Leadership Team Effectiveness
Leadership Team Effectiveness
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Organizations Engage This Work When:
- Leaders are no longer speaking openly with one another
- Leaders are operating in silos rather than with shared ownership of the business
- Conflict and disagreement are affecting how the team operates
- Priorities and decision-making are no longer well aligned across the leadership team
- Leadership team gaps that were once manageable are now affecting performance
The Work Itself
This work requires the ability to read team dynamics in real time, address difficult issues directly, and help leadership teams stay in conversations they would otherwise avoid or move past too quickly. The work is grounded in the realities of the business and focused on helping teams move more decisively through complexity.
I bring a strategic perspective to the room, with an ability to quickly synthesize what is happening and connect themes in ways that create greater clarity and shared ownership. In some engagements, the Integrative Enneagram® provides a useful lens for understanding the patterns of behavior, assumptions, and dynamics that may be contributing to recurring challenges within the leadership team.
Teams value having someone who can tell them the truth directly and stay steady in conversations that carry tension, disagreement, or competing priorities.
Common Outcomes
- Cultivating High Performing Teams - coach, delegate, develop and communicate with team
- Conflict Management - understand triggers, reactions and alternative responses
- Adaptive Leadership - increase situational awareness to increase range of responses
- Executive Presence - increase awareness of behaviors impacting ability to influence at the highest levels
- Strategic Thinking - transform execution-oriented leaders into to be strategic thinkers and strategic ‘do-ers’
- Focus - gain clarity about direction, priorities and expectations
- Communication - learn effective methods to increase alignment and minimize misunderstandings
- Stress Management - optimize health to increase happiness and be a better role model to team
The work is designed to create observable shifts in how leadership teams build trust, navigate complexity, and operate together under pressure.
Organizations often experience:
- More honest and productive conversations across the leadership team
- Faster resolution of tension, disagreement, and difficult issues
- The team makes decisions more quickly and with stronger alignment
- Leaders operate with more shared ownership across the business rather than within functional silos
- Decisions translate into more coordinated action across the business
- The team navigates complexity and change more effectively together
Options for Executive Coaching
The structure of an engagement will be customized to fit the needs of the client and the organization. The following is a sample of some of the most commonly requested types of engagements.
Executive Coaching Intensive | Executive Coaching Transformation | Concierge Strategic Advisor/Executive Coach |
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90 Days | Six- to Nine Months | Ongoing |
Perfect for: Clearly defined behavioral change, goal or the first 90-days in a new role.
| Perfect for: Executives who want to exponentially increase their organizational impact.
| Perfect for: CEO’s and Top-Level Executives who need an objective and trusted advisor.
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Executive Coaching Intensive |
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90 Days |
Perfect for: Clearly defined behavioral change, goal or the first 90-days in a new role. • Feedback call with Manager and HRBP
• Integrative Enneagram and debrief • Biweekly meetings |
Executive Coaching Transformation |
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Six- to Nine Months |
Perfect for: Executives who want to exponentially increase their organizational impact. • Foundational meeting and leadership assessment
• 360 degree feedback • Alignment meetings with key stakeholders • Integrative Enneagram and debrief • Biweekly meetings • Shadow coaching (optional) |
Concierge Strategic Advisor/Executive Coach |
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Ongoing |
Perfect for: CEO’s and Top-Level Executives who need an objective and trusted advisor. • Priority access throughout engagement
• Comprehensive Strategic Intake • Executive coaching at discretion and cadence • Preparation for high stakes conversations and presentations • Strategic reviews of key initiatives, presentations and negotiations • Facilitation or observation of Executive’s Team • Attendance in key meetings and immediate post mortems • Customized Development Experiences |