Executive Coaching

We work with individuals, teams and groups who seek to take their careers and businesses up to a new level, yet need help in making the changes needed to get there. What sets us apart is our creative, holistic approach, with a laser focus on deeply understanding our client’s strengths, values and needs; then connecting them to dynamic business performance and results. Whether you are already in the “C suite”, or you want to “see sweet” advancement in your career and future, we will recommend the type of services that make the most sense for you based upon your needs and budget.

Who or what is an “executive”?

We know one thing it’s not: a title on an org chart. Peter Drucker called executives “those knowledge workers…who are expected…to make decisions…that have significant impact on performance and results”. If you are such a decision-maker, you are an executive, regardless of your title.

Individual Coaching.

These are one-on-one sessions, typically in person, designed to accomplish your specific coaching goals related to your career and business. While the goals vary widely, some examples might include proactively designing a Career Advancement Plan that maximizes the value of your unique strengths; becoming a more competent professional and effective “rainmaker”; enhancing your communication and leadership styles for greater influence and career advancement; aligning your values and passions with your work; using your creativity to conceive “marketing” plans and practices that work; planning for a season of “on-ramping” or “off-ramping”, or taking a sabbatical; preparing for an anticipated or desired promotion or career transition.

Candidates for our individual Executive coaching services include professionals, consultants, and entrepreneurs as well as executives in small and large businesses.

Teams and Team-building.

These are in person sessions with the entire team designed to create an action plan to take your team from “Good to Great”. We typically also include at least one individual coaching session with each team member. Our focus is in equipping strengths-based teams with the capacity, confidence and culture needed to succeed.

The team coaching sessions are customized and structured to achieve each team’s unique goals. We work closely with the team leader(s) in designing each session so the team can be aligned with the leadership and business strategy of the organization. Examples include aligning team strategy; enhancing team dynamics, systems & communications; building strengths-based teams; merging two or more teams.

Group Coaching:

We provide group coaching for organizations seeking to introduce executive coaching to their rising talent in an economical way. Typically, these contracts include at least one individual session with each member at the outset, one assessment, monthly group sessions, and one to two followup individual sessions, either by telephone or email for spot coaching as the Coaching Action Plan is implemented.

Our Coaching Process: We provide you with a Coaching Action Plan, derived from our Hudson Institute training.

Generally, we begin by detecting your strengths, values and passions (individually, as well as a team), as well as identifying any missing strengths or blind-spots. We help you design your own inspiring vision of the future, together with an action plan and SMART goals to achieve that vision. We help you anticipate and plan for any obstacles in your path- to transform stumbling blocks into stepping- stones. During the coaching relationship, you will begin new practices for sustaining the changes needed, all while creating your Action Plan to get there, so that your learning is transformed into results. For sustainable change, we recommend a minimum of at least eight to ten sessions.