An Executive Coach specializes in working with executives and leaders to enhance their overall well-being. This holistic approach goes beyond traditional coaching by helping executives achieve balance and synergy between their professional responsibilities and personal goals.
Your life and career can improve dramatically even if you don’t have the word “executive” in your job title.
Executive coaching is an asset for all sorts of leaders. Just as great athletes don’t hesitate to call on coaches, trainers, hypnotists and spiritual advisors in order to maintain their dominance, it’s a mark of wisdom and strength for leaders from all walks of life to seek professional guidance and support.
I became an Executive Coach because I saw the incredible benefits my clients gained from my holistic approach; it’s one of the greatest investments you can make for yourself.
Below are the first 5 of 10 reasons you deserve an executive coach:
#1: You Deserve to Achieve Holistic Peak Performance
As a goal-oriented leader, you may be tracking your career improvement in monthly, quarterly or yearly milestones. As an executive coach, my ultimate goal is to support you as you perform at the top of your game in all areas of life, not just work. We live in a world in which we feel pressured to compartmentalize. Many of us have grown accustomed to presenting fragmented versions of ourselves in different areas of life. It’s seemingly easier to have a “work self” that behaves one way, and a different self that shows up with family or friends. Because of this fractured self, the leaders I work with often complain about not being able to show up authentically in any situation.
They feel disconnected and numb and begin to think a job change will shake them out of their fog. Does this sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone.
I help clients just like you become intentional about nurturing all areas of their life. Clients become more aligned with their unique strengths, talents and purpose and achieve their goals with renewed strength and vitality.
#2: You Deserve to Gain Unparalleled Perspective
We all have blind spots. As thoughtful and self-aware as you might be, there’s no way for you to see yourself objectively from an outsider’s perspective. Executive coaching helps leaders identify and overcome their blind spots in order to freely access their higher self.
Your higher self is the version of yourself that reacts from your gut with wisdom and emotional intelligence. With coaching, you’ll become a leader who is able to see various perspectives and create inclusive work environments where every voice is not only heard, but genuinely valued.
#3: You Deserve to Reap the Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is more than just a trendy buzzword. It’s at the core of my coaching because I’ve witnessed and experienced its life-changing power. High performing leaders such as Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington and Bill Gates attribute their success to mindfulness. They attest to how it builds greater self-awareness, which in turn leads to more conscious, deliberate choices.
Mindfulness helps clients like you experience clarity and purpose, rather than drifting through your days on autopilot. Mindfulness helps you modulate your emotions to show up as your best, most compassionate self no matter the scenario.
As an executive coach I’ll partner with you to curate a mindfulness toolkit that includes meditation and other energy modalities. As a result, you’ll experience a greater sense of harmony and purpose.
#4: You Deserve to Set Clear Boundaries
Boundaries are the rules or limits you create to identify appropriate, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards you. When you learn to set clear boundaries, you’ll also know exactly how to respond when someone dishonors your limits.
We all have different comfort levels for transparency and intimacy to lateness. Often a lack of boundaries is the main culprit to our lack of energy and vitality, which ultimately limits performance.
Learning to establish clear boundaries is one of the first building blocks that we’ll work on in my coaching practice.
#5: You Deserve to Enjoy the Benefits of Resilience
Resilience isn’t about just bouncing back, it’s about catapulting forward. The effects of stress: depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, sleep disturbances and high blood pressure, make it difficult to cultivate resilience. Stress also diminishes your performance and productivity. Executive Coaching will not only help you reduce your stress, but also change your perception of stress entirely. Long term, this might just save your life.
Research shows that our relationship to and framing of challenges shapes how we react to them. If we can see these stressors as opportunities and not threats, we can change the energy of stressful situations. Equipped with a growth mindset and the right tools and strategies, you’ll not only be able to survive life’s inevitable gut punches, you will thrive in the face of them.
In the second part of this article, I share part 2 of the reasons you deserve an executive coach!
