CEO &
Executive Coaching

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One executive. One coach.
Down to business.

All coaches provide an opportunity to step back.

It matters who you are stepping back with.

We’ve been business leaders.

We’ve partnered with hundreds of C-suite Executives who are scaling their companies.

We’ve seen the patterns and know how to connect the dots quickly.

And get you to where you want to go faster.

Leadership comes with more challenges than there are hours in the day.

Executive coaching creates space to reflect on how those hours create the highest possible value.

From tackling singular, sticky leadership issues to large-scale transformation, our coaching process creates the conditions for transformational growth.

Year after year, we see how change on the inside delivers measurable, sustainable change on the outside, with newly agile, interdependent organizations taking leaps forward.

Just a few common challenges we have seen and solved:

  • I’m a new CEO – how do I establish and maintain the right culture for my company? 
  • I’ve recently been promoted, but the techniques I’ve used for success in the past are no longer working. What should I do?
  • How can I bring up the skills of my management team to move our vision forward faster?
  • We’ve had to let go of some people – how do we help them land safely and with dignity?
  • In conflicts, how do I hold people accountable? How can I better prioritize or delegate my overwhelming workload?

CEOs are dealing with more complexity than ever. The job is hard and the load is heavy. It’s never been more important to be intentional about the moves you make and the ripples you create.

 

We have yet to work with a CEO who isn’t smart, strong and resilient but, having a confidential space to regularly step back, reflect, and process with an experienced coach, who is also a peer, can be invaluable. We’ve been around the block and worked with scores of CEOs. We can challenge your thinking and help you stay grounded.

Some CEOs who we have supported:

  • A seasoned CEO leading major organizational restructuring and culture change: How do I lead myself and others through this transition?
  • A first time CEO of a series B funded organization: How do I stay ahead of the company’s growth and manage the board effectively?
  • A newly promoted CEO: How do I scale my leadership and get the leverage I need from my team?
  • A CEO leading a rapidly scaling company. How do I balance speed and execution while building a healthy culture?
  • A veteran CEO: I want a confidential sounding board to help me step back, reflect, and be intentional about how I lead.

Everything the executive team does and how they do it everyday, amplifies into your culture. It’s the rate-limiting step to all other initiatives. Organizations can’t outperform the leadership capacity of the CEO and executive team, which is why this work is critical.

 

In addition to coaching CEOs, we provide all of their executive team members with individual coaching, in tandem with a team development process that is iterative, synergistic, and spirals up into a virtuous cycle. That’s how we help you create lasting shifts and harness the full value of senior leadership capacity.

 

Coaching the executive team and CEO simultaneously allows us to help CEOs:

  • See the gap between their intent and their delivery in meetings
  • Get real-time feedback on their behavior and understand how that impacts the culture
  • Be thoughtful and intentional about the tone they set and the behavior they accept
  • Spot and shift unproductive patterns that hold the team back

 

The CEO grows in their individual leadership abilities and learns how to steer the team culture so that it is delivering on the vision, while reinforcing core values. When a CEO and executive team is firing on all cylinders, they go farther faster.

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