Coaching and Consulting Services

 
 
 
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Individual Leadership Coaching

Barbara guides a wide-range of individual clients of varying leadership levels towards achieving their maximum potential. Target areas include:

  • Strengthening professional trajectory of Emerging Leaders

  • Expanding leadership skills and tools of Established Executives

  • Building leadership capabilities in Entrepreneurs

  • Broadening leadership scope for Technical Leaders


Sample Leadership Coaching Engagement:

A first time CEO in understanding where to focus his time and energy to achieve success. That is, what his priorities should be in driving and leading the organization and how to most effectively engage and manage the Board of Directors.

 
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Executive Team Development

Barbara works with executive teams at all levels to ensure they successfully work together to drive organizational results. Target areas include:

  • Board of Directors interactions and relationships

  • Building high-performance teams

  • Aligning priorities to more effectively achieve organizational goals

  • Clarifying roles and responsibilities


Sample Executive Team Engagement:

A small biotech company expanded their senior leadership team and needed to efficiently assimilate new leaders. Barbara helped the team gain alignment on their most pressing priorities while creating an understanding of personal styles and team dynamics.

 
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Human Resources Consulting

Barbara helps companies tackle significant organizational and operational challenges. Target areas include:

  • Developing and aligning core values with the company vision

  • Developing a human resources strategic business plan

  • Improving team performance

  • Mentoring emerging HR leaders


Sample HR Consulting Engagements:

A biotech company wanted to develop core values that would build a strong culture of collective accountability and drive individual performance. Working with an internal team, Barbara led the team to identify, articulate and implement the core values that would define their brand to attract talent and accelerate performance.

 
 
 
 
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“Barbara’s wealth of experience adds depth and perspective felt throughout coaching conversations. She is personable but very grounded in her position, solid and attentive to every side of each situation. Her calm and very pointed way of asking to connect everything to organizational value has stayed with me, and is something I still practice daily.”

Chief Scientific Officer, Biotech

 
 

 

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Five-Phase Coaching Process

 

Barbara guides her clients through her five-step coaching process, an approach designed to ensure progress through strategically phased results. Outlined below, this roadmap delivers a clear and simple path to success, with specific sequence and timings customized to meet each client and organization’s specific needs and goals. 

 
 
 
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Phase 1: Introduction and Engagement

Gain an understanding of how best to work together, identify the client’s coaching goals and initiate the process.

 
 
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Phase 2: Assessment and Insight

Identify assessment tools and collect stakeholder feedback based on the client’s goals 

Provide an individualized summary of the feedback to the client identifying key strengths and opportunities for development

 
 
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Phase 3: Action Planning and Implementation

Create development goals to address the client’s most critical areas of development based on assessment and feedback

 
 
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Phase 4: Reinforcement

Assess the effectiveness of the development plan to understand how it is impacting the client’s leadership and their effectiveness 

 
 
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Phase 5: Reflection / Next Steps

Meet with the client to gain an understanding of how coaching has impacted them, their team and the organization, including specific benefits derived, successes and insights