If you’re reading this, you’re probably a senior leader considering executive coaching—or someone advising one. Either way, you deserve more than a marketing pitch. This guide is written from the inside: from two decades of working with CEOs, managing directors, and...
Let me start with something uncomfortable: the higher you climb, the worse your information gets. Not because people lie to you—though some do—but because the system around you slowly stops telling the truth. Your team filters bad news. Your board speaks in...
Let me save you the suspense: the Manchester Inc. study found that executive coaching delivers an average return of 529% on investment. The ICF Global Coaching Study and MetrixGlobal Associates report similar figures. If those numbers alone were enough to convince...
Sixty percent of CEOs report feeling isolated in their role. When I read that statistic, my first thought was: the other forty percent aren’t being honest. I’ve worked with hundreds of senior executives, and loneliness is not the exception—it’s the architecture of the...
Most executive coaching is too polite. There. I said it. A leader walks in, describes the symptoms, and the coach asks careful questions designed to guide the client toward their own insight. It’s pleasant. It’s professional. And for leaders operating at the very...
When power remains, but consent dissolves I recently read an article on Time that described a situation both disturbing and increasingly familiar. It outlined a presidency that generates global tension on an almost daily basis. A leader who, in the eyes of roughly...
