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Leadership is the heart of work. I help leaders get to the heart of their work.
My first half: For three-plus decades, I served in corporate and industry leadership roles, working for recognizable companies based in Tech, Financial Services and Commercial Real Estate. For much of that time, my core work was delivered as a Workplace & Real Estate Executive, work that tended to sit at the intersection of People (a company’s employees) and Places (how and where — physically — those employees do their work).
I fully enjoyed and was reasonably good at the Places part of my work, energized by the fact that it touched every part of, and every person in, the company and served the interests of no less than the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief People Officer (I remain fluent in both CFO and CPO/CHRO).
My true love, however, was and is the People part of my work. Along the way, I developed a deep curiosity and passion for leading and leadership and codified my belief that leadership — done well — is the heart of work. From that belief grew my ‘leadership development’ side hustle, starting as far back as 2003. My side hustle took on different forms at different times — college-level teaching, formal mentoring, advisory, training & workshop facilitation — eventually evolving into leadership and executive coaching.
My second half: In 2021, my side hustle became my core work, work that I anticipate doing as long as my heart and head will allow. Today, I focus on leadership & executive coaching, learning facilitation, strategic advisory, and thought leadership. A common theme across my portfolio of work is a focus on uncovering and then leveraging the strengths inherent in the individuals, teams, and organizations I work with, serve and support.
I have embraced leadership and executive coaching as part of my management and leadership approach for the better part of a decade, first discovering coaching as a client, and then becoming a professional coach myself. As a corporate executive, I discovered coaching to be something I truly enjoyed as demand for my ‘services’ began to include peers and others in increasing numbers. In 2020, I decided to seek industry certification and credentialing, and in 2021 I launched my formal coaching practice. Today, individual and team coaching accounts for most of my work.
I coach from a place of curiosity and active inquiry, and not from a place of advice-giving or subject matter expertise; that is what separates my coaching work from my advisory work.
My typical client is a successful professional who has a strong interest in becoming a next-level leader, and/or who needs help getting un-stuck. And, most importantly, is one who comes to coaching willingly.
My coaching unfolds through a disciplined focus on unlocking what is already inherent in my clients, whether that be strengths, direction, answers and so on. My clients set the destination; I help with the navigation. And while I do focus on coaching the whole person, I do not offer life-coaching per se’; my intent is to help my clients be their best professional selves.
I also offer small group / cohort-based leadership coaching, which is both impactful and cost-effective for leaders from the same company, same industry or same professional organization.
Can I be of service to you or your team? Curious to learn more about my coaching? Please schedule a coaching discovery session with me.
Select Clients: Co-Founder & COO, Early Stage Tech (45 yrs); Co-Founder & COO, Pre-IPO FinTech (35 yrs); Partner, Professional Services (38 yrs); CEO, Boutique Consulting firm (50 yrs); Project Manager, Fortune 500 Tech (40 yrs); SVP, Top Tier Real Estate Services (35 yrs); Regional Leader, Fortune 500 Tech (45 yrs); Director, Fortune 500 Tech (40 yrs); VP, Fortune 500 FinServ (40 yrs).
I facilitate leadership meetings & offsites, offer a variety of keynote/speaking topics, and host workshops and other learning events. These are often extensions of my one-on-one and group coaching work.
Recent themes in my facilitation work and workshops include Leading With Impact Across Distributed Teams, Purpose-mining, Leadership Versatility (based on Kaiser Leadership’s LVI), Hurdles-Enablers-Accelerators, Leading With Strengths (based on Gallup’s StrengthsFinder), Powerful Conversations, and Unlocking Your Growth Mindset.
In addition, I developed my flagship Foundational Leadership learning series — launched in 2022 — to help leaders at various stages to tap their leadership capacity.
I also regularly provide facilitation services to industry organizations. Recent examples include Purposeful Intent and CoreNet Global Northern California.
Can I be of service to you or your team? Curious to learn more about my facilitation and workshops? Please connect with me.
As a strategic advisor, I love to work with founders and their leadership teams at earlier-stage companies, especially those who are making an impact in and around the employee experience and the workplace.
I currently sit on the advisory boards of:
Lambent Spaces (previously Armored Things)
My previous advisory boards include:
See my most recent thoughts on my LinkedIn page
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