We work with business executives who have an interpersonal change to make, such as one of following:

They know that promoting themselves inside or outside the company is important to their careers, but they’re reluctant to do so.
They jump to solutions without creating buy-in, and it alienates those around them.
They have difficulty giving up control, which forces them to work too hard and not be as effective as they could.
They want to charismatically speak to groups, but they’re too fearful. Or they do speak to groups, but they feel their anxiety is hurting their performance.
They deal too much with short-term items, and ignore important longer-term goals.
They come across as overly emotional or unduly calm, and it’s aggravating team members.
They’re having difficulties communicating with the boss or other key players, and they know that they must communicate well to succeed.

If you’re in a similar situation to these executives, you’ll be interested to learn why what you’ve tried hasn’t yet worked…

When Common Sense Leads You Down the Wrong Path

One of the reasons that you haven’t seen optimal results despite your efforts and investment of time and money is that you may not know the right strategy. Or, perhaps, you have an effective approach but you’re doing it in an ineffective way.

If this is the case, it doesn’t mean that you are unintelligent, lazy, or stubborn. In fact, it means the opposite—you are smart and motivated, but you’re human.

Unfortunately what makes intuitive sense is not always what works best. Sometimes the common sense solutions are actually the polar opposite of what works. For example:

People think certain situations are intolerably stressful. Actually, it’s usually not the situation that’s stressful. It’s our thoughts about the situations.
People believe that “positive thinking” will help them lead happier, more productive lives. Actually, “positive thinking” will more likely lead them back to their initial negative thoughts and make them choose even worse behaviors.
People think they know everything there is to know about their problems. But they probably only think about the parts of their problems that are keeping them stuck.
People think the way to deal with anxiety is to lessen it. Actually, the best way to deal with it is to increase it.
People think they should rely on their strengths. Actually, if they rely on their strengths too much, those strengths limit their growth, and eventually become their weakness.

The hallmark feature of our approach is that it defies common sense. Let’s explain…

Our ‘Uncommon Sense’ Solutions

If common sense doesn’t always work, what does?

Common sense leads us astray, but solutions shown to be effective in proper research studies take us where we want to go.

We, like you, are action-focused and want change to happen fast: that’s why we use a coaching framework backed by decades of research from the fields of human behavior and business. We don’t waste time going down roads that common sense would suggest, yet are proven to be ineffective—instead, we take the direct line to the best solutions.

Our clients benefit from our experience of working with thousands of business people, yet they receive undivided attention because today we limit the number of clients we work with. This allows us to provide a customized “Coach on Call” approach, and is another reason that our clients see change happen quickly. Our average client hires us three separate times in their career, showing the benefit that they receive from coaching.

The Short Story Short-Cut

The quickest and easiest way to truly understand the type of work that we do is to read a case study. Meet Jon, a marketing executive who was in danger of reaching a plateau in his career if he didn’t change the impression he projected.

And take a moment to peruse our executive coaching programs and learn more about us to see if we are a good fit to help you or a member of your organization.

Executive Leadership Coaching Programs

"Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies." --FORTUNE, 2/19/01

Our executive coaching programs are designed for managers, high-level salespeople, business leaders, and executives at all levels. Our business performance consultants are skilled in helping you improve your leadership skills and your organization improve its business performance. You can select from the following four programs or combine them for a customized program.

Learn more about our process of coaching, payment options, and how to get started here. Read a case study from one of our personal leadership development clients.

Create Powerful Executive Presence

Build Your Team and Develop Others

Speak with True Confidence

Manage Conflict with Skill and Ease

Executive Leadership Coaching Program #1:

Create Powerful Executive Presence

Are you concerned that you aren’t coming across as well as you could?

Do you need to be more skilled at promoting yourself in order to get ahead?

If so, then our Create Powerful Executive Presence program is for you.

Executive presence is critically important because research has shown three key facts:

Your ability to make yourself visible and promote yourself is significantly more predictive of career advancement than your work performance.
You must present yourself as skilled in key competencies for the position you want rather than the position you are in.
The way you say something is far more important than what you actually say.

Our individual coaching program will help you:

Identify the key attributes of how you want and need to be perceived at work.
Recognize your core strengths and how to leverage them to be more successful.
Develop emotional self-control, show restraint and patience, and respond calmly.
Modify your vocal tonality and rate to show confidence and authority.
Establish strong connections with others to enhance your likeability and get support.
Make your message compelling and show your strategic thinking and leadership abilities.
Promote yourself effectively with confidence and without sounding overconfident.

If this sounds like a good match for you, learn more about how coaching works and how to get started.

Executive Leadership Coaching Program #2:

Build Your Team, Develop Others, and Be an Inspiring Leader

Team building is essential for business leadership and corporate success. To be a motivating leader you must be a compelling and compassionate communicator.

Many leaders are very bright and excellent in their areas of expertise, but do not yet have the key leadership development and team building skills that they need. Our goal is to help new and advanced leaders to not only be the best that they can be, but to also bring out the best in their staff.

We define success as the ability to achieve while creating a sense of legacy, meaning, and enjoyment. What better way to accomplish all of these things than to be an inspiring leader?

Our executive leadership coaching program helps you:

Communicate a big-picture vision that unites and motivates your team.
Foster collaborative teamwork and build the bonds necessary for high performance.
Serve as a catalyst for change and help people get on board despite their fears of the unknown.
Develop your listening skills and show that you understand underlying individual or organizational issues.
Effectively give constructive criticism and encourage others to be more successful.
Get more done by delegating tasks in the right way to the right people.
Recognize others’ developmental needs and serve as a supportive mentor.

Read our FAQs and find out how to enroll in the Build Your Team and Develop Others program.

Executive Leadership Coaching Program #3:

Speak with True Confidence

What could be more stressful than speaking in front of a group?

The fear of public speaking ranks higher than the fear of spiders, heights, and even death! As comic Jerry Seinfeld is cited as saying, “If you’re at a funeral, you’d rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy!”

Yet your ability to present yourself well in formal and informal speaking situations is the key to your career success. Executive communication is an art and a science and you can learn both. As Brian Tracy said of Larina’s New York Times bestselling book The Confident Speaker:

“Your ability to speak confidently on your feet will impress more people and open more doors than you can imagine."

Our Speak with True Confidence coaching program helps you learn proven techniques to remain calm while speaking to:

Increase your confidence when speaking with your boss or co-workers.
Manage the physical signs of speech anxiety.
Eliminate the overcompensating behaviors that undermine your confidence.
Establish a connection with your audience.
Assertively communicate your ideas and needs.
Network and present your best in informal settings and group conversations.
Field difficult questions with ease and poise.

Overcome the fear of public speaking and learn how to speak with real confidence. Get started with a free consultation. As a bonus for enrolling in this program, you will receive a signed copy of The Confident Speaker and a 60-minute audio on confident speaking. Learn more about how coaching works here.

Executive Leadership Coaching Program #4:

Manage Conflict with Skill and Ease

Your relationships with people at work can be a major source of satisfaction – or stress. So how do you insure more satisfaction and less stress?
You develop skills in conflict management.

Nothing challenges your leadership skills more than tension within your team, disagreements with your boss, or discord with your co-workers. You can, however, learn the art of handling workplace conflict.

Conflict management coaching will help you:

Diffuse tension by learning specific methods for communicating with others.
Maintain calm and poise in stressful situations and project objectivity.
Effectively work with a difficult boss and learn how to “manage up.”
Turn competition into cooperation and build resilient teams that pull together when faced with challenges.
Manage hostility in audiences or customers and establish common ground.
Avoid acting as referee and train employees how to resolve conflict before involving supervisors.
Recognize gender and cultural differences that lead to misunderstandings, and learn how to communicate to suit the needs of your audience and the situation.
Establish your authority by dealing with co-workers who undercut you or attempt to diminish your role as a leader.

Explore how to manage conflict – schedule an initial consultation now. Read through our FAQs and learn how to enroll in executive leadership coaching.

How to Confidently Communicate, Beat Workplace Stress, and Perform at Your Best