Executive transition coaching is about supporting an anticipated transition to a new role where a certain competency is missing, or a recent transition where a once capable executive finds themselves temporarily struggling. Some of the transitions that we have supported are: transitions from CFO to CEO, transition from CEO to senior partner, transition from a national role to a global role, promotions to CIO, CMO, and COO, and succession planning/ retirement.
In addition, we specialize in change leadership coaching who may be accountable for eight-figure change programs. These programs can make or break an organization, frequently have teams of several hundred people, and usually use very expensive consultants who can be difficult to manage. The political, emotional and leadership demands can be very exacting, and support may be hard to come by as other senior members of the organization can be part of the problem.
Executive life coaching helps an executive look more broadly at success and satisfaction. This can include deeper career questions, well-being issues, work-life balance issues or relationship issues. The coach provides a structured process for engaging with these issues.
Coaches and coaching bodies debate hotly the relative importance of training as a psychologist, training as a coach, experience and professionalism, values of integrity, honesty, intelligence, and objectivity, and a deep understanding of business. We say all of those are essential and that the absence of any will make working at the most senior levels challenging.
Our coaching methods are eclectic, but perhaps unique in their deployment of philosophy and philosophical enquiry as the bases for investigation.
The following article, from CEO magazine entitled CEO Super Coach, features one of our coaching team.
Read more below about how these three type of coaching work in practice.
