Using a strengths based approach to coach executive and organization leaders and increase their successful outcomes and positive results by restoring confidence to achieve purpose — both professionally and personally.
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My name is Chris Coward and I am a full-time executive coach and over the past decade, I have found that having a partner who is trained in developing leaders and who understands your challenges will get you to your destination more quickly.
The purpose of executive coaching is to actively invest in an organization’s human assets promote self-awareness and to help leaders prepare for succession, to improve performance on the job as well as to prepare for professional advancement, and to confront strategic decisions and shape successful relationships. Coaching provides tools such as habit-formation advice as a way to advance long-term behavior change.
A coach is a trustee and provides trust, positivity, real-time feedback, and tranparency.
Despite the ubiquity of executive coaching programs with little uniformity in their methods, my experience in working with hundreds of leaders and executives 2010, coupled with my academic background in psychology, has built my perspective as a strength-based coach, and has led to a active open-minded thinking practice thereby infusing the quality and clarity of the coach and coachee relationship resulting in a significant, positive climate to provide trust and clarity.
How Executive Leadership performActive learning, self-awareness, leadership — and a quality and effective coaching relationship with a compelling vision.
physical and mental health,
self-awareness, impacting job performance,
interactive relationship management,
opportunity to challenge,
to learn to contradict yourself and reflect — rather than the looking glass.
Active learning, self-awareness, leadership — and a quality and effective coaching relationship with a compelling vision.
Your health plays a crucial role in your success - this includes effectively managing your stress, building your resilience and maintaining high energy levels.
Creating effective coaching relationships ensures a shared vision.
Leaders that have been highly successful in their new roles learned how to get the best from their people, upgraded their skill sets and developed the courage to lead the team through change.
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Chris works with leaders and teams to leverage their strengths and tackle their challengers to boost productivity and engagement in their organizations.
Chris is an experienced seminar and training facilitator who brings her unique blend of fresh content, humor, energy, and engagement to help participants transform their leadership to new levels.
She also facilitates group team coaching in organizations for leadership development which allows individuals to bring real management situations to the group, try new skills and behaviors, and use the group to process new learning and results.
I was fortunate to have Chris Coward as a mentor coach through ICF Philadelphia's Coach's Circle program. She was an excellent mentor. Her experience, capacity to observe and guide us to become even more effective coaches was truly amazing. She is smart, perceptive and insightful, a truly remarkable mentor coach.
SUZANNE PERRY | ACC EXECUTIVE COACH
Chris's talents as a tuned in leader made the day a pleasurable learning experience for our team. Chris was able to use the activities with the ropes as a metaphor for the internal change that each of us was experiencing with the external change. Some new levels of trust were developed and people risked taking on new roles within the group. I would highly recommend Team Building with Chris. Her skills as a leader excel when staff need to learn more about themselves individually and in relation to the group.
STEPHANIE EPSTEIN | DIRECTOR | PCVS
I found Chris to be flexible and responsive, in meeting our needs for multiple trainings to large cohorts of staff. In one case, we had over 60 people in our training space. Chris easily adapted to the space, and interacted with the attendees in ways that kept their interest. In evaluations, her sense of humor and responsiveness was noted as highlights of her style. Having our staff trained in these topics was a priority for us this year, and we were glad that Chris was able to meet our needs.
BRENDA RICH | TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN
I have found my wellness coaching sessions with Chris to be very helpful in several ways: I feel Chris listens well for content, but she also quickly gets my unique ways of processing decisions and helps me look at how I can make my approach work better for me. She has a good sense of humor, follows up with helpful resources, and is encouraging. I have made great progress in managing my time and reducing my stress. I really feel I have a terrific ally in Chris!
CAROL BOWERS
The coaching I had with Chris proved to be very valuable! I worked with Chris during a transitional time in my life as I was changing jobs. Having her coaching as a support during this transition made a huge difference in my adjustment to my new job. Chris coaches with love, honesty, and caring and transfers strength to her clients. She really made a large impact on the issues I was working through and completely coached my life to fulfillment! She is amazing, I highly recommend working with Chris.
DANA ROSEN | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER | THE BANCORP BANK
Chris is warm, supportive, intuitive, playful and an ally in my journey. She is an example of excellence in the coaching profession. From our work together, I developed more clarity on my goals for business development and created momentum that continues today.
MARGARET RUFF | PRESIDENT OF MARGARET RUFF CONSULTING
COVID-19 continues to bring a multitude of challenges to our daily lives. Isolation, worry, financial loss, health issues, etc are common to the human experience these days. On top of that, as a leader or executive you have the challenges of managing your team, an increase in remote workforce management, messaging the future, concerns about your organization’s economic viability- and that’s the tip of the iceberg.
You know the story - there’s the meeting, then the meeting after the meeting which is often complaining about what happened or did not happen in the meeting, and frustration that these regular meetings take time from your busy schedule where you could be working productively on your own. What’s not working?
I often hear from my CEO and senior leader coaching clients about their challenges with decision making - everything from feeling pressured to get it right as the final decision maker in the organization to getting bombarded with employee requests to make decisions throughout the day. Some leaders second guess themselves when there is opposition to their decisions and it’s also challenging to get the most current/relevant data and interpret it in a way that leads to making the best decisions.
It’s a new year and a new decade and if you are like me, you are reflecting, tweaking, and experimenting with your productivity habits. From the outside it seems like I get a lot done (and I do) but these visible accomplishments mostly get completed from having external deadlines, people that rely on me and a business consultant who I have accountability with. When it comes to things like, say, writing a blog, developing curriculum for new training or webinars I find it difficult to focus on such open ended tasks that don’t have externally imposed deadlines.
It's very common as a successful leader to keep working as hard as possible and neglect important things in your life, such as your family, your important relationships, and your hobbies that give you passion and joy. You might even be neglecting your health as well which impacts your energy and quality of work.
A coach can shine light on this balance because they are coaching the whole you, not just the professional side of your life.
Hi everyone, my name is Chris Coward, executive coach and leadership development expert. I am here to talk to you today about getting, as leaders 360-degree feedback.
What does that mean? It's an opportunity to get anonymous feedback from people in your organization that are above you, below you, it might be your colleagues or peers, and of course yourself is included as well.
Hi everyone, Chris Coward here, executive coach and leadership development expert. I want to talk today about the thing that is going around in everything I'm hearing from my clients, and I'm even talking about it for me too which is this concept of time management. And what the heck is time management?
I coach a lot of leaders who initially state that vulnerability does not belong in the workplace. In fact, they believe that if they are vulnerable and share select personal things about themselves bad things could happen. What bad things? The information about them could backfire and be used against them or they could be seen as weak or incompetent. I’ve heard my clients say that their team will take advantage of them if they let their guard down. While all of these outcomes are possible, it often does not happen that way. Vulnerability is actually a sign of strength and courage.
From time to time we all have difficult conversations that need to happen at work and home. You know, those conversations that you are procrastinating on and avoiding for various reasons. Maybe you feel like the other person is going to be angry and defensive, maybe the other person is great at talking circles around you or maybe they are highly sensitive and you don’t want to hurt their feelings. No matter what stressful thoughts you are having about these discussions there are some principles and skills that can make these talks go much smoother than you are envisioning.
Hi everyone, I'm Chris Coward, executive coach and leadership development expert. I'm here to do a little video for you today on how to choose an executive coach. I'm going to go over four things that I recommend you consider when choosing your coach.