J. Carlton Godlove, II, P.E.

Carl is a Strategic Alignment Consultant, Executive and Leadership Coach*, founder of Godlove Group LLC, and a very experienced executive and CEO. He is an Ontological Coach from the Newfield Network ICF ACTP school in Boulder, Colorado, and a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Certified Coach. He engages with public and private company and nonprofit CEOs, C-suite executives, organization leadership, startup founders, entrepreneurs, and collaborators across the U.S. and around the world. His approach helps individuals and teams improve their effectiveness and create the future and results they desire through enhanced situational and self-awareness.

The foundation for Carl’s experience as coach, mentor and consultant was laid over twenty years as a CEO, plus more than a decade in the tech industry and as a licensed, professional engineer. As CEO, Carl led his team to turn around and transform a regional consulting engineering firm. He grew it from a local service provider to one serving national clients, coast-to-coast, with international clients in the Caribbean and Korea.

Prior to that, as Vice President of Software and Product Development for a simulation software company, Carl led his team to conceive, develop, and bring to market the first interactive, graphic, network analysis simulator for the global pipeline industry. Securing a 90% share of the U.S. natural gas market, international growth followed. He and his team delivered world-class software products to clients in twenty-three countries. Corporate suitors followed, and Carl was a key executive team member to posture the company for sale. He then led the successful transition and integration of technology and talent into the new owner, a U.S. public company, and again, years later with a second spinoff, to a publicly traded company in the UK.

Carl’s early experience, providing consulting engineering services to pipeline utilities, laid the groundwork for these career-defining opportunities. He is a licensed, professional engineer; a civil engineering graduate from Lehigh University; and an alumnus of Dickinson College in physics and math. He is insatiably curious and credits his Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award to this trait. Always seeking outlets for expression, he invented, designed, and patented a golf device sold worldwide. And his passion for writing allows him to share his experiences, observations, and insights through his BeYourselfBlog.com website and Be Yourself Blog publication on Medium.com.

Carl is an evangelist for living fearlessly and focusing forward, passionately encouraging a state of open-mindedness and curiosity to foster growth and the relentless pursuit of life purpose through meaningful contribution. This has taken many forms in Carl’s life, including service to dozens of local and statewide community and business organizations, schools, and universities, including Penn State University and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry. From his roots as a young, professional musician, through his liberal arts and engineering education, to his roles as CEO, entrepreneur, husband and father, Carl brings the full spectrum  of his diverse lifetime of experience to every engagement.

Want to know more? I was honored to be featured in the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry Summer 2018 issue of Catalyst magazine.

"Up Close With..." highlights what I do; why I do it; the thought leadership that supports it; examples of ontological coaching's power; and the other pursuits that feed my curiosity.

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* Carl was trained and mentored directly under Julio Olalla and Marshall Goldsmith.

Julio co-founded, with Fernando Flores, the art and science of ontological coaching. He founded Newfield Network, the premier International Coach Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) coaching school based in Boulder, Colorado. Julio is regarded worldwide as a pioneer of the coaching profession and transformational learning fields.
Marshall is arguably the world’s most renowned executive coach. He created the Stakeholder Centered Coaching process, applying it to over 150 of the top CEOs and their teams.