Tom Wojick, MA

An expert in Relationship-Centered Leadership and Resilience

Tom is a trainer, consultant, and coach with over 18 years experience as a senior executive in behavioral medicine and health care. As a Senior Consultant for Six Seconds, Tom has inspired professionals in many fields to live with purpose and intention and expand their vision of possibility.

After earning a master’s degree in counseling education from the University of Connecticut, Tom served as a leader in several health care organizations, for example he was Director of the Mind Body Medical Institute and VP at Bon Secours Richmond Health System, and CEO of Charter Westbrook Behavioral Health System, Inc. In 1998, in addition to his executive duties, Tom developed and implemented an Institute for Mind/Body Medicine with Harvard Medical School's Mind/Body Institute.

Tom developed the Resiliency Paradigm and Relationship-Centered Leadership™ to assist professionals, teams and organizations to enhance and strengthen their skills and capacities for peak professional and organizational performance. “My intent is to help leaders create optimal work climates that produce value for all stakeholders," Wojick explains. "Organizations in the new millennium are complex architectures requiring resiliency, emotional resonance and committment in order to thrive."

Tom is the author of numerous articles, including Authentic Presence, Isabelle's Heart and Mind, The Climate for Success, Resiliency: the Essential Component of Leadership and Retention VitalSigns: Focus on the Relationship. He is a featured speaker presenting at major conferences: National Association of Elementary School Principals Annual Convention, NexusEQ Conference, Employee Assistance Professionals Association Conference, Council for Community Behavioral Health, Employee Assistance Roundtable and Harvard Medical School’s Spirituality in Medicine Conference.

Tom’s ability to understand and speak to the heart of professional and organizational issues is grounded in his many years serving as a senior level manager in healthcare systems. These experiences bring to life his workshop material. He talks the talk and he has walked the walk. His direct experiences add a deeper level of creditability and meaning to his message.

In addition to his training, coaching and consulting practice, Tom is an adjunct faculty member at the Robbins School of Business, Management Institute, at the University of Richmond where he teaches the course Leadership the EQ Way. The course consistently receives scores of 4.85 out of 5 and receives comments such as “I’m glad I added this course to my curriculum, it’s been the best course I’ve taken!”

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"Tom Wojick is a knowledgeable, gifted facilitator who also teaches every day by the way he lives his life. He is fully present to each interaction, and maintains that unique skill of affirming others while challenging thinking and behaviors to stimulate growth."

"Tom’s facilitation of our workshop was the most effective I have ever participated in. His authenticity, energy, openness and level of insight created a dynamic learning experience” Attending a Tom Wojick -led workshop is a gift, an opening of a door to another way of perceiving how one can live in the world. Tom is an exceptionally gifted teacher who inspires while informing.

Many workshop leaders whom I have seen have been knowledgeable about their subject matter, however, Tom possess a wisdom that deepens the value of the material. He is able to effortlessly weave a wide-range of referential material, such as research, literature, philosophy, physiology, elements of human behavior and current news events, into his presentations making them rich in content and powerful in impact.

I especially enjoy his relaxed, friendly style and the way that he is able to engage workshop participants in a variety of positive ways."