Executive Coaching

At Pracademic Coaching, all our executive coaching engagements incorporate some aspects of performance coaching. We work with individual executive leaders and full leadership teams to help them achieve their best performance while achieving specific business outcomes.

Our executive coaching clients include:

CEOs and other C-suite executives
Entrepreneurs and founders
Venture capitalists and other investors
Senior-level managers and functional leaders
Full leadership teams

Deep coaching relationships help our clients achieve optimal results

Executive coaching delivers the greatest benefits to our clients in the context of long-term coaching engagements. Deeper engagements allow your coach to develop a nuanced understanding of each individual client’s strengths, aptitudes, communication styles, and preferences. If the relationship involves coaching a full leadership team, your coach must also understand team dynamics. It is through this deep professional relationship that we can determine the coaching methods that will help you achieve your best performance.

In addition to deeply understanding each client, your coach (or sometimes your coaching team) becomes deeply familiar with your business, including its unique position, goals, challenges, and strategies.

Over the course of a coaching relationship with a single executive or team, we might cover a wide range of topics including:

Vision setting and team leadership
Establishing effective team communication, including conflict resolution
Process development and refinement
Methods and practices for effective decision-making
Negotiation of executive compensation
Roadmapping and product development strategy
Scaling a product, team, and/or organization
Board member relationship management
Navigating industry regulation
Fundraising, from seed round through series A, series B, series C
Preparing for exit (e.g., acquisition or IPO)

Thinking ahead to act now, at scale

In our approach to performance coaching, we focus on the motivational and actionable power of envisioning one’s personal peak performance. In our work as executive coaches, we extrapolate this power beyond a single individual, to help companies and businesses thrive.

It’s not enough for the CEO to envision her own peak performance and act to achieve it. In the context of business, the work always involves a team. No team or company can achieve peak performance without a shared vision of success, and a shared and measurable plan to achieve it.

Our approach of thinking ahead to act now remains central in executive coaching, and is scaled to incorporate leadership of a team. We combine psychology and practical management expertise to help our clients envision the desired future state for themselves and their organizations, communicate that vision effectively to ensure alignment, and unlock themselves and others to act with conviction in the present.

This approach can be applied to both short- and long-term goals. We might coach a founder to think ahead in preparation for a single conversation with a potential investor. With that same founder, we might also apply this approach to working with the leadership team to establish a multi-year roadmap leading to an exit event.

Knowing where you’re headed gives you confidence in your decision-making and actions now, and the foresight to anticipate and overcome challenges along the way. This concept is true for individual executives, and effectively scales to include teams and entire companies seeking to achieve their optimal business outcomes.