Leadership Coaching
Get clear on the change you seek, the strategy that will help you get there, and the skills and mindset that will accelerate your impact.
The overarching purpose of our leadership coaching is to help you get clear on the leader you want to be and then to acquire the skills and mindset to accelerate your development.
Grounded in Robert Kegan’s theory of adult development and Gallup’s research on top performers, we work with you to develop your unique leadership skill set (your leadership signature)—all in support of helping you achieve your short- and long-term goals.
A coaching relationship is structured to meet the individual needs. It includes a full inventory of your strengths, structured goal setting and tracking, as well as options for stakeholder check-ins, and interview-based 360 assessments.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
A Transformational 6-to-12 Month Opportunity for University Leadership, Senior Faculty and Senior Administrators
We help leaders in higher education to develop a compelling, motivating and authentic leadership vision. To gain clarity on strengths and developmental goals. To create strategies to reach those goals. And do deepen and enhance critical skills including communication, trust building and emotional intelligence.
“I have used coaching as an opportunity to continue to evolve and build my larger academic and professional goals in ways that are motivating and allow me to continue to create greater impact in my field, in the classroom, and in society.”
Group Coaching + Leadership Development Programs
Scalable, Customizable Approaches for Junior Faculty and Departmental Administrators
Coaching and leadership development programs are customized to the needs of the specific group and the goals of the organization. Groups range from three to 40 or more. They help developing leaders identify unique strengths, enhance their self awareness and identify and address challenges and obstacles while building mutually supportive relationships.
“I have become much more self-aware of my role as a leader and have developed systems to promote a positive and innovative group culture an mentor my trainees.”
“Jump-Start” Leadership Coaching
For Newly Appointed Faculty Leaders
This program is specifically focused on helping faculty to transition quickly and effectively into new leadership roles including faculty chairs, department heads, faculty center directors, deans and provosts. It includes one year leadership strengths awareness and application, leadership vision and goals development, and three to six months of confidential, 1:1 biweekly coaching sessions.
”It has been extremely helpful to talk over instances where I felt I could have done better and discuss strategies for staying focused on the big issues. I have also learned new ways to interact with my reports and to consider a broader range of ways of dealing with issues.”
Client Examples
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A senior faculty member was struggling with managing the sheer volume of her work. Through coaching, she identified the major bottlenecks and how to fully delegate tasks and leverage the capabilities of her senior administrator - as well as how to set limits on her availability and how to say ‘no’ to those activities that were no longer aligned with the lab's research priorities. As a result of establishing these new systems and processes, she was able to focus on the strategic work of her lab and to secure new funding to support innovative work - the work she started the lab to pursue.
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An executive director was charged with leading a large department through a period of significant change. He was new to the new role and wanted to establish his leadership credibility quickly with the team and to build trust. Using the Gallup Strengths Based Leadership assessment, he was able to identify his unique strengths as a leader and learned to leverage them, and the strengths of his leadership team, as they led the organization through the change. He built skills to better integrate both professional and personal demands on his time and established routines to create more consistent energy throughout the day and thrive in his new role.
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A program chair and his senior administrator identified a need to help support faculty as they assumed larger leadership roles within the university. We designed a customized 1:1 leadership coaching program, focusing on individualized, strengths-based development and leader-as-coach and developer of post-docs. Topics of exploration included leadership styles, managing multiple priorities (teaching schedules, publication priorities, managing a team), long- term individual vision, and being an authentic leader. Program participants reported greater role clarity, increased ability to lead others, a feeling of momentum towards relevant publications—and being able to sleep better at night :)
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We partnered with the Society of Women Engineers to add a coaching component to their leadership development program for aspiring and junior faculty in STEM fields. Read more about it in this press release.
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim once told a Washington Post reporter, “No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better.”