• The Glass Hammer: Executive Coaching & Career Advice

How We Coach

We work with you as an individual to understand yourself and your leadership behaviors.

What makes us different? We are organizational psychologists as well as qualified professional executive coaches, so we can work with you as an individual on three levels: 

  1. You:  your natural behaviors and tendencies and mental models
  2. You in context of your current environment (what behaviors are showing up due to specific situations?)
  3. Them: the organizational culture and norms at your job

In every session, we use a base methodology that was designed at Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York and Columbia Business School, with a nod to the coaching foundations of the International Coach Federation curriculum. We have adapted this model to include other frameworks from business and other psychological disciplines including industrial, organizational and social psychology, cognitive theory and cognitive behavioral theory, developmental psychology and positive psychology.

The Glass Hammer: Executive Coaching & Career Advice

We have adapted this model to include other frameworks from business and other psychological disciplines including industrial, organizational and social psychology, cognitive theory and cognitive behavioral theory, developmental psychology and positive psychology.

There is a science to it all, but the art is equally important and that lies in understanding what the client needs in each moment of the process. We honor the client’s agenda at all times. We allow space for the whole person to come and work out what they want to be and what they want to see happen, while helping our clients to do the deep work that will serve them long after our engagement finishes.

Helping You Get “Unstuck”

Coaching is different to therapy because we do not dissect your past for therapeutic reasons.  We only look back to understand your mental models and self concept to see how this might affect your current situation. This allows us to help you get ‘unstuck’ from any paradigms that no longer have value for you. Then we can truly and less subjectively look at the situation so you can make better choices and test your own assumptions.

The ultimate goal is to help you build serious muscle around having your own strategic insights. This way, you can reflect after the situation on what you would like to do next time, but more importantly we can work on something much cooler⁠—reflecting while you are in the middle of a situation that you know is a bit triggering to old behaviors that you are working to change. You can show up differently in that meeting where you feel not optimal about, therefore “live time” you make the decisions that help you be the most robust, sustainable, successful and happy version of the leader or manager or top executive that you are.

  • Past

    Mental models formed but otherwise this is therapist territory.

  • Present

    We meet you where you are. This is coaching territory.

  • Future

    We help you make the changes you want to make. Success!

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We Know Your Business

We know what your work is about. We have coached and trained senior women in:

  • Financial Services & Investment Management

    Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Operations, Head of Tax, Head of Strategy, Portfolio Managers, Heads of Tech, Chief Investment Officer

  • Investment Banking & Markets

    Sales and Trading, Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance, Relationship Managers, Investor Relations, Heads of Desks, Heads of Finance and Audit Teams

  • Mid Cap

    Head of Marketing, Head of Sales, Heads of Operations, General Counsel & Senior Technologists

  • Oil & Gas

    Heads of Operations, Strategy, Plant Managers, Portfolio Managers, Chemical Engineers

  • Technology, Telecom, Media & Fintech Firms

    Heads of Marketing, Sales, Strategy Leads, Heads of Technology & Head of Operations, Senior Technical Executives, Project Managers

  • Fortune 1000 Companies

    General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Regional Heads of Technology, Heads of Operations

Her insightfulness combined with her background in organizational psychology and business experience are the just the right combination to help you uncover your core beliefs and how they might be holding you back.

Nicki’s coaching skills are extraordinary. Her insightfulness combined with her background in organizational psychology and business experience are the just the right combination to help you uncover your core beliefs and how they might be holding you back. Nicki challenges you while also supporting you every step of the way; she actively listens and provides thoughtful, straightforward, useful feedback, which has helped me to clarify my goals and focus on commitments that will get me where I want to be. It’s a liberating experience working with Nicki!

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