Coaching & Executive Coaching
Coaching is a creative, inquiry-based approach to personal and professional development. The coaching process is a partnership that helps leaders, and potential leaders, create awareness, generate action, and facilitate learning and growth. The Brighter Strategies coaching team focuses on improving performance and effectiveness by helping individuals to develop and sustain new perspectives, attitudes, skills and behaviors.

Coaching Services
We offer coaching in 6-month increments. The first meeting can be either face-to-face or via video conferencing, while subsequent meetings are via video conferencing or phone. Throughout the duration of the global health crisis, all of our caching engagements will be facilitated virtually. Coaching sessions are typically every 10-12 days, but can be more frequent depending on the needs of the client.
The Coaching Process
- Initial Meeting is held with Leader and Coach:
- Identify coaching goals and create a coaching development plan
- Specify measurable outcomes for the engagement as a whole
- Clarify coaching process and expectations
- Exploration and Assessment
- Deeper dive conversations to explore client goals
- Administration and evaluations of skills/leadership assessments (to be determined by coach and coachee)
- Debrief conversation to explore assessment outcomes
- Optional check -in with organizational sponsor/s and/or HR, if so desired
- Solidification of Coaching Objectives
- Employee and Coach have coaching sessions focused coaching objectives
- Cultivation of the identified coaching goals and development plan
- Enhance self-awareness and management, social awareness and social management skills
- Learn through the self-exploration and probing of the leader’s experiences; assist the leader in applying lessons learned through coaching, including providing best practices, readings, tools, etc.
- Wrap-Up one-hour Coaching Progress Meeting with Leader
- Review progress on coaching goals and development plan
- Identify ways for the coached leader to continue their growth
- Determine if additional coaching is desired
- Optional: an HR representative may be included in this meeting, if desired
Executive Coaches
All-Level Coaches
We’re happy to discuss your coaching needs.
Questions to Ask Before Hiring an Executive Coach
Professional coaching can be a meaningful tool for professional and executive development. But in order to benefit from a coaching experience you want to make sure that you are ready for coaching, and that you choose the correct coach. We’ve developed 10 questions to help you assess your own readiness, and the fit of a coach.
