EXECUTIVE COACHING
Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of startup leadership can often feel like a solitary journey. At the helm, you face unique pressures and continuous change. Partnering with an executive coach offers invaluable support, providing a space to explore your motivations, refine your leadership approach, and examine your underlying mental frameworks and behaviors. This reflective process enhances your self-awareness and adaptability, empowering you to lead more effectively.
Executive coaching is instrumental in helping you scale your personal growth alongside your business, fostering a culture of innovation and collaborative excellence within your executive team. It sharpens your focus on your mission, enabling you to navigate through uncertainty and minimize reactive decision-making. Through coaching, you'll learn to master the delicate balance between strategic daily management and cultivating deep emotional intelligence, all while maintaining a purposeful intent. This holistic approach ensures that you're not just managing your team, but leading them with clarity and insight.
“I partner with senior leaders who are ready to disrupt habitual ways of leading, uncover blindspots, and develop the self-awareness and leadership skills to build inclusive human-centered cultures of innovation and high performance. I also partner with emerging senior leaders to support their authentic and rewarding journey to the C-Suite.”
“Pamela is nothing short of masterful as a coach. She brings incredible range and moves fluidly from offering support to challenging you to think bigger and stretch farther, all the while standing squarely with you through whatever you are navigating. She brings razor sharp intelligence and perceptiveness, belly-laughing humor, complete discretion, and a very helpful edginess to the work. I learned a lot about myself and grew tremendously as a leader during our work together.”
INTENTIONAL CULTURE CREATION
Intentional culture creation is a key differentiator for startups and fast-growing organizations. With AI becoming more and more sophisticated, emotional intelligence and human-centered leadership has to evolve to match this sophistication. Top performers want to be in cultures where they can be their authentic selves, create, and grow their craft. They want to be better at what they do and as a human being, they have choices and very little tolerance for top down incongruent organizations that try to command and control them. The acceleration of remote and multigenerational workforces also means that the ability to connect and inspire is essential to execution.
“I partner with senior leaders who are committed to building differentiated cultures that bring out the best in the talent they aspire to attract and retain. Leaders who want to scale a culture that can persist in the behaviors, systems, and symbols of the organization. Leaders who want to build a culture that is values-driven, human-centered, inclusive, strong and pervasive yet challenges them to be the best version of themselves by expanding and evolving with each and every culture-add (vs. culture-fit). I help you create and amplify compelling values that articulate what matters most to you, support you to walk the talk of those values, and solidify the behaviors, systems, and symbols that allow those values to scale. This is intentional culture creation.”
“Pamela was a terrific partner for me and my team as we were building multiple emerging businesses and an innovation capability in a Fortune 100 company. She helped us move from a group of individuals to a cohesive team and elevated our thinking to tackle the challenges we faced. Pamela brings a rare combination of deep expertise with strong intuition to tune into what is needed. She brings the heat to make you better along with deep empathy and understanding of the challenges. Years later, we see this learning journey with Pamela as a career highlight. She is the real deal!”
SENIOR TEAM ALIGNMENT
Culture starts at the top and a collection of exceptional leaders focused on their respective verticals does not make an exceptional and aligned leadership team. Setting the tone for the organization and unleashing the collective genius of an executive team takes time and energy but is mission critical for pervasive cultures.
“I work with executive teams to build deep team alignment on what is most important to the company, what needs intentional curation and care to scale, including the values, mental models and behaviors critical for creating inclusive and innovative cultures at scale. Doing the hard work to understand and celebrate the unique contributions and leadership styles of the top team sets the tone for the rest of the organization.”
“Pamela is simply an outstanding partner, team builder and developer of talent. We have partnered building three different executive leadership teams, in three different circumstances - from corporate business unit leadership, turn around, and private equity carve out. She quickly assesses the situation, works directly and pointedly with leadership, and delivers results toward building a high-performing team. She is literally among my first calls when I am building a new leadership team or need to make long-term change.”
KEYNOTES
As a culture thought leader, I am available for customized keynotes. Content can be adapted to map to your organizational values and current strategy. Previous topics include: Building Human-Centered Cultures of High Performance; Real Leadership IS Inclusive Leadership; High Tech Meets High Human; Inclusion Drives Innovation; and Conscious Leadership Scales. I am also available to partner on human-centered experiential design and expert facilitation of senior leader offsites and retreats.