Deepen Your Leadership Skill Set

Leadership is one of the most essential and rewarding aspects of any job.  It’s how we channel the intelligence and energy of a group to achieve things none of us can achieve on our own.  When your team is humming, it creates a powerful sense of trust, shared contribution, and meaningful achievement.

Becoming the leader you want to be is an ongoing work in progress.  It requires deep understanding of yourself; clear, honest, and continual assessments of your interactions with others; and the willingness to adapt to build on what’s working and change what’s not.

During executive leadership coaching, we focus on these three areas.  Over a six, nine, or twelve month engagement, I work with you to strengthen your understanding of yourself, heighten your clarity on where and why your interactions with others are — or aren’t — working for you, and develop strategies to reinforce the good and change the rest.

Through leadership coaching, you can let go of who you “should” be to unleash fully who you are and how to move forward in a way that’s right for you.

Leadership coaching typically occurs using a six, nine, or twelve-month engagement.

Emerging Leaders

Early in your career, it’s all about your technical skills.  There’s something that needs to be done, you have the skills to do it, and you succeed.

As you move up the ladder, however, your technical skills become table stakes.  Yes, you need to have relevant substantive expertise.  But that’s no longer enough.  And when you double down on the things that used to work, you can find yourself hitting a wall.

Too often, nobody makes this explicit.  Promising emerging leaders flounder, struggling to understand why what has always worked isn’t working any more. Unaddressed, it can become a major stumbling block.

In addition to the human cost, organizations and our society suffer. When individuals don’t successfully make the transition from contributor to leader, organizations lose valuable, talented employees they’ve spent years developing. More broadly, I believe our collective failure to help women navigate the unique challenges they face during this transformation is one of the reasons we still see far too few women in leadership roles.

Coaching for emerging leaders focuses on diagnosing where you are in this leadership transition.  Together, we work to identify the skills that got you to where you are.  We identify when they remain valuable and where you’re at risk of over-using them.  And we help you build new leadership skills. 

Emerging leaders coaching typically occurs using a six, nine, or twelve-month engagement, often at the time of (or shortly following) a career advancement.

Individualized Coaching

While some people prefer to have a roadmap to give them a sense of what coaching will do for them, others prefer a more individualized, open-ended approach.  Using my experience from decades leading organizations and working with others, I work with executives to develop a set of coaching goals and an approach that’s right for them.