Leadership Executive Coaching and Life Coaching

Client Stories and Case Studies

Leadership Executive Coaching: How Do We Work?

“The owner of a $35 million dollar commercial construction company was stuck on how to grow beyond his local area. Utilizing our leadership executive coaching model and life coaching, we helped him and his team develop an innovative strategy based on following regional road and interstate growth patterns.Two years later their market share was up 11% and revenues jumped to $55 million.”

“We were introduced to a Software Project Manager. His software firm was
having trouble simplifying their product because the engineers wanted to
build in more features, suffering what we call 'feature creep'. We helped them by bringing in end users and letting the engineers observe the frustration their supposed enhancements caused in their customers. The new features were dropped and the existing ones simplified. Sales went up over the next two years by 61%.”

“A young successful CEO was on the verge of burn out and ready to walk away from the successful firm he was building. Our leadership executive coaching process helped him create role clarity for his staff, establish clear lines of authority and accountability for his team and coached him in not ‘taking the monkey’ off others backs because he could. Six months later he reported he had ‘gotten his life back’ and was now able to spend him time on the important tasks in building his business. More importantly, he reported the life coaching process supported him having a greater sense of JOY in his life.”

“We met a small but high profile management team in the movie animation
business. They were on the brink of closing up shop because they were losing money. We helped them figure out a new and compelling vision and strategy for themselves that fit the current market realities. Six months later they were focused, profitable and had a back log of projects. The CEO reported this leadership executive coaching process made all the difference.

“The sales force for HVAC company wasn’t producing results. We worked with the sales team to identify seventeen critical sales skills necessary to sell
into their market. The sales force in one year achieved a 60% increase in
sales. It was the largest percentage sales increase in the forty-year history of the company. Their market share went from under 20% to over 55%
in the same time period.”

Life Coaching: How Do We Work?

“A 40 year-old company President was making more money in his life than ever before and reported he was absolutely miserable. He wasn’t sleeping, he
felt a sense of anxiety and his blood pressure was up. We helped him by doing a life coaching process that focused on Core Values Analysis that revealed he was in internal conflict over his success to such a degree that he would sabotage himself. We helped him align his values and create an action plan that he felt congruent about. Six months later he reported feeling ‘back on track’ and ‘happy with himself once again’.”

“ A 32 year-old salesman contacted us because he felt his life was ‘out of
whack’. He was drinking too much, partying too much and unable to keep a
relationship going longer than a few months. We helped via personal coaching, getting him focused on the future outcomes he wanted and by developing a life plan to help him evolve mentally, emotionally and physically. He made little changes at a time, but within a year he reported he felt ‘in charge of his life once again’.”

“ A young woman was introduced to us because she was wanting to make a
career change and didn’t know how to go about making a major transition in
her life. Our life coaching process helped by having her take personality instruments that revealed her true talents and inclinations. We coached her over several months as she made a transition from the banking industry to real estate salesperson. This leadership executive coaching supported her making new choices that resulted in her reporting ‘feeling great about herself’ and also doubling her income in the next 12 months.”

“ A 55 year-old business owner contacted us because he felt he would be dead in two years if he didn’t change. The problem was he didn’t know how or what to change…he just knew he was on a downward spiral of depression and illness. Life coaching helped by initiating a stress reduction program, bio-feedback and a Life Planning Process that helped him develop a compelling future for himself. In six months he reported he was no longer depressed about his future, his marriage was revived and he felt engaged in life once again."

Verbatim Quotes From Our Leadership Executive Coaching and Life Coaching Clients

"All of the participants are in agreement that the retreat was a great
success. I have already witnessed positive change."

"Joe addressed a significant and long-standing problem with a
client--an issue that is eating away at our bottom line and driving us crazy, but one that he has been avoiding for many many months--and he did so in a direct, positive and effective manner--behavior none of us have witnessed in Joe before."

"I find myself at parties sounding much more intelligent and I have to tell you it is a direct result of the coaching by you and Jim. I find I can apply this intelligence directly to my business."

"... Your presentation, and the information you left us with, continued to excite the group well into our second day of meetings. We began to brainstorm on how Virtual Reality technology may be utilized in education and what the implications of a "whole brain" computer might be. To summarize, you profoundly knocked the starch out of this group on where this corporation may be headed..."

"We called a meeting for 10 am on Thursday and everyone showed up at the table at 9:55 and turned off their cell phones--a first!"

Read Findings about our scientific study conducted at Motorola Inc. The original study led to Motorola adopting the Heartmath Stress Reduction Tools as the only proven stress-reduction technique known to the company. The division that was first to integrate the techniques made over 40 changes to the production line and went on to develop the Nextel Push to Talk Phone and other innovative ideas.

"Sam has sought Karen's creative advise twice since our retreat--two more times than he has in the prior 3.5 years."

"I can't tell you how often the learnings from you and the alignment stuff come into my life and work over the past 15 years."

"We have learned so much in such a short period of time about how to run our business."

"On behalf of the technical seminar committee here at Codex, I'd like to thank you for your presentation on Virtual Reality last week. Most members of the audience I have spoken with were enthusiastic in their response to your style, and they felt they had learned something important about Virtual Reality, as well. It's very rare to find a man who can successfully combine roles of standup comic, technological promoter, and Taoist all in one speech..."

"In a short period you've become a trusted advisor and I look to you for improving all aspects of my business."

"You guys are the go-to source when my clients' have personal and organizational challenges."

"I have never seen such a rapid analysis of organizational issues that quickly led me to a comprehensive strategic and tactical plan. Your innovative heart-based insights allow for painless transformations. I can recommend your sessions for anyone with personal or business pain."

"... I am really thrilled about being able to share you with my classmates who did not have the privilege of hearing your 'sermon' at the IDSA conference. Those of us who did get to hear you think that you will breathe some fresh life into our stagnant academia and help people to see 'What a damn exciting time it is to be alive!'"