthy relationships at intergroup and interpersonal levels demands an outstanding degree of humility if legacy is left to grow rather than simply being found on the name of a building. It is never too soon or too late to "legacy"!
Massey's client list includes (amongst others) Aetna, Inc., the National Council of Churches of Christ, Research Triangle Institute, the United Church of Christ’s Collegium of Officers, Harvard University, MIT’s Organizational Learning Center, United Health Group, Los Angeles’ Community Coalition, Five Colleges, Inc., the World Council of Churches of Christ, Boston Leadership Academy, America Speaks, Oberlin College, and a diversity of lawyers, doctors and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Massey’s professional career began with the U.S. State Department and the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society. He was certified as a mediator, a college counselor, a paralegal in civil law, and was an invited official international observer of Nicaragua's first public elections. Community activism for human rights preceded Harold’s leadership consulting and entrepreneurial efforts. His greatest passions pursue transformational service and cross-cultural experiential learning. Creativity involves Black men coming of age fiction & entrepreneurial partnership.
Harold Massey earned high honors at Amherst College prior to graduate education at Yale and Boston Universities. Board roles with various non-profit organizations and mentoring youth complement his work. Harold lovingly has partnered and parented for over four decades. Blessings from the journey are a successful wife and three socially- conscious and gifted children. Community engagements as a mentor, church leader, advisor and common neighbor have provided a grounded relevance of being.
