Standards for Excellence Institute Leadership

George Neighbors

George Neighbors brings 20+ years of experience managing people, leading teams, coaching leaders, and advising organizations, teams and individuals through change to build capacity and improve operations to produce strong and resilient organizations, people and projects.

Engaging leaders through consulting, executive coaching, training and facilitating at X-Roads Advisory, his approach is grounded in a systemic approach to change management at the crossroads of People, Process, Systems & Structure.

Educated at Johns Hopkins University in Applied Behavioral Science, George continues his executive education and learning in a variety of programs, including Allstate Foundation’s Nonprofit Management Essentials at Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, the Board Academy at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, and Emory University’s Goizueta Business School’s Executive Coaching program.

He currently volunteers serving on the national nonprofit best practices National Council of the Standards for Excellence Institute, as the Workforce Readiness chair and board of Shenandoah Valley SHRM, on the board development committee of Friends of the Middle River, and with Shenandoah Community Capital Fund.

Based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, he works locally and travels to where you & your projects are to meet you at the X-Roads. Services offered virtually everywhere.

For more information, see linkedin.com/in/georgeneighbors.

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