Leadership Coaching —

You are the leader of your own life. Leaders discover, cultivate and act on creative perspectives and choices. My job is to partner with you in uncovering the leader in you — at work, home, and play.

Whether you are an established or emerging leader, if you are ready to significantly accelerate your professional growth, you are an ideal candidate for leadership coaching. Leadership coaching offers you a supportive, challenging, and completely confidential forum for sharpening your people assessment abilities, improving your productivity, accessing your intuitive intelligence, and mobilizing your creativity.

Mistakes become puzzles to be explored. The coach acts as a sounding board and co-inquirer, helping to clarify your intentions, designing ways to surface and test assumptions, making dilemmas discussible. She shines the light on the disconnection between your intentions, actions, and results. You'll discover blind spots and gaps in your reasoning, unconscious habits and thought patterns, and self-sabotaging tendencies. Your coach will ask you challenging questions, encourage you to consider alternative perspectives and solutions, brainstorm with you, tell you some hard truths (gently), and help you choose a bold course of action. Insights are then translated into an effective action plan.

Leadership coaching provides immediate benefits to both you and your business. Your organization is placing confidence in your ability to forge and implement important initiatives, now. With a coach, you will work on challenging goals, tough people issues, and provocative strategies in real time. No case studies, hypothetical scenarios, or unrelated homework. It's all relevant, because it's based on YOUR issues and YOUR agenda.

Your experience of strengthened confidence, competence, direction, and discipline will show up in relatively short order. Productivity and efficiency typically increase dramatically within two - three months. And…leadership coaching has a demonstrably positive impact on the bottom line: a recent survey of highly placed executives who have benefited from coaching indicates "incalculable returns on the investment - perhaps as much as 6 times the investment" (Fortune, Feb 14, 2001).

Being "held accountable" takes on a new meaning with coaching. Leadership coaching isn't about fixing what doesn't work; it's all about developing an aggressive action plan, maintaining a forward momentum and removing blocks to your success. Your coach's job is to partner with you to achieve your goals, not chastise you if you don't meet them. When you win, so does your coach.

Any organizational leader with a healthy self-regard who is striving to excel is a candidate for leadership coaching. Examples:

• You want to significantly improve your communication with selective others…team members, bosses, subordinates, coworkers.
  
  
• You know you have much more to offer the organization and don't know how to make that known.
  
  
• You are entering a new organization, moving out of a managerial or technical role, or struggling with a specific issue.
  
  
• You are a technically gifted professional (e.g., physician, engineer, attorney) who has had little prior training in the arts of people and/or project management.
  
  
• You are a strategically placed executive who faces new business challenges.
  
  
• You've just been promoted and want to jumpstart your success.
  
  
• You are a "high potential" middle management leader who wants to get that promotion.
  
  
• You want to enrich your intuitive and creative thinking skills.
  
  
• You feel your job is causing you to feel "out of balance" or "out of sync" with your personal values.