Executive Coaching
Why Coaching?
Today's leaders operate in an environment of unprecedented complexity. Markets shift rapidly. Organizations face constant pressure to adapt. Strategies evolve, priorities compete, and change initiatives often struggle to achieve their intended results.
Many organizations don't suffer from a lack of talent, effort, or good intentions. They struggle because strategy, leadership, culture, and execution are not fully aligned. In other words, they lack organizational coherence.
Executive coaching provides leaders with the space to step back from day-to-day demands, see the bigger picture, and address the factors that shape performance across the organization. This creates the opportunity to examine assumptions, challenge existing patterns, strengthen decision-making, and lead with greater clarity and intention.
As a certified professional coach and trusted advisor, I partner with executives to develop the mindset, capabilities, and influence required to lead transformational change. Through confidential, one-on-one conversations, leaders gain deeper insight into themselves, their teams, and the organizational dynamics that either support or inhibit success.
Coaching is not about fixing weaknesses. It is about expanding capacity. It helps leaders navigate complexity, align people around a common direction, strengthen accountability, build high-performing teams, and create the conditions for sustainable growth and transformation.
Research consistently demonstrates that executive coaching improves leadership effectiveness, accelerates executive leadership development, strengthens succession readiness, and enhances organizational performance. More importantly, it helps leaders create greater coherence across the enterprise—enabling strategy, leadership, culture, and execution to work together rather than compete with one another.
If you're ready to strengthen your leadership, accelerate transformation, and increase organizational coherence, coaching can help you create lasting impact.
Sustainable transformation begins when leaders stop optimizing individual parts and start leading for the success of the whole.
Why Ted?
Executive coaching provides the space, perspective, and partnership necessary to navigate these challenges effectively. It helps leaders step back from day-to-day demands, see the broader organizational dynamics at play, and develop the capabilities required to lead meaningful and sustainable change.
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As a Certified Executive Coach through the International Coaching Federation, I partner with senior leaders who want to strengthen their effectiveness, increase their influence, and create greater organizational coherence. My approach combines decades of business leadership experience, executive coaching, systems thinking, and organizational transformation expertise to help leaders address both personal and organizational challenges.
Proven Experience
Before becoming an executive coach, I spent more than two decades leading and advising large-scale transformation initiatives across Fortune 500 organizations. My experience spans operations, sales, marketing, international business, leadership development, and enterprise change. Having led organizations and advised senior executives through periods of significant growth, disruption, and transformation, I understand the realities leaders face and the pressures that accompany executive responsibility.
Strategic Partnership
Leadership can be isolating. Many executives have few opportunities for candid reflection, objective feedback, and confidential dialogue. Coaching provides a trusted space to think strategically, challenge assumptions, explore difficult decisions, and gain clarity on the issues that matter most.
My role is not to provide answers. It is to help leaders ask better questions, uncover deeper insights, and make more effective decisions that strengthen both their leadership and their organizations.
Organizational Perspective
Most leadership challenges do not exist in isolation. They emerge from the interactions between strategy, leadership, culture, structure, incentives, and execution.
This is why my coaching extends beyond individual development. Together, we examine the broader organizational dynamics influencing performance and identify opportunities to create greater alignment and coherence across the system. The result is stronger leadership, more effective execution, healthier organizational cultures, and greater capacity for transformation.
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Executive coaching is ultimately about expanding a leader's ability to create lasting impact. When leaders think more clearly, lead more intentionally, and align their organizations more effectively, extraordinary results become possible.
Ted is a seasoned professional that adjusts his coaching style to his clients: a professional sounding board that does not force his own agenda but rather listens and nudges in the right direction without being forced to change one's personality.
~ General Manager, Velocity EV
The ROI of Executive Coaching
Coaching isn’t a luxury—it’s a high-return investment in leadership & organizational performance.
The Data is Compelling
5-7x ROI
(among Fortune 1000 executives)
788% ROI
(Forbes, MetrixGlobal)
7x ROI
(PwC Global Coaching Survey)
The Impact is Transformational
+70%
Increase in individual performance
+50%
Improvement in team performance
+48%
Growth in organizational outcomes
Executive coaching delivers clarity, alignment, and lasting results—making it one of the most strategic investments a leader can make.
Level Up Your Game
Every leader has a unique style, vision, and purpose. That’s why each coaching engagement is personalized—to help you grow in ways aligned with who you are and where you want to lead.
While every journey is different, many leaders seek coaching to expand their leadership capacity in the areas below.
Strengthen Organizational Coherence
Align strategy, leadership, culture, and execution around a shared direction. Identify and reduce organizational friction that slows progress. Improve cross-functional collaboration and enterprise-wide alignment. Create greater consistency between intentions and outcomes. Build the conditions for sustainable performance and adaptability.
Lead Transformational Change
Mobilize people around a compelling future. Navigate uncertainty with clarity and confidence. Build commitment for change across stakeholders and teams. Address resistance constructively while maintaining momentum. Lead transformation that produces lasting organizational impact.
Elevate Strategic Leadership
See beyond immediate challenges to recognize broader patterns and opportunities. Strengthen strategic thinking and organizational awareness. Improve prioritization in complex environments. Connect long-term vision with day-to-day execution. Focus leadership attention on the areas of greatest leverage.
Increase Executive Influence & Alignment
Build trust and credibility across teams, peers, and stakeholders. Communicate with greater clarity, consistency, and purpose. Align diverse perspectives around common goals. Foster accountability without creating resistance. Create stronger commitment to decisions and organizational priorities.
Develop High-Performing Leadership Teams
Strengthen collaboration among senior leaders. Improve alignment around priorities, roles, and decision-making. Surface and address issues that undermine effectiveness. Foster healthy debate, trust, and shared accountability. Create leadership teams capable of driving enterprise-wide performance.
Expand Leadership Capacity & Effectiveness
Increase self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and adaptability. Challenge assumptions and broaden perspective. Strengthen decision-making in complex situations. Lead with greater intention, resilience, and authenticity. Expand your ability to create meaningful impact across the organization.
Executive coaching goes beyond developing leadership skills. It helps leaders see and influence the organizational dynamics that shape performance. By strengthening both transformational leadership and organizational coherence, coaching creates the conditions for lasting change—within leaders, teams, and the enterprise as a whole.
Ted, you've given me so much! You gave me many different perspectives on how to look at certain situations. I know in myself that I’m not onlya better manager but a better person/husband/father.
Senior Manager, Daimler Trucks Australia
How the Process Works
1. Chemistry & Alignment Meeting
We begin with a confidential conversation to ensure there’s a strong mutual fit.
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Explore our perspectives, styles, and expectations to confirm alignment.
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Clarify your leadership context, goals, and what success would look like.
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Review scope, format, and expectations.
2. Kickoff & Goal Setting
We clarify what matters most—both personally and organizationally.
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Identify your top leadership objectives and role-specific challenges.
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Align on success metrics and develop a high-level roadmap.
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Surface opportunities for growth that will create meaningful impact
3. Insight & Feedback Gathering
We use targeted assessments to deepen self-awareness and surface key growth areas.
Conduct a self-assessment and review current goals.
Use a psychometric assessment to surface key patterns.
Optional: Qualitative 360 Assessment​
4. Sponsor Alignment (If Applicable)
Where appropriate, we engage your manager or sponsor early in the process.
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Align coaching goals with business priorities.
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Involve manager/sponsor to ensure relevance and visibility.
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Set check-in milestones and refine the coaching plan.
Phase I
In the initial phase, we establish clear expectations, objectives, and stakeholder alignment.
We also establish protocols for handling any changes to the initial coaching plan along the way.
5. Design the Development Plan
With insights in hand, we co-create a customized coaching plan.
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Define key coaching themes and success measures.
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Select resources and tools to support progress.
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Establish reflection points for feedback and recalibration.
6. Coaching in Action
The heart of the work: focused, bi-weekly sessions designed for clarity, challenge, and growth.
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Focus on real-time goals and challenges.
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Engage in strategic dialogue and reflection to expand awareness and clarify action.
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Translate insight into clear, forward-moving action.
7. Midpoint Review
We pause to reflect and refine
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Assess progress and update priorities as needed.
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Optional check-in with sponsor to confirm alignment and evolving needs.
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Refine goals based on new insights or priorities.
8. Completion & Forward Momentum
We close the formal engagement with a clear path for continued growth.
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Conduct an exit meeting with you and (optionally) your sponsor to review accomplishments.
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Develop a future-facing leadership plan to sustain growth beyond coaching.
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Schedule optional 3- and 6-month follow-up sessions to maintain momentum.
Phase II
The coaching plan is finalized and coaching sessions unfold, addressing the core development objectives AND addressing any issues as they come up.
At the midpoint, we assess progress and any adjustments we want to make.
Toward the end of the engagement we reflect on accomplishments made and discuss how the development will comtinue after the formal coaching is complete.
Coaching with me is a high-trust, high-impact partnership—built to elevate what’s already working while unlocking the leadership capacity required for what’s next.
