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For one or two hours per week, I get dedicated time to think and focus on me and my leadership. The coaching provides me with education and a framework on delivering value to the business, ensuring goals and objectives are clearly identified, and defining and managing my career goals" VP IT, Financial Services
The benefits are too numerous to mention, coaching helps me define my role, mature as an executive, develop a leadership agenda and goals, and solve problems with a sympathetic and experienced ear" SVP CIO, Entertainment
"Executive coaching helped guide us down the right track. A different perspective about new ways to address issues. Helped us face the realities of the world" Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
"Working with Susan gave me one of the best learning experiences of my life. Probably the biggest benefit was what I gained in my own self-awareness. I have an improved communication style, increased confidence, better insights into how to manage others and a stronger sense of my own strengths and limits" VP IT, Entertainment
"The biggest benefit was learning how to develop common understanding with my peers so that we could achieve consensus on issues and move forward. I am better equipped to look at issues from more than one angle and I can better understand the needs of others" Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
"I am much more strategic about my career planning and I have gained the tools to implement my strategy. On a more tactical level, my relationships with my manager and peers is far more effective and I am now viewed as the top candidate to move to the next level" Manager IT, Automotive
"My ability to separate daily tasks from strategic thinking has greatly increased" Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
"I now understand how to approach strategy and value measurement. I have learned the value of focusing on the "vital few" vs. "many" activities" General Manager, Health Care
Prepare or Respond to New Challenges: "I had been recently promoted to a vice president and needed help adapting my work style to the appropriate level" - VP IT, Entertainment
Prepare or Respond to New Challenges: "I was in a new executive position in the organization and I wanted to get practical advice on how to approach the financial and technical aspects of the job. I was especially interested in working with a woman who had executive experience in a large company. Susan’s background in technology and finance was a perfect fit for me" General Manager, Heath Care
Prepare or Respond to New Challenges: "When I was promoted to Vice President, I wanted additional coaching and mentoring to ensure that I would be successful in my new role. My boss did not have the extra time to invest in my personal development, yet he needed me to produce good results" VP IT, Financial Services
Deliver Quick Results: "We all realized that we needed some outside help to get things going quickly. We also wanted to make sure that we were doing things right. We also needed a catalyst to help us address some really tough issues" Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
Deliver Quick Results: "... face some ugly realities and help us work out differences..." Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
Deliver Quick Results: "...valuable and fresh perspective to the situations that I face "General Manager, Health Care
Deliver Quick Results: "...good sounding board to work through tough issues..." VP IT, Entertainment
Deliver Quick Results: "...increase the maturity factor...but also get them to begin to work as a team...allow me to be more of a participant in the process instead of the usual dominant player at the head of the table..." CIO & Group VP IT, Automotive
Jumpstart Career: "I desired to move to the next level of management and after some soul searching and research, I decided that an executive coach was the best alternative to give me the edge, polish and refinement I needed" Manager IT, Automotive
Jumpstart Career: ""Professional development is always the first thing that is sacrificed due to busy schedules. Having an executive coach allowed me to put structure and focus around the process" Corporate Manager, IT Automotive
Address Critical Skill Gaps: "I was motivated to seek out an executive coach following a 360 degree review where my peers rated me lower than my boss or direct reports. I could see that this was having an impact on my ability to get support for my initiatives and that no matter how good my ideas might be, I would be stymied in my ability to implement them" Corporate Manager IT, Automotive
Address Critical Skill Gaps: "... quickly identify my strengths and development opportunities..." Executive Director IT, Entertainment