Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Successor Development, and Successor Recruiting, Portland, OR
Senior Executive Coaching
Fresh Perspective.
More Influence.
Greater Impact.
I help smart, successful executives clarify their thinking, drive stronger engagement, and deliver better results. If you’re striving to enhance the impact of your leadership and looking to bring forth excellence in your organization, working with an experienced Executive Coach can make a notable difference in your results.
Top executives engage an experienced executive coach for a couple of reasons. They use executive coaching to get outside perspective and to have a confidential, unbiased sounding board. After all, it’s lonely at the top and it helps to have someone to strategize with and talk things out.
My clients get the results they want because my background is different than most other coaches. Prior to my 20+ years of coaching I spent 25 years in executive roles.
I bring a variety of perspectives to the coaching relationship after years of working with professionals from around the country and from many different industries. Additionally, I have two important talents that make my coaching invaluable.
I have a highly developed talent for identifying problems and distinguishing them from the symptoms they cause. 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 (blind spots) and to offer alternate, more insightful perspectives. This, of course, allows you to accelerate your progress even faster.
The Strategic Benefits of Executive Coaching
• ENHANCED STRATEGIC THINKING – The best strategies will leverage strengths, minimize risk, and balance long-term with short-term needs and goals. Executives must carefully think through possibilities, assess and manage risk, and then develop strategies with the best potential. It requires an environment within which an executive’s inklings, ideas, and concerns are brought to light, challenged, and expanded.
• GREATER INFLUENCE AND BUY-IN FOR YOUR IDEAS – Become more persuasive, overcome resistance, and get stronger buy-in for your ideas. Mastering the art of persuading people is essential to achieving great results. As a leader, one of the main responsibilities is to develop sound strategies. But no matter how good a strategy is, you’ll only get great results when people get enthused and believe in your ideas.
• GAIN NEW PERSPECTIVES and OVERCOME BLIND SPOTS – Outside perspective is essential as a catalyst for creative, game-changing strategic thought. Getting unbiased, objective insights and perspectives allows you to develop better solutions faster. Outside perspective also helps uncover blind spots and move past them.
• CONFIDENTIAL SOUNDING BOARD – Often, the evolution of a company is conceived during open discussions of ideas, but most executives don’t have the right “sounding board”. Pretty much everyone around a leader has an agenda. Either they want things to change or they want things to stay the same. Every executive needs an objective, supportive confidant with whom to vent, confide in, and talk things out.
WHO MAKES AN IDEAL CLIENT?
Coaching is an excellent tool for enhancing your impact. Ideal clients are leaders who are already successful and have a commitment to personal excellence. They’re already working on personal improvement, they’re open to new ideas and perspectives, and they’re willing to take action. Additionally, ideal clients are leaders with high personal integrity. In other words, they do what they say they’re going to do.
If this sounds like you, you would make an excellent client, you’ll enjoy the coaching relationship, and you’ll achieve the results you want.