Leadership Coaching

With personal leadership, learn skills for clear communication, effective collaboration, and inclusive decision-making.

One-on-one coaching sessions are a highly effective approach for growing capacity, especially when privacy and a safe setting are desired.

In these sessions, anything and everything is welcome and kept confidential, with the goal to fully support the individual with his/her goals.

Often this involves specific situations in which the focus is on obtaining inner clarity, seeing options and determining next steps.

Empathic listening and roleplaying are common tools used in these sessions to enable one's own insights and behavior change to surface.

Also, when two (and sometimes more) people are involved in conflict, I offer mediation sessions. A wide range of situations are welcome.

Typical leadership coaching themes:

  • Building skills for handling confrontational or conflict situation
  • Building skills for giving and/or receiving feedback in constructive ways.
  • Bridging differences, e.g. cultural, opinions, ways of doing things.
  • Growing awareness about power differences (e.g. "bullying" / "victim" roles) and building equitable relationships.
  • Learning how to deal with your harsh inner critic, perfectionism.
  • Being clearer about boundaries and saying no.
  • Dealing with emotions when they show up at work.
  • Improving your life-work balance.

Cara has been providing my company a subscription service, in which she tailors her coaching and facilitation support to the needs of our teams and individuals. Her approach has helped me personally think about my interactions with important people in my life. Her calm work to help me with a Nonviolent Communication style has been really impactful for me. I would like to continue to do more of this - I really feel it makes me a better colleague, parent and friend. I recommend her to other senior leaders who can struggle with stress affecting relationships.