“. . . A coach is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”
             — The Business Journal
                               April 10, 2000


“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.”
      — Harvard Business Review



























According to research conducted at a number of organizations in which coaching was used extensively to increase the productivity of their executives, the coaching process delivered an average return on investment of nearly 600%.
Executive Coaching

Coaching is a technique used by executives and lawyers to help them to set and achieve their professional and personal goals. The primary objective of the executive coach is to empower the client, in a confidential forum, to clarify his or her individual goals, to develop a comprehensive plan for achieving those goals, to provide objective feedback in relation to those goals, to support the client in pursuit of those goals, and to hold the client accountable for the steps necessary to achieve them.

Lawyers hire coaches for a variety of reasons, but all of our clients have several things in common — they are talented, focused and results-oriented individuals who wish to take control of their professional and personal lives in order to achieve high performance and career satisfaction.

As coach, we play many roles, including mentor, motivator, educator, sounding board and taskmaster. We are not, however, therapists, as our coaching is based on the premise that our clients are healthy functioning individuals who are capable of finding their own answers to the issues that they bring to the coaching process. We also do not generally serve as consultants except in clearly defined areas where our clients request, and we can provide, specific subject-matter expertise.

At The Executive Lawyer LLC, each of our coaching engagements is tailored to the specific needs of our clients. Representative issues brought to us by our lawyer clients include: career planning, career enhancement, development of leadership skills, workplace integration, sustaining careers through midlife, career transition, and work-life balance.

The coaching engagement generally begins with an in-depth discussion of the issues that the client wishes to address in the coaching process together with assessments of the client’s natural preferences, skills, values and motivators. The information gathered in the initial sessions is used to clarify and prioritize the client’s goals and identify the areas and behaviors that he or she may wish to develop through the coaching process. An action plan is then developed to help the client achieve his or her goals. Subsequent coaching sessions monitor the progress of the client, while the plan and goals are constantly reassessed.

For examples of our work with our coaching clients, see our Case Studies.

Contact us today to see how we can be of assistance to you.