Tailored coaching to accelerate your leadership impact and/or career trajectory.
As a highly experienced CEO/Executive coach, mentor and advisor, I specialise in the science and art of leadership and workforce behaviour. I particularly enjoy working beside CEOs and senior leaders to help them adjust to, navigate and capitalise on the shifts presented by ever-evolving and new market conditions and contexts, and by new and changing corporate directions and strategies.
As an early graduate of MQU’s Masters of Organisational Psychology program and as a previous lecturer in the AGSM’s MBA program, I’ve been fortunate to grow as a leader and coach over 20 years’ in commercial, professional services and scientific settings in the United States, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia, at varying times in global, regional and/or local leadership roles.
Having worked with hundreds of senior leaders from a cross-section of leading organisations globally, I’ve come to see that the most successful leaders are those who quickly dial up and dial down elements of their style and behaviour in response to contextual and situational demands. It’s this awareness and flexibility that is often the focus of my coaching, as well as helping leaders to evolve their mindsets, skillsets and toolsets for wider leadership impact and influence – in all directions.
I’m known for quickly building trusting relationships, thinking strategically and practically helping others shape alternative frames and ideas. I believe that leaders are most impactful when their actions are future-led and when they create high performance environments, while placing the human experience front and centre.
I most enjoy working with CEOs/Execs who find themselves in new territory. This might include:
- Landing a new role larger or more complex than previous roles.
- Working through how to navigate a particular work challenges or opportunities.
- Re-igniting a career that might have plateaued.
- Positioning more intentionally for a future role or career move.
- Helping to address issues raised at recent performance discussions.
- Working with feedback that may have been a surprise or didn’t sit well.
- Improving the quality and effectiveness of key stakeholder relationships, including Chairs, peers or direct reports.
- Adding new leadership techniques, frameworks or strategies to the repertoire to stay fresh and current.
“As a participant in a CEO succession program led by Elisa, I was struck by her empathy, insight and care. I have benefited greatly from her executive coaching both during the program and since. I highly recommend her as a strategic advisor and coach to senior executives who are facing leadership, succession, people and/or workforce challenges or transitions.”
— CEO of a major global airline
“As a participant in a CEO succession program led by Elisa, I was struck by her empathy, insight and care. I have benefited greatly from her executive coaching both during the program and since. I highly recommend her as a strategic advisor and coach to senior executives who are facing leadership, succession, people and/or workforce challenges or transitions.”
— CEO of a major global airline
Coaching might be timely and right for you if you resonate with:
- Acknowledgement — I’m ready to benefit from enhancing my current leadership practices, impact and/or results.
- Drive — I aspire to be a better leader, to get things done more easily and quickly through and with others and want to work towards a greater purpose or legacy.
- Openness — I am receptive to new ways of doing things, challenging old ways, and have a curiosity to explore and/or experiment.
- Learning agility — I am willing to pause, reflect, explore, apply, adapt and integrate.
- Time — I am ready to carve out time to invest in myself.
“Elisa is my go-to coach for help to appreciably lift the leadership skills of senior leaders in the firm. I have seen meaningful change in those she has worked with. I like that Elisa takes time initially to focus on the ‘what’ – strategy, growth pillars, critical success factors and enablers but quickly then moves to the ‘how’. Importantly, Elisa also arms leaders with tools to navigate and lead through change more effectively. I have been very pleased and surprised to receive strong feedback on the development of those Elisa has coached and better outcomes have been reflected in stakeholder relationships and impact.”
— National Senior Partner of KPMG
“Elisa is my go-to coach for help to appreciably lift the leadership skills of senior leaders in the firm. I have seen meaningful change in those she has worked with. I like that Elisa takes time initially to focus on the ‘what’ – strategy, growth pillars, critical success factors and enablers but quickly then moves to the ‘how’. Importantly, Elisa also arms leaders with tools to navigate and lead through change more effectively. I have been very pleased and surprised to receive strong feedback on the development of those Elisa has coached and better outcomes have been reflected in stakeholder relationships and impact.”
— National Senior Partner of KPMG
“Elisa is my go-to coach for help to appreciably lift the leadership skills of senior leaders in the firm. I have seen meaningful change in those she has worked with. I like that Elisa takes time initially to focus on the ‘what’ – strategy, growth pillars, critical success factors and enablers but quickly then moves to the ‘how’. Importantly, Elisa also arms leaders with tools to navigate and lead through change more effectively. I have been very pleased and surprised to receive strong feedback on the development of those Elisa has coached and better outcomes have been reflected in stakeholder relationships and impact.”
— National Senior Partner of KPMG
FutureCrafters’ 7 Cs Coaching Framework
Questions we’ll focus on together include:
Chemistry
How well do we gel? Do we share an affinity, curiosity or interpersonal connection? Is there a natural fit on which we can build trust?
Commitment
What are you prepared to put into this process? Why is this important to you? What if you don’t do this now? What might you miss out on? What’s to be gained?
Context
What’s the current situation you’re leading in? What’s your role really all about? What’s likely to happen in the next 12 months? How has – and is – the situation changing?
Colleagues and Partners
Who else is in play and is impacting individual and collective results? How do others influence what gets done, and how? Who is your reporting manager? What’s important to them and what do they role model?
Capabilities
What are your current capabilities? Where are your strengths and stretch areas? What evidence do we have? What other sources of insight might we draw on? What current frameworks and models do you use? What’s worked well for you in the past?
Challenges
What upcoming situations are/will be most tricky to navigate? Why? In what ways and situations, might you need to do things differently? What will be new for you?
Change
What does success look like here? What shifts do you want to see? How will that feel? What does your manager want to see? Your reports? Your stakeholders?
Change
What does success look like here? What shifts do you want to see? How will that feel? What does your manager want to see? Your reports? Your stakeholders?
Activities you’ll likely experience in our work together include:
Coaching Contract and Goals
Through mini-assessments, goal setting activities and coaching placemats.
Assessments and Inputs
Through collating prior data points and documents (eg, leadership assessments, feedback, performance documents, learning goals, etc), as well as “360 degree” discussions with manager/s, peers, team members, internal or external clients/customers or other partners or stakeholders, if appropriate.
Learning New Models, Techniques, and Frameworks
Through readings, videos, online learning courses, framework summaries curated especially for you.
Experiments & Practice Activities
Through trialing and testing new approaches and behaviours in real life situations.
Reflecting & Adapting
Through learning insights journals, note-taking, mentor conversations, requests for feedback from stakeholders.
The Contract
Establish a coaching contract and goals through mini assessments, goal setting activities, and coaching placements.
Assessments/Inputs
Through collating prior data points and documents (eg, leadership assessments, feedback, performance documents, learning goals, etc), as well as “360 degree” discussions with manager/s, peers, team members, internal or external clients/customers or other partners or stakeholders, if appropriate.
Learning
New models, techniques, and frameworks through readings, videos, online learning courses, and framework summaries curated especially for you.
Practice Activities
Experiment through trialing and testing new approaches and behaviours in real life situations.
Reflect, Adapt
Through learning insights journals, note-taking, mentor conversations, and/or requests for feedback from stakeholders.
Ready to Accelerate?
Book a discovery call with Elisa to see if we’re a good fit.