About IOLP – Helping Leaders Find Their “Remarkable”
The Institute for Optimal Leadership Presence is dedicated to the growth and development of leaders who want to take the ultimate step of leaning into what the ancient Greeks referred to as Pistis, leadership’s highest calling. In the Greek culture, Pistis was marked by the highest levels of skill, responsibility, integrity, loyalty, courage, and execution. Leaders with Pistis were able to create a presence that was undeniable. The IOLP works with organizations to help cohorts of their high-potential, high performing leaders define and achieve their “Remarkable”.
At the same time, the IOLP is committed to the academic advance of Leadership Presence as an important and necessary framework for emerging leadership theory and for practical application of effective leadership development across functional disciplines and local/global organizations. We believe that the pursuit of Optimal Personal Presence can and should be recognized as a legitimate academic endeavor, with robust research, emerging data, and curated principles and frameworks.
Meet John Miller
Dr. John Miller is the founder and Executive Director of IOLP. John holds a Doctorate in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Organizational Communication. He has earned certifications from the Center for Creative Leadership, Hogan Personality Assessments and the Myers Briggs Trait Indicator. Over the past 25 years, John has coached hundreds of leaders at all organizational levels across dozens of industries.
While staying true to his academic background and the most current research on leadership, interpersonal relationships and employee engagement, John is a practitioner at heart, having spent most of his career working in “the real world”. He served as Director of Leadership and Organizational Development at Charter Communications and Director of Cultural Transformation at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
John also helped build a development/coaching consulting firm that serviced global clients, such as Philips Electronics, Nestle-Purina, CCL Label, and DRS Manufacturing. He is also an Adjunct Instructor for McKelvey school of Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis.
John is a uniquely gifted facilitator and coach dedicated to helping leaders reach their full potential and create the greatest level of value for their organizations, their teams, and for themselves.