• Evolving Your Business For The Future

    Successful transformation requires businesses to rethink their operations, structures, and strategies to unlock growth. Which in turn – leads to innovation. As executives, your role is to lead these efforts with agility, foresight, and an innovation mindset.

    I help organizations navigate the unknowns of transformation, realize untapped opportunities, and lead their organization into the future.

  • Preparing Your Organization

    Organizations must transform how they operate to become engines of innovation.

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  • Every high-performing athlete has a coach to teach them best practices, observe how their doing, call-out missteps, provide training and practice, and hold them accountable to performing at the level they know they are capable of. The highest performing executives also have coaches to do the same, especially during times of intense change, disruption, or business transformation. These coaches accelerate the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of your business transformation.

    Many executives aren't exactly sure where to start. There are so many variables to consider and analysis-paralysis is real. Leading a transformation that will impact hundreds or thousands of employees can be daunting. This may be the first time you are leading a transformation or large change initiative. You may be struggling to get employees onboard with the plan or be frustrated by the lack of movement across your organization.

  • Invest In The Future

    Stop feeling overwhelmed and frustrated with the lack of direction and movement in your company's transformation efforts. You could be spending more time unlocking value, driving business results, and shepherding your organization into a new era.

  • Disclaimer

    Kayla does not diagnose or treat for physical or mental health. Anything discussed on this site or in coaching sessions is not a substitute for licensed medical or legal advice.

  • Research has proven that the results of executive coaching include:

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  • Coaching, Counseling, Mentoring... it's all the same - right?

     

    Coaching is NOT the same as counseling or mentoring. Let's explore the differences between the three.

     

    Counseling: You should not expect therapeutic outcomes with coaching as you may with counseling. Counselors use psychological methods and various techniques and aptitudes to provide professional guidance. Counseling tends to be focused on introspection and reflection of an individual's past, whereas coaching is future-oriented.

     

    Mentoring is a self-directed, mutually beneficial, long-term relationship between two individuals for long-term career movement where the mentor does most of the talking and offers advice. While coaching is a true partnership among equals, mentoring most typically consists of a more experienced person directly guiding the mentee through an experience that the mentor has already been through.

     

    Coaching is a conversation focused on helping you move forward relative to your goals —not to dig into your past. Coaching is directly tied to what you want to accomplish, through a process that is directed by you and where you are empowered to uncover and develop your own path to achieving your goal.

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    Free Discovery Session

    Schedule a free session to learn more about my offerings. Let's explore if this is right for you.

  • Transformation Coaching

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    Transformation Navigator

    Best for executive teams leading large-scale initiatives in their business, that need guidance to accelerate a successful transformation.

    Alignment

    As an executive team, alignment around transformation initiatives is imperative. This isn't just a kick-off meeting, but being in lock-step every step of the way. We meet in-person quarterly to ensure alignment on transformation goals, review progress, and plan for risk mitigation.

    Education

    Many executives we've worked with think of transformation initiatives in terms of project management, but realizing the value requires so much more. Each on-site, we provide real-world-proven best practices for how you should be leading the current phase of your transformation and how to prepare for the next phase.

    Accountability

    Each quarter we review your progress and discuss challenges as an executive team. We will help you adjust transformation milestones as needed and create action plans for ensuring a smooth transformation. We'll check-in on your progress throughout the quarter so you don't loose momentum.


    Format:

    1 Day Onsite Kick-Off

    • Pre-Kickoff assessment by each executive to learn about their department transformation initiatives, risks, and areas of concern
    • 1-day Onsite each quarter for 4-5 executives leading transformation
    • Overview of transformation
    • Roadmap Review
    • Team overview / Stakeholder Identification & Analysis
    • Pre- Mortem
    • Pain Points, Concerns, Risk
    • Initial Coaching session with each executive

    On-Going Quarterly On-Sites

    • Pre-Session Questionnaire / Concerns
    • 1-day Onsite with 4-5 executives leading transformation
    • Program Alignment group session (check in on milestones, issues, address of Resistance)
    • Group education / Skill-building for the next phase of the transformation and planning a path forward (may include tools, templates, activities, best practices, or presentations)
    • Resource Review and Risk Mitigation Planning
    • Next Steps

    An estimate will be provided based on agreed engagement level

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    Executive Transformation Coaching

    Frequently paired with the Transformation Navigator - Coaching provides high-touch support to each executive leading transformation efforts.

    Each executive deals with their own departments, competing goals, people & process issues. They also have different skill sets. One-on-one coaching is provided to each executive to tackle their specific needs. Coaching will guide each executive to a deeper level of self-awareness - shifting perspectives, unlocking new leadership capabilities, and enabling them to drive long-term impact and success.

    Change Leadership

    It can be overwhelming to drive change within an organization while simultaneously keeping the trains on track and delivering constant value. Mastering Change Leadership skills will be one of the most important variables to ensure a successful transformation. Luckily, we're experts and will provide customized coaching based on our real-world experiences.

    Accountability Partner

    We commit to supporting executives every step of the way. No one is alone on this journey. We will help ensure you stay on track when distractions arise - and they always do! While the company will hold executives accountable to meeting their transformation milestones, your coach will hold each executive accountable to their personal goals.

    Format:

    Option A - Monthly Executive Coaching

    (20% saving with Transformation Accelerator Bundle)

    • 2 hours of virtual coaching each month, either as 1 session or broken into two.
    • Pre-session questionnaire/updates
    • Biggest challenges
    • Best Practices / Path Forward
    • Next Steps
    • Email recap from each session with action items
    • Email and Text Support as needed
    • One 30-min emergency call each quarter

    Option B - On-Site Executive Coaching

    • 1-day on-site each quarter
    • Pre-session questionnaire/updates
    • 1.5-2hrs coaching session for each executive
    • Email recap from each session with action items
    • One 30-min emergency call each quarter

    An estimate will be provided based on frequency and duration of engagement

  • I Have You Covered

    With over 15 years of experience leading large-scale organizational initiatives across enterprises I have all the tools and templates needed to get your transformation efforts off the ground.

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    Change Leadership

    Many executives assume once they mandate an initiative or announce it in a town hall, that everyone gets on board and understands the importance of the project. Unfortunately, that is so far from the truth. Executives and sponsors need to be proactive and consistent when it comes to leading change throughout their organization.

    • Articulate and communicate a clear vision for change to create urgency and buy-in; communicate the connections between an individual’s daily behaviors and the achievement of business and sales objectives.
    • Influence and enthuse others through personal advocacy, vision, and drive
    • Access resources to build a solid platform for change.
    • Reduce uncertainty, fear and resistance through a proactive communication strategy
    • Reinforce new, more desirable behavior

    We help you build and apply an action plan to demonstrate sponsorship, providing clear direction and expectations for changes in workflow and behavior

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    Project Planning

    Your transformation initiatives impact how individual people do their work, processes, job roles, workflows, reporting structures, behaviors and their identity within the organization.

    A large part of success is understanding the impact of the transformation; ensuring processes, systems and people are consulted early, and then customizing plans to ensure successful adoption.

    • Organizational Readiness
    • Impact Assessment
    • Stakeholder Analysis
    • Adoption Strategy
    • Progress assessments
    • Project plan templates
    • Champion Networks

    From readiness to communications, training, and value realization, we help guide your organization through change as smoothly as possible.

    Initiatives with excellent alignment and adoption management are six times more likely to meet objectives than those with poor change management.

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    Building a Transformation COE

    As your organization grows and the complexity of change deepens, you may decide to bring transformation resources in-house and build your own office or Center of Excellence.

    • Balance customer and employee experience with business benefits
    • Enable faster implementation of transformation, higher confidence, and greater estimation certainty
    • Reduce resource waste and level of effort duplicated or cross-purpose to other initiatives within the organization
    • Reduce the number of failed transformation efforts
    • Reduce resistance to change and increase the rate of adoption
    • Build competencies that grow the organization’s capacity to tackle more at a time

    Having built multiple OCM offices, we have the experience and materials needed to create your organization's OCM methodologies, templates, operating model integrations, job descriptions, resource planning, resource estimation, maturity models, career ladders, governance models, and success metrics.

  • Transformation Consulting

    Anyone who has attempted a business transformation will tell you how difficult it is. The stats around low success rates are staggering. Most transformations will require additional resources to lead the effort so your organization can continue operating while making adjustments. The biggest skills gap that impacts the value realization of a transformation initiative is Change Leadership.

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