Executive Coaching
Lead with clarity, confidence and presence.
You’re already good at what you do. Coaching isn’t about becoming someone else or learning how to perform being impressive. It’s about understanding how you show up, recognizing what’s working and what’s getting in your way, and becoming more intentional about the leader you want to be.
Executive presence begins on the inside.
Awareness
It All Starts with Awareness
We can’t change what’s outside our awareness. Together, we’ll notice the patterns, assumptions, behaviors, and automatic responses shaping how you lead. We’ll look at what’s working, what’s getting in your way, and what you may not yet see, without judging yourself for what we find.
Choice
Create More Choice
Awareness creates options. Instead of automatically responding in the ways you always have, you can get curious about what’s happening and choose how you want to respond. We’ll experiment with new ways of communicating, relating, and showing up so your choices become more intentional.
LEAD
Put It Into Practice
Leadership is where awareness and choice become action. We’ll bring what you’re learning into the conversations, decisions, relationships, and high-stakes moments that matter, helping you lead with greater clarity, confidence, and presence.
Areas of focus…
+ Executive Presence & Leadership Confidence: Develop a grounded, authentic presence so you can communicate with confidence when the stakes are high.
+ Strategic Communication & Storytelling: Distill complex ideas, tell compelling stories, and communicate what matters with clarity and impact.
+ Creative Intelligence & Leading in the Age of AI: Strengthen the distinctly human capacities of curiosity, creativity, connection, adaptability, and meaning-making.
+ Influence & Stakeholder Management: Build stronger relationships and increase your ability to influence, align, and lead across an organization.
+ Presentations & Public Speaking: Connect with your audience, communicate with confidence, and stay present when the room is watching.
Managing Up, Down & Across: Adapt your communication and leadership to build trust and effectiveness at every level of an organization.
+ Imposter Syndrome & Perfectionism: Quiet the need to prove, perfect, and second-guess so you can trust your expertise and lead with greater confidence.
+ Difficult Conversations & Conflict: Approach challenging conversations with greater clarity, curiosity, and confidence instead of avoiding or overmanaging them.
+ Delegation, Boundaries & Overfunctioning: Recognize what is actually yours to do, let others contribute, and stop carrying more than your role requires.
+ Leadership Transitions & Career Development: Navigate promotions, changing responsibilities, and career decisions with greater intentionality and clarity.
+ Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness: Understand your patterns, triggers, and impact so you can respond intentionally rather than react automatically.
+ Stress, Resilience & Sustainable Performance: Manage pressure and protect your energy so high performance doesn’t require running yourself into the ground.
Workshops & Facilitation
I work with leadership teams and organizations to create interactive workshops, facilitated conversations, and offsites designed around the people, challenges, and opportunities in the room.
Creative Intelligence: How to Be Human in the Age of AI
As AI changes how we work, the capacities that make us distinctly human matter more than ever. This interactive workshop explores how leaders and teams can strengthen curiosity, creativity, connection, adaptability, and meaning-making.
Workshops and facilitation can also be customized around executive presence, communication and storytelling, leadership development, team dynamics, and mindfulness.
Available for leadership teams, organizations, retreats, and offsites, from focused sessions to half-day and full-day engagements.
If you’re ready to…
Stop second-guessing yourself and trust what you know.
Communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and impact.
Let go of patterns that helped you succeed but no longer serve you.
Lead with greater presence, intentionality, and authenticity.
…then let’s get to work.
because, At the end of the day:
Clarity within. Impact beyond.
What People Are Saying
"I have been working with Clare for over two years now, and she has been an amazing coach. One of the things I love most about working with Clare is her ability to make me feel empowered to live my values (and be myself) while continuously progressing in my career. Whether dealing with short-term questions or long-term goals, I always walk away from our sessions with actionable steps that I feel I can deploy and see results from. Our meetings are very productive, lively, and, most importantly, fun!"
—a senior executive at a global financial corporation
“Clare has been an invaluable partner, teacher, confidante, and steadfast supporter. Thanks to her guidance and the exercises I learned from her, I’ve become more mindful of how my emotions can influence my behaviors and actions—and how I can better manage their impact. What I appreciate most is her ability to model the kind of nonjudgmental self-examination we all need to cultivate. It inspires me to keep striving for greater self-awareness and to be ‘open to outcomes, not attached to outcomes.’ I’m now looking to strike out on my own and start a new business—something I never could’ve imagined doing before I worked with Clare.”
—a veteran writer, editor, and content strategist
“I am thriving! Clare's coaching helped me discover my technical opinion and confidence. I am so very grateful to her. I know that I did the work, but she is the one who pulled it out of me. This confidence and the skills she taught me have helped my career dramatically, and led to my promotion. I will sing her praises to anyone who will listen!”
-a corporate engineer
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How long is a typical coaching engagement?
Coaching engagements are customized around your goals and needs. Most clients work with me for three to six months, giving us time to create meaningful change and put new ways of leading into practice. Individual and organization-sponsored engagements are available.
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I offer both virtual and in-person coaching:
Virtual sessions are available for clients worldwide.
In-person sessions are offered in New York City.
I'll work with you to choose the best option for your needs.
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Contact me and we will schedule an initial consultation.