Leading for Good provides executive coaching to leaders and teams, training design and facilitation and interpersonal leadership workshops so professionals can thrive in today’s increasingly complex world.  

Executive Coaching Services

Want to thrive as an effective leader in your current organization? Want a coaching partner that is real, approachable, flexible, generous and a pleasure to work with?

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We provide executive coaching services in an organizational context.

We have expertise and a successful track record supporting executives, both C-suite and senior leaders to:

  • Raise their self-awareness around their strengths and opportunities for growth 

  • Create and execute upon a tailored learning and development plan

  • Uncover and change their limiting beliefs 

  • Enhance and/or repair critical relationships with key stakeholders

  • Attend to the most important strategic priorities in their role

  • Gain or regain confidence, optimism, and resilience

  • Lead themselves and others through ambiguity and change

Roles as Executive Coach

We play different roles for our clients, depending on your goals and needs.

Facilitative Guide

We facilitate a co-created learning journey and create space for our clients to be completely themselves, while also stretching them in areas they want different results. Coaching is challenging and also enjoyable by our design.

Nurturing Cheerleader

We see our client’s skills, strengths and potential, and help our clients break down big and intimidating goals into approachable steps and strategies.

Skill Building Trainer

Because of our background in professional and leadership development and organizational psychology, we are able to weave in a variety of relevant resources, across a range of disciplines.

Trusted Advisor

We engage with business and leadership challenges alongside our clients. When asked for, we share our thoughts and intuition respectfully and without attachment. We seek to advance our individual and organizational client interests, ahead of our own business interests. 

Executive Coaching Services

Individual Leader Coaching

We work in collaboration with key organizational stakeholders and individual coaching clients to outline concrete, inspiring outcomes for the coaching relationship. A typical engagement runs from six to nine months. Below is a sample outline.

Elements of a Typical Executive Coaching Engagement

“Pre-Engagment: Meet with organizational stakeholders to discuss the goals for the coaching engagement; client meets with Leading for Good coach to confirm chemistry and fit. ”
— I.
“Kick-Off: Client completes intake survey and worksheets, and reviews coaching guidelines. ”
— II.
“First Month: We spend initial coaching sessions getting to know the client’s history and present context, as well as the client’s learning style and preferences for the co-created partnership; We go slow initially to go fast later around mining, defining, refining and shining two to three concrete, memorable, and inspiring goals for the coaching relationship.”
— III.
“Assessments: Early in the engagement, we look to raise the client’s awareness of how they are perceived, as well as of the forces influencing how they operate; we select either an interview-based 360 or a research-validated and benchmarked 360 survey tool, such as Leadership Circle Profile or the Center for Creative Leadership Benchmark 360 Suite. We often use additional assessments to further our client’s self-awareness around talents, traits, triggers and work preferences. Most commonly, we offer the Gallup Strengthsfinder, the SCARF Assessment , and/or the Positive Intelligence Assessment.”
— IV.
“Ongoing Sessions:We hold 1-hour coaching sessions on a bi-monthly cadence; this is frequent enough to maintain momentum and connection, while offering enough space for application in the course of an executive’s demanding schedule. We are continually available to clients between sessions for correspondence and live support. ”
— V.
“Completion: We make space in our final sessions to reflect on and celebrate key insights and progress and how to sustain change efforts, mindsets and habits independently. Often, we will continue to work with clients on a less frequent basis for maintenance.”
— VI.

Dyad and Team Coaching

Is your team so focused on business demands that process and relationships get short shrift? Are there hard conversations your team members are avoiding? Are tensions rising to the point that it is getting in the way of the work? We help team members get unstuck so everyone can do their best work without tensions and drama.  

We provide team coaching services to dyads and small groups of senior leaders. Often, we work with clients to address the following types of issues:

  • Repair strained relationships among/between leaders 

  • Establish new norms for working effectively in a virtual/hybrid environment

  • Forward their thinking on their business and developing a shared vision

  • Differentiate and align different team member's roles and priorities

  • Debrief 360 feedback surveys as a group to gain insights for individual and collective leadership

Our Process:

We typically allow the client context to guide our scope and number of sessions. At times, we may need only 2-3 sessions to resolve an issue; in other cases, a team may benefit from monthly or quarterly coaching sessions with key stakeholders to stay connected and in concert with one another.

Client Case Studies

  • CEO, Technology Start Up

    Client Need: Client had been through a less than optimal exit from a start-up and wanted to take stock of what they had learned before heading into a new CEO role.

    Approach: Leading for Good worked with this client for over year as he launched and grew the team and organizational culture. We supported him as a thought partner as he identified how he wanted to approach his work and role, and his early challenges in building the team and company. Designed and facilitated his leadership team’s first retreat around collective strengths and challenges and opportunities in working together.

    Results: CEO was able to reset positively for leading the new venture, and grew more assertive in his communication and feedback to team members. He continues to grow and lead the organization successfully and just completed a successful series B round of funding.

  • Senior Director, Global Social Justice Foundation

    Client Need: Client was burned out from ten years at the organization and a turbulent year doing two jobs across departments.

    Approach: Worked with client on taking stock of her professional strengths and talents and skills through 360-feedback and a number of career development exercises and assessments.

    Results: At the end of the nine month process, the client came to see herself, her organization, and her work with fresh eyes and happily re-engaged with her job with a new appreciation of her unique leadership attributes and preferences. Leading for Good also supported the client in gaining experience with an outside vocation that she is now pursuing as a future career direction.

  • Leadership Team, High Growth Marketing Consultancy

    Client Need: Founders and senior leaders were working and leading virtually in different cities and needed support around aligning work styles, roles and vision for the company at a critical juncture of exponential growth.

    Approach: Leading for Good provided quarterly coaching sessions for founders and senior leaders to air frustrations and hear one another’s perspectives on needs and priorities. In addition, we designed and facilitated a team retreat to define company mission and values and celebrate key milestones in the company’s history.

    Results: Leadership articulated a mission and values they felt proud of and the corresponding company culture and practices they would encourage. The coaching sessions allowed them to clarify priorities and upcoming investments as well as the various execution roles they needed to take on for present versus the strategic roles they would want to grow into over time.

  • Partner, Corporate Law Firm

    Client Need: Law firm had a successful 10-year senior associate who was on the verge of promotion to Partner if he could develop his people management skills.

    Approach: Leading for Good worked with the individual over a year to enhance his self-awareness and communication skills and carve out a more humble, respectful style in managing up and down the organization. Client was promoted to Partner within a year of working together and the firm continues to support maintenance coaching for over two years.

    Results: Client was promoted to Partner in his practice and based on the positive impact on his interpersonal leadership skills, was supported by the firm to continue with maintenance coaching for the following 18 months.

Client Testimonials

  • “Working with Jennifer exceeded my expectations of executive coaching. She created a non-judgmental and safe space for me to think more strategically about where I wanted to go and who I wanted to be as a newly transitioning C-Suite leader. I made significant progress on a portfolio of goals and feel both more confident and relaxed as well. Her approach to working with clients helped me to get value not just from our coaching sessions, but also from her holistic support and thoughtful follow up.”

    COO of a NYC Educational, Arts and Research Organization

  • “Jennifer was instrumental in helping me improve my management and communication skills as my career shifted into a managerial and oversight role. After meeting with Jennifer and getting the benefit of her insights, I saw immediate improvement in how I interacted with my colleagues and how they responded to my work assignments. Jennifer was also incredibly supportive in helping me understand my role in my organization, particularly as I was advancing through the ranks at the time.”

    Partner, O’Melveny & Meyers

  • “As a result of our work together, I was able to stop and reflect, gain perspective and truly strategize on challenges/habits and how to improve them. Working with Jennifer was a pleasure. For someone new to business coaching, Jennifer helped guide our conversations with a clear focus that gave me actionable steps and accountability.”

    Sylvia Herrera, Chief Strategy Officer, Venus Media Group

  • “I was lucky to work with Jen at two points in my career, while working at two different social impact organizations. Jen is a warm, positive person and I instantly connected with her…Jenn helped me think differently about my work environment and the role I want to play in my organization and my field. She is incredibly knowledgeable about different frameworks and tools that help you make sense of your environment and your actions, and she problem solves with you to get to the next step you are seeking to take. Thanks to Jenn, I instituted small changes in my day to day work habits that helped me engage with my team and deliver on our immediate projects, and I implemented big changes in my conception of what it was I wanted to do in the world and how. The social impact sector can be a challenging space in which to make your career. The issues are complex and thorny, organizational resources are often slim, and the workload can feel relentless - having a coach like Jenn to help you navigate your path is incredibly helpful!”

    Director, in Education space

  • “Jennifer proved to be an excellent coach. Specifically, Jen helped me create and meet objectives to take my business to the next level. In our meetings, Jen always struck a perfect balance between being flexible and open to taking our conversations in different directions, but also being hyper-focused on results. One of her best qualities was distilling what was important from our conversations and moving the ball forward. She also routinely offered up concepts and ideas that were creative and innovative, helping me see things in ways I hadn't thought of before. In short, she was the consummate professional and it made me feel incredibly valued and satisfied as a client. I could not recommend Jennifer more highly.”

    Principal, Executive Search Firm

  • “What a journey it has been. I have very much enjoyed our time together and value your perspective, approach and point of view. You have inspired me in both the significant and the minute, and I thank you for this. I appreciate all you’ve done for me.”

    Diversity Market Leader, Professional Services Firm

Custom Training Design & Facilitation

Leading for Good is passionate about creating impactful learning experiences for leaders and teams.

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Our area of expertise is strengthening leaders' interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to thrive and collaborate effectively in today’s complex world.

Examples of ways we have helped our clients:

  • Leadership Study Groups: Designed a series of workshops for groups and cohorts based on thematic readings of interest; essentially, we design and run book club series with a client’s specific development objectives in mind

  • Team Retreats: Designed and facilitated a leadership retreat to cement a group as a team and to enhance its norms and ability to collaborate more effectively

  • Coaching Programs: Designed the coaching elements within a broader leadership development initiative for an organization to hire, match and oversee the coaching team to work with program participants

  • Train the Trainer Materials: Designed a training and accompanying train-the-trainer program for an organization to deliver internally 

Client Case Studies

  • Designed Series of Online Offerings for Start Up in Pandemic:

    Client Need: During the height of the pandemic, a growing start-up needed more employee development for its virtual workforce. Employees were not having water cooler conversations, and many less tenured employees were not getting enough opportunities to observe and learn from more tenured, senior team members on both a formal and informal basis.

    Approach: Leading for Good interviewed the leadership team, diagnosed the highest priority themes and topics to address skill, leadership and teaming gaps, and designed and executed a series of online workshops, team retreats and coaching engagements for leaders.

    Result: As a result, we were able to enhance relationships and teaming skills within and across the organization’s different teams. We also furthered the client-facing team’s approach and skills around external Zoom presentations, and acted as an organizational development partner prior to the start-up bringing in a full time HR person. The organization continues to grow and just closed a Series B funding round.

  • Led External Coaching Program for a High Potential Leadership Program in a NYC Government Agency

    Client Need: A NYC government agency needed an external coaching partner for a six-month high potential development program.

    Approach: Leading for Good was selected to design and execute the coaching elements for this cohort program, including a workshop on how to get the most from coaching, a 360 feedback and development plan process, job shadow observation coaching, and ongoing one-on-one coaching sessions.

    Results: Leading for Good oversaw and iterated this high profile leadership program successfully for four years before moving on to focus on building out another leadership development program for top teachers at the same agency.

  • Supported an Executive Leadership Assimilation in a Rapidly Expanding National Non-Profit Organization

    Client Need: Organization was a rapidly growingr non-profit moving from local NY presence to a more national model. It needed support assimilating a new CEO to work with the existing leadership team.

    Approach: Leading for Good facilitated a New Leader Assimilation process for the client, which involved one-on-one coaching and a facilitated day with the leadership team, whereby team members could raise concerns and needs in a safe and confidential space, and the leader could gain insight about her team and set her vision and expectations for the group.

    Results: The client created positive connections and traction with her new leadership team.

Client Testimonials

  • “Jennifer exudes a passion for helping her clients take their business to the next level. Jennifer's style in working with a team in one in which everyone feels that they are heard and that she can help identify key issues and help teams find the right solutions, She really helped our team identify our Mission, vision and values. We started from the ground up and she was so succinct in really getting to the root of what we were trying to articulate and helping us to craft our story as a team and our vision as a company.”

    Cathy Murphy, CEO, Venus Media Group

  • “I thought today’s (team retreat) was a great use of time. Thank you so much for coming out to facilitate. We are really grateful for your time and expertise and will make good use of what we learned together.”

    Joan Sullivan, CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

  • “Jennifer is a strong facilitator and a positive influencer. Her collaborative approach coupled with her honest observations makes her an admirable coach and leader. She is a polished individual who delivers positive and negative messages with elegance and professionalism. She brings an element of grace and intelligence to each and every project, meeting and interaction. She has a positive reputation throughout the entire organization with many indicating that she was a contributing factor in their growth as a leader. She is kind, committed and an absolute pleasure to be around.”

    Vice President, Marketing, Visiting Nurse Service of NY

Interpersonal Leadership Workshops

Are your people feeling disengaged? Are you losing valuable talent due to a lack of EQ in your leaders?

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We offer the following tailored workshops to support your employee retention and engagement and foster a human-centered management culture.

  • Coaching Others for Growth, Collaboration and Performance

  • Delivering and Facilitating Feedback Conversations

  • Facilitating Creativity in Yourself and Others

  • Honing Emotional Intelligence for Leadership

  • How to Get the Most from the Executive Coaching Experience

  • Making Difficult Conversations Easier

Client Testimonials

  • “In these workshops there has been a theme of positivity and how to find the bright spots and how to celebrate peoples’ talents, and how that can really affect people in the workplace. I’ve tried it (already) and I’ve been able to incorporate the different strategies into the work that I do regularly and it feels really good, and I’m seeing the results already.”

    Program Participant, Conversations in Leadership Series, Department of Education

  • “I learned so much! I really appreciate everything you have taught us in these three different workshops; it’s hard for me to pinpoint just one takeaway, but if I had to choose one it is the strengths based approach and validating my strengths has been really big for me.”

    Program Participant, Conversations in Leadership Series, Department of Education

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