A Unique Approach
Leadership Partners is invested in every client we serve. Like most executive coaches, we are highly credentialed and experienced with a superior track record, but our coaching model is what makes us unique.
Several factors are present in great leadership and success in life. People who possess these factors are better leaders, have more promotions, are healthier, have more balance and wellbeing, and are just overall happier.
These factors are core to our coaching model, and they include strong self-awareness, strong growth mindset, a strong inner locus of control, and finally the know how to recognize and overcome our own negativity bias.
These factors are foundational to our model:
- We have vast experience coaching all level of leaders
- We are committed to development focused on the “whole leader.”
- Coaching to the whole leader is comprehensive, motivating, and yields higher success.
When this is effectively done, leaders develop robust resilience, intentionality, balance, and they gain greater self-awareness and are more self-actualized.
Leading self is essential to our model:- Leaders must know and actualize their own values and traits.
- Coaches help leaders know their leader identity.
- Coaches help leaders articulate their values and standards.
We accomplish this through heart-centered personal engagement with the client and through the authentic application of leadership principles.
Transformational Coaching: Three Phases
Below you see our coaching roadmap divided into three phases, each with three steps.
Phase 1 is the Discovery Phase- Leaders takes the Optimum Health Assessment
- Leaders take the 360 Leadership Assessment
- Leaders envision and create a strategy with articulated goals (life scripts).
- Life scripts create goals, steps, and actions that a leader takes.
- Leaders learn how to maintain their goals.
- Leaders utilize the coaching toolbox to self-coach.
We Deliver Exceptional Service
We just reviewed our roadmap, so let’s take a deeper dive.
Our model also includes a focused skill enhancement plan that
- aligns with a leader’s individual goals,
- aligns with their 360 assessment goals,
- aligns with and the school system’s organizational objectives,
- utilizes certified (ICF) coaches/Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coaches, and
- leaders receive seven one-hour sessions of personalized coaching. (virtual)
A Collaborative Process
Leaders engage in a collaborative process with our coaches. Together, with input from their assigned designee, they develop a strategy with specific actions and desired outcomes to improve their leadership and their overall lives. As such:
- Coaches listen to understand.
- Coaches ask powerful questions.
- Coaches challenge and support.
- Impact: A leader’s self-confidence and self-efficacy improves.
With this strategy, we work with the leader in areas related to their job success. This includes identifying new approaches to job responsibilities, coping with frequent change and transition, and defining the leader’s long-term professional career goals.
Leadership Assessments and Accountability
Leadership is a “contact sport.” Therefore we:
- Incorporate multiple assessments to reveal strengths and opportunities.
- Emphasize emotional intelligence development.
- Provide tools for building self-reflection, self-belief, stress management, and accurate self-assessment.
Furthermore, because leadership is a contact sport, it creates pain points. Our coaches provide continuous feedback mechanisms supporting leaders in their reflection and growth throughout the coaching journey. Part of this feedback loop includes the client. The coach and the leader actively support the individualized enhancement plan.
Our Impact and Results
To sum up, as a coaches, our roles are to- ask the right questions,
- challenge assumptions,
- highlight evidence,
- and cheer on our clients!
As such, our results are impactful.
These are the results from the last 297 clients we coached (2022-2024):
Our Leaders Share Their Executive Coaching Experiences
What School and District Leaders Are Saying about Their Executive Coaching Experiences
Participants were asked (June 2024), Finish this statement: My biggest take away from my Executive Coaching experience is….
The Executive Coaching has been a game changer for me. It’s a great place to work through ideas and action plans with someone who can ask me valid and thought-provoking questions. It’s a person who is separate from the day-to-day and can really challenge me in a way that is different from those with whom I work. She has provided me with strategies that I use consistently to help me with the various stresses I encounter professionally and personally. The work with the coach has been great for my mental health. I am considering continuing Executive Coaching after the Executive Leadership Academy is over.
I have grown so much through this experience. It has pushed me to be a better version of myself as well as lead me to discover my true vision for my future.
My biggest take away from Executive Coaching has been in order to lead others effectively I have to take care of myself. It was truly powerful to embrace the fact of how important self-care is and that I can’t be the best version of me if I am not at my best physically, spiritually and emotionally.
The coaching experience allowed me to see myself in a different light. My perception of myself and my leadership was different from the perception of my staff. I gained more confidence professionally and personally. I really take time to say positive things about me to me.
Through this work, I have changed my life to be the best version of my authentic self. I have learned that I deserve to take care of myself and that this is not a selfish act, but one that must happen to best show up for others. I have been more intentional in shutting off work for the day to focus on family and through this I have worked to have more meaningful time with my husband, daughter, and extended family members. My 10 year old daughter said it all when one day she started crying at the table stating that this program had truly changed me, made me a better person, and that she was so proud of me.
Honestly too many to list. If I chose one to highlight I would have to say the power of self-awareness and positive self-talk as it impacts the subconscious mind and your daily actions. That tip of the iceberg impacts all other areas learned. I have absolutely loved every minute of this experience.
My best takeaway from my Executive Coaching Experience is the ability to self- reflect using various tools. I actually informed my coach this morning that this experience has helped me be more self-aware. I evaluate my leadership behaviors more, whether good or bad and I assess how others receive my leadership style. Overall, I have positive relationships with my colleagues, however, my biggest critic is myself, so I have also learned and put into practice, not being so hard on myself.
Meet Our Coaches
Kim is a Founding Partner and Chief Talent Development Officer for Leadership Partners. She is a Board Certified Executive Coach, a Certified Coaching Federation (CCF) Accredited Coach, and an International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC Accredited Coach. She is a lifelong educator, and her passion for education is a major part of her story. Her parents, siblings, and husband were educators, and now her three children are educators too. Kim had the rare opportunity to design a high school from the ground up with cutting edge systems, processes, and curriculum. She emerged from this experience as a social action/service-learning expert, where she became a national leader and an international consultant in that arena. After serving 30 years in public education, involving school reform, redesign and start ups, Kim came to Rice University as the Associate Director of Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program, where she assisted school leaders for seven years with a focus on leadership and talent development. Kim’s many years of experience and investment in education have allowed her to discover new ideas, lessons, and insight, which she reveals to others through her presentations and coaching. Her unique style and coaching help leaders to transform themselves in profound and positive ways.
Dusty is a longtime educator. As a high school math teacher with 31 years in the classroom, Dusty understands the needs and challenges educators face. Her hard work and dedication to students and their learning was a hallmark of Dusty’s career. After retiring, Dusty set her sights on helping a new group of students, educators. She graduated from ACE Coaching Academy and has been a coach for Leadership Partners for several years. She is a Board Certified Executive Coach, a Certified Coaching Federation (CCF) Accredited Coach, and an International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC Accredited Coach. Dusty’s passion and desire to help her coaching clients to live their best lives is her mission. For Dusty, it is both a great honor and privilege to work with educational leaders. Dusty has been married to the love of her life Doug for 45 years. Her two grown children have blessed her with 5 grandchildren.
Tammy Shirley is a certified and long-time leadership coach with Leadership Partners, working with educators to identify and develop life goals to help them become their best in all aspects of their lives. Her years of experience as a high school educator and as a collegiate dual program director, make her familiar with the fluid and varied demands placed on leaders in today’s schools. She was the director of Allied Health and Prison Education at Western Texas College for over 17 years, where she was a paramedic instructor and course coordinator for EMS, as well as the college liaison for college education at three Texas Department of Corrections Facilities. She is a Board Certified Executive Coach, and a Certified Coaching Federation (CCF) Accredited Coach. Tammy is an excellent coach, providing leaders with the tools to change the behaviors they are motivated to change. Tammy has been married to her husband John for 45 years and has 2 grown sons and a wonderful daughter-in-law, but her joy is her 3 grandchildren Beth, Sarah, and John.
Genny Coyne is an International Coaching Federation certified coach with a Professional Coach Certification (PCC) passionate about supporting leaders. She has spent over 25 years in leadership roles and supporting leaders in for-profit and non-profit organizations. Her degree in Business and many years of experience in various Human Resource roles (Leadership Development, Team Development, Talent Development, Organizational Development, Curriculum Design, HR Generalist, and Change Management) have led her to develop skills that support leaders in a way that brings out the best in them so that they can live a life with clarity, focus, ease, and grace. Genny is a continuous learner. She is a certified trainer in numerous leadership development courses that strengthen her ability to support leaders with tools that increase their effectiveness at achieving desired results. Genny lives in Michigan and balances her passion for coaching with enjoying freshwater lakes, camping, kayaking, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
Sheila Henry is an ACC International Certified Coach with Leadership Partners, who believes that true leaders have a servant’s heart. She is a solution focused, equity centered educator who contributes her expertise toward supporting leaders to maximize their personal and professional potential. Sheila spent over 18 years as a building principal in both Florida and Texas. She spent 4 years as Executive Director coaching, mentoring, supervising, and evaluating principals. She understands the demands that are placed on today’s leaders. Sheila is an awesome coach, providing leaders with the necessary tools for their toolkits. She is excited about inspiring others to be the best versions of themselves. Sheila has been married to her husband Floyd for 26 years and they have 4 adult children and a new addition to the family, 6-month-old Xaria Nicole, who lights up the Henry household with her infectious smile and quirky moves.
