“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
I partner with senior executives and high-potential leaders who are navigating complex organizational challenges while seeking to deepen their leadership effectiveness and authentic impact. Together, we transform leadership pressure points into opportunities for growth, innovation, and meaningful legacy.
In today’s complex business environment, even the most accomplished leaders face challenges that can’t be solved through traditional management approaches alone. The higher you rise in an organization, the more your success depends not on technical expertise, but on self-awareness, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
Executive coaching provides a confidential, judgment-free space to explore challenges, test assumptions, and develop new approaches to persistent leadership dilemmas. As your coach, I help you identify blind spots, leverage strengths, and build new capabilities that enhance your leadership effectiveness and organizational impact.
Often, my clients are facing challenges in these key leadership areas:
The ability to envision possibilities while delivering measurable results is the hallmark of exceptional executive leadership. Many leaders find themselves caught between long-term vision and short-term pressures, struggling to manage complexity while ensuring strategic alignment throughout their organization. Our work together helps you develop a more integrated approach to strategy—one that balances analytical rigor with intuitive insight. You’ll learn to cut through noise to identify true strategic priorities, communicate vision in ways that inspire action, and build systems that translate strategy into consistent execution. You’ll experience greater confidence in making bold strategic moves while maintaining focus on what truly drives organizational success.
In an era of constant disruption, the capacity to drive meaningful change while maintaining operational excellence is essential for senior leaders. Many executives struggle with mobilizing genuine commitment to change initiatives, managing transformation at the right pace, and overcoming resistance without alienating key stakeholders. Our coaching partnership helps you develop a more nuanced approach to change leadership—addressing both the structural and human dimensions of transformation. You’ll learn to sequence change initiatives for maximum impact, engage skeptics productively, and build organizational resilience during periods of uncertainty. Experience the profound shift from seeing change as a necessary challenge to experiencing it as an energizing opportunity for growth and innovation.
Your ability to command attention, communicate with impact, and build credibility across diverse constituencies directly affects your leadership effectiveness. Many senior leaders struggle with authenticity in high-stakes environments, adapting their communication approach for different audiences, and projecting calm confidence during crisis. Through our work together, you’ll develop a more authentic and adaptable leadership presence—one that resonates with boards, investors, peers, and teams alike. You’ll refine your ability to read the room, frame messages for maximum impact, and handle difficult conversations with both directness and diplomacy. It’s not just improving your communication skills, but also get deeper alignment between your internal sense of purpose and your external expression of leadership.
Building a leadership pipeline that ensures organizational sustainability requires a sophisticated approach to talent development. Many executives face challenges in objectively assessing leadership potential, creating development opportunities that stretch but don’t break high potentials, and letting go of control to allow others to grow. Our coaching relationship helps you develop more effective approaches to identifying future leaders, designing meaningful development experiences, and giving feedback that accelerates growth. You’ll learn to balance immediate performance needs with long-term talent development, creating a culture where leadership capabilities flourish at all levels. Feel the profound satisfaction in seeing your teams develop greater independence and capability under your guidance.
The ability to make complex decisions with incomplete information separates exceptional executives from merely competent ones. Many senior leaders struggle with cognitive biases, navigating competing priorities, and making difficult trade-offs between short-term results and long-term value creation. Our coaching partnership helps you develop a more disciplined and balanced approach to decision-making—one that integrates analytical rigor with intuitive judgment. You’ll learn to recognize and mitigate unconscious biases, build processes that surface diverse perspectives, and maintain conviction in the face of inevitable uncertainty. Gain more confidence in your decision-making, while reduced decision fatigue, and more skillful navigation of complex trade-offs.
The demands of senior leadership can exact a heavy toll on physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Many executives struggle with work-life boundaries, managing stress and avoiding burnout, and modeling healthy behaviors for their organizations. Our coaching relationship helps you develop sustainable high performance practices—maintaining peak effectiveness while protecting your wellbeing. You’ll learn to recognize early warning signs of depletion, build renewal rituals into your routine, and create boundaries that preserve energy for what matters most. Senior leaders report not only personal benefits like improved focus and energy, but organizational gains as they create cultures that support sustainable performance at all levels.
Embarking on 1-on-1 entrepreneurial coaching is a personalized journey designed to empowerment you as you navigate the challenges and triumphs of entrepreneurship. It’s about more than just business success; it’s about personal growth, overcoming self-doubt, and aligning your actions with your deepest values. Through this coaching, expect to gain clarity on your vision, break through the barriers of imposter syndrome, and harness your innate strengths.
Imagine stepping into your role with renewed confidence, making decisions that resonate with your goals, and leading your venture to new levels of success.
This is your invitation to transform, not just as an entrepreneur, but as a person fully aligned with your purpose.
The Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 (EQ-i 2.0) measures an individual’s emotional intelligence. Science and professional feedback from the EQ-i® strengthened the direction of this second generation assessment. Now, it’s a complete experience with a new and intuitive model, customizable reports, and an online platform for easy administration.
Key Features:
When we co-create a customized Developing EQ plan, you will be giving yourself the opportunity to enhance your own EQ learning and gain valuable resources to develop the areas of EQ-i you want to improve on.
Your mind is your best friend. But it can also be your worst enemy.
Saboteurs are the voices in your head that generate stress and negative emotions in the way you handle work and life’s challenges. They sabotage your potential for both happiness and performance
Positive Intelligence’s breakthrough, research-based tools strengthen the part of your brain that serves you and quiet the part that sabotages you. You handle life’s challenges with a more positive mindset, and less stress.
Most teams work too hard, experience too much conflict, friction and stress, and vastly underachieve their potential. This is because team member is unknowingly sabotaging both their own and their team’s performance and wellbeing. We’ll enable your teams to maximize both performance and wellbeing simultaneously by focusing on the root-level mental muscles that impact both.
Build & Support High-Performing Teams:
Our foundational seven-week app-guided program boosts each individual’s mental fitness through the Saboteur Interceptor, Self-Command, and Sage muscles. After the foundational experience, the app modules enable a team to assess their strength on the 4 Pillars required for maximal team performance and wellbeing: Triple Purpose, Earned Trust, Healthy Conflict, and Mutual Accountability.
The CliftonStrengths assessment reveals your unique combination of talents—the natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that you instinctively use. Rather than focusing on fixing weaknesses, CliftonStrengths empowers you to maximize your potential by investing in your innate talents and developing them into strengths.
Key Features:
When we work with your CliftonStrengths results, you’ll discover how to intentionally apply your strengths to overcome challenges, make better decisions, and achieve your goals as an entrepreneur. By focusing on what you naturally do best, you’ll experience greater fulfillment, productivity, and sustainable success in both your business and personal life.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu.
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I want to thank you again for the past coaching lessons and workshops. It definitely raise the bar for my working career! I would not have achieved so much in one year without your coaching. I appreciate all that you have done! This was an amazing year of engagements on many fronts – 4 public presentations from industry events to Company proposals. Not only receiving one but two awards! Industry for 2022 Digitalization Strategy Award and Individuals/Company for 2022 Hall of Fame Award recognized by my peers and Business Unit
Laney is the most wonderful mentor and life coach! She is empathetic, compassionate, insightful, and a great listener. Our conversations have always been enlightening and I deeply value the time we spend together. I am eternally grateful for her guidance in helping me through life challenges. I am so appreciative of her teachings and I continue to use them to help me through obstacles and towards my goals. It is delightful to observe myself grow through my time working with Laney. Thank you!
Thank you Laney for creating a safe environment for deep exploration in our coaching sessions. You have a nice way of giving your calm presence, while also adding an element of playfulness and fun. You asked just the right questions at the right time. Your powerful questions helped me challenge myself to move beyond where I was feeling stuck. I always felt fully supported and valued in our sessions.