Stephen is an experienced Executive Coach that leverages 24 years of sales, marketing, strategic planning, acquisition | integration, P&L management, and board experience. Stephen is very adept at working with senior executives across all functions that need/want to increase their leadership effectiveness. Whether it is working with high potentials, executives that are new in their roles, or executives requiring highly focused skill development (i.e., interpersonal style/agility, conflict management, presentation skills, or skill building to assume a new role), he establishes a trusted relationship that supports and encourages the executive’s personal change and professional growth.

Here are the basic steps of an engagement, all customizable:
• Stephen builds an alliance with the client based on trust for open and honest communication.
• Core values, personal goals, key impediments, and all other relevant factors are shared.
• A game plan is crafted, fine-tuned, and implemented with specific achievement milestones.
• The process is continually adjusted with candid feedback and the client’s willingness to modify their behavior.
• Clients view Stephen’s efforts as totally supportive of his/her growth, development, and learning while being responsible for his/her own choices, actions and successes.
• Results are achieved with the client’s full realization that it was new behavior(s) that enabled greater success and personal/professional transformation.

Sample companies include: Acresso Software, Advocate Medical Center, Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Astellas Pharmaceuticals, Baxter, Blick Art Materials, Cardinal Health, Claire’s, CME, ComEd, DelMonte, Discover Financial, Fortune Brands, IBM, IDEX, Lululemon, Lundbeck, Marmon Group/Berkshire Hathaway, Medicrine, Microsoft, OfficeMax, Ovation Pharmaceutical, Pampered Chef, Panasonic, Redbox, Shure, Siemens Building Technologies, Sterling Capital, Stericycle, Taco Bell, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Titleist, Transunion, Tribune, TruValue, Underwriters Laboratories, United Stationers, Wilson Sporting Goods, Walgreens, World Kitchen, WW Grainger, and Zebra Technologies.

Rate: $250-499 per hour