Executive Coaching

As a leader you are likely to already be highly functional and effective, yet there is always room for growth and transformation. Executive coaching can support you in your leadership and personal development, if you are:

In working one-on-one, partnering with you in a thought-provoking and creative process, we help our coaching clients not just achieve business results, but also feel more personally fulfilled and become the leaders they want to be. We love to work with ambitious leaders in fast-paced environments who are curious and willing to do some deep discovery about who they are and who they want to become as a leader.

Coaching programs will be customized based on your particular needs and preferences. We spend time upfront to understand the specific leadership challenges and desired outcomes of the coaching. We may gather 360-degree feedback and use other diagnostic and personality assessments. Based on this input, we then design a tailored growth plan to help you develop the desired leadership behaviors and mindset-shifts. Over the course of several months, the regular coaching sessions help sustain your practice, create accountability, and support you in achieving sustained growth and transformation.

Our approach is built on research-based knowledge and practical models in psychology, business and organizational effectiveness, including cutting-edge neuroscience and mindfulness.

Team Coaching

Taking regular thinking and reflective time as a team is even more challenging than doing it individually, yet it is a core practice of high-performing leaders and teams. Until recently, many leaders equated team development with “doing off-sites”, while over-focusing on “team building” or “training” and missing the power of a more holistic and systemic approach.

Our team coaching engagements are partnerships over time that often integrate an initial assessment and diagnostic phase, with structured facilitation and workshops, evolving team coaching sessions, team observations, and one-on-one coaching for the team leader and select team members, if needed. At the core, our work with teams helps them develop specific “teaming skills” that help the team work, relate and learn better together.

In working with teams, we bring together the latest research and frameworks on team effectiveness with practical support and encouragement to enable teams to have the conversations they need to have. We help create the right team and coaching environment, the appropriate mental and emotional states, to address issues the team has avoided or not yet prioritized.

How committed are you to becoming a high-performing team? Are you ready to have open and honest conversations about what is working well and what is not in terms of how you’re operating as a team? Are you willing to take time to reflect individually and collectively and to challenge and support each other in your growth? Then let’s talk.

Testimonials

“Anke is a tremendously helpful, knowledgeable, and thoughtful executive coach, and has been instrumental in my career advancement. Her methodical approach to decomposing problems, her breadth of knowledge about management and organizational best practices, and her attention to detail make her an outstanding partner and trusted counselor across a wide variety of leadership challenges. Highly, highly recommended!”

  - Mark Risher, Head of Product Management for Google

“Anke is an attentive, thought-provoking executive coach and has made a transformative impact on my personal and professional life. Through her guidance, I discovered new areas for improvement opportunities and have become a stronger leader and an overall more balanced professional. Anke equipped me with invaluable tools and perspective, enabling me to foster a deeper appreciation for mindfulness, the ability to more organically self-assess and adjust my professional style, helping me develop more authentic and effective partnerships with others in my professional life. I am immensely grateful for the profound and positive influence she has had on me.”

- Jeremy Uzeta, Head of Tools Administration and Configuration, Google Fiber

“Anke's guidance as a coach has been far better than I ever could have expected. She is understanding, insightful, informed and empowers me to make the best decisions and confront every challenge with the best perspective possible. But moreover, Anke is more than a management coach. She is a source of invaluable support for me personally and professionally; a mentor, close advisor and a friend. Anke is one of only a handful of people that I would call on to make the most important professional decisions.”

- Kate Kolbert-Hyle, Product Strategy Manager and Special Projects, Google

“Anke is a warm, empathic and insightful executive coach. With her knowledge and experience, she supported and trained me successfully in my leadership role in a multicultural environment. I truly enjoyed working with her.”

         - Karin Kieser, Head of Process Validation Drug Substance at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Biopharmaceuticals