Executive Coaching

“And I think by the way that with AI, everybody will have the means cause it'll drop the price of this pretty dramatically.”

“Coaching In a manager or a leader context is not the same as in an executive coaching conversation. You're managing this person. You're responsible for their outcomes. You're not setting up an hour-long coaching session. You're just using coaching as an additi…”

“There's definitely a fear there around like, yeah, if I just, you know, someone just creates like a custom GPT of like, you know, a couple of conversations with the coach, or they pull in like books and, you know, teachers and whatever things that have inspire…”

“Recognizing that they're not robots. We can't just show up and compartmentalize all the Other facets or pieces of our life, we do have them set goals for non-work related outcomes.”

“There can be something pretty powerful being outside an organization where intentionally a very different email address may not be in every day, and there's a little bit more comfort, I think, in sharing information with me or one of the members on my team Ver…”

“When we can start to just really talk about it much more in terms of like costs and benefits as opposed to right and wrong. And I think when we can move that conversation, it just really frees people up to be more open to consider change and even to self asses…”

“I'm friends with many CEOs who I've, you know, met over the years of having been one and then doing this job, and the folks who are really into the coaching and really into the touchy-feely stuff for themselves on the balance just have not performed as well as…”

“Start with the ending. Come up with how you want things to turn out and then work your way back and start as far out as you want. It could be, you know, decades from now. It could be five years from now. It could be three years from now. It could be a year fro…”

“The other thing is that you don't need a coach who's done the job before. And that's another, I mean, obviously I've done the job before, so I'm sort of undermining part of my own selling point here, but coaches are trained to coach people on any topic. So whe…”

“Executive coaching is valuable, but there's too much emphasis on coaching the leader as an individual rather than as part of a team.”

“There really is training, and there's a science behind coaching and the arc of the coaching conversation. I want to do it, and I didn't have that, and I want to do it the right way, and anybody can call him or herself a coach. It can be a really squishy indust…”

“I'm often asked a very similar question, which is, Matt, when have you seen the coaching partnerships go awry? And I said, well, when it's thrust upon them in an organization, and they haven't raised their hand for it.”

“I think it has more to do with performance and that's not, not accountability. It's really about trying to unlock The limitations that perhaps you have in making the most out of your day and your time and your goals.”

“I, I'm sure every founder goes to bed at night imagining the way that their company can thrive, but also wakes up in the middle of the night imagining ways that their companies can die. And that's just natural, but sometimes that also gets in the way of work a…”