Executives are not only responsible for managing subordinates, but also superiors and colleagues. The relationships you build with contemporaries and superiors will likely impact the trajectory of your career within the enterprise. Coaching can help you understand and navigate the politics of enterprise management in a way that gets tasks completed efficiently, keeps the business moving forward, and grows your reputation as a powerful leader.

As you ascend the ranks of your department and the enterprise at large, you may be asked to present to a board of directors. Whether you are speaking to an advisory board or the board of a public company, you’ve got to be at the top of your game. Coaching can help you overcome anxiety around public speaking, consider and understand the interests of your most important stakeholders, craft and hone a compelling story for your management team, and put your best foot forward as a board-facing executive.

As you ascend in the organization, you will need deputies you can count on to support your vision and fill in your knowledge and performance gaps. Learning to identify, mentor and sponsor key talent as you grow as a professional will assure your success in the future. A coach can assist you in becoming an optimally effective manager of talent to build a team that will follow you throughout your career.

More and more C-Suite executives are coming to the table with legal degrees, but how does a lawyer make the transition from a legal advisor to a capable operations manager? Coaching can help you seek out and seize opportunities to gain the operational experience, strategic vision, and political savvy to become a contender for C-suite promotions.

Lawyers often confuse the art of influence with the business of persuasion. A coach can assist you in identifying and building influence over your organization’s highest-value stakeholders using curiosity, authority and shared goals and without manipulation and political machinations.