Last Updated on June 26, 2025 by Dave Schoenbeck
In the face of new technology and a rapidly evolving digital landscape, business leaders in the 21st century confront an unprecedented and ever-changing set of challenges. When you need help navigating these choppy waters, an executive coach can help. But what is executive coaching, and what can it do for you? Here’s what you need to know. 
What Is Executive Coaching?
According to Forbes, the definition of executive coaching is “a personalized professional development process aimed at enhancing leadership skills and behaviors.” A coach provides advice for you and your company that will make you a better leader and help your business grow.
An executive business coach is a passionate and positive individual dedicated to helping you succeed. Through coaching, you can overcome your fears and weaknesses and push yourself to be the best leader.
What a Coach Can Do for You
A business coach will help you achieve your goals. Your coach will design a program tailored to your unique needs and leadership strengths.
I have over 30 years of hands-on experience coaching hundreds of professionals across various industries. I focus on four significant areas of business results in my coaching practice. These executive coaching objectives are:
- Financial performance
- Skilled time management and personal productivity
- Quality of results
- Quantity of deliverables
These results are driven by operational execution, leadership effectiveness, and team interaction. Executive business coaching programs keep one eye on these deliverables and one eye on your leadership behaviors, giving you the objectivity of an exceptional premier sideline sports coach.
What Does a Coaching Relationship Look Like?
Coaching is conducted through one-on-one interactions. It is driven by data gathered with respect and trust, often from multiple sources within and outside your organization. The coach and executive collaborate to achieve maximum personal and organizational impact, as well as improved performance.
The executive coaching process will look different for each client, but it will at least involve regular check-ins and assessments to help you reach your goals. My role is to observe and reflect on your situation, enabling you to see your options and strategies more clearly going forward. As a third party, I can identify blind spots that you may be missing.
The Benefits of Business Coaching
Executive business coaching is a facilitative and development-focused experience. As an executive business coach, I aim to stretch your strategic and tactical problem-solving, thinking, management, and leadership behaviors. I help you improve habits to ensure your high-level performance continues even after your coaching ends.
Executive coaching offers numerous benefits, including increased confidence, improved management, renewed creativity, and enhanced self-awareness. I help my clients maximize their time at the office so they can focus on their families outside of work.
The ultimate goal of the objectives in the definition of executive coaching is to enhance your personal growth, enabling you to achieve results in the workplace. That means becoming a better leader and increasing your business’s bottom line.
Now that you understand the definition of executive coaching, it’s time to take the next step. Schedule a complimentary video call to discuss your customized executive coaching program here.
Coach Dave
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