Executive Leadership Coaching

The single greatest predictor of an organization’s viability and continued success is the quality of those they place in positions to lead others and influence the road ahead.

Executive Leadership Coaching

We Partner With You to Develop Exemplary Leaders

Our EXEMPLARY LEADERS™ pathway is designed to help executives and senior leaders maximize potential, performance, and profitability. Executive coaching is a tool to assist your leaders in strengthening, elevating, and optimizing people, processes, and productivity. Our experienced executive leadership coaches are available to help you and your leaders think more broadly, uncover blind spots, and drive for business results. We offer unbiased feedback and a safe place to be transparent with the challenges you’re facing.

SMP International’s Executive Coaching Solution Guides Leaders to:

Unlock a deeper level of self-awareness to better understand the effects of your leadership on the performance of your team.

Enhance problem-solving capabilities to improve decision quality so that you can make better decisions, faster as your respond to new paradigms.

Communicate powerfully with internal and external stakeholders securing buy-in, commitment, support, and engagement needed to maintain sustainability while managing uncertainty.

Adopt new approaches and attitudes for business strategy, growth planning, the future of work and how that translates to finding and keeping the best people.

Develop and build a network of respected relationships with internal business leaders, board members, and external audiences with those who may offer differing perspectives, challenge your leadership, or are unsupportive of your vision.

We target:

  • Executive Communication
  • Business Performance
  • Change Leadership
  • Leading Diverse Teams
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Executive Presence
  • Disruption
  • Culture
  • Forming Strategic Alliances
  • Defining Legacy
  • Succession Planning
  • Leadership Pipelines

Executive Leadership Coaching

We Partner With You to Develop Exemplary Leaders

Our EXEMPLARY LEADERS™ pathway is designed to help executives and senior leaders maximize potential, performance, and profitability. Executive coaching is a tool to assist your leaders in strengthening, elevating, and optimizing people, processes, and productivity. Our experienced executive leadership coaches are available to help you and your leaders think more broadly, uncover blind spots, and drive for business results. We offer unbiased feedback and a safe place to be transparent with the challenges you’re facing.

SMP International’s Executive Coaching Solution Guides Leaders to:

Unlock a deeper level of self-awareness to better understand the effects of your leadership on the performance of your team.

Enhance problem-solving capabilities to improve decision quality so that you can make better decisions, faster as your respond to new paradigms.

Communicate powerfully with internal and external stakeholders securing buy-in, commitment, support, and engagement needed to maintain sustainability while managing uncertainty.

Adopt new approaches and attitudes for business strategy, growth planning, the future of work and how that translates to finding and keeping the best people.

Develop and build a network of respected relationships with internal business leaders, board members, and external audiences with those who may offer differing perspectives, challenge your leadership, or are unsupportive of your vision.

We target:

  • Executive Communication
  • Business Performance
  • Change Leadership
  • Leading Diverse Teams
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Executive Presence
  • Disruption
  • Culture
  • Forming Strategic Alliances
  • Defining Legacy
  • Succession Planning
  • Leadership Pipelines

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Contact one of our experts to see how we can help your organization develop leaders capable of delivering extraordinary business outcomes.

SMP International’s Executive Coaching Solution Guides Leaders to:

  • Unlock a deeper level of self-awareness to better understand the effects of your leadership on the performance of your team.
    Enhance your problem-solving capabilities to improve decision quality so that you can make better decisions, faster as your respond to new paradigms.
  • Communicate powerfully with internal and external stakeholders securing buy-in, commitment, support, and engagement needed to maintain sustainability while managing uncertainty.
  • Adopt new approaches and attitudes for business strategy, growth planning, the future of work and how that translates to finding and keeping the best people.
  • Develop and build a network of respected relationships with internal business leaders, board members, and external audiences with those who may offer differing perspectives, challenge your leadership, or are unsupportive of your vision.

How Our Executive Coaching Differs?

We use a sophisticated, yet simple approach to support the growth and development of leaders.We are here to facilitate your success working alongside you providing you with what you need to hear and know to generate desired business results. We don’t hold back. We don’t play it safe.

We are here to challenge, provoke, stimulate, and help hold leaders accountable for the results they produce. We are here to strategize with leaders. The work we do together centers on equipping leaders with the insights needed to become the responsible, strong, effective, and impactful leaders needed for all of humanity.

We bring over 20 years of experience working closely with CEOs and their leadership teams to align culture and strategy, build capacity,. and create competency models for leaders, Human Resource functions, and employee development.

We’ve counseled and coached executives promoted internally as well as executives who’ve been recruited through executive searches. From leading transformation efforts as a result of a merger and acquisition, positioning the organization to be sold, or turning around failing divisions, we’ve been through it and we know what’s required to have everyone marching in the same direction.

We are skilled in organizational excellence, talent management, and organizational transformation.

Our executive coaching process is holistic. We believe in transformation. We are passionate about life and behavior change – both personally and professionally.

The SMP International methodology creates space for leaders to engage team members in meaningful ways that allow all employees to contribute their ideas efforts, energy, passion, and commitment.

We evaluate our work as a commitment to continuous improvement. SMP International measures the effectiveness of our executive coaching approach working with leaders to produce a positive ROI (Return on investment).

We draw on distinctions to expand leaders’ thinking. Our strategic counsel is designed to help leaders solution for the best outcomes both today and the future. We provide you with tools, insights, and data you can use to remedy for challenges of all complexities.

Principles of SMP International’s
Coaching Approach

Our approach is focused on helping you increase your impact and effectiveness. We’re here to challenge your thinking, broaden your perspective, and support your priorities so that you can maximize potential, performance, and profitability

01

Clarity And Alignment

We begin with clarity on the desired end goal. We ensure there is a clear viewpoint of success that is based upon multiple data points allowing us to pursue clarity and alignment for exponential impact. Our coaching aligns with your organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as the critical goals needed for maximum impact.

02

Perspectives And Insights

Our signature approach includes collecting enterprise insights acquired through assessments, instruments, observations, interactions, and surveys to build a leadership coaching plan. We seek multiple data points including the strategic imperatives of the organization, the business priorities of the team, function, and the organization.

03

Data-Driven Decision Making

We coach leaders to focus on business need, business strategy, and potential impact as they drive for results. Leaders are encouraged to improve the quality of their decisions by collecting data, implementing the action, gathering the feedback, and assessing the outcome.

04

Holistic Coaching

We build upon the foundation to include professional and personal goals of the leader. We partner with you to enhance your personal relationships and pursue your calling, purpose, legacy, and deepest aspirations.

05

Co-Created Growth Plans

We work with clients to co-create executive growth plans in tandem with both the client, the leader, and the leader’s business partner or spouse if desired. We’ve found that leaders with a strong support system yield more favorable results.

06

Servant Leadership Mindset

We in seeking opportunities to serve the leader a minimum of three layers deep. This means we partner with leaders to improve their effectiveness with their immediate believe manager, colleagues, team, family, and friends. We seek to create impact internally meaning both within themselves as well as within the organizations they support.

How SMP International Coaches
Drive For Results ?

Our executive leadership coaches employ a planned approach to coaching allowing for structure and flexibility to build leader capability. We use data that is substantiated and supported.

We are trusted advisors skilled in provoking thinking and maintaining confidentiality. While we share insights gained from the insider knowledge of conversations, we’ve been privy to, we respect privacy and refrain from revealing identifying information.

We lay the groundwork for leaders to gain a deeper level of selfawareness. We illuminate strengths, highlight derailers, and address gaps. All information shared in closed door sessions are protected allowing us to coach for maximum impact.

We believe safe and supportive environments spark growth and transformation as well as creativity and innovation.

  • Our executive leadership coaches employ a planned approach to coaching allowing for structure and flexibility to build leader capability. We use data that is substantiated and supported.
  • We are trusted advisors skilled in provoking thinking and maintaining confidentiality. While we share insights gained from the insider knowledge of conversations, we’ve been privy to, we respect privacy and refrain from revealing identifying information.
  • We lay the groundwork for leaders to gain a deeper level of selfawareness. We illuminate strengths, highlight derailers, and address gaps. All information shared in closed door sessions are protected allowing us to coach for maximum impact.
  • We believe safe and supportive environments spark growth and transformation as well as creativity and innovation.

Assessment Tools and Supporting Resources

SMP International Coaches hold multiple certifications and higher education to support ourclients.

  • 360 – Behavioral Assesment
  • The Predictive Index – Talent Optimization
  • Leadership Index (SMPI)
  • EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence Assessment
  • Team Management Profile
  • TMC’s Culture Orientations Inventory
  • Coaching agreements with measurable outcomes linked to organizational framework: values, key initiatives, business results
  • Customized stakeholder interview process
  • Measurable action plans
  • Stakeholder assessment reports

Tools and Resources Used to Facilitate Growth and Development

Cutting Edge Research To Create High-Performing Teams

We use cutting edge research, assessment instruments, inventories, frameworks, and models, and assessment debriefs to build, enhance, and strengthen leader capability.

Journaling to Increase Your Level Of Self-Awareness

We are trusted advisors skilled in provoking thinking and maintaining confidentiality. While we share insights gained from the insider knowledge of conversations, we’ve been privy to, we respect privacy and refrain from revealing identifying information.

Proven Framework To Inspire Peak Performance

We lay the groundwork for leaders to gain a deeper level of selfawareness. We illuminate strengths, highlight derailers, and address gaps. All information shared in closed door sessions are protected allowing us to coach for maximum impact.

Achieve Mission-Critical Business Priorities

We believe safe and supportive environments spark growth and transformation as well as creativity and innovation.

Cutting Edge Research To Create High-Performing Teams

We use cutting edge research, assessment instruments, inventories, frameworks, and models, and assessment debriefs to build, enhance, and strengthen leader capability.

Journaling to Increase Your Level Of Self-Awareness

We are trusted advisors skilled in provoking thinking and maintaining confidentiality. While we share insights gained from the insider knowledge of conversations, we’ve been privy to, we respect privacy and refrain from revealing identifying information.

Proven Framework To Inspire Peak Performance

We lay the groundwork for leaders to gain a deeper level of selfawareness. We illuminate strengths, highlight derailers, and address gaps. All information shared in closed door sessions are protected allowing us to coach for maximum impact.

Achieve Mission-Critical Business Priorities

We believe safe and supportive environments spark growth and transformation as well as creativity and innovation.

Access To Dr. Payne’s Proprietary Instruments

Meaningful Meetings Model to engage team members, increase productivity, and help employees find meaning

Solutioning Map for achieving organizational outcomes

Leadership Optimization Model to help leaders consistently create exceptional business outcomes

Strategic Planning Framework designed to help leaders increase the probability of program and project success

Leader and Culture Inventory designed to help leaders foster atmospheres and environments where team members are inspired to be their best, do their best, and achieve their personal best everyday

Priority of Effort Model used to help leaders and teams make better business decisions on competing priorities and urgent requests

What Clients Are Saying

Je'Mone S

VP of HR

"Sharalyn's insights are powerful, clear and appreciated. It's the way she sees things with just a few data points, which is why she has become our preferred executive coach. The things that she see are impressive. She offers a different perspective and empowers us to see and create the vision. She has coached us to lead with passion and purpose. What we've achieved with her guidance has stuck with me. She has helped us not only create a strategy, but to ensure we have a clear and simple plan for execution."

Impact of SMP International’s Executive Coaching Services

Our executive leadership coaching consistently receives favorable ratings, reviews, and extended coaching engagements.

Unrivaled Coaching Satisfaction and Impact

"SMP International was a good investment in time and resources."

“I would recommend SMP International to others.”

Coach Quality and Characteristics

Of coaching clients agree that SMP assisted them in developing a robust and actionable development plan.

"SMP International offer rich insights."

Of SMP International's clients agree that their coach quality built rapport with them.

Of SMP International's clients agree their coach and consultant asked thought-provoking questions.

Of SMP International client’s agree their coach provided meaningful feedback.

Of SMP International clients agree their coach offered valuable tools, resources, techniques, and approaches to help them attain greater results.

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