It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

Gordon MacKenzie

Preparing Executives & Business Owners for Leadership Mastery

Leadership is developed, not innate. While this is being debated in leadership circles, it can certainly be substantiated that leadership skills can be improved – even mastered. Executives find themselves isolated from effective feedback and faced with daily challenges to their expertise and ability. Our Professional Coaching for Executives and Business Owners focuses on increasing the professional’s awareness of his or her skills, how they are perceived by others and the areas in which they desire mastery. Leaders often find themselves lacking in the skills required to effectively lead a team of senior staff, make decisions under pressure, delegate tactics in order to focus on the future, or maintain balance in their lives as their responsibilities increase. 

Bringing in a coach for top executives is a sound investment in your organization.  Today 86% of companies say they have used coaches to sharpen the skills of leaders.  Organizations have hired Cary Gray Kelly to

• Use 360° Assessments to determine growth areas for executives
• Coach executives through significant change
• Retain top women leaders
• Help executives and senior managers be more effective leaders of others
• Develop future leaders from mid-level mangers
• Develop high performing executive teams
• Coach executives to work more effectively with boards of directors
• Coach executives to maintain a vision for the organization

Feedback is critical for executives, but the ongoing partnership of a coach after an assessment has proven to increase the executive’s performance, energy and passion for the mission of the organization, and to avoid burn-out. 

Women Leaders

Women have unique challenges in leadership. Many women find resistance to their authority or lack effective leadership models. It is often difficult for women to find their own leadership style or voice. For this reason many women leave organizational life to begin their own business. Others resist leadership positions when they might have ideal leadership qualities. There has been an 86% growth in new businesses begun by women since 1996 and only a 6% growth of new businesses begun by men over the same period. This is evidence that women are leaving corporations because “they are not willing to take on the second job of being a change agent.”  Fast Company, 2006. Working with a coach, executive women find ways to integrate their personal and professional lives. CEO’s learn how to create an environment that attracts and retain top women professionals.

I had no capacity for family, personal health and work until I began coaching with Cary Gray Kelly.  I was amazed at how just recognizing my needs and establishing priorities gave me the courage to demand change in my work environment.

Ann – Non-profit executive

We had a senior leadership team that was nearly ineffective.  Working with Cary Gray Kelly on assessing leadership skills and improving communication turned this team in a high powered machine.

Pierce – CEO

I was hitting a deadend and feeling a lack of energy for my new role as a chief executive.  I was overwhelmed by the responsibilities until I experienced the power of coaching with Cary Gray Kelly.  She helped me reconnect to my passion for this industry and recapture my vision for this company.  I am so inspired to lead forward.

Tom - CEO