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To cultivate a strong executive team, you don’t need people to prove their value. You need them to put their value into action. But, to do that, they need to fully understand and embrace their value – the strengths and talents that are unique to them – and to bring it all forward with courage and confidence.

As an Executive Business Coach, Melissa helps you strengthen your organization by strengthening the people within it. Her executive coaching skills help people get so comfortable being themselves that they completely drop those masks we all hide behind – negative patterns, limiting beliefs and self-preservative behaviours that only hold us back – and start showing up with the full energy of their true selves, to help take your organization to the next level.

How Can an Executive Business Coach Help Your Business?

An Executive Coach helps bring out the unique strengths and talents of your executives, empowering them to show up with courage, confidence and compassion, and setting off a domino effect that takes your whole organization to the next level.

Melissa is a firm believer that when you change what’s going on inside of you, the world outside of your changes. By asking powerful questions, acting as a sounding board, helping executives see their blind spots, and encouraging them to dig deep into what drives them and what holds them back, Melissa helps create real transformation on a personal level that ripples out, positively impacting the people and circumstances around them.

Having an Executive Business Coach is more common than you think. A Hay Group study of Fortune 500 companies found that 21 to 40% utilize executive coaching services as standard leadership development for elite executives and talented up-and-comers. Additionally, a recent Manchester Inc. survey of 100 executives found that coaching provided an average return on investment of almost six times the cost of the coaching.

Whether you’re choosing executive, or executive management coaching services, the right coach can help take all aspects of your organization to new heights.

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What Are Some Reasons to Hire an Executive Business Coach?

Does your company struggle with leaders who lack the executive presence or confidence to successfully fill their roles? Leaders who struggle to connect with colleagues and employees? Leaders who are qualified but lack the emotional intelligence to inspire their teams? Leaders who struggle to prioritize professional expectations with personal commitments?  Leaders who don’t freely speak up or share their ideas? Do you have employees (at any level) on the verge of burnout?

These issues are so difficult because the root cause is often found at a deeply personal level.

Executive coaching and consulting services, when they take a heart-based approach, can help you get to the heart of the issues by digging into all the messy and deeply human elements, guiding your executives towards full self-acceptance, so that they can build the courage, confidence and vulnerability needed to address these issues head on and start bringing out the best of themselves in all that they do.

Through coaching, executives develop the presence and confidence to lead effectively, learn to take control of their impact in setting the tone for those around them, develop tools to put the big picture and larger objectives first, achieve the self-acceptance needed to freely ask for help and delegate strategically, learn how to co-create with team members, develop communication skills that prioritize clarity and an “us together” approach, and establish a mindset of continual growth.

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Executive Business Coaching helps executives:

How Can Executive Business Coaching help executives?

  • Get real about what is standing in their way & confront it, head on;
  • Develop strong, effective leadership & management skills;
  • Connect with employees in a way that builds trust and respect;
  • Inspire teams to align with organizational objectives;
  • Build successful, high performance teams;
  • Bring their unique strengths and talents forward with confidence;
  • Communicate effectively and with impact;
  • Improve personal effectiveness & time management;
  • Identify steps and opportunities to advance and grow;
  • Become strong, courageous leaders;
  • Embrace vulnerability as a highly effective leadership approach;
  • Improve work and life balance;
  • Create significant positive impact on the organization;
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Melissa works with people to identify their unique strengths and tap into them to remove whatever is blocking them, whether those blockages are of a personal or professional nature. She then works with them to align their unique strengths with their roles and corporate objectives to take themselves to the next level.

Through change-oriented coaching, Melissa aims to remove the problematic behaviors, thoughts and patterns that hold people back, then focuses on growth-oriented coaching to sharpen performance and confidence.

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Additional Benefits of Executive Business Coaching:

What are the benefits of executive business coaching? Here is a list:

  • Get leaders on a personal growth path to know themselves better – their values, purpose and strengths, what drives them, the issues holding them back, what they need to address to move forward, and what they need to create successful work/life balance;
  • Get leaders out of their comfort zones and arm them with the courage and confidence to achieve more than they thought they could;
  • Understand how to have difficult conversations in a way that honors the human – the strengths and value of the individual – while creating positive outcomes for the organization;
  • Understand how to use Focal Point Business Coaching to better manage time, teams and resources;
  • Enhance and build strong leadership and management skills that inspire motivation, engagement and productivity;
  • Cultivate interpersonal communication skills that focus on connection and creative problem solving instead of defensiveness and self-preservation;
  • Strengthen employee communication and relationships to align all business elements (marketing, hiring, partnerships, workspace, etc.) with the future the organization is creating;
  • Be proactive in adapting to, and capitalizing on, ambiguity and change;
  • Empower the natural leader inside everyone and build the courage and confidence to bring it forward in all that they do;
  • Navigate difficult situations by tuning into their inner compass to make decisions that are aligned with their, and the organization’s, values;
  • Boost morale, trust, employee engagement, recognition, creativity, positivity and possibilities.

When you have a problem, you look for the root cause to make it right. Any solution that doesn’t address the root cause is just a bandaid. Executive struggles are often rooted in the core self. So, to truly overcome them, that’s where you need to go. An approach that doesn’t start with the self may work short term, but the self will keep resurfacing. It will always be there. Solve the issues at the core, and you create better people, who go on to create great companies. That’s what Executive Business Coaching does. When you take that approach, here are just some of the benefits you will see:

Let’s unleash the hidden talent within your organization and bring it forward with confidence and courage.

Melissa provides professional coaching and support, tailors programs to meet specific needs and teaches proven strategies for unleashing the unique talents and strengths right under your nose.

She is known to be empathetic but assertive in her coaching style, helping people at all levels drop the masks that hold them back so they can bring their full talent and energy to all that they do. As a down-to-earth leader with a natural talent for connecting with people at all levels, Melissa has an excellent track record working with high performing individuals and teams.

  • 70% improved performance

    ICF Global Coaching Client Study

    80% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence, and over 70% benefit from improved work performance, relationships, and more effective communication skills. 86% of companies report that they recouped their investment on coaching and more (source: ICF 2009).

    According to the ICF Global Coaching Client Study, the vast majority of companies (86%) say they at least made their investment back. In fact, almost one in five people (19%) saw an ROI of 50 times their investment, while a further 28% saw an ROI of 10 to 49 times the investment.

    https://www.scrumandkanban.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NeedCoaching.pdf

  • 19% improvement in sales

    Companies that support coaching development improve sales objectives by as much as 19%.

    https://www.brainshark.com/ideas-blog/2016/august/sales-statistics-coaching-for-sales-leaders

  • Greater engagement through coaching cultures

    From Building a Coaching Culture with Millennial Leaders

    A growing number of organizations recognize the value in building a coaching culture that offers employees at all levels the opportunity to grow their skills, enhance their value and reach their professional goals. Investing in coaching pays off: Coaching can shift your organization’s culture by moving away from a command and control leadership style to collaboration and creativity. Organizations with strong coaching cultures report that their employees are more highly engaged, compared to organizations without strong coaching cultures. Organizations with strong coaching cultures also report above-average revenue growth in relation to industry peers.

Melissa’s HR, coaching, leadership skills and positivity were invaluable assets to our company. She hired and trained a great team, gave our employees tools to bring out the best of themselves in their work and helped us co-create an engaging culture. She also helped strengthen team relationships and communication. You can have the best product or service in the world, but if you don’t have a strong team behind it, you aren’t going anywhere. Melissa helped us build that strength.

I would recommend any person spend their time, with an open mind, with Melissa. As I write this, my new company is finalizing a 1.1MM round of funding, I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of an amazing company, and I couldn’t be in a better place.

Many things started to move around after I started my coaching with Melissa, and I’m not done yet. New challenges will take new ways of thinking, and having a top coach in my corner makes me actually excited to see what they’ll be and how we’ll overcome them.

BUSINESS COACHING vs. EXECUTIVE COACHING
Confused about the difference? Unsure of what you need? A Business Coach focuses on, well, the business side – strategy, operations, marketing, corporate structure, etc. An Executive Coach, or Executive Business Coach, focuses on the personal development of the people and teams within your organization, guiding them to embrace vulnerability and courage as powerful leadership skills, and empowering them to become stronger leaders, effective decision makers, and highly motivated drivers of success. This is what we mean when we say we strengthen your business by strengthening the people within it.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR EXECUTIVE COACHING
Choosing executive business coaching is one of the best decisions you can make for the growth of your organization. But, like any program, it will only work if you put the work in. The best way to start is with an open mind and a conversation. If you are considering executive coaching for others within your organization and have concerns about their openness, rest assured that you are not alone and that we can help. Contact CEO of Your Life to start the conversation.
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Workshops

In addition to coaching programs, Melissa is also a renowned motivational speaker. She crafts inspirational, holistic and fun interactive workshops that help teams, businesses and groups get in touch with their true selves, their core values and unique strengths, and learn how to bring it all forward with confidence and courage.

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A qualified coach, ideally with a business background, that works closely with both executive-level and high-potential individuals to help them unleash their full potential by getting clarity on their goals and strengths, identifying and confronting perceived limitations or areas for improvement, and getting to a place a full self-actualization where they are able to bring their whole and best self into their life and work.

In business performance coaching, the main focus is on opening up to new perspectives and ways of seeing all aspects of the business, learning new techniques and strategies, and understanding how and when to apply them for optimal performance. Like most coaching, a significant element of business performance coaching is doing the inner work needed to get yourself to a place where you not only bring the best of yourself to the work that you do, but also do so with joy and fulfillment.

Health coaching can be a stand-alone form of coaching, but is most effective as part of a big picture coaching approach. Health and wellbeing are critical to all aspects of our lives – both personal and professional. When we take better care of our physical health, it can have profound effects on our mental and emotional wellbeing, and strengthen us to approach our professional lives with clarity and energy. With health coaching, you will learn how to create healthy habits that genuinely work with your goals and lifestyle, for change that is sustainable, motivating and fulfilling.

It’s hard to get a clear picture of the number for a few reasons. For example, numbers often just aren’t made public, the definition of “executive” can vary among individual organizations and industries, the coaching itself can fall under different names, and so on. 

However, a 2016 study by The International Coach Federation found that there were approximately 53,300 professional coach practitioners globally, with 23% of those reporting executives among their clients. Further, a 2019 survey of professional coaches saw 23% anticipating a substantial increase in the demand for executive coaching, and 45% anticipating a slight increase.

Looking for group or corporate coaching instead? Learn more about my workshops and speaking engagements.

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Be True to You Series

Ready to take your company or group to the next level? Melissa’s holistic approach delivers unconventional and highly impactful workshops, interactive talks and group coaching sessions that help attendees tap into their core truth, their unique talents and strengths, and their leader within so that they can bring it all forward with confidence.

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The keys to connection in the emerging workplace environment

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Getting unstuck so you can approach
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Live Workshops with Melissa

Be True to You Series

Ready to take your company or group to the next level? Melissa’s holistic approach delivers unconventional and highly impactful workshops, interactive talks and group coaching sessions that get attendees in touch with their core truth so that they can discover what they are meant to do on this earth and bring it forward into the world.

The keys to connection in the emerging workplace environment

COURAGE & VULNERABILITY WORKSHOP

The keys to connection in the emerging workplace environment

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STUCK SUCKS!

Getting unstuck so you can approach
work and life with a wholeness that truly fulfills you

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HOW TO LEAD IN TIMES
OF CHAOS AND UNCERTAINTY

Creating engagement and success in challenging times

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How Melissa Dawn is inspiring thousands

Melissa Dawn guides executives and high-level leaders to step into their full power and become the leaders they know they are meant to be. She is a renowned executive & leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader, bestselling author, master practitioner of energy medicine and the founder of CEO of Your Life. Having transitioned from two decades of corporate experience to building her own business, Melissa has a strong understanding of what it means to truly thrive in our professional lives in a way that not only complements our personal lives, but lifts up our full life experience and that of the people around us. As a Master Certified Coach, Melissa takes a holistic, values-led approach to guiding executives and high-level leaders to become agents of positive change by connecting with their inner leaders. Through innovative workshops & coaching programs, Melissa works with individuals, teams and organizations and has helped thousands become the CEOs of their personal and professional lives with confidence, success and joy.

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