Dorothy Mackay

Dorothy Mackay, a retired Federal Senior Executive, led high-performing strategic planning, budget, and training and development organizations.  She developed and administered leadership/coaching programs for GS 7-SES, incorporating the tenets of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ’s) into coaching conversations at all levels.

Dorothy’s positions as Chief Learning Officer were the most personally rewarding.  Under her guidance and leadership, core leadership training was provided to all levels of employees, highly specialized technical training was developed and delivered to thousands of employees in various career fields, and coaching programs were provided. Through these programs and many others, she fostered the career development and organizational engagement of employees at all levels, providing them with the tools needed to be successful.

Upon retirement from federal service, Dorothy has focused her energy, talents, and efforts on coaching primarily senior level employees in the federal service, and teaching ECQ tenets to SES Candidate Development Program or senior leader program participants. She has presented webinars and in-person sessions on Introduction to the ECQs, typically also coaching the participants. Her ECQ clients have been from the Department of Veterans Affairs, ATF, Treasury Executive Institute, among others. She has provided executive coaching to employees from numerous Federal departments and agencies, including FDA, Transportation, Treasury, Justice & FBI, GSA, FCC, DHS, VA, FEMA, SECI, and ACF/HHS, as well as clients from private industry and non-profits.

Dorothy graduated from the Georgetown University Executive Leadership Coaching Program, is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Certified Government Coach, Certified Executive Core Qualifications Coach, and certified Behavioral Change Coach. She has guided clients through the creation of a development plan based on feedback from various assessment instruments. As a former Federal Senior Executive, she has helped others prepare their SES materials, and served on OPM’s Qualification Review Board. A highlight of her federal career, Dorothy earned the Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Award, attained by no more than 5% of the federal senior executive workforce each year. She holds a B.I.S. Degree from George Mason University in Public Administration/ Human Resources Management, and is a Commissioned Stephen Minister, Certified Laughter Yoga Instructor, and former Instructor/Judge/Student of Japanese Shotokan Karate - 2nd degree black belt.