COACHING

Purposeful Leadership Coaching

Are you ready to become the leader you were meant to be?

Our Purposeful Leadership Coaching can help you develop your sense of purpose, align your values with your goals, and unlock your full potential.

Are you ready to consider your next steps, either in your current role, or beyond?

We help people at the beginning of their careers who are considering how to navigate life and work in a purposeful way, at mid-career as they are looking for next-level leadership or want to make a career shift, and when they want to transition to their next area of focus as they step into retirement.

Problems to solutions. Insights to action. Status quo to new outcomes.

  • What is Purpose?

    Purpose is a belief that your life matters and that you make a difference. It is a sense of being guided by meaningful values and goals. Our coaches work from the foundation that purposeful leadership is an intentional continuous process of becoming who all of you are meant to be as a whole person in relationship with others. A sense of purpose is the key to thriving leadership, meaningful work, and successful collaboration. Purpose is the stabilizing force to focus on what really matters, and engage to innovate and lead.

    Through the lens of Purposeful Leadership, based on the practices of The Art of Convening: 9 Steps to Collaboration,

    These are the benefits of working with a Coach:

    • A lasting integration of your personal and professional goals

    • Managing competing work & home life priorities

    • Influencing within complex workplace cultures

    • Building and motivating effective teams: formal and informal

    • Deeper understanding and collaboration with those around you

    • Greater self-acceptance

    • Actualize your personal vision as a leader in life and work.

    • A lasting integration of your personal and professional goals

    • Managing competing work & home life priorities

    • Influencing within complex workplace cultures

    • Building and motivating effective teams: formal and informal.

    • Deeper understanding and collaboration with those around you

    • Greater self-acceptance

    • Actualize your personal vision as a leader in life and work.

Coaching is about increasing your capacity for self-awareness, resilience, and capacity for positive change.

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.'' Coaching is future-focused and action-focused. We help you define your vision and explore new ways of being and acting now, in service to your priorities and goals. 

We work with those who are engaged in exploring their life/work journey and growing their leadership.  Each program is designed to encourage and listen for the wisdom that is inherent in you. Sessions are both evocative and provocative, eliciting your own deep knowing about your own leadership and then challenging you to take positive, focused, deliberate, and committed action.  

MEET YOUR COACHES

CRAIG NEAL

Lead Author of AoC, Co-founder of CPL

Purposeful Leadership for Entrepreneurs, Convening Leadership.

KIM KRISTENSON-LEE

MAIR, ACC, TICC, CCL

Leadership and Change Teams and Collaboration, Trauma-Informed.

MARY ELAINE KIENER

Director, Art of Convening Programs

Choosing Courageous Wellbeing: Inside Me, With You, Among Us.

TERRY CHAPMAN

D.min., CCL

Spiritual Direction, Ally to Leaders.

BRIAN REINBOLD

Mission Specialist

Life Purpose Coaching, Helping the recently retired discover the adventure of being alive with purpose.

VIVIAN JENKINS NELSEN

Senior Fellow, Social Psych, Social Work, DEIJ

Executive Coaching Practice

Coaching Leaders

Purposeful Leadership: Grow your capacity to connect and engage at a higher level.

A purposeful life lived and fully shared makes for effective, sustainable leadership. Recent research shows that a sense of purpose, not a specific set of characteristics, is the key to successful leadership. When your life’s calling is expressed in what you do all sorts of powerful possibilities are unleashed. This is a secret admired leaders have figured out and know how to live. We are listening partners and allies committed to supporting your journey as a leader.

Imagine being able to think and act clearly about anything and everything. When that occurs things fall into place, what were once problems to overcome are opportunities becoming possibilities.  As coaches we are committed to your success as a human being and an effective leader.

Our coaches deliver the high quality, high efficiency programs that focus on your leadership. We work with leaders who are ready to transition to their next level of capacity. We work with senior and mid-level managers, business partners, cross-functional project teams and intact workgroups who want to impact sales or revenue, productivity, and employee engagement.

Collaborative Leadership: Learn the art and science of expanding beyond teamwork to collaboration.
Conversational Intelligence- C-IQ: Coaching based in Conversational Intelligence Quotient incorporating evolving technologies, the latest in neuroscience and C-IQ frameworks.

Working with both areas, clients have reached the following objectives: 

  • Ability to communicate more effectively with staff, team, board or stakeholders.

  • Consider inventive and creative ways to redefine and communicate their leadership model.

  • Create alignment for accountability with their organization or team.

Related blog post: Reexamine Purpose and Organizational Culture