My approach to coaching
and what it means to you.

Your coaching journey begins with a couple of short strength assessments - skill-based strengths and character-based strengths - to reveal how you’re wired. Armed with that knowledge and awareness, we set up a cadence of recurring sessions - what I call a “battle rhythm.”

In these sessions, we leverage the self-awareness gained from your assessments, positive psychology and narrative analysis to shape your personalized approach to the challenges and opportunities you face in real time. These approaches leverage strengths to produce immediate real-world results and shape a powerful authentic executive presence, along with the simultaneous development of confidence in your competence as a leader. Leadership can be tough, and the job is a lot more rewarding (and fun) when performing at the top of your game. Together, 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 help you develop individual goals based on your unique personal values, and corporate goals based on your vision in the organization’s cycle. 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” (achievement).

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 your 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.