• The Glass Hammer: Executive Coaching & Career Advice

When We Coach

How do you know when you might benefit from a coach? 

Typically, we coach executives at certain points in their journey. Here are some instances in your career that we can help you navigate better. These are just examples. Ultimately we are qualified executive coaches and organizational psychologists so we can coach you with any situations including increasing confidence, executive presence and gravitas, managing and leading bigger teams, managing up, people and office dynamics, old behaviors and patterns, goal setting, career resetting and transition, becoming a senior leader, getting on the executive committee to name a few. And not to forget, navigating unchartered (for you) waters as a woman in a traditionally male dominated field.

We sometimes explore values (yours and theirs), cultural fit, systemic misalignment, covert process in the environment as well as focus on you, your lens on the world, self concept, behaviors, beliefs and paradigms. Why? To make the plan together that will be the one that you can execute successfully. You will develop the muscle to recognize and be the leader, the professional and the person that you want to be.

Need help getting to the next point in your journey?

Developing Further as a Leader

You have been promoted to SVP or Managing Director and your success is no longer about you as an expert, but about instead you as a leader.

What do we do together?

  • We look at what you need to do and what behavioral changes and adjustments you need to make
  • We understand where your wins are, work on blind-spots and eliminate any imposter syndrome
  • Help you with “what got you here, won’t get you there” factors

Good for?

New Leaders.

Seeking Promotion/Transition

You want to get promoted or actively manage your career over the next 1-5 years. You want to explore what staying in your current firm might look like to reach goal of the next level.

What do we do together?

  • We figure out your pathway
  • We look honestly at what we can do to get promoted and examine the elements outside your control (contextual organizational dynamics and processes)
  • We look at your best options and make plans to ensure promotion can happen (often with parallel plans to look outside at other opportunities); sometimes, this becomes transition coaching

Good for?

Middle to senior promotional tracks or senior executives who want to think about the final professional job, or even succession and legacy planning.

Transformational Coaching

You just want to be a more engaged, efficient, less stressed, happier version of yourself as an expert, manager or executive.

What do we do together?

This work varies greatly according to the needs of the client.

  • We can work on re-engagement, career sustainability, burnout avoidance, ways to stop being an insecure overachiever and/or stop the imposter syndrome
  • Deep emotional and behavioral change work to make you feel better about your career and your life at large

Good for?

Anyone who wants to do the deeper work to be a better and happier executive or manager.

Change Leadership

You are a leader and want to lead your people through change or crisis.

What do we do together?

  • We work with you to know your preferences and tendencies as a leader
  • Along with frameworks such as the Burke-Litwin model and other change methodologies, we consider strategies to ensure you are leading people from a psychological change approach, not just from a consultant’s process flowchart

Good for?

Senior and new leaders creating and leading behavioral and cultural changes in teams (and in themselves).

Book a Free Exploratory Chat

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!

More Testimonials
Editorial Sponsors