Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership Coaching

  • Executive leadership coaching is a personalized partnership that supports leaders in strengthening self-awareness, decision-making, communication, and effectiveness. Coaching provides a confidential space to explore challenges, clarify goals, and lead with greater intention and impact.

  • Leadership coaching is for executives and professionals at any stage who want to grow their leadership capacity. Clients often seek coaching during times of change, increased responsibility, navigating conflict, feeling stuck or overwhelmed, or when navigating complex leadership challenges.

  • Each coaching engagement is tailored to the individual leader’s context and goals.

    Leadership coaching can support challenges such as leading through change, managing conflict or difficult conversations, building confidence and executive presence, strengthening decision-making under less-than-ideal circumstances, and clarifying purpose and leadership direction.

  • Leadership coaching focuses on present and future development. Unlike consulting, it does not provide prescribed solutions. Unlike therapy, it does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. Coaching is collaborative, forward-looking, and growth-oriented.

  • Yes. Confidentiality is foundational to effective coaching. Coaching sessions provide a private, judgment-free environment where leaders can speak openly and reflect honestly.

  • If you are facing leadership challenges, feeling the weight of responsibility, or seeking greater clarity and effectiveness, coaching may be a valuable next step. A free consultation helps determine fit and focus.

How does AI coaching compare to human coaching?

AI Coaching

Terrific option for supporting in-the-moment workflow. Possibly,

  • Prep logistics and agendas

  • Practice conversations

  • Brainstorm isolated solutions

  • Gather perspectives on an issue

  • Tips and prompts

  • Checklists

  • Validation

  • Creative prompts

  • Generic exercise

  • Summaries

  • Generic coping strategies

Available through AI platforms and apps

Human Coaching

Ideal when depth, unique humanness and context matter

  • Belonging and trust

  • Relationships and systems thinking

  • Dynamics and what is unsaid

  • Integrating context and consequence

  • Silence and slowing down

  • Bring truth to courage through compassion and support

  • Creative play

  • Integrity, values, ethics and morality

  • Deep witnessing

  • Strong emotions, co-regulation

  • Culture, influence, politics

  • Purpose and identity

  • Confidence

  • Candid human response

Our coaching services offer human coaching as an integral part of leadership development.

Systems Coaching

Combination of coaching and organizational development to work through complexity together

  • Team Coaching

  • Conflict Coaching

  • Facilitated Discussion

  • Team Development

The root of Jean’s work. These specialized engagements offered on a limited basis.