Elevate your leadership
Are you looking to build or strengthen a self-powered, high-performing team?
My clients are senior leaders (mostly C-suite executives) who know their leadership is a critical driver of success, but are becoming aware that it may also be contributing to team behaviors and patterns they want to change. I work with individual leaders and leadership teams, and I help them see the invisible: their own blind spots, the thinking and assumptions behind others’ behavior, and the context and systems their own leadership has created.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, kids. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What’s water?”
— David Foster Wallace “This is water”
Leadership is the water in which an organization swims. The flows, currents, and eddies that a leader creates shape the culture, norms, expectations, and fabric of trust in which people advance the goals and mission of the organization. Seeing your impact on that water is the first step to building the strategic clarity and leadership systems your team needs to become a healthy, high-performing team and to achieve the business results that matter.
My executive coaching helps you build the strategic clarity and leadership systems your organization needs in the following areas:
Clarity, alignment, and accountability
Decision-making and decision follow-through
Delegation
Resilience
Constructive conflict
Stakeholder relationships
Succession planning and leadership transitions
Through coaching, we focus on how you lead so that your team can take more real ownership. We work on how you set direction, communicate the what and the why, and build expectations and habits that help your team work together rather than in silos.
The goal is for the business to keep moving forward without requiring your involvement in every decision, so you can spend more of your time on the work that truly requires your leadership.
Who am I?
I draw on my experience as a large-company senior executive, innovator, investor, entrepreneur, and board member to help you build the strategic clarity and leadership systems your organization needs by:
creating and communicating strategic clarity
setting expectations that foster commitment and accountability
shaping a collaborative culture that handles conflict and builds trust
succeeding in complex, matrixed enterprises
I have senior executive leadership experience and expertise in healthcare (payers, providers, and innovators), high tech, and life sciences.
Who are you?
You are a senior leader, most often a C-suite executive, responsible for a team or set of teams where commitment and alignment really matter.
You know your leadership is a critical driver of success, and you suspect it might sometimes impede it. You feel things could and should be better. You are concerned that your own lack of strategic clarity might be impacting your team, that you might be a bottleneck for decisions, or that urgency, accountability, or alignment in your team might not be at the level you need.
You want your team to take more real ownership so you can focus more of your time and attention on the work that truly requires your leadership, not just the work that happens to land on your calendar.
Or you may be on the fast track to senior leadership. You know or are coming to realize that leadership (getting the most from your team) is very different from management (getting tasks done). You are looking to develop your leadership so that you can more confidently wear the shoes you are already in, prepare for the “next size up,” and take the next steps in your journey.
References
My references are leaders from diverse backgrounds, some who started with deep executive experience and some who were new to leadership.
They can share how coaching helped them see what they could not see on their own, develop their leadership, and advance to further success.
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