Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching · Insights 4 Life

Great coaching is designed to deliver what you paid for.

A great coach with a misaligned agenda still misses the target. We solve that before session one. The sponsoring leader, the leader being coached, and the coach align on goals and measures up front. Every session that follows serves an agenda the three of them built together. Your investment lands on what matters to your organization and to your leader.

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Photographed in the wild by Linal

200+Fortune 1000 executives coached

50,000+professionals reached

30,000+hours of coaching and facilitation

ICF PCCheld by every coach on the bench

01For the sponsor and the leader

Everyone knows what success looks like before the first session.

Here is where coaching usually goes wrong. A leader gets a good coach, and the sessions drift because nobody agreed on the goal. We fix that first. Before session one, we get the sponsoring leader and the leader being coached on a call together. We settle the goals, the priorities, and how progress gets measured. After that, every session has a job to do. What the leader shares with the coach stays confidential.

If you are the sponsoring leader

Your investment deserves visibility. You help define the outcomes, the leadership behaviors you want strengthened and the measures we will track together. You will never be left wondering whether the engagement is tracking toward what matters to your organization.

If you are the leader being coached

Nobody hands you a predetermined agenda. Your voice shapes the engagement from the first conversation: what you want to develop, what keeps getting in your way and what success looks like from where you stand. What you say stays confidential, and your growth is the priority every time.

02The Four Pillars of Life

Leadership begins on the inside.

What is possible in your leadership? In your relationships? In your health? In your finances? In your purpose? Every one of those answers shows up in how you lead, and any one of them can be the thing holding you back. That is why our coaching covers all four pillars of a leader's life.

PILLAR 01

Health and Well-Being

Self-care and self-love.

How you treat yourself shapes how you lead others.

PILLAR 02

Relationships

Professional and personal connection.

Leadership is relational at every level.

PILLAR 03

Work and Money

Performance, career vision and financial strategy.

You spend most of your life working, and managing money has nothing to do with what you earn.

PILLAR 04

Purpose

Clarity of purpose and inner development.

The dimension most leaders never fully activate.

Do not be surprised when a workplace challenge leads us into health or purpose. That is the work. The coaching is non-linear by design.

03How coaching works here

Coaching is not about the coach.

Every Insights 4 Life coach works from the same framework. Different coaches. One method. Consistent results.

New awareness

Every leader sees through a lens shaped by experience. Wear red lenses long enough and the whole world looks red, and you stop noticing the lenses at all. Our coaches help leaders see the lens they're wearing and how it shapes their decisions, their relationships, and their results in ways they don't intend.

Access to new choices

Once a leader can see the lens, they can try on another one. Put on a blue lens, and the same room you saw in red looks different. Options that were invisible begin to appear. Leaders stop reacting from habit and start choosing differently.

Choosing with powerful intention

Our coaches help each leader distinguish their why: the values they lead from, the commitment they've made, and the legacy they want to leave. That why becomes the anchor for every choice that follows.

Transformation

Anchored choices become a new way of leading. Our coaches hold the leader accountable until the change shows up in how they lead and in results the organization can measure and sustain.

"An undistinguished leadership instinct is untapped power, waiting to be unleashed."

Linal Harris, PCC

04Three modalities

One engagement, three ways of coaching.

Every engagement draws on three approaches, chosen for what each leader needs most.

Ontological coaching

We work at the level of a leader's ways of being, the patterns underneath every decision and reaction. Through inquiry we surface those patterns and reflect them back, so new self-awareness creates new possibility.

Facilitative coaching

Structured reflection tied directly to your organization's leadership competency model and the priorities set at the start. Every conversation stays purposeful and inside the guardrails everyone agreed to.

The high-level behaviors that move business results: executive presence, influence, accountability, managing complexity and the capacity to lead at scale.

Wondering which approach fits you? Ask us. We'll walk you through the difference.

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05The nine-month engagement

You are entering your cocoon.

A caterpillar does not become a butterfly from a place of comfort. The cocoon is the process, and it is uncomfortable on purpose. That squeeze is the sign the transformation is working.

Months 1 to 2

Awareness

See your patterns, and meet your most powerful self.

Months 3 to 4

Vision

Set bold goals from power, not fear.

Month 5

Action

Take the leap before the path is clear.

Month 6

Completion

Clear what is still holding you back.

Month 7

Identity

Your commitment, values and guiding principles.

Months 8 to 9

Accountability

An honest review, then completion or reinvention.

Week one of every month is a strategy week, where you work your practices and build your strategy muscle. Weeks two through four are 60-minute coaching sessions.

06Proof

50 leaders. Six months. Superior results.

ChipotleLEAD Coaching Program

4.88average satisfaction out of 5.00

97%session completion rate

100%of leaders gained clarity on their core values

We coached 50 high-potential leaders, 47 of whom completed the program, across three domains: Leading Yourself, Leading Others and Leading the Business, fully inside Chipotle's own competency model. Leaders built three-year visions and asked for extended coaching. The engagement also surfaced what the organization needed to see about incentives, burnout and retention.

"The coaching was the absolute highlight of this program." Chipotle LEAD Program participant

07Why I coach

I didn't go looking for coaching. I needed it.

Linal Harris photographing rhinos at Murchison Falls — Murchison Falls, Uganda

I spent twelve years in operations at U.S. Cellular, eventually running Global Operations. Data was my language. Two plus two equaled four, and I could build the business case for anything.

Then our CEO asked me to become Chief Diversity Officer. New function. New team. Very little of the data I was used to. To deliver the transformation she expected, I had to get much better at something else... persuading, influencing and enrolling people.

I wanted an executive coach. The two I was referred to both had waiting lists of about 18 months. I didn't have 18 months. So in 2012 I enrolled in a yearlong coaching certification program for one reason: to become a better executive. I had no intention of becoming a coach.

Three months in, the master coach pulled me aside and told me I might be leaving something on the table. Then I sat across from a leader for one of my first real sessions. I didn't give advice. I didn't try to prove how smart I was. I asked powerful questions and watched that leader discover the answers were already inside them.

I fell in love with coaching. Insights 4 Life was born in 2013, and I coached four clients at a time while I kept leading in my corporate role. In November 2015 I graduated from Corporate America. I had 21 people on my coaching waiting list. I called every one of them. All 21 said no.

I went all in anyway. That's when the clients came. By the end of 2016 I had replaced my corporate income, and when my clients started asking me to teach their teams, leadership development became the second half of what we do.

Whenever you make a powerful decision to move forward, resistance will show up. Don't succumb to it. Lean forward. Go all in.

09Your request

Tell us about the leader and the goal.

A few questions about your role, what you want to work on and your timing. A person on our team reads every request and comes back within two business days. The first conversation is complimentary.

Your move

Are you living the best life possible?

Tell us about the leader, the goal and what has been getting in the way. Our team reads every request before anything is scheduled, so the first conversation starts in the right place.

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For sponsoring organizations and individual leaders alike.