Executive Coaching offers the potential to choose new perspectives that lead to different behaviors and expanded results. Coaches are individuals who support others in achieving sustainable, positive changes. Coaches accomplish this through partnering with individuals and groups in generative conversations.

Coaching is usually non-directive. The coach works with the client through a process of creating the client’s own solutions.   A Coach may challenge the client’s ideas, thinking and intentions by using timely and thought provoking questions.

Coaching may facilitate achieving results by:

• Building in accountability
• Committing to a course of action
• Identifying and choosing between alternatives
• Recognizing opportunities and obstacles
• Leveraging strengths
• Achieving more clarity on issues or considerations
• Dismantling preconceptions
• Refining purpose
• Creating realistic and achievable goals
• Encouraging full awareness and honesty about the current situation
• Connecting personal values to organizational values

An Executive Coach does not generally give advice. He or she may not be a subject matter expert in the client’s business field. If you are looking for industry specific or technical advice then you should consider consultant or mentoring rather than a Coach.

Kathleen, as a Coach, supports individuals and groups in exploring possibilities and achieving desired outcomes, bringing diverse professional and personal experiences, an open mind, and a holistic, yet structured, approach to the process.

Intentional conversations motivated by powerful questions can illuminate new possibilities, build relationships and clarify purpose. Group coaching is an opportunity to leveraging strengths, encourage learning, generate clear commitments and support action, to expand business outcomes and group objectives.

The Coach engages in a series of one-on-one sessions with the client to address the individual’s specific needs.  Sessions are private and confidential.

Facilitation may include a concerted combination of training, coaching, and leading with a view toward the group achieving its desired results.

Consulting services are available to support CEOs of small to medium-size businesses in hospitality and retail in their quest to achieve employee engagement, productivity, optimal growth and profitability.

A Mentor is someone more experienced than the client in a particular field. Unlike coaching, Mentors offer advice and guidance. Mentoring can be a constructive way to develop talent within an organization by enabling less seasoned employees to learn from the knowledge of someone with more first hand experience.