If you're in a leadership or managerial position and want to be more effective, confident, and fulfilled in your role, I can likely help you.
- As a psychologist, I have coached many executives and other leaders at a variety of large companies, such as Google, HP, Genentech, VMware, Toyota and Wells Fargo, and at startups, other smaller and medium-sized organizations, nonprofits and institutions as well.
To understand how the executive coaching I offer is different from psychotherapy, first consider these similarities:
- In both the executive coaching and psychotherapy I provide, my focus is on facilitating meaningful change that happens in the near-term rather than in the more distant future.
- In both forms of personal development, I tend to guide my clients towards a deeper, clearer, more compassionate understanding of themselves and the causes of their difficulties – in order to make progress quicker and easier.
- In both types of work, I often invite a focus on multiple areas in my client's lives. For example, it's not uncommon for my executive coaching to address marital or family challenges. I have frequently found that difficulties in one area of life show up in other areas – and that learning and development from one domain carries over into others.
And here is how the executive coaching I provide can differ from psychotherapy:
- In executive coaching, I'm often more active in moving things along towards agreed goals. In therapy, on the other hand, more time can be spent exploring life events from the past and how they're impacting the present.
- In coaching, I'm also quite active in providing input or "answers." In therapy, I provide answers, but also allow more time and space for my clients to find their own.
- I often interview colleagues (and even family members) of clients as part of executive coaching and also frequently use a variety of personality assessments. I don't usually do this as part of psychotherapy.
- Compared to psychotherapy sessions, coaching sessions can be longer (even several hours or more) and they can also be less frequent. I've found these longer sessions to be particularly powerful for activating deeper and more robust change.
When I coach leaders, I can usually help. If you're curious, I invite you to contact me for a free consultation.
- We'll talk through the changes you want to make happen and I'll tell you my thoughts on how we can work together to get there.
Or, to learn more about my executive coaching services, go to my executive coaching website. There, you can:
- Read about my unique approaches to executive coaching.
- Learn about my team building and work with pairs of leaders desiring to improve their relationships.
- Get more information about my book, Four Portals to Power.
- Access over 70 of my articles – which provide guidance for working through complex leadership and career challenges.
