EXECUTIVE AND LEADERSHIP COACHING
Coaching That Helps Good Leaders Get Better and the Whole Organization Move Forward
We believe great leadership looks different on everyone.
Great leadership isn’t static—it shifts as you grow, as your role evolves, and as the challenges around you change. Our coaching helps you navigate those shifts with more clarity and confidence.
We start by getting a clear, honest picture of where you are now. We look together at your strengths, your growing edges, and the patterns that might be holding you back. We use structured conversations, our leadership capabilities framework, and evidence-based tools. Sometimes we’ll also gather insights from colleagues or supervisors to add depth and perspective.
From there, we design a coaching journey that’s built around you. Maybe that means sharpening your strategic thinking, navigating conflict with more ease, expanding your influence, or building a healthier team culture. Whatever the focus, we offer thought partnership, accountability, and practical tools you can use in real time.
The best coaching is supportive and challenging so you can stretch into new ways of leading while feeling safe enough to be honest, even messy. Leaders leave our sessions with more self-awareness, more insight for taking action and making change, and a stronger sense of direction.
Whether you’re looking for individual coaching or want to develop a team program, we are ready to help.
Executive Coaching Case Studies
We remove our clients’ names from case studies to honor confidentiality. Reach out to learn more about the challenges faced by these clients and our solutions.
#1: AN EXECUTIVE TEAM LEARNS TO WORK BETTER TOGETHER
“That initial conversation alone was worth it.”
The small non-profit was a national leader in their field; but the four-person leadership team that ran the organization was exhausted with over-full schedules and a sense of conflict simmering beneath the surface.
A board member contacted our team, asking for help getting these high performers to find more alignment and less angst in their daily work together.
Our plan for the executive team involved individual coaching sessions and two mediated executive team gatherings.
Through individual coaching, the leaders identified pain points and considered how they contributed to the challenging dynamic. As their self-awareness grew, we introduced new tools for self-management and increased confidence for emotional intelligence, positive communication, productivity, and accountability.
Then, in a team meeting, the leaders spoke openly to acknowledge their own contributions to the dynamic and to work together to identify possible solutions. A second meeting and coaching sessions helped smooth out rough edges and ensure the positive changes were long lasting.
The team reports more awareness of their own impact, and more understanding for their colleagues. They’re using their new skills, holding one another accountable to agreements, and noticing the difference. They’ve asked Bright Threads to return for another session with all team members, to share some of what they’ve learned with the broader organization.
#2: HELPING AN EMERGING LEADER FIND HIS FOOTING
“Now I understand more about myself and have genuine strategies that have made my relationships and work better.”
Trevor worked his way up in the organization until he was managing a team of tech experts with a demanding list of organization-wide initiatives. While technical skill made Trevor good at his job as an individual contributor, he now needed to manage people and grow his strategic thinking capacity so his team could support and advise the organization’s top priorities.
An eager learner, Trevor was excited to try coaching when his vice president introduced him to Bright Threads. Over 12 sessions, Trevor and his coach addressed management challenges, grew his strategic capacity, and built skills for managing an increased workload while maintaining a balanced life. Trevor learned to delegate more, so he had time to devote to higher organizational priorities. And he learned the importance of “leading up,” by sharing ideas with executives to celebrate his team and shape the organization’s future.
Trevor came in to the organization as a scrappy young professional who was feeling anxious and insecure about how to show up at the table. His growth has been noticed and appreciated by leaders in the organization, one of whom recently recognized his strategic contributions in an all staff meeting.