About

Brooke Olson Vuckovic is a coach and educator specializing in leadership and career development. Brooke brings to her work a unique combination of results-oriented pragmatism, intuition, business acumen, compassion, and humor. She helps clients define their career vision, build their professional and personal effectiveness, and develop their unique presence in the workplace and broader community.

Brooke's clients come from all walks of life-from senior executives and "high potentials" to entrepreneurs, artists and academics. Her current and recent clients are in sectors as diverse as finance, consumer products, technology, law, education, management consulting, government, psychology, and non-profit management.

In addition to her private practice, Brooke works with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, where she has co-developed the coaching curriculum and provided leadership coaching to mid- to senior-level executives in a number of programs, including: the Executive Development Program, Kellogg's Management Institute, and the Post-MBA Program. Brooke also coaches in the Women's Senior Leadership Program and teaches Leadership Coaching to MBA students..

Brooke's approach to coaching is informed by her multi-disciplinary background. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where she also taught business communications at the Graduate School of Business. Before becoming a coach, Brooke's professional background focused on adult-education and non-traditional (online) learning. Her experience includes academic and operational executive positions at Cardean University, whose online MBA program was developed with Columbia University Business School, Stanford University, London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.

Brooke has served on the advisory boards of Syrus Global-a leader in ethics, compliance, governance, and reputation management solutions-and the Center for International Rehabilitation. She is certified through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coach Federation. She is also a certified Emotional Intelligence evaluator and coach through the Hay Group in Boston. Brooke lives just outside of Chicago with her husband and three daughters.