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Empowering individuals and organizations to maximize their strengths and transform to their highest potential.
Meet The Team
The best feedback we get -- and we feel humbled and proud every time we get it -- is that people like working with us. We hear that we are easy to work with, that we listen and seek to understand, that we are responsive, that we care, and that clients really feel we look out for their best interest. These things are very important to us, so we love hearing it reflected back.
andrea.edwards@swiftriverassociates.com
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Andrea Edwards
Founder & President | Coach | Consultant | Facilitator
Andrea brings 30 years of executive leadership and organizational effectiveness experience to her practice – along with a passion for exceptional client service and delivering great results.
Since founding SwiftRiver Associates in 2011, Andrea's client list has spanned local start-ups to large-scale global organizations, and includes diverse industries such as pharma & biotech, law firms, financial services, advertising, technology, records management, nonprofit, and academia. Client companies include: Epizyme, Wave Life Sciences, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Alnylam, Immunogen, Fore Bio, Amylyx, OMass, Cambridge Polymer Group; Fidelity Investments, Iron Mountain, PJA Advertising, Goodwin Proctor LLP, Goulston & Storrs PC; Harvard Law School; Cambridge Community Foundation, and Providence Boys & Girls Clubs. While working in-house, Andrea had the privilege of working with some of the world’s leading organizations, including The Boston Consulting Group, Fidelity Investments, IBM Corporation, Ropes & Gray LLP, Sapient Corporation, Allmerica Financial, and ITT Sheraton.
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Andrea has coached senior executives, managers, teams, and individuals to better apply their strengths, identify their most important goals, increase resilience, lead more mindfully, and achieve at their very best. During her in-house career, she served on leadership teams, transforming organizations to be more efficient and effective, redesigning key programs to better support healthy culture, and connecting people and business strategies in a way that yielded better results for both employees and organizations.
Andrea earned her undergraduate degree from Boston University and is a certified coach through the graduate program in Executive Coaching from William James College (formerly the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology). Recently, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, fulfilling a life-long dream of writing a novel as part of that program. Her deep interest in transforming the workplace and creating more mindful and authentic leaders led her to add mindfulness-based development programs as part of SwiftRiver's client offerings. Andrea is also passionate about working with women to focus on their careers and broader lifetime goals, partnering to creatively design a life in which they can fully thrive and which feels like a true expression of themselves.
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Top 5 Strengths Themes: Connectedness - Relator - Intellection - Input - Maximizer
Gary Edwards
Chief Operating Officer | Consultant | Strengths Coach
Before joining Swift River Associates, Gary practiced law for over ten years in private practice, focusing on residential real estate, estate planning, bankruptcy, contracts, divorce, probate, and general civil matters. While in law school, he worked his way up to become manager of a federal employee credit union for ITT Sheraton Hotels. Providing superior service to clients was and is always of the utmost importance.
Upon leaving the active practice of law, he helped his wife, Andrea Edwards, form SwiftRiver Associates and is responsible for all areas of company operations along with data analysis and synthesis, document review, and research for our various client projects.
Gary also serves as an enthusiastic and positive CliftonStrengthsTM Coach & Facilitator for individuals and teams to help them to leverage their strengths to further their success, drive productivity, and increase engagement and job & life satisfaction.
Gary is also a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI® Step ITM and Step IITM Instruments, and offers expert services in this area to both individuals and teams.
Gary earned his bachelor of arts (magna cum laude) in History/Secondary Education from Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island. He holds a juris doctorate (cum laude) from New England Law, Boston, Massachusetts. He is admitted to practice law in both state and federal courts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Top 5 Strengths Themes: Woo - Communication - Learning - Input - Positivity
Our Partners
SwiftRiver Associates maintains a network of highly qualified human resources, OD, coaches, and consulting professionals, with whom we partner as needed to deliver on each client’s needs. While not always required, this staffing model allows us to flexibly staff to best fulfill each client engagement.
