Performance Coaching With Christo

What is Coaching?

Coaching is not mentoring, training, therapy, or advising. Unlike advisors or consultants, coaches help you get to the root of the challenges you’re facing. They don’t tell you what they would do. Instead, coaches collaborate to help you discover what you should do. Coaching unlocks people’s potential to maximize their own performance.

There’s no finish line when it comes to personal growth. Although I specialize in coaching leaders, I focus on the whole person and the topics my clients bring to our sessions cover the length and breadth of their lives. I believe that human beings are uniquely creative, resourceful, and dynamic. That means the definition of success is unique to you. Executive coaching is about asking the right questions and using innovative techniques to evoke in clients the realization of their fullest potential. As your coach, I’m in your corner.  You can raise your fears, seek candid feedback, and rely on me to keep you accountable to your goals.

Typical Engagements

I coach people, not problems. That means conversations can flow wherever they need to in order to promote my client’s growth. Below are just a few common areas my clients and I focus on:

  • Connecting with your values

  • Developing as leader

  • Finding your purpose

  • Dealing with chaos, confusion, and inertia

  • Evolving from a reactive to a creative leader

  • Leading from a place of vision, purpose, openness, and curiosity

  • Building a healthy and robust team and organizational culture

  • Creating a vision for a compelling future

  • Building a growth mindset toward obstacles

  • Team and organizational structure and dynamics

  • Identifying self-defeating influences and underlying motivations and beliefs

  • Hiring and mentoring other leaders and managers

  • Gaining confidence and overcoming impostor phenomenon and inner critics/saboteurs

  • Working with challenging personalities

  • Setting goals and objectives

  • Coping with setbacks and building resilience

  • Connecting with your authentic leadership style

  • Working through emotionally charged issues

  • Learning to have difficult conversations

  • Working effectively with CEOs, other execs, and board members

  • Developing self-awareness and processing feedback

  • Work/life integration

  • Choice and perspective

  • Getting unstuck

And here are some typical situations where clients reach out to me to begin a coaching relationship:

  • A recently promoted director challenged with growing from individual contributor to product leader

  • An experienced leader who feels like their career has plateaued, looking to shake up their potential, achieve work/life integration, and fall in love with the job again

  • A mid-life executive facing an existential crisis of purpose and self, wanting to discover their north star

  • A director who just took on a large, troubled project, struggling to become more confident and decisive in the face of executive attention

  • An executive at a high-growth startup who wants to become a better manager of managers, and challenged with how to structure an organization

  • An executive feeling like they’ve gotten “too comfortable,” and looking for more growth, challenge, and accountability

  • A newly promoted leader, challenged in a recent performance review to be less tactical and deliver a compelling vision for their product area

  • A mid-career leader wondering if they’re aiming at the right targets for a fulfilling life