What is an Executive Coach?

An executive coach normally works with employees who are considered key to an organization’s success, primarily those in leadership positions (High impact/high potential professionals). 

Executive coaching is a highly effective process to rapidly develop that executive’s leadership and management skills and increase their contribution to their organization. The executive gains greater self-knowledge of their strengths and development areas, engages in various development activities that increasing their leadership competencies, and acquires new tools and resources to self-manage and adapt their behavior and style to more challenging situations and roles within the organization. 

The Executive Coach does more than influence behaviors; they will be an essential part of the leader’s learning process, providing knowledge, opinions, and judgment in critical areas. Leaders need to develop not just quantitative capabilities but also people-oriented skills. Coaching is a popular and potent solution for ensuring top performance from an organization’s most critical talent.