Executive Coach Austin, Texas
Decades as a counselor, now specializing in Austin leadership coaching.
If you’re operating a business, serving at a senior level, or sitting in the boss’ seat because this whole operation was your brainchild, then I don’t need to tell you how complicated leadership can be or how much responsibility executives carry every day.
After twenty-five years as a therapist, I am deeply tuned in to nuance. My emotional intelligence is high and my ability to get to the heart of the matter is sharply honed. I bring a dimension of depth that most coaches and consultants can’t offer.
I also have the lived experience of a successful founder, a business leader responsible for hundreds of staff and thousands of clients, and a C-suite executive who propelled a homegrown counseling agency to a multi-million dollar acquisition.
My social work education taught me to look at the person within the system they are working in. Behavior is shaped by systems and systems are shaped by people. This orientation has served me well as a leadership coach. Rarely is there a time that only the person or only the system is in need up a tune-up.
Through disciplined assessment, applied systems intelligence, and custom training, I generate development value that extends beyond immediate gains and fortifies long-term performance.
What will 360 Coaching do for you?
Executive coaching with 360 Coaching brings credentialed expertise to polish your leaders’ rough edges and untangle relationship and communication challenges. Assessments for leadership traits and organizational structure are an integral part of the executive coaching services.
I work with senior leaders and their teams when it’s time for a tune-up. They don’t get “therapized” but they do get all the benefits of working with a seasoned counselor turned leadership consultant and executive coach. They also deepen their awareness about the structural levers that shape behavior.
I readily build rapport and closely guard confidentiality. I gently challenge and share my informed insights. Together, we puzzle together the unseen drivers of the problematic dynamics. Sometimes these are personal blindspots, sometimes these are habits that have outgrown their usefulness, sometimes these are structural issues in the organization.
Once we have a clear view of the context, I guide and support leaders through impactful behavior change that makes a difference in the culture and the bottom-line.
There are a lot of coaches out there.
Lots of frameworks, hundreds of books, and endless workshops. There aren’t many of me.
If your leaders and team recognize you have people-problems, if they are open to feedback and motivated to shift what needs shifting, I’d enjoy talking with you. Maybe we will be a fit.
I offer leadership consultation and executive coaching to founders, entrepreneurs, licensed professionals and business leaders who are located in Austin, Texas. If you are interested in leadership development or team coaching, please visit my coaching website: executive360Coaching.com.
Organizational Consulting & Leadership Coaching Services
Executive Team Coaching
For senior executive leadership teams. These engagements often utilize assessments to gain an accurate view of current functioning and to establish a clear vision for development. I work at all levels of the system — leader, team, organization — to improve performance, communication and trust.
Assessments
& 360 Feedback
This executive therapist is sold on the value of the Leadership Circle products. These tools are robust in their depth and validation. With theoretical underpinnings that align with psychological wisdom, the data presented is immediately useful and illuminating for senior leaders and their teams.
Coach &
Confidant
Often the person at the top of the org chart has no reliable sounding board or anyone to turn to when things get hairy, scary or uncertain. As an executive therapist skilled in leadership consulting, I can be an experienced thought-partner as well as a psychologically astute coach and confidant.
Leadership consulting and executive coaching start in the same place—a stakeholder in the organization sees room for improvement, rough edges, stuck places.
Leadership consulting: I look at the system
When an organization brings me in as a consultant, I’m studying the structures of leadership, accountability, and management. I may read the operating agreement to understand how governance intersects with operations. I’ll assess the quality of your management processes, and whether the org chart serves decision-making and leadership development, or hinders it. I watch how the leadership team communicates, handles conflict and holds each other accountable. Then I tell you what I see and advise you on recommended changes. In consulting, the focuse is the organization. The result is a clear picture of what’s getting in the way and a plan to address it.
Executive coaching: I look at the person.
Coaching is confidential, one-on-one work with a leader who is ready to see their impact honestly. We usually start with a Leadership Circle 360, so you hear from your boss, peers and direct reports what it’s like to work with you. From there, the work is about behavior—what you do under pressure, how you respond to disagreement, where you over-control or pull back. I prefer to meet you in your natural habitat, at your workplace, where I can see how you lead in real time. I offer direct and personalized challenge and informed insight, not an off-the-shelf framework.
Where they intersect
In my experience, most organizational problems are human problems. Broken trust, defensive reactivity and stifled consensus show up in the results, but they start with people. A consulting engagement often points to one or two leaders whose growth would change the whole team. Coaching often surfaces a structural issue no single person can fix. I spent 25 years as a therapist and 12 years building and leading a company of 120 counselors, so I pay attention to the people dynamics and the business pressure at the same time.
Consulting gives you answers. Coaching helps you become the leader who can find it. Consulting can start with a sponsor’s request. Coaching only works when the leader is motivated to change.
Leadership Consulting & Executive Coaching
What’s the difference?
Structured & Personalized, Every Step
360 Coaching applies a systematic series of phases, ensuring each engagement advances logically from initial insight to improvement while maintaining full transparency.
Discovery
Discovery goes both ways. Before we design an engagement, I want to ask all the questions that will help me understand where your needs and challenges lie. In the process, you’ll get a sense of how I operate and what I can deliver.
360 Assessment & Feedback
My work is greatly enhanced when I gather 360 feedback. Interpersonal issues at work can make or break performance. Knowing how a leader shows up, how they impact their colleagues and reports, is vital to understanding the whole system and being able to make meaningful and sustainable changes.
Development
This work happens on every level - senior leader, team, organizational structure. It’s also customized to the needs of the organization.
Integration
Once the engagement wraps up, you will have a solid plan for continued integration of the delivered insights, frameworks, and structural changes that will ensure the improvements you were looking for.
Reviews & Testimonials
Schedule a Discovery Call
Now accepting leadership consulting clients.
I am no longer offering psychotherapy to former or new clients. For therapy services, please reach out to my colleagues, Roxanne Watson or Jill Hokanson. Both are excellent therapists!
Let’s schedule a discovery call so we can explore if I’m a good fit for your leadership coaching needs.
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