Challenge: Succession

Program

Coached the Brilliant Thought Leader CEO of a professional services firm on succession and next steps in career. Did an organizational analysis and 360.

Outcome

Next layer of management started taking on more responsibilities for client acquisition and managing the talent below them more effectively.

Challenge: Scaling

Program

Coached the young CEO of a CPG startup for five years. Helped with the challenges of scaling the company rapidly and dramatically. Coached other members of the Management Committee on team collaboration.

Outcome

The company became a recognized unicorn with a multi-billion-dollar valuation.

Challenge: Team Alignment

Program

Did the feedback for the renowned president of a large, complex urban university, plus the feedback for all direct reports and deans. Facilitated feedback/debrief team meetings.

Outcome

Achieved clarity around rules of engagement to help senior leadership work together more effectively with each other and with the president. Over the following three years, three senior team members went on to engage Evelyn to work with them and their teams at the university, and later at other organizations.

Challenge: Senior Team Building

Program

Over the course of three years, coached the CEO of a 4,000-person inpatient healthcare company on communicating strategy and vision. Did 360 feedback process and team building with direct reports with focus on collaboration across divisions, plus leadership training for senior professional staff.

Outcome

Dramatically increased employee retention, satisfaction scores and profitability.

Challenge

The high-potential marketing executive in a Fortune 500 consumer company needed to take on a new enterprise-wide leadership role.

Program

Coached the executive on delegation skills, vision, communication strategies, and organizational agility. Worked in close partnership with the CEO in many joint sessions to test out and prove the executive’s emerging new skills, especially in strategy development.

Outcome

Both the executive and the CEO went on to acquiring new brands and expanded areas of responsibility.

Challenge

Newly hired Creative Director of a Fortune 500 industrial & consumer goods company needed to integrate her fresh creative vision with the CEO’s strategies.

Program

Coached the executive in selling ideas effectively across divisions, managing interdepartmental conflicts, upgrading staff, and delegating to temperamental creative people, all the while managing for bottom line results.

Outcome

The executive was promoted to larger responsibilities and the leadership of more P&L areas.

Challenge

Senior Private Equity executive had to take on the leadership of a very complex portfolio of companies.

Program

Coached the executive on highly nuanced influence skills and effective ways to deliver complex messaging at the most senior levels, including boards of directors and institutional investors.

Outcome

The executive was able to communicate realities and win buy-in to new solutions. He was able to deliver results and gain enhanced reputation as a strategic leader inside the PE firm and with outside stakeholders.

Challenge

A Fortune 500 C-Suite Human Resources executive promoted into a new role with expanded functional responsibilities and extensive CEO and board exposure.

Program

Coached the executive on defining and honing simplified strategies to manage a multitude of legacy operations, plus CEO and board presentation skills.

Outcome

promoted to even higher and wider levels of responsibility.

Challenge

C-Suite executive promoted into a senior role managing 100,000+ employees

Program

Coached the executive on enterprise-level strategy, vision, engagement, and leadership skills.

Outcome

The executive is thriving in the most complex role of his career and continues to grow to CEO potential.