8 Essential Books for Transitions: Executive Coach Picks
Eight books offering strategic insight to help you accelerate impact, avoid common derailers, and lead with clarity during a leadership transition.
Eight books offering strategic insight to help you accelerate impact, avoid common derailers, and lead with clarity during a leadership transition.
As a retirement coach, my initial focus with soon-to-be retirees includes exploring these phases so they can make better decisions today—about time, money, health, purpose, and relationships—that hold up over decades. Ultimately, the goal is the intentionally design retirement versus simply winging it. Retirement isn’t a finish line—it’s a multi-phase redesign of life. One of … Read more
The song “Kyrie” offers an unexpected lens on retirement—one of transition, humility, and forward movement. This piece explores why flourishing in retirement isn’t about retreat, but about responding to what comes next, even before the path is fully clear.
Retirement by design starts with a different premise: Retirement is not a finish line. It’s a redesign. Instead of drifting into the next chapter, retirement by design involves intentionally shaping how you want to live—based on who you are now, not who you were mid-career. Questions to Consider Creating a retirement by design triggers some … Read more
Leadership transitions are complex. They often bring feelings of imposter syndrome. This is when leaders doubt their abilities when stepping into new roles or promotions. Left unchecked, imposter syndrome can cause new leaders to derail. Executive coaching can play a critical role in a leadership transition or onboarding program. In this blog, I will help you … Read more
Coaching case study of a newly promoted healthcare Chief Operations Officer who nearly derailed.
Team coaching can be a precious strategy for helping leadership teams achieve enhanced performance and increasing alignment. By building greater trust, alignment, and collaboration within the team, leaders can avoid many pitfalls that lead to fractured execution, inconsistency, unproductive conflict, and wasted efforts.
There are five familiar sources of derailment that should be considered when onboarding new leaders.
An essential component of a comprehensive onboarding process for new leaders is a leadership transition plan.
Leaders who struggle with the shiny object trap and get back on track by building self-awareness to identify mindsets and habits that diminish their impact.