Charles S. Dormer, MS, MPhil – Principal and Founder, APEX STP, LLC

Charles S. Dormer is a coach and teacher helping people at all levels maximize the speed of their journey to become energizing, impactful leaders.

Following a career of over thirty years working for some of the top global pharmaceutical companies (SmithKline Beecham, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca), he embarked on a journey to help leaders. He focuses on working with leaders to identify astute insights and leverages his broad experience to bring context to leadership behavior discussions.

He specializes in leadership behaviors that energize others to follow and deliver strategic goals. In his work, he takes a results and action-oriented approach that cuts to the chase and gets to the heart of the matter by asking probing questions and testing assumptions. He uses systems thinking to organize issues into themes to help understand problems and implement solutions. Charles aims to have a significant impact on leaders’ performance and help them address difficult, complex, business challenges. He is the author of the new book “Energizing to Impact: Reframe Leadership for Sustainable Success”. This book describes the journey to becoming an Energizing, Impactful Leader by developing a clear, compelling strategic vision and motivate others to follow and delivery of desired outcome.

Charles is also passionate about sharing his learning and experience through teaching and mentoring. He holds an Adjunct Lecturer position at Georgetown University, where he teaches a Program on Strategic Leadership in Science and Technology in the MS Biotechnology Course. Charles holds Master of Science (Honors) and Master of Philosophy degrees in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Although originally from the United Kingdom, he moved to the United States over thirty years ago. He now lives in Bethany Beach, Delaware.