We Work With

Decision-Makers

Heads of Divisions + CEOS

Catalysts of Change

Managers + High-Potential Contributors

 
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Service Offerings

 
Executive Leadership Coaching
 

With Lodestar Executive Leadership Coaching, you’ll receive a private, personalized curriculum that is tailored to your goals. In these 1-on-1 sessions, expect to find non-judgmental counsel, empathetic listening, and individualized attention that will not only challenge you to stretch and grow, but will support you with strategies and guidance to pursue what you want for yourself.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Leading with More Personal Impact

  • Delegation, Setting Standards, and Managing Expectations

  • Tempering and Optimizing Pride, Ambition, High Standards, or Vulnerability

  • Honing Presence and Stature Under Pressure

  • Adapting to Leadership Responsibilities and Needs

  • Managing the Growth of Your Business While Maintaining Company Culture

Who This is For:

Senior Executives
Directors
Upper and Middle Managers
Rising Leaders (35 and Under) **see below

Benefits:

Increased Personal Impact on People and Work
Stronger Reputation/Brand
Improved Relationships
Increased Personal Balance
Knowledge on Strategies for Leading Others
 
 
 
Hybrid Coaching
 

Our Hybrid Coaching offering is one of our more popular offerings at Lodestar Leadership. Combining the benefits of Executive Leadership Coaching with Mastermind Group Coaching, your executives and company leaders will grow and develop on an individual and collective basis.

Here’s how it works:

  • The Company must have at least 3 Executives enrolled in Executive Leadership Coaching

  • Individually, Executives will work with the executive coach on personal impact and leadership impact

  • Throughout the course of the engagement, we  hold periodic Mastermind sessions in which Executives exchange and discuss relevant topics, lessons and questions.

  • Peer learning that occurs advances team mentality, communication, and reinforcement of learning

Who This is For:

Upper and Middle Managers

Benefits:

Improved Individual Effectiveness
Increased Momentum in Learning and Implementation of Leadership Acts and Efforts
Commonality of Language and Communication
More Aligned Company Cultural and “Climate” with Unified Spirit and Collective Momentum
 
 
 
Group Coaching
 

Group Coaching is ideal for organizations that have team of Middle Managers who seek to increase their influence and effectiveness across a growing company. With ideal group sizes of 3 to 5 employees, Group Coaching is structured in a guided peer-to-peer learning setting where managers learn to:
  • Balance cognitive and social skills
  • Examine strategies for change
  • Strategize how to handle difficult situations, people or relationships
  • Improve competency in communication, leadership, management and delegation

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Strategies in Influencing + Leading Change

Strategies to Generate Personal Effectiveness in Role

How to Increase the Impact of Coaching Team Members

Role Focus and Clarification

Reconciling Pressure to Produce and Keep Balance

Getting and Maintaining Perspective on Priorities

Who This is For:

Middle Managers

Benefits:

Strengthened Roles Expectations and Communication Skills
Creation of Powerful Learning Communities, Reinforcing Group and Individual Learning
More Alignment of Company Cultural and “Climate” with Unified Spirit and Collective Momentum
Increased Consistency and Commonality of Language and Communication
Strengthened Work Relationships and Team Mentality
 
 
Team Mentoring
 

Unlimited number of people
Each session focuses on pre-selected topics with accompanying session agendas and materials
Pairs of managers trained to lead and facilitate eight mentoring group sessions.
Developing the leaders within your company, how are they getting challenged and guided to grow?

 

Who This is For:

Companies or Employees Experiencing…

Benefits:

Improved relationships, satisfaction in current roles
Strengthening healthy climate and culture
Developing leadership
 
 
 
Building Team Effectiveness
 

Even the best of organizations can experience miscommunication, dysfunction or stagnation across teams. That’s why Lodestar has developed a coaching program that aligns teams to pursue a common purpose, improves overall efficacy, and encourages communication to nurture company culture. When your organization brings Lodestar into your organization, you can expect Whit to assess and diagnose the situation, outline operational standards and expectations, then implement a customized transition and accountability plan. In the end, you’ll have individuals of your team understand their role, responsibility and impact their work, and how it affects the greater good of the company.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Developing Effective Working Relationships and Coordination

  • Managing Expectations with Delivery Output

  • Adeptness in Dealing with Remote Members

 

Who This is For:

Companies Experiencing...
  • Animosity Between Employees, or Challenges with Leadership Teams
  • Project Stagnation Due to Role Responsibility or Confusion
  • Recent Growth Spurt and Hired New Team Members

Benefits:

Increase Leverage Through Collaboration
Improved Communication and Understanding of Interpersonal Relations
Clarify Role Responsibilities and Operating Standards
Greater Adaptation to Changes and Impact of Change on Team
Clarity in How to Serve Multiple Stakeholders

 
Cross-Department Alignment
 

Growing pains happen to everyone - and every business. Just as a company expands, new employees are hired or department responsibilities evolve, it’s normal for companies to face challenges between people, departments, and leadership. Lodestar will come into your business, assess and diagnose the situation, then prepare and lead a customized transition plan to address current obstacles facing organizational structure, communication, or service delivery. Lodestar will implement accountability standards to ensure coaching strategies are effective and relevant based on the company or individual needs.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Transition Planning and Accountability

  • Agreeing to and Delivery New Department Responsibilities

  • Expressing Your Needs So That You Feel Valued for Your Role on Team

  • Establishing and Clarifying Shared Objectives, and How that Impacts Role/Responsibility Coordination

  • Transitioning the Us vs. Them Mentality into the Collective Mentality

Who This is For:

Companies or Employees Experiencing...
  • Difficulty Communicating Across Departments
  • Project Stagnation Across Departments
  • A Recent Growth Spurt

Benefits:

Decrease Silo-Mentality by Strengthening Cross-Department Partnering, Collaboration and Coordination
Increase Commitment and Role Expectation Toward Shared Company Vision

 
 
Elevating Culture
 

Organizations that are experiencing a droop in overall employee mentality, engagement, and productivity would fare well to hire our Lodestar Leadership coaching series. In this setting, teams are constructed in large and small working groups to identify challenges and uncover group mental roadblocks. Whit will help leadership teams to create objectives, develop an inspiring vision and value set, as well as guide teams along the journey to an evolved and empowered company culture.

 
 

Who This is For:

Companies or Employees Experiencing...
  • Stagnant Culture
  • Lack of Momentum
  • Fixed Mindset
  • Inconsistent Spurts of Energy or Momentum

Benefits:

Increase Company Momentum and Employee Buy-In
Reduce Silo-Mentality by Developing and Strengthening a Unified VIsion
A Shared Value Set, including Unified Communication and Behavior Standards and Expectations
Increase Positive Spirit, Creativity, and Commitment to Individual Purpose (vs "It’s Just a Job")