Elevate your leadership
Are you looking to build or strengthen a self-powered, high-performing team?
My clients are CEOs and business unit presidents who know their leadership is a critical driver of success and are becoming aware that it may also be shaping the team behaviors and patterns they want to change. I work with them and their leadership teams to help them see what they can’t easily see themselves: their own blind spots, the thinking and assumptions behind others’ behavior, and the context and systems their leadership has created, so they can build strategic clarity, alignment, trust, and a culture where people raise issues instead of hiding them and can disagree without drama.
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 step up and own results. 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 CEO or business unit president with a leadership team that is not yet working as a cohesive leadership team or operating at its full potential. For example, your team may rely on you to make decisions they should be making themselves, leaving you as the bottleneck instead of the team doing the work together.
You can feel that your current way of leading is part of the pattern, but you’re not yet sure how. You walk out of leadership meetings and 1:1s noticing the same dynamics repeating and are running out of ideas for how to shift them. You’re wary of another generic “initiative,” and you don’t want to simply single out one difficult executive when you suspect the issue runs deeper.
You want your leadership team to step up and own results, raise issues instead of hiding them, and be able to disagree without drama, 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.
You might also be a rising leader sponsored by your CEO and on the fast track to senior leadership. You’re looking to be more confident wearing the shoes you’re 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.
Elevate your leadership
