FOUNDER

Matt Swayhoover

Matt Swayhoover is the founder of Viaduct Performance Consulting LLC, a Northern Virginia-based business focused on helping to close the gap between potential and business results. As principal performance consultant, Matt collaborates with clients to identify and courageously address the obstacles that constrain high performance.

Approach
Harnessing listening as a superpower, Matt’s steadfast approach is outcomes-based as he collaborates with his clients to identify and prioritize the activities most likely to yield breakthrough results. Through the use of thoughtful questioning, appreciative inquiry, widely adopted performance models and diagnostic tools, Matt coaches his clients to envision and implement a path to new levels of performance. His use of disciplined project management ensures the achievement of desired outcomes, delivered within schedule and budget.

Experience
Matt’s 30 years of professional experience include diverse leadership roles across various types of organizations: publicly-traded international, commercial, government professional services, non-profit and consulting organizations. Matt has developed deep insights into best practices around organizational performance, leadership development, team building, and coaching. Having facilitated hundreds of corporate succession planning conversations over the course of his career, Matt is uniquely positioned to share his inside knowledge and insights regarding what C-suite executives demand most of, and how they get the most out of, their rising star talent.

• More than twenty years of experience implementing performance-focused solutions in organizations with $1 – 4B in revenue, featuring large, geographically dispersed employee populations as large as 200,000 employees, as well as smaller organizations with as few as 50 employees.

• Proven success executing both broad and targeted initiatives including team building, management and leadership development, succession readiness, coaching and employee engagement.

• Designed and facilitated thousands of hours of impactful outcomes-based meetings, team workshops, training, and strategic off-sites.

• Coached leaders from the emerging to executive levels for over ten years.

Education

• Master of Science, George Mason University School of Business (Virginia)

• Bachelor of Business Administration, Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University (New York)

• Post Graduate Certificate in Global IT Management, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

• Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management, George Mason University (Virginia)

• Additional leadership, consulting and coaching training through the Hay Group, The Conference Board, Battlefield Leadership, Society for Human Resource Management, and the College of Executive Coaching

Affiliations

International Coaching Federation
OD Network
Project Management Institute
Society for Human Resource Management

Certifications & Accreditations

Advanced Certified Personal and Executive Coach
ICF Associate Certified Coach
Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR®)
Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, Hogan Motives, Values and Preferences Inventory
Leadership Circle Profile™
Emotional Social Competency Inventory (ESCI)
California Psychological Inventory® (CPI-260)
Leadership Practices Inventory 360
MBTI® Step I™ and Step II™ assessments
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
Everything DiSC®
Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™
Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
Certified CMMI 2.0 Associate