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Executive-Leadership Coaching

Optimize Leadership Capacity

Executive--Leadership Coaching is a resource that promotes the cultivation of leadership skills and potential. It revolves around an individual's development relating to workplace effectiveness and fulfillment. Dr. Ashley can help with the capacity-building of individuals to achieve leadership development goals. 

Leadership is key to every organization because it's the leadership that sets the tone for the entire organization and its culture. Organizational culture is essential to organizational wellness because it represents the brand of the organization, which is its soul. Leadership development consulting can help your organization optimize leadership capacity in relation to maximizing alignment with organizational goals, mission, and vision. 

Executive-Leadership Coaching Specialties

Inclusive Leadership & Leadership Development

You have your eye on a leadership role, are transitioning into one, or may already be in one, and seek support in how to better develop effective leadership skills. Dr. Ashley can help you define a future vision for yourself as a leader, take action towards leadership goals, and improve your leadership abilities by identifying your strengths, limitations, and development areas.

If you are a member of one or more traditionally marginalized groups, you know there are significant challenges and obstacles along your path toward leadership advancement. Dr. Ashley, as a woman of color with two graduate degrees in social work, specializes in helping ambitious persons of color, women, and LGBTQ+ in addressing the unique challenges of combating stereotypes, biases, and assumptions that have stood in the way. She can help you consider how to best navigate leadership ascension while maintaining your authenticity and integrity, as well as be an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging (DEIB), and intersectional social justice to help dismantle the systems of oppression within organizations that have created structural and lateral violence, with the aim to facilitate truly inclusive leadership.

 

However, if you are not a person of color or part of a traditionally marginalized group, perhaps you have become aware of the advantages your privilege has given you throughout your life and you want to learn how to be a better leader and avoid performative allyship. Dr. Ashley can help you increase your level of self-awareness by helping you to identify and understand what your biases and assumptions may or may not be, how you can be a social justice accomplice, and how to be a truly inclusive leader. After all, inclusion is leadership. 

The 12 Competencies of Emotional Intelligence (EI)

You know that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a highly valued leadership skill. Are you looking to sharpen your EI to improve upon the twelve competencies within the four domains of Self-Awareness (Emotional Self-Awareness), Self-Management (Emotional Self-Control, Adaptability, Achievement Orientation, and Positive Outlook), Social Awareness (Empathy and Organizational Awareness), and Relationship Management (Influence, Coach and Mentor, Conflict Management, Teamwork, and Inspirational Leadership)? If so, Dr. Ashley can collaborate with you in achieving higher levels in each of these areas and help you incorporate your learning and insights into your work and life.

Gallup CliftonStrengths

Interested in how to effectively leverage your CliftonStrengths? Dr. Ashley's CliftonStrengths Signature Themes are 1) Deliberative, 2) Learner, 3) Maximizer, 4) Achiever, and 5) Input. As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, she takes a careful approach by planning ahead and anticipating things, loves learning new things and mastering new skills for competency, enjoys cultivating excellence in herself and in others, remains driven through a constant need for achievement, and collects information because she finds so many things interesting. Through her Strengths, she helps individuals to discover and develop their own Strengths by providing purposeful thought and anticipation as well as a desire to learn about clients' needs, hopes, and aspirations. Her love of learning and information gathering keeps her on the cutting edge of innovative ideas related to leadership and wellness, and her strategically amassed knowledge and resources can be drawn upon to enhance mutual learning and to help clients make the most meaningful impact in achieving their goals. 

Financial Wellness

How would you rate your Financial Wellness? Dr. Ashley is a Certified Financial Social Work Coach and can help you get clear on what's going on with your money, become aware of and to understand how to access and leverage financial resources and processes to help you manage your money better, build your financial literacy, and help you understand your relationship with money and how it affects your economic decision-making. She can collaborate with you to help you determine how you might plan for expenses, savings, and investments so you can learn how to practice a consistent financial self-care lifestyle and achieve a better sense of financial good health. 

Change Management

Trying to effectively manage VUCAH (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity, Hyperconnectivity)? Is your organization preparing for or going through a big change? Do you need space to step back and constructively reflect on the chaos around you? Being involved in business transformation is never easy, can be overwhelming to cope with, and difficult for anyone to transition through, especially when others are looking toward you for guidance. You want some support that can help you facilitate the change, focus on solutions, and attain organizational goals with confidence. Dr. Ashley can help.

Leadership & Personal Sustainability (Anchored on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness)

This is a popular coaching issue among executive clients. Investing in personal sustainability is an investment in your leadership. It’s very much a struggle for busy executives to take the time needed to create and maintain a self-care lifestyle that leads to a healthier and more joyful life, which also helps you show up at your best as a leader. Dr. Ashley can help you achieve a more harmonious and fulfilling lifestyle that is aligned with your priorities and values anchored on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness (Physical Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Spiritual Wellness, Social Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Financial Wellness, Environmental Wellness, and Occupational Wellness). In harmonizing these Eight Dimensions, you will improve your level of skill in managing stress, cultivate antifragility, and become versed in better lifestyle design. Check out the popular Forbes article she wrote in 2021, Why Multidimensional Self-Care Is Essential To Better Leadership

Power of 2 - Executive Partnership Using CliftonStrengths

Using the CliftonStrengths assessment, leverage the power of 2 to help improve your business partnership by learning to understand and leverage each other’s CliftonStrengths, gain greater awareness of and clarify relationship expectations, and take appropriate actions to change or improve interactions between one another based on the partnership's stated goals and priorities for developing a more productive business relationship.

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