Creating a plan

Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders, Founders and Entrepreneurs

Leadership at the top is demanding and often isolating. With limited feedback and few true peers, senior leaders benefit from a confidential space to think strategically and grow intentionally. Executive Coaching addresses the unique pressures and visibility of top roles, helping leaders strengthen their impact on the whole organization.

Executive coaching helps leaders:

  • Make sharper strategic decisions with clarity and confidence
  • Influence with stronger presence and communication
  • Shape organizational vision and culture for long-term success
  • Navigate complexity at the top—from scaling to succession, governance, and mergers

How Executive Coaching Brings Value

Combat Executive Isolation

Executive coaching provides an answer for the isolation of high-ranking roles, offering skill enhancement, a neutral sounding board, strategic partnership, and a confidential space to alleviate top-level solitude.

Build Resilience and Fulfillment

Beyond business results, reaching the next stage of leadership requires grit and staying power. Coaching provides the support to manage stress, navigate competing demands, and renew energy for both work and life.

Level Up Your Leadership

What got you here won’t get you there. You’ve achieved success, but reaching the next stage calls for the next level of your leadership. Coaching provides the trusted partnership to help you get there.

Expand Self-Awareness

In the hustle of running a business, self-reflection often gets sidelined. Engaging with a coach presents a chance to enhance emotional intelligence and self-awareness needed for better decision making. 

  • 39%

    Of CEOs of all companies have an executive coach. Source

  • 60%

    Of growth-stage CEOs have an executive coach. Source

  • 5.7x

    Average ROI on executive coaching. Source

Frequently Asked Questions

Not at all! Despite the name, executive coaching isn’t exclusively for those with the title of “executive.” While this program does cater to leaders in top-level positions, it’s not limited to them. Executive coaching can benefit various professionals, including business owners, entrepreneurs, and senior managers.

Engaging an executive coach isn’t about fixing issues; it’s an investment in honing skills and maximizing potential before challenges arise. It’s a proactive step that high achievers take to stay ahead, ensuring continued growth and success in the future.

Executive coaching, mentoring, and therapy are like three different superhero suits. Mentoring is getting advice from someone who has been there, therapy is working through past issues to understand today, and coaching is about now and making big plans for the future. They might seem alike, but they have different jobs: coaching and mentoring gear up for career advice, while therapy is all about healing and mental health.

Engaging an executive coach during pivotal career shifts, especially when taking on elevated responsibilities or transitioning into new leadership roles, can be immensely beneficial. Short-term coaching sessions designed to address specific challenges can yield significant rewards. Prioritizing dedicated time for coaching is essential, ensuring it receives the necessary focus rather than being relegated to a secondary role.

The coaching schedule and session count are personalized to fit the goals and challenges’ complexity. Typically, a plan covers about 6 to 12 monthly sessions, providing room for reflection, exploration, and applying new ideas in between. This approach supports lasting changes. At Thriveworks we have a variety of engagements, with many spanning multiple years.

What Our Clients Say

Working together with Polina helped me redefine the items I need to focus on professionally and personally to improve who I am as a leader and establish more clarity on the legacy I want to leave behind in my career.
Headshot of Thriveworks client Derek Fettback, Regional Vice President of Western Pacific Enterprises
Derek Fettback
Regional Vice President, Western Pacific Enterprises

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