Executive Coaching In Action
WATCH ME COACHING AND MENTORING REAL EXECUTIVE CLIENTS LIVE
I believe a fundamental part of leadership is courage. Courage to make the invisible visible, to show up in our full humanity, and to stand tall and fully own our capacity to create value for our clients.
Many times, I get the question: What’s the difference between executive coaching and executive mentoring?
That’s the fundamental confusion this page is set to clarify. My intention is to illustrate what executive coaching and executive mentoring are, how these methods work, and when you should use which method for your executive development.
I am both a professionally certified coach and a certified mentor.
This is why I created this series of demonstration (demo) sessions on executive coaching and executive mentoring. With this, I intend to show you exactly how I use executive coaching and executive mentoring with senior clients to help them overcome challenges and achieve their goals.
Very few coaches feature their expertise and style of work in public.
I choose to embrace this challenge so you can witness my executive development style, enrich your knowledge of the two methods, and make an informed choice the next time you select your executive mentor – or coach. Enjoy your growth!
Definition: Executive Coaching Vs. Executive Mentoring
- You feel confused and you need clarity in your work, business, or career journey.
- You feel stuck and you need to figure out what’s going on – or what’s next.
- You need to identify the right solutions for you so you can move forward in your work, career, and life.
- You feel under pressure to make a good decision and you simply can’t make up your mind because you don’t see things clearly.
- “I am about to exit corporate, but I don’t know what to do next with my life.”
- “My boss is pushing me to grow into top leadership, but I’m not sure that’s the right thing for me.”
- “I can’t seem to be able to focus, prioritize, and delegate. This is taking a toll on my promotion prospects. How can I change my behavior?”
- “I feel like an impostor despite my past success. What’s going on?”
- “I am about to become a parent and I am freaking out.”
- “My current boss is a jerk. Should I leave my team or even this company?”
- “I know our company culture is toxic and our bosses close their eyes to a lot of bad things. But it pays well. Should I stay or should I go?”
- You already know what you want (e.g., a promotion, a raise, a better personal brand), but you want to get there faster.
- You could use some inspiration provided by someone who has already experienced what you’re going through or what you’re about to go through.
- You seek a role model to grow in your career, personal communication, leadership, etc.
- “I am about to be promoted into CEO / the C-Suite. Show me how to map my new stakeholders and how to develop effective communication strategies with them.”
- “I am about to redesign the architecture of our executive team. Give me your perspective on how to do this right.”
- “I am the new CEO and I want to improve our internal communications. Give me tips and tricks on how to do this effectively.”
- “Help me develop an impactful personal brand.”
- “Teach me how journalists think; give me feedback on my planned approach to media relations and my next interview.”
- “I am about to exit corporate and start my own business. Help me start successfully and show me what mistakes I should avoid.”
Executive Coaching
The International Coaching Federation (ICF), of which I am a proud member (on track to PCC), defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.”
I recommend using executive coaching when:
Examples of good executive coaching requests:
Executive Mentoring
The European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), of which I am an accredited member (Senior Practitioner), defines mentoring as “a learning relationship involving the sharing of skills, knowledge, and expertise between a mentor and mentee through developmental conversations, experience sharing, and role modelling. The relationship may cover a wide variety of contexts and is an inclusive two-way partnership for mutual learning that values differences.”
I recommend using executive mentoring when:
Examples of good executive mentoring requests:
Take a Look at My Executive Coaching and Mentoring Sessions with Real Clients
REAL LIFE EXECUTIVE COACHING AND MENTORING SESSIONS
Before anything, allow me to express deep gratitude to the clients who agreed to provide the public executive coaching and mentoring sessions below. I appreciate you more than words can express!
For those of you watching, I hope our shared executive coaching and mentoring experience will provide you with the inspiration you need and with a solid impulse for your further personal and professional executive development.
Lenka Glavinić Pivoňková
Fri, 03.01.2025Executive Coaching Session
Following a successful career as the CEO and regional risk manager of an international leasing company in Czechia and Slovakia, Lenka Glavinić Pivoňková decided to take a year-long career break to rest, restore, and refocus her leadership.
During this break, Lenka engaged in numerous executive development activities, courses, and community activities. Now, Lenka is ready for her next role.
During our executive coaching session, we explore how Lenka can leverage her understanding of and passion for company culture to secure her next senior leadership role, and also how she can become an asset for her next employer thanks to her passion for company culture.
At the end of the session, Lenka leaves with clarity and a concrete plan for how to leverage her authenticity and values to secure her next role in top leadership and to take her next employer’s business to the next level through a human-centric approach.
Executive Mentoring Session
Building a vibrant personal brand as a CEO can be tricky.
On the one hand, people may be proud and endorse the CEO’s visibility efforts, but numerous CEOs can also face backlash and suspicions of using the company brand to make a name for themselves. This is why many CEOs decide to keep quiet and speak publicly only when absolutely necessary, which can lead to less visibility, trustworthiness, and leadership impact.
During this executive mentoring session, Lenka Glavinić Pivoňková and I explore how she can build a dynamic and impactful CEO personal brand that will serve both her career and her next employer.
At the end of our session, Lenka leaves with a strategic framework for how to think about and how to manage her personal brand, an impactful message she can use in all her communication channels, an inventory of communication channels she can use for her personal branding, and clarity on her next steps as a mindful, intentional, and engaging communicator and leader.
Yvona Tošnerová, FCCA
Mon, 26.08.2024Executive Coaching Session
As a C-Suite leader responsible for operations and risk management, Yvona Tošnerová frequently needs buy-in from her CEO and senior colleagues for innovative projects that propel the organization forward.
In this executive coaching session, we explore how Yvona can define buy-in, identify key stakeholders, and effectively engage them with her ideas.
By the end of the session, Yvona leaves with a solid roadmap for securing consistent buy-in, along with a shifted mindset on how to articulate her vision and craft business cases that ignite excitement and collaboration among her colleagues.
Executive Mentoring Session
In this executive mentoring session, we map Yvona’s path to more powerful and impactful communication with her key audiences: her company’s global employee base, risk and operations banking experts across Europe, and her mentorship communities.
To enhance Yvona’s messaging, I share insights on storytelling and encourage her to build a story databank that will help her deliver empathetic messages with power and grace.
Dive into this session if you want to learn more about how to use storytelling as a woman in the C-Suite to amplify the impact of your good work and leadership.
Sian Young
Mon, 19.08.2024Executive Coaching Session
Sian Young is the co-founder and CEO of the Centre for Sustainable Action, a UK-based cooperative supporting solopreneurs, micro-enterprises, and SMEs to develop their awareness and best practices in environmental, sustainability, and good governance. The Centre supports clients by providing research-driven Sustainable Health & Well-Being and Sustainable Business Strategy training alongside digital Sustainability ESG and SDG reporting and verification.
In this executive coaching session, we explore what Sian needs in order to strengthen her confidence to act as the global CEO of her enterprise.
Executive Mentoring Session
This executive mentoring session with Sian Young, the co-founder and CEO of the Centre for Sustainable Action, follows our individual coaching session. You can watch it separately as well.
In this session, we explore how Sian can create more clarity around the levels of membership in the Centre for Sustainable Action community. We map her existing and planned levels of membership, and we explore how Sian could communicate these levels of community membership with more clarity with the help of visualization and metaphors.
Miroslava Stodolicová
Thu, 15.08.2024Executive Coaching Session
In August 2023, Mirka Stodolicová took over the role of Director, Future Finance Fit for AbbVie Global and she relocated from Prague, Czechia, to Chicago, Illinois.
Since her promotion and relocation to the USA, Mirka has led a most successful finance automation project that can save her company billions in money, time, and energy.
In this executive coaching session, we explore how Mirka can leverage her success to identify and support her next career step once she completes her current project.
Executive Mentoring Session
In this individual executive mentoring session, we build on the discoveries from the previous executive coaching session. We discuss how Mirka can communicate her success internally and externally to support her team and future career growth.
We use my patented 5Ws+H® strategic communication model to clarify Mirka’s strategic intentions, stakeholders, and key messages. Then, we identify all communication opportunities she can leverage within the next 6 months ,and we design a series of concrete steps Mirka can take to leverage her outstanding success to nurture her future career growth.
Lia Tahereh Rouhi, PhD
Mon, 26.08.2024Executive Coaching Session
Lia Tahereh Rouhi, PhD, is a 40-year-old newly appointed team leader. Recently promoted to lead the product support team at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany, Lia is now stepping fully into her leadership role.
During our executive coaching session, Lia wants to explore her next career step. We take a long-term perspective using reflective inquiry, visualization, imagination, and inner dialogue techniques to help her uncover what truly matters to her in the future.
By the end of the session, Lia identifies a clear trifecta for her new role: effective team leadership, fair compensation, and the flexibility to nurture a fulfilling family life. She also develops actionable next steps to bring her closer to the career and life she envisions, both short- and long-term.
Executive Mentoring Session
The executive mentoring session with Lia naturally builds upon our previous executive coaching session.
In this session, Lia wants to explore how she could become a more effective leader for her new team.
We begin by clarifying the difference between a group and a team, and then delve into the human motivation model shared by Daniel Pink in his book Drive. We discuss the needs of Lia’s team members, focusing on autonomy, mastery, relationships, and purpose. Together, we design specific interventions to help Lia increase her impact and credibility with her new team.
By the end of the session, Lia has a clear roadmap for motivating her team members through establishing team rituals, setting clear learning goals, and communicating purpose more consistently.
Petra Goldschimedová
Fri, 23.08.2024Executive Coaching Session
Petra Goldschmiedová, a project manager with rich seniority and a diverse career track record, comes to our executive coaching session unhappy with the current state of affairs in her career. She feels stuck and she wants to explore her next career step.
During our session, we explore Petra’s vision for her future work and life, and we build her self-confidence in taking her next career step. For this, we use reflective inquiry and future-self visualization techniques.
Essentially, during the session we shift from tension, frustration, and feeling stuck to a sense of empowerment, joy, courage, and self-confidence. Watch the full demo to see how we made this shift and what steps Petra decided to take in the direction of her future.
Executive Mentoring Session
This executive mentoring session with Petra Goldschmiedová builds on the outcomes of our previous executive coaching session.
We explore how Petra could approach her public communications strategy and personal branding on LinkedIn. By using my patented 5Ws+H® methodology, we identify Petra’s motivation and goals, we nail her stakeholder groups, and we craft enticing messages for each category of people.
At the end of the session, we identify when and how many times Petra should publish on LinkedIn and what key performance indicators she should follow to know she’s on the right track.
Watch the executive mentoring demo to witness Petra identifying her key communication topics and shifting from self-doubt into courage, determination, and strategic thinking in her personal communications.
