Leadership Coaching
Solutions to accelerate and sustain your leadership success
Are you or your organization’s leaders stuck? Do you or other leaders in your organization need a thinking partner to help you check assumptions, test out ideas or strategies, and learn different mindsets?
Here’s how I can help:
When you work one-on-one with me, I will create a confidential space for you to pause, explore, and reflect upon the issues you are grappling with. As an experienced Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Executive Coach, I draw on proven methodology to provide the structure you need to gain insights and make breakthroughs with the topics you bring. I will support you in identifying goals and objectives for your learning, and an accountability framework to strengthen your ability to carry through on your desired outcomes. I have many well-established tools and strategies that enable me to find the best approach to suit your individual needs.
What you bring to our coaching conversations are issues and challenges – solving them is essential to your leadership success. These may broadly include:
- Creating awareness of and strategies for improving organizational relationships, structures, and systemic patterns.
- Exploring career goals, transitions, stretching from established patterns, and getting comfortable with taking risks.
- Improving engagement, commitment, and strategic alignment.
- Identifying strategies for more effective communication and conflict management.
- Managing your energy and priorities.
- Reframing limiting beliefs that get in your way.
- Discovering other personal leadership or organizational topics that are keeping you stuck and preventing you from achieving your goals.
For more information about leadership coaching, see the FAQ page.
Team Coaching
Solutions to strengthen mutual trust, shared vision, and strong teamwork
Are you feeling like your team is getting nowhere because team members are mired in conflict and mission drift? Is your team focused on competition rather than shared goals and getting the work done? Or perhaps the team appears to be aligned with decisions, but at the end of the day, no one is accountable and nothing gets done? Could it be that you, as a leader, need to gain more skills to build trust and motivate your team?
Here’s how I can help:
As a Certified Team Coach Practitioner (Global Team Coaching Institute) and Individual Team Coaching Accredited Practitioner (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), I provide tailored Systemic Team Coaching interventions that comprehensively address your team’s challenges. As your team coach, I will partner with the team to co-create a learning environment where the team can explore how better to connect internally (as a team) and with their identified stakeholders, all in service of strengthening the team’s ability to fulfill its purpose and shared goals. I help teams understand the systemic context in which they work and facilitate team coaching conversations that explore who the team is serving, clarify expectations, roles, and agreed norms of behaviour. I support the team in discovering unproductive patterns and help them to develop strategies to shift team culture. I also provide process support for leaders who want to work more effectively with their teams.
Training & Facilitation
Solutions to help organizations with capacity building and planning
Like individual leaders and teams, organizations as a whole also need to grow and develop to meet the ever-changing and unpredictable world in which we live, work and play. Do you need help to strengthen your organization or engage in strategic planning and goal setting? Or perhaps you are looking at education and development as strategies for retention and succession planning? With extensive training and experience in leadership, adult education, and facilitation, I tailor processes, programs and workshops that work for you and your organization.
If you would like to leverage the talent in your organization, consider group coaching for your leaders and /or emerging leaders, or the workshop series that incorporate coaching and assessments. Training that includes coaching has been proven to be effective in content retention and behavioural change of participants. These workshop series are designed in consultation with you to meet your organization’s needs.
Here’s how I can help:
Group Coaching
I apply coaching principles to small groups of leaders and / or emerging leaders for the purpose of learning and development. Group coaching provides a safe space for conversations that tap into the collective wisdom of the group to achieve individual goals and organizational objectives.
Customized Leadership Programs
- Women’s Leadership Edge: A Workshop Series for Women Leaders
- Leadership Academy: Combines assessments, coaching, and various leadership topics to strengthen leadership skills.
Facilitation and Training
- Appreciative inquiry to leverage organizational change
- Strategic planning and stakeholder engagement
- Sample workshops:
- Developing Resiliency Through Change and Uncertainty
- Leading Teams Through Change and Uncertainty
- Reimagining Our Future: An Appreciative Inquiry
- Leading with Emotional Intelligence
- The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
- A Coach Approach to Leading and Supervising
- Managing and Leading – Leveraging the Difference
Tools & Assessments
Solutions for individuals and teams to learn about themselves and their growth potential
Core Strengths Relationships Intelligence (RQ) and the Strengths Deployment Inventory 2.0 (SDI 2.0)
As a licensed and certified Core Strengths RQ and SDI 2.0 systems practitioner, I can support your teams to discover personal and collective core strengths, underlying motivational value systems, and how to manage overdone strengths and conflict styles to build a culture of resilient relationships that are responsive to challenges and opportunities.
If organizations are going to work better, people have to learn to prevent conflict, or at least manage it. Core Strengths defines Relationship Intelligence (RQ) as insight to adjust your approach to make interactions more effective. Using the SDI 2.0 to assess individual motivational value systems, the approach introduces teams to more effective options for dealing with the most challenging situations and people. Team members will have access to their personal results through an online platform and I will facilitate learning discussions that enable the team to understand and use the tool to develop greater RQ, help them identify and apply the right approaches and co-create better ways of working together. The team will also have an opportunity map the team’s collective strengths and how this can be leveraged to reach your team’s and organizational goals.
Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 (EQ-i 2.0)
Leadership starts from within, and being aware of how your emotions impact yourself and others is the first step to being an emotionally intelligent leader. Leaders with high EQ (Emotional Quotient) can better manage relationships, especially in times of crisis or stress, and can inspire and connect with others.
The Emotional Quotient-Inventory 2.0 (EQ-i 2.0) assessment measures an individual’s emotional intelligence (EI). This is an easy-to-use, online tool that provides you with an assessment of 15 EI competencies, and how you rank based on normative data. I will provide you with custom reports and coaching to support you in understanding your results. The report measures five distinct aspects of emotional and social functioning, along with corresponding subscales (15 competencies), and make connections between subscales and areas to leverage EI strengths and improve EI weaknesses.
In addition to supporting you on an individual level, I can tailor workshops – such as Leading with Emotional Intelligence – specifically to your organization’s and your team’s needs. Learning about EI competencies and behaviours will support your efforts to shift organizational culture and provide a common language for your team to grow together.
EQ 360
I am certified to deliver and debrief the EQ 360, which is a multi-rater assessment. Like the EQ-i 2.0, the EQ 360 measures 15 competencies. Along with your self-report, the results are combined with the perceptions of people who know you well, resulting in a 360 degree assessment. I will provide you with debriefing, coaching, and support in creating an action plan to work on building on your strengths and shoring up your weaknesses.
Narrative 360
Narrative 360 is a powerful assessment tool that employs a more personal, tailored approach to learning about a leader’s strengths and growth needs. With narrative 360s, I work closely with the leader to develop questions that are most suitable to their learning needs. Together we focus on appreciative questions that identify strengths and determine what “best” means to that leader. As well, we explore solution-focused questions to identify specific desired behaviours. I also work closely with the leader to identify a cross section of employees, colleagues, and stakeholders to interview and obtain feedback. This process provides a detailed analysis that results in rich, real-time, contextual feedback that helps the leader focus on behaviours and competencies most critical to performance in the leader’s role in the organization.
For more information about Relationship Intelligence (SDI 2.0) and Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0), see the FAQ page.