We do three things
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Executive coaching for CEOs and executive team leaders
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Team-performance coaching for Executive Teams
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Align to Execute
Executive Coaching
As the new CEO, all eyes are on you.
Build momentum in the 1st 90 days—then sustain it. We help new and transitioning CEOs adapt how they lead in high-stakes, fluid situations (new company, new team, turnaround, new ownership). Our approach blends data-driven insights, proven leadership practices, and 25+ years working alongside CEOs and ELTs — from Fortune 100s and PE-backed PortCos to hyper-growth startups.
Start where it matters most. We meet you where you are and go from there—whether you need to:
· Assess how to adapt your leadership to increase your impact and effectiveness
· Craft a 1st 90-days or year-one plan
· Reset your executive leadership team
· Align with your board on how to best work together
· Diagnose why progress has slowed—and fix the bottlenecks
Job one: help you choose what to focus on first to build momentum and deliver results.
Mastery isn’t a given — it’s a system. Elite performers (CEOs, athletes, musicians, chefs, etc.) improve their craft through active learning, deliberate practice, feedback, and consistent reps. As you strengthen your leadership, we will help you sustain the clarity, energy, and executive presence you need to convert a strong start into strong quarters.
Build a High-Performing EXecutive Team
Building a strong team at the top is an intentional choice — one the best CEOs make.
Building a real team at the top is hard work. The ROI is clear. The best CEOs all say they would not have succeeded without having built a great team. We will work side-by-side with you to build a real executive team — not a committee, not a TINO (team in name only).
Consider how much the best sports teams, jazz bands and top restaurants have worked on operating as a cohesive team before they step on the field, go on tour or open their doors. In our experience, operating a real team at the top requires a similar level of commitment from you.
We will help you codify the right mindset and operating system—then embed them. Expect tighter team collaboration, quicker innovation, and repeatable results. We accelerate your team’s progress with live observation team coaching, a team performance platform (model + quarterly metrics), focused offsites, and targeted training.
Many of our clients also ask us to coach individual ELT members to strengthen their effectiveness in their dual-roles as ELT members - as leaders of their own team/unit, and stewarding the enterprise as members of the executive team.
If you know your success and that of your business depends on operating a high-performing executive team, then let’s talk about how you make that happen.
align to execute
We advise the CEO and ELT on aligning the organization to deploy the strategy.
Your board. Sustaining strong relationships with your board is key. It starts with ensuring role clarity between the board and your ELT and defining how to work together to create greater value.
Level 2 leaders. The seam between your ELT and your L2 leaders is where many “good” strategies can stall out. Keeping your ELT and L2 leaders aligned around the ‘why, what and how’ of your strategy is essential.
Having worked with executive teams on strategy deployment for 25 years, we can advise you on how to strengthen alignment with L2 leaders, set up early signal detection that monitors effective strategy deployment; and provide actions to be responsive to the challenges of strategy deployment as they appear.
Your game will be tested. Which means winning is about more than having a solid plan. Ultimate success is determined by how well you and your leaders dynamically adapt as your plan meets the realities of volatile markets, stiff competition and human nature.
