Executive Coaching

LEARNING TO THRIVE IN COMPLEXITY IS THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF LEADERSHIP.

Today’s leaders are swimming in complexity. Beyond impressive competency and capability, we need leaders who are able to act with courage, compassion, consciousness and character.

In order to serve, inspire and lead at the highest level, our leaders must cultivate awareness and resilience at their deepest core. Every human — including those most accomplished leaders — benefit from pausing their high performance so they can consider, try on and practice new ways of being. We all need a soft place to land.

Where do YOU go to be heard, held and helped without judgement or expectation? Where do you let down your guard so you can stretch safely? Who is that person who welcomes your exploration of self, who urges you to probe, question and reveal?

It is my greatest gift to offer the relationship that lets you know yourself better and reveal your most fulfilled and powerful self.

As your Executive Coach, I’ll provide a robust and rewarding relationship that supports your growth.

I bring an integrated approach to leadership development, weaving together the best theory and research from the fields of leadership, organizational development, positive psychology and human potential. I look at leadership through the lens of wholeness, and see you as a marvellously complex and beautifully-integrated person.

Our Time Together

Together we will explore the thinking that’s holding you back, create conditions to change your paradigms, and explore frameworks, tools, and strategies to cultivate your creativity, courage, empathy, and agency at work.

An initial consultation will clarify whether we’re a perfect fit. If we are, then we move into an intensive foundation session to clarify your goals and address the details of our collaboration. From here, we’ll meet approximately every two weeks via Zoom with email support in between those sessions. My process is simultaneously structured and intuitive but it always holds your agenda at the centre.

WITHIN OUR EXEC COACHING PARTNERSHIP YOU CAN:

Unpack the increasing complexity of leadership, within a judgement-free, expectation-free space.
Confront pernicious patterns of overloading, over-pleasing, micromanaging, perfectionism, over-functioning, conflict avoidance, self-doubt, second guessing, seeking affirmation at every step.
Manage the see-saw of containing anxiety (constriction) and unleashing potential (expanding). I work with many clients on stabilizing inner states of being.
Re-commit to your values, boundaries, and whole wellbeing, so you can lead from an empowered, emboldened and authentic place. This includes defining, integrating and supporting you on your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion journey.
Define success and achievement, shedding “expectations” (others’/culture/patriarchy) to design what’s next in your work and life. What do you even want anymore? What are your current opportunities? What do you need to develop, discover or decide?

THE EXEC COACHING PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES:

Introduction & preparation
- Coaching preparation package
- IEQ9 Enneagram assessment
- Leadership Circle Profile ™
- Other resources i.e., books and videos to deepen the learning process
90min Foundation session
90min LCP debrief: This powerful tool not only provides a concrete measure of your effectiveness, but informs and catalyzes an individual development path by helping you understand the relationship between how you think, how you behave, and how this impacts your current level of effectiveness.
Two one-hour 1:1 sessions (via Zoom) each month
Email communication throughout the partnership
Additional developmental resources and check-ins as needed
Coaching engagements are typically 12 months in duration to allow for sufficient learning, awareness, practice, and integration to take place; 6 month engagements are also available.

NOTE: I’m thrilled to admit that many of my Coaching Partnerships continue past the 12-month mark because of the ongoing value I provide. Clients find an ROI that they can easily justify.

What clients are saying

Jac is an extraordinarily gifted coach and our work together has significantly enhanced my effectiveness as a leader and a person. Jac is a 'world class listener' and very diplomatically encourages new ways of thinking and new behaviours. I deeply appreciated her partnership in developing my own personal and professional growth.

Jan Swartz, Group President, Holland America Group

Jac has helped me become a better and more effective leader, particularly in the midst of a crisis with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, by helping me identify my strengths and playing to them, teaching me how to look at challenges from a different perspective, and encouraging me to lead with confidence, purpose and intention. My work with Jac has also helped me improve my delegation skills, taught me not to fear conflict and to recognize the importance of setting boundaries and saying “no.” Jac has become a trusted advisor and friend and is a true champion and cultivator of women leaders.

Cathy A. Birkeland, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Jac is a phenomenal coach. She's extremely observant and insightful, and provided feedback on a variety of topics from leadership styles, communicating effectively, to dealing with conflicts in an increasingly complex work environment. My work with Jac has helped me to trust myself implicitly which greatly expanded my self-confidence and ability to confront, rather than avoid difficult situations. As a leader, I am less reactive to self-doubt and criticism and more empowered to trust my instincts, contributions, and ability to lead powerfully in a variety of situations. I highly recommend Jac to anyone who wants to improve their leadership skills, and ability to lead from a more emboldened place.

Deanna Austin, Chief Commercial Officer, Princess Cruises and Carnival plc

Working with Jac has taught me so much about who I am, what matters to me, and what works best for me - it was transformational. Our work helped me to expand my team, learn to delegate tasks and responsibilities, and to prioritize my time and focus in different ways. I have gained so many tools and perspectives to better navigate the pressures of my business and I feel much more energized and fulfilled.

Tammi Floyd, Principal, The Floyd Group

From restructuring and expanding my team to finding great emotional balance, my work with Jac continues to be of exceptionally high value.

Allison Dehn Bloom, Owner, Dehn Bloom Design

Jac has been instrumental in helping me love my business. She has a knack for seeing connections, bringing crystal clarity, and helping me discern what to sweat and what not to sweat.

Lindsay Pedersen, Owner LCP Consulting

Deep listening. Wise counsel. Lasting leadership transformation.

At this phase of leadership and positional power, it’s challenging to find a trusted confidante who has no agenda and who can — expertly, objectively and constructively — hold, challenge, and disrupt your assumptions, patterns, and limiting beliefs.

To have someone hear everything without judgement and with the ability to make connections, identify patterns, name blindspots, offer valuable insights and speak truths is immensely powerful.

I’m committed to your rigorous learning and growth, not to a ‘nice’ conversation. This is important work for the development of your highest self. This partnership will help you advocate for yourself in entirely new ways, and create leadership that is empowered, emboldened and authentic; conscious, courageous, and compassionate.

This is the leadership our world desperately needs.

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