We coach leaders to transform themselves and their organizations.
EXECUTIVE COACHING & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Leadership is authentic influence that gets results.
Our executive coaching is founded on the premise that great leaders know themselves and lead from a place of self-awareness, agency, curiosity, and vision.
We believe that in order to grow the leader you must grow the whole person. Once the crucial business skills are mastered, many leaders find that the biggest catalyst to improving their leadership effectiveness lies in cultivating emotional maturity and a deeper understanding of how they are bringing themselves to their role as leaders.
CLIENTVOICES
TRANSFORM PERSONALLY. EVOLVE PROFESSIONALLY. LEAD AUTHENTICALLY.
Deepen your authentic leadership voice — supported by emotional maturity and positive, lasting behavior change.
How do we coach?
What can coaching do for you?
Learn to grow more comfortable in your leadership role.
- Find your voice and use it
- Navigate first 100 Days if a new role
- Discern the skills you need to develop most
- Develop a repertoire of leadership styles
- Navigate difficult relationships
- Transform reactive behaviors
- Explore self-limiting beliefs
- Shift out of feeling stuck / flat
Get better at building a cohesive, motivated, high-performance team.
- Manage personality differences
- Manage difficult team member/s
- Align your team around a shared vision
- Create a culture of accountability
- Deepen psychological safety
- Coach others to be their best
Improve your strategic & cross-functional leadership effectiveness
- Turn strategy into action
- Lead the "people side" of change
- Influence others without formal power
- Navigate organizational politics
- Improve cross-functional collaboration
- Transition to an enterprise-wide leader
- Support culture change
Professional Growth Through Personal Transformation
- I feel like an imposter
- I'm their manager, but I want to be their friend
- I take care of everyone except myself
- I'm just not good enough
- I should address this conflict - but I don't
- People think I'm a jerk
- People don't trust me
- I'm successful but I have no life
- I have to be perfect
- I'm scared of my boss
Is Collaborative Coaching for you?
What we bring
- A deeply-held belief that human beings have a natural longing for wholeness, and that we all possess a natural ability to grow and evolve
- We see the workplace, and leadership, as excellent prompts for our growth
- We believe that in order to grow, it can be helpful to have external support
- We meet you where you are through a process of “assisted self-discovery” so you can safely and with honesty explore your specific workplace challenges to build the leadership and emotional skills needed to be an effective leader
- Our backgrounds as consultants, therapists, and coaches allow us to respond flexibly to what our clients bring to the moment, which may include a combination of support, dialogue, skill-building, challenge, and care
What you bring
We found that successful coaching clients have certain characteristics in common. They include:
- A deep curiosity about themselves
- An interest and positivity about being coached
- A willingness to be honest about their own experience, feelings, etc.
- An openness to examine their habits and beliefs
- The ability to take responsibility for how they co-create their reality
- The humility, strength, and discipline to work with feedback
- The courage to try out new behaviors and be accountable
C-SUITE COACHING / EXECUTIVE COACHING
We have extensive experience coaching leaders in executive and C-suite roles. Areas of coaching include:
- Onboarding / First 100 Days
- Coaching for succession
- Managing managers
- Shifting a department through change
- Inspiring a team with a vision
- Influencing with and without rank
We are Marshall Goldsmith certified executive coaches. Goldsmith's stakeholder-centered coaching process offers a powerful and systematic approach to C-suite and executive coaching.
DERAILER COACHING / HIGH-PERFORMANCE COACHING
Operating at peak performance requires finding and maintaining the "sweet spot" between leaning into one's strengths without overdoing it.
Any strength applied in excess can become a liability. Cognitive and self-serving biases, as well as a disproportionate focus on building on one’s strengths, can make it hard hit the right balance. Stress compounds that challenge because it increases our rigidity and can limit our self-awareness and openness to feedback.
Derailer coaching is a great tool to help high-performers get a more balanced and nuanced view of how their personality and work style preferences play out at work.
Derailer coaching, by nature, is a conversation about the “shadow aspects” – or dark side – of our personality – so creating a safe space to minimize defensiveness is particularly important. Hogan’s HDS, for instance, provides a powerful inventory to assess and discuss potential derailers, to learn to understand triggers and impact, and to cultivate effective skills to come back from the “dark side” to the sweet spot of performance. While someone’s “derailing” may become the trigger for this type of coaching, our approach involves framing the derailer as the “overdialed” or dark side of inherent strengths to support curiosity and learning over defensiveness.
We partner with HR business partners and senior leaders who seek leadership development that:
- Improves "people skills" in technically competent employees ("high IQ - low EQ")
- Facilitates the transition of internal talent from managers to leaders
- Accelerates the transition of key personnel into their new role
- Provides a sounding board and effective, timely, "on-demand" spot coaching
- Offers transformative c-suite or executive coaching