Leadership Coaching
WHY COACHING
A leader’s vision, awareness, skills and discipline have the potential to create breakthrough impact for people and organizations. Leadership is the lever that advances organizational growth and creates the conditions for innovation, thriving cultures, and game-changing outcomes.
APPROACH
At W+S, we are on a mission to partner with leaders in becoming more evolved, mindful and skillful. Our coaching is holistic, honoring that each leader has unique strengths and challenges that require a customized approach. At our core, we focus on both 'being' and 'doing' to enhance leader effectiveness and create transformational growth.
WHAT WE DO
Coaching is a structured, collaborative partnership designed to:
Identify + achieve goals
Accelerate personal + professional development
Elevate leadership behaviors for results
Create ownership + sustainability for peak performance
At Wind + Sail we coach senior through C-Suite leaders of diverse industries, organizational sizes and roles.
WHO WE ARE
Our team of best-in-class, credentialed coaches bring industry-leading experience, training and education to our clients.
OUR METHOD
MONTH 1
SET THE COURSE
Conduct + review assessments
360 assessment
Identify coaching engagement goals
Align goals with coaching sponsor
2 coaching sessions
MONTHS 2-3
EXPLORE + EXPERIMENT
Gather progress feedback
Engage in fieldwork + test new practices
Midpoint 360
4 coaching sessions
MONTHS 4-5
ZOOM OUT + REFINE
Midpoint check-in to review and refine goals
Midpoint sponsor meeting to share progress + solicit feedback
4 coaching sessions
MONTH 6
SET SAIL
Review progress + crystallize learnings
Set next steps for development beyond coaching
Reflect on journey + celebrate successes with coaching sponsor
2 coaching sessions
COMMON COACHING FOCUS AREAS
Leading teams for results
Building environments of trust + collaboration
Effective feedback + performance management
Inspiring + motivating employees
Setting compelling vision + direction
Building desired organizational culture
Complex decision making
Strategic planning + goal setting
Leveraging strengths of self + teams
Managing up, down + across
Work distribution + delegation
Building self + social awareness
Mastering effective mindsets
Developing influence + enrollment
Effective communication
Building confidence, presence + gravitas
Time, energy + stress management
Leading from values + purpose
Work-life integration
Career + life transitions
DURATION: HOW LONG + HOW OFTEN?
Engagements are 6-months and may be renewed or extended thereafter
Bi-weekly sessions
Contact us to learn more about coaching with Wind + Sail:
WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING…
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“Amanda is an amazing coach and has really helped me to develop myself, my team and our organization. Her wealth of experience and insightful questions helped shape our strategy and innovation around people, process and technology. Ripples can be felt in our product offerings, our passion for excellent customer experience, and our culture of pushing the needle while having a great time along the way. I would strongly recommend coaching with someone from the W+S team, as I’ve seen first hand the impact that can come from their well-structured, yet custom tailored and situational approach. I have completed two full coaching programs and am eager to jump into my third next year. There’s never an end to growth, and W+S is the fastest path to the greatest results.”
-Vinay Kumar, SVP Engineering, ATP
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Katrina is the partner, coach, friend, and confidante that I needed in my journey as a new CEO. I have worked with her for the last 3+ years. At the beginning of our engagement, she led me through a leadership 360 review, helped me set goals and aspirations for my leadership, and kept me accountable to those goals in our sessions. She gave me the encouragement, confidence, and preparation I needed through many tough decisions. I found it helpful that she brought in resources, frameworks, and exercises that really supported my development and education in the practice of leadership. My board even took notice and celebrated the progress I made while working with Katrina. In addition to 1:1 leadership coaching, we retained W+S to lead a team offsite to set values + operating principles for our operating team. It became a real touchstone moment for me and my team, who really loved the work we accomplished under W+S's process.
-Laura Buhler, Startup Leader
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“Katrina's coaching has been transformational. Her expertise has shaped our company's approach to our people and management. Even more importantly, she has helped to strengthen the connection between our values and our work. We've seen this resonate strongly both inside and outside the company. Our revenue has increased 3x, our people are more successful in their roles, and our culture and sense of purpose are stronger than they've ever been. I feel far more confident about my abilities and performance, and our people rightfully feel so too. It's so clear that these breakthroughs are due in part to Katrina's coaching. It's been a step function of growth for my leadership abilities, and for our company.”
-Scott Woods, CEO, West Arete
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“Amanda and I connected at a time that proved to be transformative for my career. I would not have been able to successfully navigate a highly complex series of situations, nor would I be the executive I am today without her expert coaching.”
-Jackie Hazan, CPO Hydrow
Why and how does executive coaching make such an impact on leaders?
Wind + Sail’s Katrina Calihan joins Jimmy Holloran on the Private Equity Funcast to discuss and demystify executive coaching; they discuss the landscape of executive coaching and why the impact of an executive coach can be so profound. This episode explains why executive coaching is one of the biggest investments you can make in yourself or in the leaders around you.