Leadership Coaching
What is leadership coaching? | Benefits of leadership coaching Scenarios for leadership coaching | Coaching versus consulting
Typical clients | Collaborators | Free Consultation
What is leadership coaching?
Leadership coaching is a powerful process to leverage and transform leaders, the workplace and the community. Centered on a professional, ongoing relationship between the coach and the organization, leadership coaching leads to legitimate organizational change, including a consistent organizational culture and relevant tools for leadership. It succeeds largely due to the unique combination of:
Assessing the leadership needs of the organization
and its leaders
Designing targeted solutions for change “system-
Fully integrating the team involved during the
Maintaining the momentum to see the changes
Benefits of leadership coaching for you and your organization
Better decision-making
Scenarios for leadership coaching
Coaching vs. Consulting
Coaching is different from consulting in that it relies on maintaining/monitoring the momentum once implementation has begun, ensuring that the impact is more deeply integrated and permanent. Consultants often offer suggestions for change but don't help implement or maintain the process to see the recommendations through to fruition. And, coaching often surfaces solutions from the team itself in lieu of outside advice, leading to greater buy-in and resourcefulness.
Typical clients
Looking for legitimate and sustainable leadership change that integrates the entire team? Contact Miles Smith at 415-218-0618 or at mvs@milesvsmith.com.
Collaborators
Laura Loescher
Laura Loescher is a leadership coach, philanthropic advisor and consultant to social change organizations. As co-founder and former Director of Changemakers foundation, she promoted progressive, community-based philanthropy and organized donors to direct their giving for social change. For the last ten years, Laura has been a consultant to local and national nonprofit organizations for visioning, planning, facilitation, fundraising, and organizational development.
Laura is also a singer, cellist, and visual artist. She graduated from Hampshire College and lives in San Francisco with her partner Austin Willacy, a professional musician.
Nicole Vamvakias
For over 13 years, Nicole Vamvakias has been assisting companies and individuals achieve their goals. As a Business Consultant, Nicole has nearly a decade of experience in advising clients on how to get what they want. She specializes in strategic business planning, solution identification, process development, and facilitated decision making. As a Coach, Nicole enjoys working with people who are excited about discovery and committed to action. She stands as a witness for her clients as they reveal their true passions and desires. Nicole's background allows her to support clients through creating life plans, making value-based decisions and creating personal systems that help people simplify and better manage their lives.
Nicole holds a BS in Accounting from Texas A&M University and has been a licensed CPA since 1994.
Odin Zackman
Odin Zackman is a facilitator and educator. He specializes in organizational and leadership development in the environmental and sustainable communities arenas. As the founder and lead facilitator for DIG IN Design and Consulting, Odin works with individuals and organizations in California and nationally supports social change and environmental leadership.
He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Salzburg Seminar in Environmental Policy and Public Dialogue and holds degrees from Oberlin College (BA, 1991) in Politics and Environmental Studies and Tufts University (MS, 2000) in Agriculture, Food and Environmental Policy.
Free Consultation
Clients
Horizons Foundation Leadership Development
