LOS ALTOS LEADERSHIP COACH FOR HIGH ACHIEVING PROFESSIONALS
1:1 Executive Coaching in San Francisco
Creating an environment of self-discovery and acceptance to inspire personal and professional growth.
Leadership can make or break a venture
Great leaders aren’t born; they’re shaped through experience and the deliberate development of skills—like those cultivated through personalized 1:1 leadership coaching.
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We’ve all experienced firsthand how a strong leader influences their team's success. When a leader shows up as generous, thoughtful, and supportive, it energizes a team, paving the way for great accomplishments. Just as a team looks to its leader for guidance, leaders can benefit from working with an experienced executive coach to become the kind of leader they aspire to be.
Do these leadership challenges sound familiar?
Leadership coaching addresses a variety of leadership challenges, including:
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Organizational changes
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Difficult team dynamics
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New leadership roles
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Emotional regulation in the workplace
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Team performance issues
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Time management challenges
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Imposter syndrome
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Communication breakdowns
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Indecision or analysis paralysis
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Low confidence
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Intergenerational team conflicts
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Struggling to foster innovation and creativity
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Leadership and team motivation during uncertainty
How can executive coaching help?
The 1:1 coaching process enables clients to improve their proficiency in essential leadership skills, develop self-awareness by assessing their strengths and challenges, and implement changes in their professional lives that enhance work satisfaction and expand their efficacy as leaders.
Executive coaching benefits aspiring leaders as well as seasoned professionals seeking growth. By reducing stress and increasing self-assuredness, one-on-one coaching helps leaders guide their teams confidently and effectively.
What can 1:1 leadership coaching achieve?
Executive coaching provides a structured space to cultivate essential professional and personal development skills. It is an opportunity to explore motivations and values, discover new opportunities, overcome obstacles, and grow into the type of leader needed for success.
Skills developed through 1:1 coaching include:
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Decision-making and goal-setting
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Emotional intelligence
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Conflict management
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Strategic thinking
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Self-awareness
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Effective communication
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Negotiation skills
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Time management
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Assertiveness
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Self-confidence
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Relationship building
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Adaptability and resilience
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Critical thinking
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Ethics and integrity
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Providing effective feedback
Leadership coaching supports:
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Career advancement
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Leadership development
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Goal achievement
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Increased confidence
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Work-life balance
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Enhanced performance
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Effective decision-making & prioritization
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Professional development
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Stress management
Nidhi’s approach to leadership coaching incorporates:
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Mindfulness
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Motivational interviewing,
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Role-playing
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Visualization
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Appreciative inquiry
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Compassionate conversation
About Nidhi Kaul,
An experienced executive coach and therapist
Nidhi Kaul combines her psychotherapy expertise with over a decade of experience coaching leaders across diverse industries. Her coaching is results-driven, tailored to each individual's needs, and focused on achieving measurable progress.
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Sessions are designed around actionable goals, ensuring leaders leave with clear strategies to implement between meetings. Nidhi helps clients overcome limiting beliefs, build resilience, and develop essential leadership skills, transforming mindsets, skill sets, and leadership approaches.
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In one-on-one coaching sessions, Nidhi focuses on cultivating essential leadership skills like clear decision-making, goal setting, emotional intelligence, effective communication, and conflict management to contribute to individual, team, and organizational success. Using a 360-degree interview process, she identifies strengths and areas for improvement, setting clear coaching objectives.
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Nidhi brings a range of techniques to her transformative coaching experience, including mindfulness, motivational interviewing, role-playing, visualization, appreciative inquiry, and compassionate conversation. These approaches foster an environment of self-discovery and acceptance, promoting the development of new behavioral patterns, and liberation from limiting beliefs, leading to overall personal and professional growth.
Leadership coaching is most effective when personalized. The 360-degree interview process integrates feedback from supervisors, direct reports, peers, and others to define coaching objectives and identify strengths and areas for improvement.
The 360-degree interview: illuminating areas of growth
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.”
Bill Phillips
Frequently Asked Questions About 1:1 Executive Coaching
Below are the most common questions about one-on-one coaching services. If you don’t see your question answered here, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Only inadequate leaders need leadership coaching, right?
Not at all! Professional development is important for all leaders, and leadership coaching is a valuable professional development tool that can catalyze growth even in highly effective leaders.
Past coaching clients include startup founders, leaders, and other professionals from companies such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, Tesla, Sony, Netflix, Genentech, Thermo Fisher, Instacart, Clorox, and more.
These are companies with highly successful leadership structures. They recognize leadership coaching as an excellent resource for expanding personal and professional capabilities.
What is an executive coaching session like?
Sessions begin by reviewing the goals you have worked on since the last meeting, debriefing on successes, and reviewing the reasons for setbacks.
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The conversation then shifts to advancing the coaching plan through techniques like motivational interviewing, guided skills development, role-playing, and visualization.
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Each session concludes with actionable objectives to tackle before the next meeting.
How often are coaching sessions and how long do they typically last?
Sessions are typically 30-60 minutes long and can be scheduled weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, depending on the client's preferences and coaching objectives.
We’ll work together to determine the frequency that best supports your progress.
