Executive Connections LLC - Executive Coaching Services

Today organizations of all types and sizes utilize Executive Coaching to develop their current and future leaders, to align vision with actions, and to ensure the ongoing success of their business. Coaching delivers powerful results, drives significant positive impact to the bottom line, and significantly reduces employee turnover.

CEOs have been hiring management consultants for decades, to help advise them on strategies for growing, turning around, or spinning off businesses under their control. Executive Coaching is the latest outgrowth of this and is being utilized successfully by many of America's leading companies (i.e., American Express, Chase, IBM, Pfizer to name just a few).

We work with successful CEOs and other senior executives, on a confidential basis, to help take their personal leadership skills and performance to the next level. Most of our executive coaching clients are already highly successful, and in several instances we have successfully placed our client in a previous or current leadership role.

The essence of our executive coaching philosophy is continuous personal and career development, supported by an ongoing learning agenda. We work with each executive coaching client to develop a SWOT Analysis of their personal brand, and then identify two-to-three stretch goals that are larger than the goals they would have otherwise established on their own.

Through our Executive Coaching, business leaders accentuate their strengths, minimize their weaknesses and focus on what’s important in areas where they can make a difference. Working with an Executive Connections trained coach, our coaching clients learn to identify challenges and obstacles they face, develop action plans, enhance their working relationships, and find the balance between achievement and personal growth.

Executive coaching takes place through a number of personal one–on–one meetings and telephone conversations structured to build leadership skills, expand perspective and creativity, and elicit from the executives we coach the very best in themselves and in those they lead.

In addition to our Executive Coaching Services, our Blended Solutions Service combines the Executive Search process with Executive Coaching immediately following the hiring decision to facilitate the successful transition of the executive to the new position and help guarantee every candidate meets or exceeds short-term expectations.

For more information about how coaching can work for you to build upon your strengths and facilitate your professional and personal growth, please contact us today, or read our Executive Coaching Case Studies.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Analysis is a strategic and competitive business analysis tool typically applied to evaluating brands and businesses. Executive Connections has adapted this strategic process to evaluating and strengthening personal brands.

Coaching Services Case Studies

Regional CEO, Advertising Agency
After a former CEO found his prior position eliminated due to a series of mergers and resulting consolidation, Executive Connections coached this executive in his successful career transition that eventually resulted in him taking on a new role as the regional CEO in Asia of a major global advertising agency network. This coaching assignment was completed within three months, but we are continuing to work with this CEO as he undergoes a successful transition into the new agency environment. In addition to securing this new position, this executive is still being courted by two other agency groups.

CEO, Direct Mail Printing
Executive Connections coached the CEO of a $150 million direct mail printing company in the successful sale of his business and its merger into a larger printing organization. This coaching helped the executive achieve a 60% return on investment for his investors within an 18-month period. In addition, he became President of a $250 million business, backed by a financially stronger company capable and willing to provide the investment capital required to grow our client’s new business to $500 million in revenues over the next three to five years. We are continuing an executive coaching relationship with the CEO and expect to begin coaching others on the new senior leadership team.

CEO, Direct Marketing Agency
Executive Connections coached a CEO of a direct marketing agency in the turnaround of his business, helping him establish an Advisory Board, improve the sales management and new business efforts of the agency, and reduce expenses, leading to improved profitability. (We have coached a number of CEOs of small agency and brand consulting businesses on creating strategic alliances and on other business strategies to compete effectively with larger organizations in their category.)

President, Consumer Packaged Goods
Executive Connections coached a President in a successful career transition to a new position as President, North America of a $600 million privately-owned china/crystal business. We are continuing a coaching relationship as this executive begins the assignment to turn around the U.S. business.

EVP & GM, Customer Management
Executive Connections coached an EVP & GM of Customer Management Operations for a major advertising agency network. This client has produced exceptional growth and increased profitability in four business units totaling $30 million in revenue. We are assisting this client to fulfill her personal brand development goal of writing a book and joining the Board of Directors of two outside companies.

SVP, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
Executive Connections coached a SVP & Chief Marketing Officer in a life insurance company in the successful career transition to a new SVP, COO position responsible for all market access operations, including P&L responsibility. We are continuing to provide executive coaching support as this executive takes on the new market access role.

SVP, Marketing
Executive Connections coached a senior marketing executive in her successful career transition to a new SVP, marketing role in a global financial services company. We are now providing on-boarding executive coaching assistance to help this executive meet and exceed short-term expectations.

ICF Global Coaching Study - March 2008

In early 2008, the International Coach Federation (ICF) announced its plans to conduct a comprehensive global coaching client study that would serve as a companion piece to the groundbreaking ICF Global Coaching Study; a research study that was commissioned by the ICF in late 2006.

ICF Global Coaching Study - Executive Summary 2008

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