Though leaders are strong pillars, they face a multitude of challenges and obstacles. However, some of them can be difficult to overcome. Instead of overwhelming yourself and struggling, why not work with an executive coach? They can be of tremendous help when it comes to developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.
Executive coaches serve as mentors, guides, and confidants, but they are not afraid to challenge your limits to help you grow as a leader. After all, that’s their main objective. If you want to become an effective, capable, and complete leader, finding a good executive coach will help you grow into it.
To help you do that, today we present the best professionals in the field!
With 30 years of experience as COO and CEO in a multi-million-dollar national family business, Scott Couchenour is a knowledgeable and passionate executive coach. He specialises in helping small business owners and founders in their 40s and 50s who struggle with uncertainty about the future.
When his family business closed, he became a 50-year-old without a career. Scott is intimately familiar with the successes and failures of such a journey, so he helps others get through it with confidence. There’s a lot of pressure and stress that comes in our life journey, but with the right support, we can achieve success and fulfillment.
Scott provides that support as an executive coach. He has developed a 5-step, cyclical methodology to help clients go further, deeper, and faster than they would on their own. He offers one-on-one coaching sessions and a hybrid group coaching model. Either way, his services are bespoke, so though the methodology is consistent, the application is tailored to each client.
Everyone has different needs, so Scott works closely with clients to determine the right amount of system that makes their progress seamless and powerful. The service industry is an infinite game and he believes there’s no competition. There is room for everyone and each client has a unique experience, skills, and knowledge they can take advantage of to build success.
Executive Coach Cindy Saunders is the founder of Leaders Rise, a company committed to equipping leaders with high levels of self-awareness, self-management, and self-leadership. Cindy is a Certified Executive Coach and HR professional with over 20 years of experience. Her expertise and success extends across organisations from the C-Suite to the manufacturing floor. She has worked in several industries including manufacturing, mining, finance, IT, healthcare, and staffing.
Cindy created Leaders Rise to help leaders recognise and discover their full potential. Ultimately, she wants to strengthen leadership culture overall to rise up to meet the evolving needs of today’s workplace. She takes a broad, transformational approach that incorporates Performance Development, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Principles. She customises the Coaching experience to match the individual.
Cindy believes that the key to success in any industry is strong and authentic leadership. She confidently guides leaders to develop their next-level leadership development strategies by identifying blind spots, discovering new insights, and implementing tailored training and tools. Leadership can be an uphill climb, but Cindy provides a clear roadmap so clients can not only reach their goals but exceed them!
Executive coach Leah Davidson brings transformational coaching to the c-suite to support global leaders in business. She is the author of the 10 Year Plan, which is the cornerstone of her practice. This cutting-edge goal-setting program provides clients with the insight and strategies they need to create a long-term plan and reach their most ambitious goals.
Leah combines over 25 years of experience with her unique perspective to help executives identify their next level, while creating real work/life balance. She has worked with founders and chiefs of some of Australia’s largest companies including Village Roadshow, 2XU, The Smorgon Group, Spotlight Retail Group, Hydralyte, RSEA Safety, and Linfox.
All of the programs Leah offers are designed for and tailored to her clients. She doesn’t offer cookie-cutter solutions, so whether she’s working with handpicked chief executives, executive teams, leadership teams in school, or YPO forums, she delivers unique solutions. This, along with her warmth and kindness, set her apart from other executive coaches in the business.
Determining what you’d like your life to look like in 10 years is no easy feat. Leah and her acclaimed 10 Year Plan program allow clients to see their situation from a different perspective and fast track their most ambitious goals. She teaches them to create opportunities for breakthrough thinking and finally realise their full potential in all areas of life.
Leadership and Executive Coach, mentor, and facilitator Sue Tsigaros is the founder and director of Iris Group, a company that has worked as a strategic thinking partner for senior leaders over the past 20 years. Sue has become the go-t0 Professional and Executive Coach for women leaders who are on a mission to magnify their impact. She helps them accomplish this goal with purpose, presence, wisdom, and balance.
Sue leverages extensive experience, knowledge, and skills, to help her clients become an unstoppable force, attracting key opportunities where their own authenticity and uniqueness are highly valued, creating a positive impact. She teaches women leaders to work smarter and create a supportive and high-vibe environment where everyone can thrive. Iris Group is in the business of significant transformation in all aspects of life and leadership.
With an integrative approach, Sue provides the insights and tools clients need to strike a balance between Structure and Flow. She combines the deep wisdom of empowering the sacred feminine, with proven evidence-based behavioural science and neuroscience, and 40 years of combined experience in executive roles, entrepreneurship, organizational development, and coaching.
This is how she’s able to help women leaders activate their capacity to open up the parts of the organisational, inter-and intrapersonal systems that are keeping them stuck. At the same time, she enables them to open up the parts of themselves that are keeping the system stuck – so that natural evolution, shared learning and energetic balance can occur. Science meets magic in Sue’s co-creative process, which leads to greater and lasting results – and it’s what sets her services apart.
Executive coach Ivan Ang is the founder of a new online community called Executive Golfers Network. He specialises in helping business leaders develop effective hybrid work weeks, prioritising their wellbeing first including playing more golf. Golf becomes the catalyst to sustainable work energy throughout the week and a reward for completing important tasks early.
Ivan’s career started as a successful financial planner and he operated his own boutique practice before selling it in 2010. In 2015, he was engaged by The Commonwealth Bank to coach financial planners. He did this for 5 years including leading their national team of Advice Coaches across Australia.
During his time working in the financial planning industry, he realised many in the profession were on the path to burnout due to extremely challenging business environments and compliance requirements. When Ivan was running his own firm, it was difficult to find work/life balance and he was constantly drowning in work. But this was not unique to financial planners as many other executives and business owners faced the same work stresses.
The high levels of stress he experienced led to health issues, including a retina detachment that nearly cost him the sight in his left eye. Based on this experience and his work in coaching executives, prioritising wellbeing became paramount. Integrating his passion for golf, he decided to launch Executive Golfers Network and create a community of executive golfers who want to avoid burnout but also be productive and strike a healthy balance.
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