Coaching Services

What do you need to thrive? What’s getting in your way?

Coaching is a powerful way to close the gap between the results you’re getting and the results you want. Even the most experienced leaders are often on autopilot—operating out of unexamined beliefs and habits that may not be serving their stated objectives. With deep listening and powerful questions, your coach will help you identify and evaluate the assumptions driving your actions.

By building new self-awareness, you are empowered to decide whether you want to stick with the path you’re on or make a change—and develop a plan of action supporting that choice. Your coach will be your champion, your challenger, and your accountability partner as you:

More fully realize your leadership potential

Maximize results for you and your team

Increase your personal and professional satisfaction

  • Customized engagements to advance professional goals, navigate challenges, and develop an authentic leadership presence. Each engagement is customized to meet the client’s needs, but topics may include:

    • Bringing out the best in your staff

    • Living out your values at home and at work when they seem to be in conflict

    • Figuring out what's next in your career

    • Managing challenging relationships with bosses, colleagues, or direct reports

    • Figuring out what kind of leader you want to be

    • Navigating a career change or a new job

  • Organizations have been investing in coaching for executives for years — spurred on by the transformational results. But why wait until leaders reach the C-suite to help them develop the mindsets, resources, and self-knowledge that lead to stronger organizational outcomes and more effective management? A coaching engagement with a newer team leader might include:

    • Reflecting on role models for management and leadership

    • Articulating and evaluating assumptions about what makes a “good” leader

    • Exploring your relationship with giving and receiving feedback

    • Navigating the transition from peer to supervisor

  • Deans, Associate Deans, and Faculty Leaders: Many faculty leaders are deeply talented academics who find themselves in administrative positions for which their prior experience has not adequately prepared them. Coaching provides a partner to help them think through what they need to feel confident and successful in this new environment — and to repurpose the skills they bring from teaching and research in an administrative context.

    Staff Leaders: Even the most confident operational and administrative staff leaders can be challenged by hierarchical academic cultures that don’t always perceive staff voices as authoritative. Coaching can help you find your voice — and amplify your team’s voices in ways that resonate in an academic setting.

  • What does your team need to grow into its potential? Via group coaching, retreats, or other customized workshops, we can design an engagement to:

    • Build team cohesion and role clarity

    • Learn how to work together more effectively

    • Craft team purpose

    • Tackle difficult conversations

Because you set the agenda, no two coaching engagements are the same.

Contact us to schedule an introductory call to learn more.

Working with Kerry

  • “Working with Kerry taught me how to move forward with complex projects involving a wide array of actors across my university.  As an academic in a senior leadership role, she gave me vital insights into aspects of my job that I had never been taught to navigate.   Through her coaching I discovered ways to become more productive and more satisfied with my life as a whole."

    — China Scherz, Professor, University of Notre Dame

  • "Kerry Grannis is one of those rare people who combines a brilliant analytical mind with deep emotional intelligence. She excels as both a listener and advisor, providing valuable guidance to tackle management challenges and foster leadership growth. I attribute much of my professional development to Kerry's influence."

    — Ted Gayer, President, The Niskanen Center

  • "Talking to Kerry feels like chatting with a smart, insightful, warm friend. She puts you at ease right away; she’s open and nonjudgmental, while gently pushing you to challenge yourself by thinking in new and creative ways."

    — Stephanie Cencula, Associate Director, The Brookings Institution

  • “I was able to break out of my usual patterns of thought and see new approaches that I had never seen before. I learned something new about myself and found a kinder and broader perspective with which to approach myself and any professional challenges that come my way. This self growth and discovery was beyond anything I thought possible when we first began.”

    - Maureen H., Public Policy Communications