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Terry DeWitt, Founder and Principal Coach

About Terry DeWitt

I help people navigate key life transitions such as retirement, midlife transition, career change, relationships, disability, chronic illness, etc. Together we explore deeply and develop plans to take positive steps forward, building fulfillment and purpose into your next chapter.

 

As a professional coach, my role is to ask powerful questions and to guide conversations that develop insights and actions. As the client, you are the expert on your life and you make the discoveries and all the decisions. Together we'll help you move toward the life you are hoping for.

Background

I bring life experience as a senior executive, father, athlete and patient to my work with clients.  I have a deep interest in human nature that has driven my academic studies, my career in marketing, my board activities, and my coaching practice.  

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I earned my BA at Harvard University in Sociology, magna cum laude with highest honors. I received a summa cum laude for my thesis on the "The Effects of Work Environment on Motivation in Organizations." For this thesis, I also received the Fulton Prize for the best thesis in Harvard's sociology department. I was also a John Harvard scholar.

 

I earned my MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

 

​​Prior to coaching, I served as Vice President of Hospital Marketing at Mass General Brigham, where I led integrated marketing for 10 hospitals, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass Eye & Ear, McLean Hospital, and Spaulding Rehabilitation – all teaching hospitals for Harvard Medical School.  In this role, I led a department which developed marketing strategies and executed plans in support of these organizations.  

 

Before that, I led the Office of Communications at the MIT Sloan School of Management where I served as chief marketing and communications officer for the school. I’ve also held various leadership positions at Harvard Business School Publishing (Managing Director), Fidelity Investments, L.L. Bean, and H.J. Heinz.  Previously, I worked at Bank of Boston and State Street Capital in corporate finance.  

 

I served as a trustee at Maine Audubon and at The Healing Garden, a center offering integrative therapies for women with cancer. And I led a national championship-winning high school rowing program in Harvard, MA.  

For most of my life I've been an avid endurance athlete and outdoor enthusiast.  I rowed varsity heavyweight crew at Harvard, started a recreational rowing program at Dartmouth, rowed at the Head of the Charles Regatta for many years, and have won medals at the Masters National Rowing Championship. In addition to rowing, I’ve loved many other endurance sports, including cross country skiing, biking, hiking and sea kayaking. 

 

In 2021, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that completely changed my life, limiting my ability to do the endurance activities I enjoyed and to work professionally in the same way.  I've had to manage a major life transition and build a new life and sense of purpose based on my new reality.  While challenging, I found this period of growth extremely rewarding and this experience has led to my interest in helping others to navigate life transitions with integrity and wholeness.

In addition to the Center for Life Transition, I also have an executive coaching practice, the Center for Integrated Leadership, focused on helping leaders lead with integrity, authenticity and purpose.

 

I’m a Board Certified Coach; ICF Certified Coach (ACC); a Certified Executive Coach - Level 2, Certified Career Coach and Business Coach; a graduate of the Center for Executive Coaching; and a member of the International Coaching Federation.

Highlights

Education

  • Harvard University BA in Sociology magna cum laude with highest honors 

    • Summa cum laude thesis: "The Effects of Work Environment on Motivation"​

    • Fulton Prize for Best Thesis in Sociology Department

    • John Harvard Scholar

  • Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, MBA

Work

  • Mass General Brigham, VP of Hospital Marketing

  • MIT Sloan School of Management, CMO & Sr. Director

  • Harvard Business School Publishing, Managing Director 

  • Fidelity Investments

  • L.L. Bean

  • H.J. Heinz

  • State Street Capital, Corporate Finance

  • Bank of Boston (Bank of America)

Boards

  • The Healing Garden, Integrative therapies for women with cancer

  • Maine Audubon Society

  • Bare Hill Rowing, President of national championship-winning rowing team

Activities

  • Harvard Varsity Heavyweight Rowing Team

  • US Masters National Rowing Championship, Silver and Bronze Medalist

  • Canadian Cross Country Ski Marathon, 105 miles over two days

  • Pilot's License, Flew Cesna 172 throughout New England

  • Endurance athlete: biking, XC skiing, kayaking, hiking, rowing, etc.

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