Coaching for Executives and Aspiring Leaders
Stoner Crawford provides personalized leadership development and confidential thought-partnership for senior leaders who seek to:
- Navigate challenges confidently
- Improve personal effectiveness
- Ease transition between positions
- Increase influence throughout the organization
- Navigate interpersonal dynamics
- Communicate more clearly
Coaching That Meets You Where You Are
- Established leaders have mastered the skills that come most naturally to them. They need help addressing blind sports and less-developed capabilities.
- Recently hired leaders are required to hit the ground running. They need to hone new skills, while navigating a new organization and new personalities.
- Senior executives must manage potentially complex interpersonal dynamics. Coaching at this level is less about personal development, and more about building insight and influence.
- Emerging leaders have a steep learning curve and fewer resources to draw upon. Coaching develops foundational skills and lifelong habits that support their success.
Address Challenges
“I love working with Louise! She creates a comfortable space for tackling hard, sometimes scary issues that stand in the way of reaching my potential. The solutions we’ve achieved together have made a significant difference for me, both personally and professionally.”
— D.S., Real Estate Entrepreneur
Coaching Is a Conversation
It starts with questions, questions that open the door to uncover issues, challenge assumptions and explore possibilities.
Coaching may include individual meetings; phone calls; email/text exchanges; job shadowing and observation; conversations with a client or supervisor and recommendation reviews.
Assessments may be used to help a leader gain insight into working styles, strengths and strategies that work. Coaches often work with 360 assessments as leaders address concerns in their work.
Confidentiality: All exchanges are confidential.
Why Hire a Coach?
1) Social impact organizations have unique demands.
Stakeholders are diverse, consensus building is demanding and resources are often strained. The unrelenting pace of change leaves you with little time to reflect, plan and lead. Effective leaders step back and ask hard questions. They challenge themselves and explore their attitudes and behavior in order to become more resilient and more effective.
2) A trusted partner is an essential asset.
Louise has deep experience leading and consulting with social impact organizations. The problems you’re facing are likely ones she’s faced, too. Louise creates safe space to discuss concerns, explore issues and uncover fresh approaches as you learn to lead from core values.
Who gets the most out of coaching?
Clients who benefit most from coaching are those who are willing to explore, engage and put in the time. They know that talent and intellect will get them only so far—to grow they must hone new skills based on insight. The most successful coaching clients make time for the follow-up work of deep thinking, self-reflection and experimentation.
Trusted Thought Partner
“Louise is especially good at listening to specific stories, then probing to identify larger issues. I look forward to having coaching time with Louise as a moment for focusing and as a boost to my leadership and my effectiveness.”
— J. R., Senior Rabbi