About Thomas
Thomas A. Horne is an Executive Coach and mentor to CEOs, Business Partners, Vice Presidents, General Managers, and other leaders in privately owned, middle market, businesses. He coaches and advises leaders who aspire to make a significant impact on the results and direction of their companies, with those they lead, and those with whom they come in contact in business and life. He focuses on these five key areas of concern to these business Leaders:
1.) Facilitating and creating a diverse environment of trust, equity, inclusion, and comradery among team members; 2.) Growth, viability, and the bottom line; 3.) Making significant organizational impact; 4.) Facilitating effective individual and group communication; 5.) Assuring integrity in Leadership.
Tom’s clients include business owners and management to C-V level executives in organizations such as Navistar International, ASA Chicago, as well as two major hospital groups in the Midwest. In addition to 1:1 Executive Coaching, Tom provides debriefs for individuals and teams in assessments such as: MBTI, EQi2.0, and Hogan. Tom has created and facilitated workshops on MBTI-based leadership development as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion processes such as Awaken Unconscious Bias (Certified).
Tom has more than 30 years of experience leading business teams, developing new business, and creating international sales in hard-to-enter markets. He served as the President, CEO and Chairman of Guernsey Bel, his family’s business, a world-renowned ice cream ingredients manufacturer in Chicago. He has worked with the top and mid-level leadership teams of most of the world’s largest ice cream producers in new product and market development endeavors. He built Guernsey Bel’s revenues up from $700,000 to over $30 MILLION prior to selling the company in 1999.
Subsequently, Tom became an executive and certified business coach and now works as a valued business advisor, coach, and change agent with CEOs and executives of corporations and family-owned businesses. He is a visionary leader, has a keen sensitivity of interpersonal relationships and motivations in private businesses, and understands firsthand the fears of personal growth and change. He lives through and according to his values in the practice of CEO and Executive Coaching. He uses his deep curiosity and passion for on-going growth and development to help his clients become successful agents of change in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Tom serves on the board of the International Coaching Federation – Chicago Chapter, and is also a founding and active board member of the Private Directors Association. Other affiliations include APT Chicago (applications of MBTI) and the Chicago Financial Planning Group. Tom is engaged in the DEI committees of ICF Chicago and the Victories of the Heart men’s group, exploring DEI and the intersection of racism and society, where he has facilitated group discussions. Past affiliations include Landmark, YPO, and chambers of commerce.
Tom is a longtime member of St. Mary’s Church Choir (bass), and is the Chair of the Faith Awareness Ministry at St. Mary’s Church of Evanston, IL.
Tom’s purpose is to create a world that works for everyone.
