Executive Coaching

An Executive Coach provides an environment to accelerate one's success. If you're striving to enhance the impact your leadership and looking to bring forth excellence in your organization, working with an experienced Executive Coach can make all the difference in your results.

After years of working with professionals from around the country and from many different companies, I bring a variety of perspectives to the coaching relationship. 

I often utilize a couple of excellent assessment tools to enhance leadership competencies and communication abilities:

In addition, I have two very unique talents that make my coaching invaluable.  I have a highly developed talent for problem-solving, which allows me to identify a problem, distinguish it from the symptoms, and define it with clarity.  This allows me to help my clients more rapidly develop practical, effective solutions.

The second unique talent of mine is that I tend to see things from a different perspective than most.  This allows me to "see" things others miss and to offer alternative, more insightful perspectives.  This, of course, allows us to accelerate our progress even faster.

What an Executive Coach brings to the table

Here are some of the important strengths an experienced Executive Coach provides...

  1. ASSESSMENT - Assesses skills and competencies
    An Executive Coach can assess leadership, communication, effectiveness and productivity skills & competencies.

  2. EDUCATION - Develops new and enhance existing skills
    An ever-changing business environment often requires adoption of new skills or refinement of existing ones. An Executive Coach can help build and enhance a broad range of business, personal and inter-personal skills.

  3. PERSPECTIVE - Offers new, different perspectives
    An Executive Coach can bring different, sometimes challenging perspectives to the table. A varied background offers perspectives that at the very least are a catalyst for provocative conversations.

  4. IMAGE - Improves the way an executive is perceived
    Character, communication skills, and listening ability are more vital today than ever before as people expect more polish, sophistication and subtlety. This, along with the increased use of electronic communication methods, requires the personal side ("real-person" side) of an executive to come through in order to maintain leadership-by-attraction vs. leadership-by-control.

  5. BRAINSTORMING - Fosters the discussion of ideas
    Often, the next generation or evolution of a company is conceived during open discussions of ideas. Most executives don't take enough time for this type of creativity, nor do they have the right "listening partner". An Executive Coach provides the environment in which an executive's inklings, ideas, and concerns are respected, challenged, and expanded.

  6. OPINION - Provides an opinion from someone who has no vested interest
    Everyone an executive works with (including a spouse) has a need to either maintain the status quo or to make changes that benefit them or their turf. This self-interest is normal, but may lead to a lack of objectivity. An Executive Coach is often the only person an executive can turn to whose only priority is the executive's interests.

  7. LEVERAGE - Increases the ability to leverage time and effectiveness
    An Executive Coach works to double (at a minimum) an executive's leverage and effectiveness. This is particularly important in a world of ever-increasing change and information overload.

  8. OUTLET - Offers a secure, safe, and confidential outlet to open up and vent
    Pent up frustrations, anger, and disappointments impair good judgment. Every executive needs a special, confidential person to complain to, vent to, confide in, and with whom to talk things out.

  9. MIRROR - Points out what an executive can't, won't, or doesn't see
    Smart business people understand that they have blind spots and most authorize an insider, outsider, or a team with the permission and mandate to speak frankly and illuminate the executive's blind spots. However, politics being as they are, most individuals aren't empowered to speak their minds. An Executive Coach has the observation and listening skills to point out what needs to be brought to the surface.