EXECUTIVE BUSINESS COACHING:
UNLOCK YOUR FULL LEADERSHIP AND CAREER POTENTIAL

Experience an Elevated Executive Leadership Coach:
A Thought Partner and Change Agent

Leveraging a proven methodology rooted in developmental psychiatry and neuroscience, I partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process to maximize their professional and personal potential. I help expand awareness, incite action, and drive transformation.

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What My Executive Career Coaching Clients Are Saying

In my new role as CEO, I was having a hard time organizing my priorities. I was being pulled in multiple directions by different stakeholders and their often conflicting interests. I also needed guidance to help me champion my own needs as a leader in order to avoid burnout. Coaching with Kelly brought clarity to my decision making process and helped hold me accountable to execute my decisions, even if that meant inviting uncomfortable situations or conflict. She also got me to see that having boundaries for myself is ultimately good for my team and my organization. Ultimately, Kelly has given me a greater sense of control and self-confidence as a leader; I recommend working with her because she’s inquisitive and insightful in a way that will clarify how you see yourself in your leadership role.

CEO, Fashion/Consumer Goods CEO
New York
I have had the privilege of working with Kelly as an executive coach for the last six months. Kelly found me at a pivotal moment of change in my career that had caught me off guard - an unexpected layoff followed by a new, ambiguous role that had sunk me into a deep place of vulnerability and uncertainty. Kelly met me exactly where I was - I believe I even cried in our first session - and helped me take back agency over my new career path. One of the first things Kelly taught me was that our personal and professional lives are forever intertwined. That has stuck with me and made me feel more comfortable with factoring in my personal values and goals when making career decisions. In our work together, Kelly has helped me be the decision-driver in my new role by getting me to focus on my own professional goals and making strategic decisions to help me reach them. I have fostered strong work relationships, learned how to better prioritize projects I take on, and have reached significant goals including a recent promotion. If you choose to work with Kelly, you will be working with someone who blends empathy with accountability. She will provide space for you to feel your emotions and then bring you gently back to your goals to get you to where you want to be.

Technology People Leader
San Francisco Bay Area
Ultimately, the impact of coaching with Kelly has been invaluable. Building my career as an executive in the fashion industry for 20+ years was a very specific path for me, until it wasn't. Kelly's guidance and advice helped me explore and map out what the next phase of my career in fashion could look like. Now, whenever I have those moments of unsureness, I revert back to what I learned from her and keep moving forward towards my new career goals.

Fashion & Luxury Executive
New York
I had the pleasure of working with Kelly over a series of sessions as I was navigating some key inflection points in both my career and personal life. Kelly did a great job of helping me distill the heart of the issues, develop a framework for how to approach things, and think through concrete next steps to support me through my journey. In one particular instance, she helped me prepare for a meeting with my manager where I needed to advocate for myself and a future career move that I deserved. Kelly did a great job helping me frame the conversation in a way to achieve the best outcome.

CPG/Personal Care Marketing and Innovation VP
San Francisco Bay Area
Kelly is a talented coach who was extraordinarily valuable in helping me navigate a career pivot. Before coaching with Kelly, I was struggling to articulate my leadership outside of the industry I had been in for the last 15 years. The lack of clarity was a roadblock to identifying and pursuing new opportunities. Kelly was invaluable in helping me to translate my experience into a broader career narrative. Her process helped focus my energy, push boundaries, and build confidence towards pursuing something new. She is an excellent storyteller, a compassionate listener, and an enthusiastic personal champion, all with a bias towards action. She is not afraid to push you out of your comfort zone and test your assumptions to get you where you want to go. I highly recommend coaching with Kelly!

Business Development Executive
New York, NY
Kelly helped me navigate multiple challenging situations at work. She opened my eyes to new ways of thinking and new strategies for success. She enabled me to tap into my strengths, identify areas for growth, and reconsider my work in the context of my core values. Working with Kelly ultimately helped me secure my recent promotion and reignited a confidence I had lost.

Beauty Industry Marketing Operations
Los Angeles

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Executive Career Coaching Services: Who I Work With

I offer coaching services to individual clients and companies looking to foster growth, optimize performance, and increase impact.

High-achieving personalities looking for the next challenge or to avoid burnout.

People stepping into a new role or feeling stuck in their current one.

Star performers with high IQ attuning to the importance of strong EQ.

Professionals focused on work reorienting to the demands of parenthood.

People with people issues (aka managing tricky bosses, subordinates, or peers).

Founders and start-ups looking to fuel growth.

Executives feeling lonely at the top and looking for a true thought partner.

People moving from working for others to working for themselves.

Talent and HR executives embracing professional development for emerging and established leaders.

Organizations prioritizing strategic growth and navigating change effectively.

Businesses transitioning from command-and-control management to servant leadership principles.

CEOs seeking to inspire or align a board of directors, leadership team, or next generation of employees.

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Challenges I Address Through Leadership Coaching for Executives

Navigating Unprecedented Change

Addressing major change in a job, company, or industry—coupled with surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, and/or complexity.

Overcoming Communication
and Management Challenges

Navigating difficult conversations, relationships, and workplace politics to manage down, up, and across with ease.

Optimizing Major Career Transitions

Planning and managing major transitions, including a new position, promotion, reorganization, leave, or layoff.

Navigating Existential
Crossroads

Making sense of job dissatisfaction, overwhelm, boredom, or career burnout.

Cultivating Effective Teams and Cultures

Embracing servant leadership and improving strategic influence and relationship-building skills.

Manifesting Work-Life Balance

Integrating professional and personal goals, learning to set and maintain boundaries, and building a personal brand.

Methodology: What I Bring to the Table as an Executive Business Coach

A combination of empathy, curiosity, and discipline

A commitment to client-led goal-setting and conversation

A balance of active listening and thought-provoking questions

A safe, judgment-free zone

An exploration of identity and actions

Tools and frameworks to expand awareness and agency

Customized action plans to achieve goals

Accountability against those plans

The Executive Coaching Impact: How I Enable Exceptional Leaders To Achieve the Success They’re Seeking

I help you become more effective in your capacity to lead, innovate, and thrive in your professional and personal life.

I help you adopt the mindset and the skillset of modern leadership.

I help you lead with authenticity, bravery, resilience, empathy, and accountability.

I help you create and communicate your vision to align people, teams, and cultures for greater impact.

I help you navigate the messy realities of business today by identifying and activating your unique purpose, superpowers, and sphere of influence.

I help you build a business culture that is mission-driven, values-oriented, and high-performing to optimize your talent and teams for success.

Executive Career Coaching Services With Kelly Johnson: Getting Started

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If you want to learn more about my executive coaching services, please fill out my contact form.

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We’ll schedule an initial 30-minute consultation to discuss the challenges you’re facing and determine if working together will be a good fit.

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We’ll outline a plan to level up your leadership and dive right in with regularly scheduled coaching sessions.

Executive Business Coaching FAQs

Executive coaching is for professionals invested in personal growth:
- Entrepreneurs
- Established business owners
- Executive or emerging leaders
- Past/present/future members of the C-suite
In short, executive coaching is for anyone committed to leveling up their leadership and performance in work and life outside work. My job is to help you understand what you really want and chart a path to achieve it.
My job is to help you achieve the confidence and clarity to get what you want faster and more fully. Leveraging a proven methodology rooted in developmental psychiatry and neuroscience, I partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process to maximize their professional and personal potential.
I help expand awareness, incite action, and drive transformation. My job is not to offer practical advice or tactical solutions but rather to help clients make sense of their own thoughts and feelings. I do this by listening actively, asking thought-provoking questions, challenging clients respectfully, expanding awareness, empowering new choices, inciting action, and offering accountability against new goals.
Executive coaching offers more than professional growth. It can be a transformative journey to unlocking your potential in and out of the office. Coaching offers a trusted partnership where you can be vulnerable enough to challenge your assumptions and learn to expand and change your perspective. Modern leadership is complex—coaching can help you identify and build on your strengths to empower you to make big, bold decisions and lead with confidence.
I have personally experienced growth and success after working with an executive coach, and my ultimate goal is to help others experience the benefits coaching can facilitate:
- Bringing more authenticity to work
- Advocating for yourself
- Making sense of job dissatisfaction
- Charting a career change
- Mastering communication
- Fostering dynamic working relationships
- Reimagining the possibilities at work and home
- Inspiring people around you
- Aligning your career with your core values
There are many additional benefits of executive coaching, and the benefits you experience will vary depending on your goals and commitment to the process.
An executive coach can be extremely valuable when:
- You want to level up your performance
- You want to improve your leadership skills
- You are navigating significant transitions or new challenges
- You are experiencing job dissatisfaction
Coaching will offer thought partnership and impetus for change. Moreover, it will expand your awareness, empower new choices, incite action, and offer accountability against new goals.
For coaching to have an optimal impact, however, you should be ready to grow professionally and personally.
Typically, executive coaching begins with a three to six-month initial commitment in which the client and coach meet every other week, but this can be tailored to meet your unique needs.
Some professionals benefit from a shorter term and higher frequency, while others may prefer the ongoing support and accountability of coaching for a year or more. We’ll work together to establish a timeline and cadence that aligns with your objectives.

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS COACHING:
UNLOCK YOUR FULL LEADERSHIP AND CAREER POTENTIAL

Experience an Elevated Executive Leadership Coach:
A Thought Partner and Change Agent

What My Executive Career Coaching Clients Are Saying

Executive Career Coaching Services: Who I Work With