Executive coaching
Authority, judgment, and pressure.
For executives, founders, attorneys, doctors, and senior leaders whose roles require more than technical excellence.
At a certain level, leadership stops being only about knowing what to do. It becomes the work of carrying authority under pressure and noticing what happens inside when visibility, conflict, feedback, responsibility, or judgment enter the room.
Common entry points
- The conversation you keep postponing.
- The feedback you over-soften until it loses force.
- The room where you have authority but still feel like you are auditioning.
- The decision that is strategically clear but emotionally expensive.
- The role you earned but have not yet fully inhabited.
The work was tested in Major League Baseball, where performance is public and measured every day. Recent engagements include senior leaders at Meta, Ropes & Gray, and investment firms, as well as ownership and management in professional sport.
What the work looks like
We start with what is actually happening: the person you cannot reach, the decision you keep revisiting, the room where you lose your authority, or the role that has become harder to carry.
The work moves between the practical and the personal: what needs to be said, what makes it difficult to say, what the role asks of you, and what pattern enters the room before strategy has a chance.
Each engagement is built around the leader and the role. Most run six to twelve months.
Assessment. The work begins with a clear picture of how you lead and how you are experienced. Depending on the role, this may include a personality assessment such as PrinciplesYou, a 360-degree review conducted by trusted colleagues through confidential stakeholder interviews, and a review of existing feedback and assessments. Where relevant, it also includes conversations with a sponsor or board member.
Focus. Findings are translated into a small number of priorities, agreed before the work begins.
Cadence. Sessions are typically held every other week.
Review. Progress is reviewed at set points. When an organization sponsors the work, what it receives is agreed in advance: updates on progress, never the content of sessions.
This is not strategic consulting or clinical therapy. The approach is psychodynamic: it attends to what drives a leader beneath strategy, including patterns that are difficult to see from inside the role.
Scope
Scope and availability
Executive coaching is non-clinical and available nationally and internationally through my independent practice. It is a private-pay service, not billed to insurance. Fees are discussed directly before work begins. I hold the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation.
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