Executive Coach

In line for the top job?

Land the role, then be the CEO people leave other jobs to follow.

In business, like in sports, a coach is someone who can help you find and avoid blind spots, prepare for the next challenge or maybe just get through a slump. In an ongoing relationship, a coach can also be your partner in continuous improvement and growth.

And nobody, least of all a top executive, can afford to stop growing. When you stop growing, you start to decay – physically, mentally and emotionally.

There are three areas that shape successful executive performance every single day: Character, Confidence and Clarity.

Even CEOs with years of experience can, and do, benefit from working with an executive coach, especially in times of uncertainty or when facing new challenges. I work with clients to validate their skills and traits, and inspire self confidence; then we work together to execute intentional growth with accountability.

I work with executives to sharpen key traits that directly influence a leader’s character – traits like integrity, drive, courage, trustworthiness, vulnerability, empathy, humility, and curiosity. My thirty-plus years in executive leadership have taught me that successful top-level leaders wield these traits inspirationally and authentically in their own unique style.

I focus each client on values-based intentional growth for improvement in key character traits, along with simultaneous development of confidence in their abilities as leaders and in their own hard-fought competence. Leadership can be tough, and the job is a lot more rewarding (and fun) if you’re performing at the top of your game. We’ll develop new strategies to grow vision, drive, decision making and creativity.

A senior leader can achieve nothing, personally or professionally, without clarity of purpose. I coach clients in the development of individual goals based on their personal values, and corporate goals based on their organizational vision. These vision-based goals produce a clear, powerful, and enduring personal and professional purpose. With these goals established, we move resolutely from goal “setting” (planning) through goal “getting” (attainment).

I align coaching with real-world situations in real-time because coaching is about growth, not just adding more tasks to the to-do list. My role as coach is to be an effective catalyst for personal and professional excellence, achievement and happiness.

Coaching for Succession

As a Chief Executive, the time to begin planning for your eventual departure is right from the start. Creating a sense of continuity and strength amidst organizational change is no accident. It requires understanding what you bring to the organization - and when the organization needs it. Succession, done right, means finding the right complementary leader, then developing them - coaching them to success for organization-wide buy-in and loyalty. To the organization you lead, your transition is as important as your arrival. I can help you prepare to transition on your terms when the time arrives, leaving a lasting legacy.

As Chair or a member of an organization’s Board of Directors, supporting the chief executive and evaluating their performance is one of your principal duties - perhaps your most important one. When the board has just selected a new exec, or has identified a potential succession candidate, is perhaps the most fruitful time to invest in executive development through coaching.

Whatever your situation, I welcome the conversation.