"Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power."
- Tao Te Ching
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Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching creates space for dual development: activating the unique wisdom and gifts you already have while building concrete skills that will make you even more effective.
Engagements are customized to your unique needs and context
Coaching engagements include:
Assessment - Data gathering through 360 interview process, Enneagram assessment, and intake conversation
Personalized Coaching Program - Highly tailored and co-created program that includes observable outcomes to guide our work, relevant resources, and practices to get you there
Adaptive Learning - Support to integrate and apply new perspectives, skills, and practices that will move the needle in the areas that matter to you most
Common outcomes:
+ Grounded confidence and authentic leadership presence
+ Greater clarify, ease, and enjoyment
+ Clearer, more effective communication
+ Ability to navigate change and ambiguity without burning out
+ Positive ripple effects extending to teams, organizations, and communities
Client Testimonial
“Before starting coaching, I struggled with confidence in my own work and capabilities. I often felt overwhelmed by responsibilities and caught in cycles of anxiety that made it difficult to appreciate my achievements or trust my professional path.
The turning point came when Emilie helped me connect with my deepest strengths. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, she guided me to uncover my own mechanisms, to recognise where my resilience comes from, and how to activate it when I need it most.
From that moment on, I began to understand that the tools were already within me.
Today, things are different. I make decisions with greater confidence, I recognize progress rather than take it for granted, and I face difficult moments with a sense of stability I did not have before.
Coaching with Emilie opened a window into self-knowledge, helping me discover my strongest roots and build a way of working that supports me through life’s challenges and demands.”
A. U. - Professor and Researcher
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Team Development
Each engagement includes:
Assessment - Stakeholder interviews to understand team dynamics, personalities, challenge areas, opportunities, and priority topics to address
Co-design - Together, we articulate and clarify priority outcomes. From that foundation, we collaboratively design sessions for your team's specific dynamics to increase collaboration and effectiveness
Facilitation - With a team of world-class facilitators, we deliver powerful experiential workshops to deepen understanding and alignment, and practice new ways of working together to reach your goals
Common outcomes:
+ Greater alignment around values, vision, and strategy
+ Increased understanding and trust across differences
+ Ability to have difficult conversations, reduce drama and conflict
+ Improved communication and feedback loops
+ Strengthened relationships and team cohesion
High-functioning teams require intentional work to build trust, navigate differences, and create genuine alignment and coordination toward shared goals and vision. This work strengthens your capacity to navigate complexity together and achieve your desired results with more ease and enjoyment.
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Leadership Programs
True leadership development requires immersive, cohort-based learning that combines skill-building, self-awareness, and real-world application with a supportive community of peers.
Drawing on tried and true learning arcs and adult learning methodologies, we design customized programs for your unique context.
Program Design Process:
Assessment & design - Data gathering to understand organizational goals, participant needs and desires, as well as cultural/professional/community context
Curriculum development - We integrate experiential learning and fundamental skills practice with personal development work
Cohort-based learning - Participants learn and grow with and from their peers and build lasting networks of support
Applied practice - Learning is integrated via weekly self-reflections and practices , as well as via applied leadership projects
Common outcomes:
+ Grounded confidence and practical leadership skills
+ Deeper self-awareness and authentic leadership style
+ Peer networks that provide support and accountability
+ Tools to navigate complexity and ambiguity with greater ease
+ Leaders who are more effective, collaborative, and values-aligned
Client Testimonial
“When I had the vision of creating a leadership program for The African Leadership Group, it became reality with Emilie's help. She turned my ideas into a community project by getting input from community leaders. Emilie has helped these leaders know who they are through coaching and working with the Enneagram.
Program graduates have became elected officials thanks to her coaching.
Most fascinating is how Emilie navigates many different backgrounds. She is often the only white person in the room, among African Immigrants, African Americans, and Latinos, and she is at ease and much loved and respected. Emilie has transformed many lives in our community, including mine, and we love and appreciate her forever.
Papa Dia, Executive Director - African Leadership Group
Frequent Collaborators
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Effley Brooks
President, Tiger Bee Consulting, LLC. Associate Professor, University of Denver. Leadership expert, master facilitator, emotional intelligence coach.
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Mary Shippy, Ph.D.
Founder and President, Align Leadership. Transition coach, master facilitator and organizational development expert.
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Madiama Mbaye
President and Founder, Mentium Institute. Entrepreneur, author and certified executive coach, positive intelligence specialist, and public speaking trainer.
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Marybeth Gallager
President, Insightful Leadership. Expert in executive coaching, corporate human resources advising, and organizational development