Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching
Leadership Development – Enhance your leadership proficiency
- Leadership assessments highlight your leadership strengths and identify areas for growth
- Create your development plan for skill enhancement to elevate and maintain your standing as a leader people trust and follow
- Expand your self-awareness to notice blind spots and effectively navigate positive/continuous change with confidence
Communication Skills – Gain masterful techniques to build trust and engage your team and vital power brokers
- Implement tools to enhance your verbal eloquence and articulation for more powerful impact, influence, and connection
- Employ techniques to read non-verbal cues for heightened insight into stakeholders’ reactions to your communications
- Apply insightful approaches to convey difficult information/messages/disagreement on issues while maintaining positive relationships
Career Advancement – Acquire a personalized roadmap for your development that aligns with your unique needs and aspirations
- Your growth journey is tailored to you, ensuring that you effectively leverage your strengths, address specific challenges, and seize opportunities effectively
- By honing your leadership and management skills, you can act with confidence to navigate and focus on career advancement opportunities
- You will receive expert advice, personalized mentoring, and keen networking guidance to position yourself effectively and advance your career
Performance Coaching – Soar in your position and career by defining your specific performance objectives and desired results
- Leadership assessments evaluate your current performance and strengths, and identify areas for improvement so you can drive results to excel
- Your customized action plan is designed for your unique goals and includes measurable steps to enhance performance
- Personalized, ongoing feedback and guidance address any obstacles and help you maintain your progress
Astute Decision-Making – generate strategic decisions with confidence and precision, enlightened by insights and skills gained through coaching
- Broaden your perspectives, including any blind spots, to make more informed decisions
- Consider decision-making implications for all key stakeholders, weighing benefits and risks
- Navigate complex business environments adeptly, positioning yourself as a decisive and visionary leader
Executive Life Coaching – Finding time for a personal life can seem impossible with the demands of your career. You may even feel trapped in a daily grind of unrelenting pressure.
- Maintain your professional performance while carving out personal time, so you can take back your life
- Achieve harmonious work-life balance, reduce stress and burnout, and enrich your leisure with meaningful pursuits
- Create your customized life compass, to guide your actions with intention and purpose, and restore your personal well-being
- Set achievable goals and milestones to elevate your confidence and fuel your motivation to reach new heights in all areas of life
Our Executive Coaching Approach
- Dive into the realm of bespoke executive coaching, where every session is a step closer to realizing your full potential
- Our personalized approach means we tailor our coaching to address the specific hurdles and prospects you face as a leader
- Whether you want to navigate organizational changes, enhance your leadership presence, advance in your career, or balance your professional and personal life, our coaching is as unique as your fingerprint
- We’re here to unlock your unique formula for success
Initial Assessment
- Our journey together begins with a deep dive into your professional world
- Through a comprehensive evaluation, we uncover the essence of your goals, challenges that stand in your way, and areas ripe for development
- The initial assessment is not just about setting the groundwork; it’s about building a connection, understanding your vision, and aligning our approach with your personal and professional aspirations
- It’s the first step in a journey tailored just for you
Customized Coaching Plan
- Armed with insights from the initial assessment, we craft a coaching plan that’s as unique as you are
- This plan is not a static document but a living blueprint for your growth, designed to flexibly align with your objectives and your dynamic business landscape
- Whether it’s enhancing your leadership skills, navigating through complex business challenges, or achieving specific career milestones, your customized coaching plan is your roadmap to success
- Celebrate progress and accomplishments, reinforcing your self-assurance and determination, with a plan for next steps ahead
Ongoing Support
- Growth is a continuous journey, and our support is unwavering every step of the way
- Through regular coaching sessions, we provide the guidance, accountability, and encouragement you need to stay on track.
- But our support doesn’t stop there. As your journey unfolds, we’re ready to adjust the coaching plan, adapting to new challenges and opportunities as they arise
- This ongoing support ensures that your development is not only consistent but also responsive to the evolving landscape of your career and industry
Performance Evaluation
- Measuring progress is key to understanding impact
- Throughout our coaching relationship, we periodically evaluate your performance and the tangible changes in your leadership skills and career trajectory.
- This isn’t just about celebrating milestones (though we do plenty of that); it’s about assessing the effectiveness of our approach, ensuring through our coaching, you’re achieving a meaningful difference in your professional life
- Through these evaluations, we gather insights that help us refine our strategy, ensuring that your growth journey is always moving forward
Take the First Step: Schedule your 15-minute fact-finding session and find out the difference that having your own coach can make in your career and your life
- We partner with you to help you turn your aspirations into achievements
- You don‘t have to be alone in your journey….take advantage of the burden that coaching can relieve
Leadership Assessment Reports
Testimonials
“Managing the political landscape in my new role was overwhelming. Breaking into the leadership circle and being seen as a credible authority felt impossible. Marilyn’s guidance helped me understand the big picture of the “political” system. She helped me take my communication skills to a higher level to effectively manage the complex and nuanced interpersonal dynamics. But most importantly, she helped me recognize and leverage my areas of strength and power. Her combined approach of both challenging me and supporting me helped me rebuild my confidence. I’m now much more comfortable and feel validated as a member of the C-Suite. I will continue to come back to coaching with Marilyn, as new challenges arise. I consider her an indispensable resource for my career growth.”
“Although I was at the top of my career, promoted to a C-Suite role with a sizeable raise and bonus, I realized that my personal life was slipping through my fingers. My spouse was threatening divorce, and I hadn’t been in touch with my friends for most of the past year. Working with Marilyn, I was able to clarify my priorities and adopt a new mindset to gradually make changes that helped me to regain some of my personal life. It’s taken time, but I feel more in balance. I no longer feel as isolated, my relationship with my spouse is better, and I’ve reconnected with a few friends. And my career is still going strong. I still have more progress to make, but Marilyn has been an invaluable partner in guiding me to achieve improvement in my overall life.”
“Work was in constant flux – more than usual, with new initiatives, new technologies…and with the mergers that were happening, I also had oversight of new more diverse employee teams with varying expectations and motivations. My leadership team counted on me to be decisive and agile. But I was feeling weighed down by all the tumult which led me to seek out Marilyn for executive coaching. I didn’t even know what I needed but I just knew I felt uncharacteristically overwhelmed and worried I was heading toward burn out. She helped me take a few steps back to see the big picture. From there I could see more clearly the next most important actions. I reconnected with my strengths, let go of some things and delegated, and set a plan in motion to rebuild the culture, with the new team demographics in mind. I also committed to a stress reduction program for myself. It’s not easy and many times I don’t feel like keeping to the routine, but Marilyn has helped me stay motivated and accountable. The new teams are finally producing deliverables effectively and I no longer feel so overwhelmed. I plan to continue working with Marilyn on an on-going basis to maintain clarity and productivity. Thank you, Marilyn!”
Executive Successes
ADHD Coaching for CSO of SaaS Firm
A new Chief Sales Officer (CSO) for a SaaS company, who had achieved record breaking sales as a Regional VP of Sales, struggled when charged with the more complex responsibilities of CSO. Through executive coaching, the CSO gained organizational, communication, and relationship strategies to successfully navigate the more complicated political landscape, forge vital relational partnerships, and stay on top of crucial milestones and deadlines.
Executive Presence Coaching for Chief Data Officer (CDO) in a Global E-Commerce Corporation
Known as a star for her ability to manage and use data to help craft the strategy and direction of the business, the CDO struggled in her communications and executive presence, as one of only two females in the C-Suite. Although she realized her capabilities were unsurpassed at the company, she sensed that her ideas were not listened to as seriously as those of her male counterparts. By creating a customized structured plan to build confidence, imparting techniques to communicate assertively, crafting an authoritative public speaking style, and reworking her professional attire and style to present herself as the C-suite executive she was, the CDO soon commanded the attention she deserved and gained new-found respect and attention for her input and presentations.
Executive Career Coaching for Attorney
A highly successful attorney with a top law firm noticed that although he was generating a seven-figure income, he had begun dreading going to work and felt dwindling enthusiasm toward his cases. Utilizing a holistic career coaching approach to identify his career and personal attributes, including an ability and leadership battery, personality and interest inventories, and skills and values surveys, the attorney realized there was a disconnect between the focus of his work and his personal and career attributes. By creating a Best-Fit Career Profile, we identified his career criteria for satisfying work. Additionally, through clarification of his values and priorities for his life, he learned that not only did the focus of his work lack meaning for him, but he had virtually no work-life harmony. Even on vacation he was working. Collaborating together to strategize how he would best present a role pivot to his firm, he was able to negotiate a new position as leader of his firm’s ESG division. Although it meant taking a bit of a reduction in compensation, he would still live comfortably and could focus on work that was meaningful to him. Another important benefit was improved work-life integration; he was finally able to take a work-free vacation.
Leadership Coaching for New Managing Director
Moving from Director to Managing Director (MD) in the established management consultancy firm, where they had begun their career, brought more challenges than the new Managing Director had anticipated. They felt overwhelmed by the heightened level of politics, greater responsibility for strategic advice and oversight of financial performance, in addition to supervision of a greater number of executive direct reports. Leadership coaching began with establishing a baseline of the MD’s competencies, skill sets, and experience as evidence they were capable of the role requirements, which strengthened their confidence. By prioritizing responsibilities, identifying opportunities for delegating, and finding effective strategies to navigate company politics and manage their direct reports, the MD was well on their way to success in their new role.