Executive coaching is a significant investment of time, attention and resources. For that investment to pay off, it’ll take more than new ideas and strategies. Meaningful change requires a purposeful journey of growth: one that has a clear outcome and travels a proven path.

As an Integral Master Coach™, I am a trained guide on such journeys. When clients work with me in this intentional method, most of them make significant change that reaches beyond the workplace and that “sticks” well past the coaching engagement. MORE ABOUT HOW I WORK»

My clients bring me a vast array of issues and challenges. But in my experience, two of the most common coaching themes are a) how to wield power with skill and integrity and b) how to manage overwhelm. Sometimes, those are the express topics that clients want to work on. In other cases, they are supporting capacities in other topics.

Because these themes arise so regularly and make such a difference in leaders’ effectiveness, I’ve created specific a approach for each. I call them executive ‘power tools.’

POWER TOOLS

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Leading With Grit & Grace® helps leaders examine their own use of power through the lens of gender. It offers a way for leaders (of any gender) to cultivate a blend of toughness and tenderness that is optimal for their context. Services include executive coaching, a half-day training, team coaching, and blog. Because men and women often have a very different relationship to their own power, the training and coaching can be delivered in single-gender or all-gender groups. Leslie’s Blog »

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The Leadership Oxygen Mask provides models, tools and skill-building to help leaders attend to their own well-being while meeting their external pressures and demands. Services include executive coaching, team coaching, and a half-day training.

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LESLIE’S CLIENTS SAY . . .

“Leslie Williams is an exceptional coach. She combines her extensive expertise in Integral Coaching®, keen insight and deep intuition to consistently help leaders reach their goals and expand their capacity. As a leader and a coach, I have found her research on Grit and Grace to be personally transformative.”

—Deputy Director, Department of Homeland Security

“I appreciate your wise and spot on counsel 6 years ago about ‘grit.’ I still carry that message with me and have continued to pass it down. I just wanted to let you know how much of an impact you have made on me, both personally and professionally.”

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