“Coaching evolves in response to the business world it serves. As companies and industries face disruption and/or create disruption, leaders face unprecedented operational and strategic questions, problems and opportunities. Today, coaching must be a safe haven where leaders can navigate the tough new questions and problems, innovatively generate new ideas and opportunities, move through emergent and exponential change, and learn to be in an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

At the foundation of coaching is the desire and human need to be in the world as yourself, to begin to and continuously explore what being in the world as yourself means to you. It requires a decision to be intentional about who you are as a leader and manager by getting clear on and exploring your strengths, values and purpose. Coaching is about being able to look at the world and all elements of your life, then lead from a place of who you are - to be in the world as yourself.

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It’s precisely that simple, and it’s also that difficult.” Warren Bennis

Coaching is a space to be truly strategic in your thinking and actions - both as a leader and for your business. To work with a coach is the decision to level up as a key strategic player at your company by creating and developing, planning and executing strategy for you, your team and the business. Coaching is about continuously questioning and validating existing strategies, proactively and innovatively generating new ideas and opportunities, and always increasing value. Coaching is about strategic planning, roadmaps, and creating shared context and understanding of your strategy - team and organization wide. Planning and communicating for results and success is critical. Strategy execution is a loop that requires constant adaptation, so much can get lost in the gap that appears between strategy & execution - coaching can close that gap.

"Until you ‘figure out what success means’ to you personally and to your organization, leadership is an almost pointless conversation." Peter Drucker

The reality for today’s leader is a world where disruption and exponential change are the norm, which means that strategy evolves & there is no playbook. Coaching is a partnership to creatively and strategically get ahead of complexity, ambiguity, constraints and challenges; to be able to switch rapidly between the big-picture and the detail; and to solve the toughest problems. Coaching is the opportunity to decide the impact you want to create in our world.

“Excellent coaches will think about how they help leaders solve their toughest, most complicated new and different problems.” David Peterson, Coach, ex-Head of Leadership Development & Coaching at Google

Coaching is a partnership and exploration commitment and perspective. As a partnership and exploration, coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process. As a commitment, coaching is results-driven and can be transformational. As a perspective, coaching is about being intentional as a human, being a global citizen and an advocate for humanity.

The experience of leadership coaching can shift you significantly. The moment you catch your goals and definition of success your perspective will change, your definition of leadership and success will become bigger, it will grow to something newly perceivable. Exploring, knowing and intentionally growing yourself as a leader, can create huge shifts in your perspective. Anchored to your awareness as a leader, with strategic clarity and adept in this unprecedented world, it is possible to lead yourself, your team and organization into the future, knowing that success is a state of being - who you choose to be as a leader - not a destination.”

“To be coach-like is to be collaborative and inclusive, valuing people for their contribution and facilitating change through self-directed learning and personal growth.” Dr. Vikki Brock, Coach and Author, The Sourcebook of Coaching History

Your Results

Coaching has the potential to make you happier and more engaged with work and your life. Our time together will be practical and transformational. When coaching with me you will get clarity on who you are by exploring and understanding your strengths, values and purpose. We will define the Leader you choose to be and you will begin becoming that person. This path won't be linear because your perspective will become bigger every step of the way - we will navigate this together.

You will become more strategic and execute better - at all levels - for you, your team and the business. You will be more proactive, pragmatic and creative about solving your most challenging problems and generating great ideas in this complex, ambiguous and changing world.

Coaching will change you and shift your perspective, you will want to play a bigger game at work and in life. Together we will work out how impactful you want to be, and you will be supported to achieve that.

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