Executive Coaching
Thought partnership for executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders navigating complexity, transition, and high-stakes decisions.
When the role is bigger, the stakes are higher, or the path forward is unclear, you need more than generic advice. You need a skilled, objective partner who can help you think clearly, challenge assumptions, and move forward with steadiness and agency.
Is this the kind of support you need?
Executive coaching may be right for you if:
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Your leadership role has become more visible, complex, or demanding
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You are facing decisions that do not have obvious answers
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You need to strengthen executive presence, communication, or stakeholder trust
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You are navigating a business, leadership, or career transition
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You are facing a consequential conversation you cannot keep postponing
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You are successful and capable, but the old way of leading or working is no longer enough
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You need a confidential space to sort through what matters and determine what needs to happen next
What this work helps you do
Executive coaching gives you a clear, objective space to step back from the swirl and hear your own thinking more clearly.
Together, we examine what is happening, sort facts from assumptions, name the patterns that may be shaping your decisions, and identify the next practical steps in front of you.
The goal is not to hand you someone else’s playbook. It is to help you reconnect with your own judgment, strengthen your self-trust, and act from a clearer, more grounded place.
Through the work, clients often become better able to:
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make sound decisions amid complexity and uncertainty
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communicate with greater clarity and conviction
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navigate stakeholder relationships and difficult dynamics
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lead through pressure without losing touch with themselves
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shift patterns that are limiting their effectiveness
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clarify what matters most in a leadership, business, or career transition
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turn insight into meaningful action
“Kelly has been a critical thinking partner through important transitions - both on my personal professional path and as an office leader. She helps me assess, weigh what’s achievable, prioritize, and focus on execution.
Making dedicated space to work with Kelly has been invaluable. Our work helps me navigate complexity, change, and decision-making with clarity and confidence.”
— Bill Nolan, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Common focus areas
Every coaching engagement is shaped around the person and the moment they are in. Common areas of focus include:
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Leadership transitions
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Executive presence
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Decision-making
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Communication and influence
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Stakeholder dynamics
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Difficult conversations
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Values alignment
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Confidence and self-trust
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Strategic thinking
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Managing pressure and complexity
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Career direction and next-chapter discernment
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Founder and entrepreneur challenges
How executive coaching works
Coaching begins with a consult call to understand the moment you are navigating and what kind of support would be most useful.
From there, we design a coaching engagement that fits your goals, context, and season.
Available options may include:
Focused Coaching Engagement
A shorter engagement for a specific decision, transition, leadership challenge, or moment of complexity.
Six-Month Executive Coaching Engagement
A deeper coaching container for leaders who want sustained thought partnership, development, and support through meaningful change.
Executive Coaching with 360 Review
A coaching engagement that includes stakeholder feedback or a formal leadership assessment to deepen self-awareness and create a clear development roadmap.
Coaching may also include personality and leadership assessments, such as DISC and Enneagram, to help you better understand your strengths, communication style, motivators, blind spots, and the patterns that shape how you lead and work with others.
Most coaching takes place virtually, with sessions scheduled at a regular cadence. Between sessions, you may leave with reflection prompts, experiments, conversations to have, or practical next steps to support your progress.
What makes this work different?
Kelly’s coaching is spacious, but not passive.
She creates room for you to hear yourself think, while also offering honest reflection, practical perspective, and questions that challenge the assumptions keeping you stuck.
Her work is grounded in nearly two decades of coaching experience, business training, leadership development, and long-standing mindfulness practices. She brings a rare combination of depth, discernment, warmth, and directness to the coaching relationship.
Clients often describe Kelly as a trusted thought partner who helps them slow down, think more clearly, see their situation from a new angle, and leave with a stronger sense of what to do next.
Experience and credentials
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Coaching since 2006
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ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
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MBA, Cornell University
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Certified Leadership Circle Profile Practitioner
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Trained in solution-focused coaching, emotional intelligence, leadership assessments, team development, yoga, and mindfulness
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Experience with founders, CEOs, executives, partners, boards, and leadership teams
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Host of Life from Within, a podcast about the wisdom, growth, and transformation that emerge through real leadership, business, and career challenges
Frequently asked questions
How long does executive coaching usually last?
Many clients begin with a focused six-month engagement. Engagements may be shorter if the goal is hyper-specific. Clients often continue longer when they value having an ongoing thought partner through a meaningful leadership, business, or career season.