Individual Coaching

Executive coaching is aimed at empowering you to refine your vision, achieve your goals, and overcome obstacles. Each coaching engagement is designed to elevate your leadership performance and effectiveness. The benefits are substantial, fostering a heightened sense of confidence and competence, and enabling you to think strategically and prioritize for success.

Team Coaching

The team coaching program is a year-long experience designed for team members to work together to establish deep trust in the team and organization. The program is tailored specifically to each team. We work directly with you and your team to customize your team’s path. The advantage of this program is that it amplifies the process of teamwork, both inside and outside of sessions.

Leadership Cohorts

Leadership cohorts are year-long experiences for those sharing similar roles at different organizations. It allows for deep conversation, connection, and retrospection. The leadership cohort program is designed to allow participants to think deeply about their leadership and be inspired through self-reflection and group connection.

Strong leadership begins with an understanding of impact and behavior, not just self-reflection.

In this confidential, conversation-based process, structured insights are gathered from multiple perspectives, including those who work closely with the leader, to create a comprehensive view of leadership effectiveness. This approach provides a well-rounded picture of how the leader is experienced across the organization, guiding intentional development rather than judgment.

Rather than relying on surveys, this assessment uses in-depth verbal conversations with selected stakeholders and the leader.

These dialogues focus on key areas such as:

• Strategic thinking and decision-making
• Communication and influence
• Relationship dynamics and collaboration
• Leadership presence and credibility
• Patterns of strength and blind spots

Across these conversations, patterns and themes to reveal how the leader’s intentions match their impact and where opportunities for growth lie.

Leaders receive:

• A comprehensive profile of strengths, gaps, and leadership patterns
• A perspective grounded in real voices, not boxes checked
• Actionable development priorities and clarity on next steps
• A roadmap for focused and purposeful leadership growth

This process is designed for leaders who want a rich, nuanced, and actionable understanding of their leadership and who prefer dialogue and interpretation over standardized surveys.

Retreats

Retreats are an opportunity for teams to come together, deepen relationships and focus on strategic goals. By taking a step back, retreats allow teams and organizations to move forward in a deliberate and performance-driven way. Through a combination of training, discussion, and interactive activities, we work with you to create transformative, engaging, and fun retreats. Retreats are designed specifically for your team and organization.

Workshops

Professional development workshops provide participants with tools for enhancing their contribution to the organization. Workshops cover leadership essentials for current and emerging leaders.

• Creating Trusting Teams

• Leading from the Middle

• I'm a leader. Now what?

• Transforming the 1:1 meeting

• Creating a Leadership Self-Reflection Practice

• Providing Effective Feedback

Gallup research discovered that people who focus on using their strengths are 3x as likely to report having an excellent quality of life and 6x as likely to be engaged in their jobs. We use the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment and proven methodology as the foundation to create meaningful insights. Susanne Carpenter is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach.

Strengths Coaching for Individuals

Initial Coaching Session

For individuals interested in investing in their strengths, Gallup Strengths Coaching provides the perfect opportunity to learn about and leverage your talents. The 90-minute initial coaching session provides a strong foundation of strengths understanding and an opportunity to receive guidance on any areas of interest you may have. The initial session includes the Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment.

Ongoing Coaching Sessions

Your strengths journey continues beyond your initial coaching session. These 1-hour sessions deepen the knowledge of your strengths and offer clarity on specific aspects of your career, strategic partnerships, and relationships. A minimum of 4 sessions is suggested.

Strengths Coaching for Teams

Team Strengths Introduction

Beyond the individual, team strengths help develop synergies and strategic partnerships within workgroups. The Team Strengths Introduction provides a customized and strategic insight into your team's individual and group strengths and a baseline for understanding using CliftonStrengths. Gain insight into your team with a customized, strategic look at individual and team strengths.

Team Strengths Workshop

Help your team meet their performance goals with the 3-hour Team Strengths Workshop. This engaging experience expands your team’s knowledge of individual and team strengths and extends it into deep learning. We work with you to design this workshop for the best course of action for team learning and outcomes.

Team Assessments

High-performing teams are developed through an understanding of the current team makeup. Using formal assessments and interviews, the team assessment is the basis for understanding individual and team strengths. The assessment also provides a path for development for the team, including goals and group norms.

Process Improvement

Top teams regularly review the process that makes them work. By assessing team processes through an improvement lens, teams will become sharper in understanding how the team, makes plans and decisions and builds and maintains relationships. With a clear view of process, teams are more nimble and better respond to challenges.

Reporting Structure Assessments

Teams and team members who lack clarity struggle with performance. Reporting structure assessments create role clarity for the individuals and the teams through an in-depth process. Accountability and an explicit understanding of roles and responsibilities is the designed outcome of this process.