Executive Coaching

Start your productive transformation.

Partnering with executives to make high-value changes.

What do the world’s greatest leaders have in common?

The best leaders and organizations don’t rest on their laurels. Instead, they anticipate, recognize, and respond to challenges. They grow and develop.

There’s always opportunity for improvement in your success as a leader—wherever you are in your development. Through our work together, you’ll gain a full understanding of your capabilities, challenges, and drivers. We partner with you to identify pivotal behaviors that, if changed, will produce tremendous results for you, your team, and the organization…then we work together to shift those behaviors.

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What benefits can you expect from Executive Coaching?

At the outset we identify what success looks like for the engagement. Depending on the agreed upon goals, outcomes may include:

Greater self-awareness
Enhanced ability to manage up, down and sideways
Insight into how you’re seen by others (and what to do about it)
Improved self-management
Greater confidence and credibility (with yourself and others)
Greater satisfaction and fulfillment
Less stress and more sustainability in your role
Identification of, and greater facility with, your authentic leadership style
Improved organizational and time management
Greater facility and confidence making tough decisions
Enhanced ability to effectively have difficult conversations

As a leader, you are a critical part of a dynamic system. You can expect our work to have a positive cascading ripple effect throughout your organization. Elevate overall performance. Transform teams.

Examples of past client success stories

CEO developed leadership ‘back-bone’ and assertiveness in order to effectively set boundaries, hold staff accountable and shift the culture to be more results-oriented; ultimately growing the business 10X and resulting in an acquisition
VP developed greater resilience and self-management, resulting in less emotional reactivity and more productive focus on achievement of goals
CEO developed the ability to be more nuanced in his communication and more collaborative in his approach in order to effectively navigate a game-changing merger
CFO leveraged the results of difficult to accept 360 feedback to become a more collaborative and empowering leader, and turn-around perceptions of an uncaring and disrespectful leadership style
Supported the Chancellor of a research university with thought partnership and as a sounding board; specifically around the dynamics of the leadership team, emotional intelligence and relationship management with the board chair
HR leader developed executive presence, confidence and leadership backbone

COO developed greater awareness of the downsides of one of her greatest strengths (her very direct communication style) and developed the ability to moderate her approach
SVP of Global Services developed the ability to prioritize the needs of the organization over the individual needs of the leaders on his team; and to tolerate the discomfort of holding direct reports, whom he also considered to be friends, accountable
President of an explosively growing company, developed from the leader of a $200M business to a 1B business
CEO developed self-management skills and turned around perceptions of an overly assertive and forceful leadership style
Recently promoted Director developed executive presence and effectiveness as a leader of former peers
Provost developed executive presence, including the ability to effectively ‘toot his own horn’ as appropriate
Senior Director developed emotional intelligence
President/Managing Director developed confidence, management and leadership skills, including the ability to be more direct in his communication and to tolerate the discomfort of holding others accountable
CMO turned around pattern of intimidating and disrespecting peers
Executive Director more effectively developed her leadership team, setting them up for a successful merger

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What Executive Coaching Clients are Saying

I am now more adept at navigating through the personalities and politics…and know how to succeed in times of turmoil.

I would recommend Rachel’s coaching without hesitation. Rachel quickly earned my trust and demonstrated her tremendous value. She is remarkably insightful, particularly regarding executive leadership challenges, and her expertise and intelligence presents very useful perspectives for seasoned professionals who may have thought they have seen it all.

Helen R.

Executive Director

I gained confidence and clarity and experienced tremendous development as an executive.

The process was exciting and inspiring. Through our work together, I became more aware of my strengths as well as my untapped potential. Rachel is an exceptional executive coach and has had a substantial, transformational effect on my professional life above and beyond what I could have imagined entering into the work together. I cannot say enough good things about her work. She’s amazingly effective. She is compassionate, gentle yet directive, and she gets results.

Eve C.

Founder

My work with Rachel was powerful and inspiring.

I am stronger in mind and spirit because of the work I did through my partnership with Rachel. She is highly intuitive and very quickly understood how to specifically encourage me and hold me accountable. Rachel led me through a process that has quite literally changed how I view all aspects of my life, my work and my creativity. I am a stronger leader because Rachel heard me and cheered me on in my quest to shine.

Cindy G.

Executive Director

Rachel demonstrated her great value from the very first session and has been indispensable to me this past year.

She helped me successfully deal with several professionally critical, tough, situations that in the past I would have handled differently and less effectively. Due to my work with Rachel, my ability to handle such situations going forward – appropriately and deftly – has significantly improved. To top it all off, all of this work was done with such a supportive and motivating manner. Having someone ready and willing to help in one’s development, who can serve as a sounding board and “guide” is so vital to an executive’s success, and Rachel has been that person to me. Grateful and thankful are two words that don’t come close to fully describing my feelings and the results from my work with her.

James G.

President

At the time I hired Rachel, I was struggling to move from Founder and friend…I wanted to become a real CEO and start acting like one. I wanted to become a leader.

We have now gone from a $1M company to a $10M company in just under five years and expanded our staff from 11-50! We have clear lines of responsibility between me and the staff and communication at all levels of the organization. Through working with Rachel, I began to recognize my true strengths as a leader and I have been able to leverage those strengths in many ways. For example, I recently completed an acquisition of another company, something I would not have dreamed of five years ago! I was able to leverage my strengths to make that happen, but without my work with Rachel it would have been difficult to feel confident enough to complete the entire acquisition process. Rachel delivers results.

Katie B.

Founder and CEO