Executive Women

Executive Coaching

 

 

 

 


Corporate Women |  Entrepreneurial Women

Corporate Women
 

 

 


They told me I was 21, I was black, and I was a woman, so there was no way I was going to make it in the financial services industry.
 — Melissa Bradley, President and CEO of Bradley Holding Company, New York

As a professional woman you face a myriad of conflicting values in a culture that has not yet adjusted to women's changing roles and does not yet have a social structure to support both career and family. Despite many advances made by women, you know the "glass ceiling" still hovers overhead.  We understand the cultural context that influences the ability for women to advance in both their careers and in their personal development. Through the “wisdom coaching” approach, you gain greater clarity around what values you hold that must be present in your life and work in order to bring you the greatest personal and professional satisfaction and success.  

Our approach is based on an inclusive model that values intuition as well as analysis, relationships as important as results, personal time as essential as work, and learning as valuable as mentoring.  We advocate the ability to be adept at multiple leadership styles that include both backbone and heart. Our coaching is informed by extensive reading, research and writing on the topic of Gender in Organizations and issues of Diversity and Inclusion.   

The breadth of our personal and professional experience as a professional, woman, mother, wife and coach all contribute to our ability to empathize, yet challenge, our clients.

Organizationally, we support cultural shifts that include advancing women and minorities as a key strategic driver for successful business results, recruitment and retention, and executive development. 
 

                      

 

As a “wisdom partner” to executive and professional women, we help you to: 

  • Become aware of the cultural context that influences the ability for women to advance in both their careers and in their personal development.  
  • Develop your authentic leadership presence, bringing all of who you are into your business and work  
  • Identify and eliminate subtle blocks that keep you from being effective and powerful 
  • Discover work that both inspires and rewards  
  • Increase your ability to work effectively in challenging circumstances   
  • Develop a greater capacity for decision-making from a place of power and clarity  
  • Negotiate from a place of power and confidence 
  • Communicate clearly, distinctly and powerfully in order to produce the highest performance results from those around you 
  • Develop your presentation skills - articulating opinions, ideas or solutions confidently as you increase your visibility and credibility within your organization and industry 
  • Gain greater clarity around what values you hold that must be present in your life and work in order to bring you the greatest personal and professional satisfaction and success 
  • Design your life and work to optimize personal energy, resources and time 
  • Integrate your family life with your work requirements without imposing unattainable goals of "balance" and "superwoman"  

 

 

 

Most importantly, you benefit from an objective but challenging sounding board that provides you:  

  • The ability to express yourself honestly in a confidential, supportive and non-judgmental environment 
  • The support for your unique personal and professional development through frequent dialogue that evokes action and sustainable results  
  • The opportunity to objectively evaluate your strengths and thereby leverage your value to the organization  
  • A pro-active plan for your career path and a personal marketing strategy for your achievements  
  • The opportunity to discretely evaluate possibilities or confidentially “talk out”  management strategy 
  • Time to explore blocks to your success, either in your thinking, your beliefs, your feelings or your behaviors 
  • “Real-time” self-observation practices and exercises to immediately experience new results while replacing ineffective behaviors  
  • Access to timely and current research on women in corporations, leadership programs for women and possible communities and networks for executive women 

In an era where we are living with the excesses of corporate American, having overall diversity at the top inevitably forces a degree of balance in the decision making. As a result you get a richer understanding of our customers, employees, and community. 
 — Johana G. Torsone, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Pitney Bowes in 2002 Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners in the Fortune 500 

     

     

     

    Executive Coaching Programs Include:

    If you are committed to:

    • Building a high performance workplace
    • Developing your leadership presence
    • Accelerating your personal learning
    • Or increasing your organizational capacity for change

    Call us at 410-544-5262 now or e-mail us or use our contact form (link to contact page) to discuss your situation in confidence.  There is no obligation for an initial consultation.
     

     

     

     

    Entrepreneurial Women 
     

     

     

     

     

     

    As your Executive Coach, we help you combine your professional experience, your business skills and your relationship orientation to transition from employee to entrepreneur. Indications are that women will become entrepreneurs when they are undervalued or stifled at work or when the need to better integrate family and work commitments cannot be met through corporate employment.  Having a coach to support you through this transition and leverage your experience and skills will help accelerate your goal of entrepreneurship.  Whether you need coaching to negotiate a sound exit plan or a “sounding board” for planning the foundation of your new endeavor, you can call or e-mail me to discuss your options. 

    The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.
    — Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett Packard

    Find out why and how fast women’s entrepreneurship is growing

    Executive Coaching Programs Include:

    If you are committed to:

    • Building a high performance workplace
    • Developing your leadership presence
    • Accelerating your personal learning
    • Or increasing your organizational capacity for change

    Call us at 410-544-5262 now or e-mail us or use our contact form to discuss your situation in confidence.  There is no obligation for an initial consultation.

     


    The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.
     — Judith M. Bardwick

     

     

     

     

     

     

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