AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE™

Executive Coaching and Advisory Services

 

 

 

My mission is to empower my clients to be their true selves in every sphere of their life. This comes from a fierce belief that being authentic is more than the key to a happier life, it is a top driver of performance.

I work with senior level executives (officers, partners, entrepreneurs) or mid-level executives on the rise to answer questions like these:

  • How do I create and implement a vision of leadership that is more expansive and build an environment where everyone on the team can shine and contribute?
  • How do I develop teams to expand my strengths and my organization’s strengths while managing the vulnerabilities?
  • How do I manage business trade-offs given my resources?
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How do I navigate and communicate difficult decisions?
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What risks am I not seeing?
  • What is success for the business and how do I track it?

 

 

The Intention→Attention→Action™ Coaching Method

 

A practice for leaders who already know what needs to happen and need to act on it when the stakes and the scrutiny are high.

Intention: be clear on what you are building, for you and the people you lead.

  • Clarify. Articulate your values. Define what you want to build for yourself, your team and the business.  Make it specific enough to drive operational decisions.
  • Align. Test it against your values and against the stakeholders and the constraints you lead within: the board, the investment thesis, the incentives, the culture. Name where they pull in different directions. 
  • Declare. Commit to it where it counts: to yourself, and to the people who need to see you stand behind it.

Attention: stay steady when the pressure is on and the room is watching.

  • Notice. See your own patterns under pressure, and the effect they have on the people around you.
  • Center. Stay  steady under  speed, conflict or scrutiny pull you off course. Your team takes its cue from your state.
  • Direct. Allocate attention, your own and your organization’s, to what the intention says matters. 

Action: make the call, take the action and make it stick.

  • Step. Make the decision and move into action.
  • Practice. Repeat it until it’s simply how you lead, so people can count on it rather than hope for it.
  • Learn. Look at what changed, in the results and in the people. Feed it back into the intention.