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You’ve been placed in a demanding role precisely because of your leadership skills. However, you find that there are challenges that limit your ability to reach peak performance. These obstacles may involve rapid organizational changes, poor team dynamics, a new or expanded role, or challenging peer relationships.

My rigorous and results-oriented coaching programs will allow you to realize your full potential. Whether you’ve been charged with building a team, executing a new strategy, or taking on a new role, my coaching programs are designed to build your leadership capacity and improve how you function at work. Even small changes in behavior can have a significant impact on your business.

A coach doesn’t have to play the sport as well as you do. They watch you and get you to be your best.

Executive Excellence Coaching Programs

align your developmental objectives with business needs

work in partnership with other key stakeholders

hold you accountable for progress

measure results for return on investment

As part of my executive coaching programs, I conduct personality and leadership style assessments as well as 360° feedback interviews. We uncover your key strengths, areas for development, and underlying drives and motivations. Through private and confidential coaching sessions, we develop personalized action plans for moving forward.

Executive coaching can help you:
  • formulate clear objective goals and action plans for career advancement
  • identify strengths and opportunities for growth
  • clarify a personal vision and how to persuasively communicate it
  • improve your own self-awareness and manage relationships more effectively
  • project a confident and strong executive presence for greater visibility
  • improve productivity and quality of work for more high-profile assignments
  • create and sustain personal work-life balance for your overall well-being

Invest in yourself and enroll today!

My coaching services reflect a passion to help you develop intentionally, pursue excellence, and create a manageable action plan for your career and life. If you have further questions, contact me at drstefani@leadinghigher.com or call 610-436-3154.

The Executive Coaching Process

1. Chemistry Check

Leader and coach assess their “fit” and explore program goals. Leader completes a Professional Development Profile.

2. Discovery Process

The research and assessment phase includes interviews between coach and key stakeholders, 360° feedback survey (for broader input), and relevant self-assessment inventories (to measure strengths, derailers, personality, and leadership behaviors). If applicable, the leader will also be observed in live work situations or presentations.

3. Feedback Meeting

An integrated review of discovery information is shared with the leader, establishing the foundation of a developmental action plan.

4. Action Planning

A comprehensive action plan is created, focusing on three to five targeted goals, key action steps, and metrics to measure progress.

5. Alignment Meeting

A transparent, three-way meeting is held between coach, leader, and leader’s manager to discuss assessment results and obtain support for the action plan.

6. Ongoing Coaching

A series of highly practical and applied coaching meetings are held, approximately four weeks apart, to build competence and work through challenges.

7. Realignment Meeting

The engagement is concluded with the leader and leader’s manager. Progress is measured and a long-range plan for ongoing development is discussed.

Executive Coaching Options

Enhancing Leadership

Targeted Skills Coaching

Purpose

Despite all of their achievements, high-potential leaders often have room to improve specific leadership skills that can enhance their overall performance. Targeted Skills Coaching can help leaders develop specific skills required for organizational success.

Key Areas

Examples of targeted skills include communication, strategic vision, developing talent in others, or managing change. By addressing specific leadership issues such as this, managers become far more effective in their roles and better equipped to drive results.

Timeframe

A fast-paced, four-month program focused specifically on developing practical leadership skills.

Includes

Leadership profile, 360 feedback assessment, Action Plan, 4 targeted coaching sessions.

Candidates

Ideal for leaders at the manager through director levels who will have new opportunities to apply their skills.

Rising to the Next Level

Transition Coaching

Purpose

New leaders need to start off on the right foot. Yet research shows that as many as 40% of all new executives fail within the first 18 months – at an organizational cost estimated to be 20 times the leader’s compensation. For executives making a critical turn in their leadership experience, Transition Coaching can help them achieve rapid business results.

Key Areas

Transitioning to a new job level is a critical opportunity for leaders to assess the realities and priorities of their new role, establish credibility, and drive demonstrable business results. Rather than leaving a new leader’s success to chance, invest in this vital make-or-break time to get a new leader up to speed quickly and accelerate their impact on the business.

Timeframe

An intense and highly focused six-month engagement that enables organizations to receive a rapid return on their leadership investment.

Includes

Leadership profile, 360 feedback assessment, 1 supplemental personality/behavioral assessment, Action Plan, 6 coaching sessions.

Candidates

Designed for leaders at the director through senior vice president levels.

Achieving Potential

High Performance Coaching

Purpose

Despite strong abilities, many successful leaders often fail to improve, limiting the positive impact they could have on organizational results. Even when they appear to have what it takes to propel their organizations to greater results, a variety of complex leadership challenges can get in the way to achieving ultimate success.

Key Areas

High Performance Coaching can help leaders gain enhanced self-awareness about their impact, become more attuned to organizational needs, understand their strengths and areas for development, create a clear and effective action plan, and drive better business results. The outcome is an obvious business win for all.

Timeframe

A challenging nine-month program for high-potential leaders that accelerates their readiness to build better individual, team, and organizational performance.

Includes

Leadership profile, 360 feedback assessment, 2 supplemental personality/behavioral assessments, Action Plan, 9 coaching sessions, follow-up 360 feedback to assess improvement.

Candidates

Most appropriate for leaders at the senior director, vice president, and executive suite levels.

The Personnel Management Association showed that when training was combined with executive coaching, individuals increased their productivity by an average of 86% compared to 22% with training alone.

What Other Leaders Are Saying

“Stefani’s executive coaching has my highest recommendation. Many tools are utilized to provide a high level of self-awareness (that is truly life altering) along with realistic action planning to build upon your strengths. Lots of great resources are skillfully presented with expertise and are supplemented with invaluable one-on-one coaching sessions.”

Rachel KuceraSr. Consultant, HR Business Intelligence & Metrics at Lincoln Financial Group

“Stefani’s coaching is delivered with passion, enthusiasm, and creativity! I take my development seriously and see it as a means to grow both personally and professionally. Going through her program helped me to get to a new level of awareness. It’s not just a single book, study, or assessment…the whole package provides results that are, and will continue to be, life changing.”

Lisa PerfettoDirector, Quality Assurance and Operations Support at Independence Blue Cross

“Stefani is an awesome executive coach, I highly recommend her. I recently had the privilege of getting to know her through an individualized leadership development program that my company sponsored. It can often be difficult to analyze oneself and share core thoughts and behavioral motivations with others; Stefani employs a coaching style that is comfortable to engage with, while also being instructive and intellectually challenging. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her over the past 6 months and found her observations to be insightful and valuable to me on many levels.”

Charles RayfieldVice President, Corporate Controller at Providence Service Corporation

About Dr. Stefani Yorges

I am a psychologist and professional leadership coach. I partner with people who want to rise to their full potential so they can have an increasingly greater impact on others.

I am an active leadership consultant who has engaged with over 100 clients from more than 30 companies. I specialize in positive leadership strategies, strengths-based leadership, and transformational leadership models. My unique background as an educator, consultant, and coach helps connect your personal potential to peak performance.

I have expertise in a variety of leadership models and assessment tools. My formal education is in the behavioral sciences, receiving my Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Purdue University in 1996. I am a certified executive coach, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. I am a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

For further questions, contact me at drstefani@leadinghigher.com or call 610-436-3154.

Invest in yourself and enroll today!

My coaching services reflect a passion to help you develop intentionally, pursue excellence, and create a manageable action plan for your career and life. If you have further questions contact me at drstefani@leadinghigher.com or call 610-436-3154.

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