"Sometimes you need someone other than your team and your boss to talk with, because sometimes you need to talk about them."

An executive coach is someone with whom you can discuss sensitive issues, openly and confidentially. Like successful atheletes, many top executives use coaches to step above the fray, look at challenges in new ways, and think through their options.

Many C-level executives use coaches -- not because they're weak, but because they recognize the value of an independent sounding-board.

Benefits of an Executive Coach

Here are some of the benefits that executives who use coaches get:

• Perspective: a time set aside on a regular basis to step out of the weeds and see the forest.

• Objectivity: a sounding-board who understands the issues at your level, and as an outsider, who has objectivity and no vested interests.

• Truth: someone who will be completely honest and tell you when you're wrong, or force you to listen to alternative views.

  "If endlessly plugging the leaks springing up all over your business has left you exhausted, uninspired, and doubting yourself or business, you owe it to yourself and those depending on you to read this book. Meyer's principles gave my company the vision, roadmap, and tools to shatter our growth ceiling, making our business more fun, easy, and profitable than ever before."

  Derek Weber, President, goBRANDgo!

• Frameworks and insights: useful ideas, frameworks, and processes based on a long and focused career, and on past experiences with your peers.

• Motivation: personal deadlines to accomplish leadership objectives before the next scheduled coaching session.

A client explains the value of coaching....

"An hour on the phone with Dean made a profound impact on my thinking."

Joe Morgan, CEO of siY and serial entrepreneur

Read on....

-- Gary Rietz, CIO

Unique Focus of Dean's Coaching

"Dean's ability to understand the complexities and synergies within an organization are uncanny."

Bob Bender CIO, St. Mary's Hospital and Duluth Clinic

Coaches come in different flavors, focusing on your career, interpersonal and supervisory skills (one aspect of leadership), business strategies, technologies, or personal work habits.

Dean's focus is unique:

Dean Meyer coaches executives on organizational, political, and leadership issues.

Dean works with transformational leaders (Type 4 in the chart) who build organizations that achieve significantly higher levels of performance in every aspect of their work.

Four Types of Leaders

Cost cutters: shrink and save Maintainers: keep what we have evolving Project managers: oversee one or two major initiatives, such as a big strategic project Transformers: build an effective organization where all staff succeed in all their myriad missions

His perspective and advice are grounded in the business-within-a-business paradigm. This helps you tune all your strategies, actions, policies, and language based on a consistent vision of the end-point: provider of choice to your customers, and employer of choice to your staff.

Examples of questions and issues that Dean's coaching has addressed....

Track Record

Executives who have benefitted from Dean's coaching are from diverse corporations, governments, and not-for-profit institutions.

"Over the last 12 years while I've held the most senior IT management roles in three organizations, I've very much appreciated Dean's counsel. Dean's extensive knowledge, clear thinking, and his ability to examine issues beyond the superficial level set him apart."

Cecil Wright CIO, Flint Energy Services

"Dean, your coaching has taught me a different approach to management, honed my skills, and helped me to better articulate our role and value to my organization. Simply stated, I became a better leader after I found you."

Yomi Famurewa CIO, Modine, Inc.

"I have been working with Dean for about a year, and I have found him to be one of the most insightful business people I have had the pleasure to know."

Gary Rosenberg CIO, Eisner LLC

"Dean, you have had a profound impact on my view of the world, and I consider you a friend and a brilliant advisor."

Michael Moore CIO, San Diego County

"I've always found Dean to be very objective and, most importantly, a critical thinker; and he has a tremendous grasp of organizational issues."

Harold W. Sallee Administrator to the General Superintendent and transformation program manager, Assemblies of God

"First as a CIO and now as I sit on several Boards of Directors, Dean has helped me dissect and reflect in a calm setting. His coaching was invaluable, and definitely contributed to the goals which we achieved."

James Walker former CIO, WMC Mortgage

"After 16 years with the organization, I was appointed to my first C-level job. Meyer provided the guidance I needed to rise above the day-to-day tasks, and build an organization that delivers on its vision. He showed me how to be an effective executive, a real organizational leader."

Lee Gerney, CIO, Yolo County CA

"Dad raised me to be a problem solver. Until I read Meyer's work, I'd jump in and solve problems as they arose, believing that if I wanted it done right, I'd have to do it myself. I took everything on myself; and despite long hours, there wasn't enough of me to go around. Now, I solve organizational problems, and empower our great people to solve all those business problems. These principles of organizational design changed my life!"

Dave Shepherd, CEO, New Millennium

How Coaching Relationships Work

Dean listens to you, and helps you hone in on your specific concerns.

You'll also explore together your political environment, the personalities around you, and other influences and constraints.

Then, Dean works with you to plan practical solutions.

"The cost of getting Dean's input is far less than the cost of fixing uninformed mistakes."

Dave Shepherd, start-up entrepreneur

Coaching is delivered as needed via telephone meetings, email, and periodic private "off-campus" days together.

Next Step

Try a complimentary hour on the phone to see if you and Dean have rapport....

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