Neuroleadership Coaching

Thank you for your interest in neuroleadership coaching. I help leaders achieve their next level of success using a brain-based approach to increase effectiveness. Some of the challenges I’ve helped leaders resolve include:

• Holding challenging people accountable for commitments including their direct reports, colleagues, and boss

• Reducing demonstrative outbursts by increasing emotional intelligence and boundaries

• Conquering fears in order to facilitate dramatic change in their organization

• Staying calm and getting what they want during difficult conversations that used to make their heart race or put their stomach in knots

• Saying “No thank you” to activities and people that waste their time and energy

• Healing “CEO Disease” symptoms of isolation, cautiousness, and callousness

• Changing an ineffective communication culture of gossip, dishonesty, ridicule, and distrust

• Resolving old conflicts and creating new procedures for handling future conflicts

• Helping individuals and teams motivate themselves

• Delegating most of their work so that they can enjoy being full-time visionaries

• Upgrading their own performance without forcing or shaming themselves

• Developing a resonant leadership style by motivating through honesty and fairness

• Making a commitment to silent reflection and work-life balance

Coaching Isn't Therapy

• Much of traditional therapy involves remembering and understanding the past. Coaching conversations, on the other hand, focus on
  (1) understanding your present experience and (2) taking action to create a more positive future. Analogies that some people find helpful:
  • If therapy was an antibiotic, coaching would be a vitamin.

  • If therapy was archaeology, coaching would be architecture.

• While therapy is usually an open-ended commitment, my initial leadership coaching engagement is limited to four months. This allows the leader enough time to develop a trusting relationship and to achieve a significant behavioral goal. At the end of the four months, most of my clients choose to continue coaching on a month-to-month basis. Some leaders, however, are satisfied with completing one goal, and they choose to take a temporary break from coaching or end the engagement.

• While most therapists limit their contact with clients to the time spent in sessions, my clients have unlimited email contact with me Monday through Friday to support their behavior change and success.

How Coaching Works

• The initial four-month agreement includes two 50-minute telephone sessions per month. I prefer coaching by phone for several reasons. All of my 125 hours of professional coach training was by telephone, so that I could learn to interpret the nuances in a person’s voice. Many people initially say they would prefer face-to-face conversations, because they like the interpersonal interaction. However, once they experience telephone coaching, most people feel that the conversations are at a deeper level because of the lack of visual distraction. Also, when I coach by phone there are no additional fees for my travel time to your office. While I prefer telephone coaching, I also enjoy meeting with clients face-to-face. So, if you would like to have one of the eight initial sessions in person, you have the option to meet with me in the Washington, DC area either in your office or at another location.

• I do coaching on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons usually on the 1st and 3rd weeks of the month unless my travel schedule requires a different day or week.

• I share a variety of resources with my clients based on their interests and goals e.g. book titles, articles, worksheets, checklists, etc.

• I’m available to give feedback on materials that you develop in your job such as reports, resumes, memos, templates, etc.

• The initial investment is $2,000. Some people pay the entire fee up front; others prefer to make a $500 per month recurring credit card payment. In some cases, the leader’s organization pays for all or a portion of the neuroleadership coaching fee. In other cases, clients personally pay for their coaching.

• I offer a complimentary, confidential 50-minute coaching call to any leader who is seriously considering retaining me as his/her coach. If you’re interested in scheduling a conversation, send me three dates and times that you are available. I’ll reply with a time for you to call. Please bring brief answers to these questions to our conversation:

  1. What is the next level of success that you want to achieve as a leader?

  2. How will you feel and act if you achieve this level of success?

  3. What will your work and life be like if you don’t accomplish this next step?

Please feel free to contact me with questions about neuroleadership coaching.