Confidentiality in Executive Coaching: What to Ask Before You Hire a Coach
Why Leaders Don’t Look for Coaching
I didn’t find coaching because I was looking for it. I found it at a group event, because someone happened to mention that she had finished her coach training. I followed up out of curiosity. She set up a meeting that turned into a coaching demo. I walked away knowing I wanted to continue. The reason I wasn’t looking for coaching is simple. I didn’t…
Why Understanding Doesn’t Fix Leader or Founder Loneliness
I knew other founders. Some of them understood exactly what running a business felt like. We could sit together and talk honestly about how hard it was, and there was real comfort in that. Someone across from you who didn’t need you to explain why last month was brutal or why you’re questioning everything again. The shorthand alone was a relief. What I found, though,…
Why Delegation Doesn’t Lighten the Load the Way You Expect
Delegation is supposed to lighten the load. I believed that for a long time. When I was actively running my school, I did what every leadership book and business adviser tells you to do. I identified the tasks that other people could handle, and I handed them off. My to-do list got shorter. I could see the difference on paper and in my calendar, and…
The Gap Between Vision and Execution: Why Leadership Gets Lonely
What Is Executive Coaching? What Founders and Corporate Leaders in Kenya Should Know
You’ve heard the term. Maybe a colleague mentioned it after a particularly rough quarter, or a board member brought it up during a conversation about your development. Someone you respect told you it changed how they lead, and you filed it away under things to look into when you have a moment. The moment hasn’t come. What executive coaching actually is tends to get lost…
Who’s Pressure-Testing Your Thinking?
You pressure-test your strategy before you commit to it. You stress-test your financials before you present them. You vet your hires before you make the offer. The thinking behind all of those decisions, the reasoning that shapes what you commit to, present, and offer, almost never gets the same scrutiny. Every major call you make starts as a thought that either gets properly examined before…
Who Are You Beyond Your Leadership Title?
At some point in the last few years, your title started answering questions it was never meant to answer. Someone asks what you do and the title comes out before your name does. Someone asks how you’re doing and the answer maps to how the business is doing, as though the company’s health and yours are the same thing. The role has become the lens…
Why the Clarity Belongs to the Client: Solutions-Focused Coaching Explained
There’s a common assumption about executive coaching. A leader walks in with a problem, and the coach helps them solve it. The coach brings frameworks, experience, insight. The leader absorbs it, applies it, and walks out with a plan they didn’t have before. Solutions-focused coaching operates on a different premise. The clarity that emerges in a session belongs to the client. The coach doesn’t generate…
Why More Information Won’t Fix Your Decision-Making: What Leaders Actually Need
A decision has been on the table for weeks. The reports are in. The team has weighed in. Two board members have shared their perspective. A consultant ran the numbers from a different angle. A leadership workshop promised frameworks for exactly this situation. The decision still hasn’t been made. So the instinct kicks in: ask for more. Another analysis. Another opinion. Another data point that…