Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
What is Coaching?
The practice of coaching is defined as: “Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential” (International Coaching Federation).
This definition captures the heart of why so many leaders rely on trained and experienced coaches to help them grow and succeed.
Coaching is thought-provoking. It is a structured process of inquiry that helps you define your ideas, feelings, and intuition, resulting in deep clarity about your vision and voice.
Coaching is a creative process that expands possibilities, generates new pathways and helps you solve your most intractable problems.
Leadership and executive coaching uses this profound, dynamic process to help you achieve your leadership potential — to help you become the most authentic and effective leader you can be.
The Benefits of Leadership Coaching
Coaching seeks to accelerate your growth in the areas most critical to you right now and in the long term. Depending on the scope of your coaching program, you may address a range of goals including:
Thriving in a new role — Step into a new leadership role with deep awareness of your leadership and work style, strengths and weaknesses, and blindspots. Accelerate the learning process and establish a healthy organizational culture from the start.
Enhancing presence and influence — Communicate your vision and strategy with a clear voice and with a leadership presence that is authentic and inspiring. Shape the culture by embodying your values.
Galvanizing your team — Build a staff/leadership team with a strong foundation of trust and co-create processes and systems that support dynamic collaboration, creativity and problem solving.
Mastering difficult conversations — Improve your interpersonal agility and your ability to provide feedback, handle conflicts and have difficult conversations.
Developing leaders — Develop the leadership capacities in those you lead, and coach them to perform at their highest potential. Retain top talent for the long term.
Your goals can also include areas related to personal development and executive wellness:
Maintaining resilience and vitality — Stay focused, energized and grounded as you tackle your challenges without burning out.
Balancing work with home and other domains/callings in life — nurturing the relationships that matter most.
Integrating work and spirituality, so you work from a deep well of purpose, meaning and joy.
Who Is Coaching For?
We work with leaders in diverse contexts and roles, from senior executives or founders in charge of crafting vision and culture, to high potential managers looking for an accelerated developmental pathway to higher levels of leadership.
We also work with individual creatives and entrepreneurs seeking to increase their influence, to become thought-leaders and systemic change-agents in their industries.
Leaders bring knowledge and experience about their particular industries and contexts — we bring our expertise in the science and art of leadership and team/organizational health, combining research-based tools with interdisciplinary wisdom to help them achieve their goals.
How We Will Work Together
Our coaching engagements typically take on two formats:
3 to 4-month laser-focused coaching program where we focus on one primary goal. This is a highly energizing, focused, and intensive process that unpacks obstacles and lays down a pathway for transformation.
9 to 12-month developmental coaching program where we focus on multiple goals and engage your leadership development journey in a more comprehensive capacity.
All programs include:
Validated, research-based assessments that offer feedback as well as training in paradigm-shifting frameworks for leadership effectiveness and interpersonal functioning.
Structured coaching sessions based on a dynamic approach pioneered by Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (for the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education). We typically meet every other week and also co-design self-coaching sessions to accelerate learning and application.
HOW DO I BEGIN?
Let's schedule a complimentary 30-min discovery session! We would love to explore how our work together can contribute to your leadership impact. Please contact us to set up your free video chat.