Strategic Leadership

Executing on the right goals– identifying where to say yes and no
Supporting innovative thinking and problem solving
Selling the work (internally/externally) vs. doing the work

Team Leadership

Creating powerful and authentic relationships, managing up/down/across
Inspiring organizational support for key initiatives and team
Engaging in effective communication and conflict management

Personal Leadership

Cultivating innate self-assurance and leadership credibility
Fostering sustainable balance of work and life priorities
Developing effective energy and time management habits.

Results dramatically drive successful work initiatives, enhance professional relationships, improve conflict resolution, fulfillment and team motivation along the way.

What Is The Coaching Process?

Step 1: Scope

Determine coaching areas and desired outcomes of the coaching process. Clarify expectations, roles and objectives with all stakeholders (client, client’s manager, HR business partner and coach).

Step 2: Discovery

Gather information about your personal leadership style, potential challenges, communication style/skills, and work/life values. May include 360 feedback and a variety of other diagnostic and personality assessment tools.

Step 3: Development Planning

Development Planning – Build tailored action plan designed to optimize strengths and points of leverage, address development areas and cultivate desired leadership behaviors. Review development plan with key stakeholder(s).

Step 4: Ongoing Coaching & Results Tracking

Focused coaching on high impact areas with regular sessions, accountability, progress reviews and adjustment of actions and goals as appropriate. We track success by completion of the action plan and more importantly, by observable behavior change. We also incorporate surveys as appropriate to measure observable change with key stakeholder(s).

“Growth Axis provided me with executive coaching for nearly two years, in support of my role that evolved and expanded from a VP to CFO position. My coach’s insights, influence and honesty were incredibly impactful in my transformation throughout this transition. I am hugely grateful for the exceptional mentoring and coaching that enabled me to enhance and improve my performance.”

— Former CFO, Theravance Biopharma (now CFO Jazz Pharmaceuticals)

Executive Coaching Impact from Growth Axis

Experienced CEO develops a succession plan including: builds intentional vision, holds difficult conversations around succession and equity/leadership approach, develops and retains next level talent
Founder CEO and executive team scale organization from 30 to 500 employees - implementing new structure and process to support alignment, empowering communications and mature leadership.
VP secures promotion to SVP in rapidly growing technology company and develops skill to lead a significantly larger team and show up at the “C” level with strong executive presence.
Newly hired Business Unit Head navigates “big company” politics and inherited direct reports to build an aligned team and strong cross functional relationships.
VP who feels stagnant after six years at same level (even though high performer and strong executor) - gets support to proactively manage career in competitive organization, get right sponsorship and develop key cross-functional relationships to get promoted.
Busy Managing Director in a large professional services organization (that prioritizes sales over culture) develops skill to mentor and develop team to both technical excellence and strong cross-functional partnering to grow the business.
View our Case Studies for specific examples of our coaching impact.

Testimonials

“Working with Growth Axis over the past year to upgrade our organizational health and the individual capability of our executive leaders has delivered a dramatically positive, turnaround effect. They understood our needs from ‘day one’ and kept the work so practical and approachable — and comprehensively scaled our development needs rather than the limited ‘cookie cutter’ model of other firms. I never could have imagined it was possible to accomplish as much as we’ve done with Growth Axis.”

— Head of Human Resources, Vaxcyte

“I belong to a group of CEOs who meet regularly to discuss strategic issues and management best practices. The team from Growth Axis brings phenomenal capability to our group of hugely diverse personalities. They helped us create an environment of deep trust and openness, which enables us to very quickly identify and address key issues. They provided us with a great framework for engagement, and have a unique ability to push us to look at things more deeply and critically, in a supportive, thoughtful, and constructive way. Their experience in organizational and leadership issues, and strong capabilities in facilitation, enable them to bring out the individual and collective best in a group.”

– President & CEO, Second Genome

“My coach leveraged her deep understanding of how business works combined with knowledge of how peoples’ minds and emotions work to deliver practical, powerful, effective coaching to senior leaders. She forced me to look the truth in the eye, held me responsible for making changes with an empathy that makes personal and professional growth easier, and quicker, to achieve.”

– CEO, Brandology

“Collaborative, challenging, and insightful, they go deep! Our work challenged me to really think about the truth: what drives my motivation, what drives my fears, why do I have these fears, and how do I overcome them to achieve my goals. They hold themselves just as accountable as their clients to help identify and realize true potential.”

– VP Marketing & Sales, Numi Tea

Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership?