High Impact Leadership

Janis has been my mentor/coach for over 13 years. She has navigated me through many ups and downs professionally. Her insight, wisdom, ability to help me see things from a different perspective and her willingness to tell you things you don’t always want to hear have been invaluable. I owe a lot of who I am as a leader to Janis’s coaching.

There was me BA (before Allan) and there is me AA (after Allan) — the latter being a better me.

Your ability to make an impact through one statement or short sentence that really resonates and sticks … I will never forget those statements.

Kris has an uncanny ability to connect with people.  Her skills have helped me both personally and professionally with my own ability to communicate and connect with people.  Shortly after her engagement with my team, we uncovered blind spots, learned authentic communication and strengthened our team dynamics.  The results were easily measured and we are continuing to see dividends.

Janis was my coach/mentor for two years, and what a difference she has made on my career, my approach, and the way that I look at my areas of opportunity! Janis is able to use her own experiences as a woman in an executive role, and her journey to get there to help mentor and provide examples that put into practice what I could be facing as well. She asks the right questions that get me thinking what the true issues are and gives me the homework and coaching to arrive and the solutions or potential ideas. Personally, I have grown so much the last two years, thanks in big part to her support, guidance, and honest and brilliant advice.

Kris and I have the same Enneagram Profile. I feel like she “gets” me and knows what my strengths are and what areas I’m challenged with as a leader. I have an open safe confidential place to land with her. The time we have together allows me to unpack the stressors that come with leading a virtual team and how I can be a stronger leader.

Allan’s value has less to do with what he says and more to do with what he sees. He has an innate gift of recognition: an ability to have the leader to ‘know again’ the best (the heart) of who they once were, but has been buried.

The work we did was all about making me a better human – able to better manage the human condition of the complicated life of an executive. It wasn’t just about how I could be a better executive or accelerate my career. My work with you helped me improve the way I face life in totality.

You have a tremendous gift as Executive Coach. For years we only met over the phone, yet it has always felt you were sitting right in front of me, being able to observe my body language and emotions as well. At times your insights were so spot on that it almost became ‘spooky’. Honestly, you have changed my life.

Your coaching has been transformational. I learned how to be a better – person, executive and leader.

Questage’s Leadership Team Dynamics Program is a results-focused team experience with an amazing assessment process that provides the best results I have seen in 35+ years in the consumer package goods business. The program drives an immediate understanding of both my own, and my team’s, strengths related to our core motivations which helped us elevate our team performance and raise our impact as leaders.

Questage’s Team Dynamic Program gave me and my team an opportunity to pause from our day-to-day business activities to better understand our team dynamics. This virtual Program help us understand how we were each wired around individual core motivations allowing us to build synergies and embrace the uniqueness of each team member. As a result, our team alignment has never been stronger.

Your passions and commitments shine through: you practice what you preach by taking risks and going for the things that matter. I also really like that you don’t shy away from the mysterious and unknowable.

Think Up values team growth and individual development so we were excited to discover Questage’s Team Dynamics Program. What started as an event for our senior team resulted in a training rollout for the entire company. The experience provided us with a common language and solid framework for increasing empathy in the workplace. The outcomes allow us to focus on our individual and collective strengths while identifying and minimizing potential roadblocks, resulting in stronger communication, increased trust, quicker conflict resolution, and smarter decision making. The team concepts have been embraced at all levels and are an integral part of how we work together.

You’re a coach who understands the demands on business leaders in today’s operating environment, especially in finance services. You have amazing experiences that bring forward relevant and practical advice.

Janis was a mentor and guide to me throughout my 5 years at Marriott. She provided me insights to challenging problems, helped me think more critically about navigating roadblocks, and provided tons of useful perspective on work and life more broadly.

While you were always supportive you weren’t the usual “cheerleader.” I needed a brilliant mirror not another cheerleader. I loved that you were open to my style and adjusted yours (I see a lot of template coaching).

Kris helped me gain clarity to further understand my communication style and how I can elevate it to gain more alignment and with the other members on my team.

After spending a one hour coaching session with Kris; I gained clarity on a question I had been struggling with for over 6 months.