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leaders facing greater complexity outside, require greater clarity inside.

What Leaders Need in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) World

In today’s chaotic and volatile environment, leaders routinely face adaptive challenges – those that require new thinking and ways of working. This reality has implications for how we develop leaders and calls for a focus on transforming how a leader thinks, rather than simply adding to his/her skills and knowledge. Our coaching approach integrates attention training practices which enhance leaders’ awareness of their emotions and mindsets and how they impede or promote effective decision making and leadership.

 

our solution & approach

We provide tailored, process-driven coaching solutions that get results. By focusing on the leadership competencies critical to success in an ever-changing, dynamic global environment such as emotional intelligence, fostering innovation, developing talent and change agility — we build leaders capable of meeting current challenges with authenticity, courage and insight. Leaders leave coaching with a greater ability to self-correct, and drive their own development over time in response to future leadership challenges.

Our integral and comprehensive approach engages leaders at a deep level. This is accomplished through a parallel process of deepening awareness of a leader’s inner world and outer reputation and impact. Self-reflection exercises, and proven assessment tools illuminate a leader’s style, beliefs and values, while 360 feedback from key stakeholders reveal his/her current organizational impact. These data inform the creation of a powerful action plan that is both personally relevant and focused on the precious few areas where a leader can most impact team and organizational results.

Proven

Informed by coaching impact research and neuroscience findings illuminating how our brains change, we developed a powerful, repeatable coaching process. By leveraging personality data, qualitative 360 feedback, and focused self-reflection, leaders deepen their insight into what is driving their behavior, articulate core values, and understand their impact on those they lead and influence.

Insightful

We dig below the surface to uncover unconscious biases, beliefs and assumptions that shape a leader’s attitudes and behavior. Powerful tools and conversations allow leaders the space to understand their choices and values more deeply, and to commit to aligning their intended with their actual impact.

Pragmatic

Our coaching is focused on resolving real world leadership difficulties and learning what works through experimentation, and pragmatism with the goal of coaching to have an immediate, practical impact on the leader’s day-to-day life. This approach insists that we don’t become caught up in our own models or methods, rather, we are guided by the question “What will be most helpful for our client right now?”

Sustainable

Leaders engage stakeholders to provide ongoing feedback to support behavior change. Accountability is critical throughout coaching — and supported by coaching progress tracking tools, sponsor engagement, and stakeholder circle back interviews at the end of the engagement, when appropriate.

 

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  • Enhance leadership presence
  • Successfully transition into next level roles
  • Lead through influence
  • Build and empower a high performing team
  • Strengthen emotional intelligence
  • Lead change
  • Foster innovation
  • Develop a strategic mindset
  • Optimize work/life balance

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HEATHER WRAY, Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant

Email · Phone: 612.819.0211

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