Coaching that changes how leaders decide, communicate, and lead.
Partner with one of our 600+ certified coaches to think more clearly, lead with conviction, and bring out the best in your teams.
Source: 2023-2026 client survey, n=354 (NPS n=351; effectiveness n=349). NPS tiers per Bain & Company.
Coaching for you
You carry decisions no one else can make for you. A coach gives you a trusted thought-partner who steps into your world, holds up a mirror, and keeps you honest about the work that matters most. Together you set clear goals and move toward them steadily, session by session. Leaders come to us at career crossroads, in new and larger roles, and any time the stakes are high enough to want an experienced guide beside them.
98% of the leaders we surveyed rated their coaching effective or extremely effective.
Find a coach for yourselfCoaching for your team
When you invest in your leaders, you need to know it works. We design coaching programs for cohorts of high-potential leaders and senior teams, pairing experiential group learning with monthly one-on-one coaching that turns insight into lasting habit. Every program is built around your goals and your culture, with measurement that shows the impact to your stakeholders.
A Net Promoter Score of 83 across 354 leaders, with fewer than 1% detractors. World-class is 80 and above.
Build a program for your teamOur Approach
Coaching Philosophy
Coach as Catalyst
The role of the coach is to help the client stay true to their goals, objectives, and commitments. For us, a coach is a catalyst. A coach does not develop people, a coach equips people to develop themselves.
Inquiry
Entering into a coaching relationship involves entering into a context of change and growth. Together, the partnership creates an environment for something to be different, whether that is attitude, perspective, thinking or action. The inquiry context represents the powerful process of deepening the learning. It is a process of discovery and curiosity. The coach asks: What does that mean for you? What is incomplete for you? What would make a difference?
About Our Coaches
Over 600 Berkeley Certified Coaches Worldwide
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Each coaching relationship is unique; coaching is not an exact science.
What one person needs is quite different than what another person needs both in hours as well as form and content. Many factors affect the coaching process, including the barriers that the person is trying to overcome as well as their current and future responsibilities and assignments.
Each client’s program is customized around numerous factors, and will be unique in its execution.
Though each of our coaches has their own individual style, and customizes each coaching relationship based on the need of their client, all of our coaches utilize the same fundamental processes from our Active Communicating® methodology and Berkeley coaching certification program.
What’s Included
Coaching for Individuals
We offer executive coaching to leaders who seek an external sounding board and thought-partner. The coach will enter, integrate into, and invest in the client’s world. Together, the coach and client will develop a clear set of goals to move the client along their leadership journey. Coaching sessions may consist of one-on-one sessions, observations, prepping the client for meetings, observing communications, and more. Each session will be designed to fully support the client in whatever goals they have determined will move their leadership to the next level. The client must take action on agreed upon areas of interpersonal improvement, commit to attending sessions and completing homework assignments, as well as reporting back to the coach on actions taken that may relate to a client, team member, or other person.
Communications, Storytelling & Presentation Coaching
We also offer a special communications-focused coaching engagement designed to support leaders with a specific communications challenge, such as an upcoming presentation or meeting. This form of coaching may be more directive than executive coaching, as the coach may provide feedback and advice on topics such as: leadership presence, presentation design, verbal and non-verbal communication, virtual / video meeting communication, or other similar topics. Outcomes are typically best when there is a specific occasion targeted, such as a shareholder meeting, all-hands event, team presentation or similar.
Coaching Programs in Organizations
In collaboration with an organization's leaders, we develop coaching programs to take a cohort of individuals - for example senior directors, or high-potential leaders - through a structured leadership development experience. The program often includes workshops and other experiential learning activities to build skills such as inspirational communication, empowering teams, or building a culture of feedback. The learning is reinforced through through a series of targeted monthly 1:1 coaching sessions, as the coach guides a process where the coachee systematically explores current conditions and the path forward to develop higher clarity, alignment, impact and commitment.
Leadership Studies
Before you can grow as a leader, it helps to know how you are actually experienced by the people around you. Our optional Leadership Study is a confidential, 360-style assessment that gathers candid perspectives from the colleagues you work with most closely. You help shape the questions and nominate the participants, then receive a qualitative summary of what is working in your leadership and where the real opportunities lie. We review the findings together in a one-on-one session and use them to set focused, personally meaningful coaching goals. Leaders who complete a Leadership Study rate its helpfulness 4.3 out of 5, and it consistently becomes the anchor for the work that follows.
Gallup CliftonStrengths Coaching
The most effective leaders build on what they already do well. Our certified CliftonStrengths coaches help you and your team identify your natural talents and put them to work where they matter most. The result is people who lead from their strengths, collaborate with a shared language for how each person contributes, and perform at a higher level together. This research-backed assessment pairs naturally with coaching, giving individuals and teams a clear, practical foundation for growth.
What clients say
Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 354 leaders.
“My coach was exactly what I needed. She provided accountability without it feeling like an added stressor. She pushed me to question my assumptions and helped me be thoughtful about critical conversations I otherwise wouldn't have invested the time to plan, or more likely, probably wouldn't have pushed myself to have at all. When I started sessions with my coach, I felt unmoored, with no plan for what should come next in my career, and that was really uncomfortable for me. Today, I have a plan A and a plan B, which I attribute entirely to her support.”
Sr. Program Manager, Technology Client
“From our very first session she created an environment where I felt comfortable being myself. I came in wanting to develop executive presence and arrived at a surprising insight: the presence I was seeking required me to show up more authentically, not less.”
Director, State Bar of California
“It was the first time I experienced non-directive coaching, and the results have been incredible since I applied what I learned in my day-to-day work.”
Executive Coaching Participant, Google
“From the very start, she demonstrated a deep understanding of my challenges and goals, and she made sure to keep our sessions laser-focused on the outcomes I wanted to achieve.”
Executive Coaching Participant, Salesforce
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If you have questions about which coach or coaching program is right for you, or are interested in a coaching program for your team or organization, please schedule a consultation with Jennifer Caleshu to share more about what you are looking for and learn how we can customize a program for you.