For leaders stepping into more, and those carrying more.
Executive coaching and confidential advisory for high-performing Directors, VPs, SVPs and C-suite executives. The more senior the role, the fewer people you can think out loud with. I work with you directly, in confidence, on what you are actually facing.
Two ways to work with me.
Both draw on my 30+ years of global business experience and my training as an ICF Master Certified Coach. The difference is how we work together.
Executive Coaching
For Directors through C-suite executives stepping into a bigger role, or learning to lead through others. Engagements typically run 4 to 12 months, and many are sponsored by the leader’s organization.
How sponsored engagements work →Confidential Advisory
A thought partner for the commercial calls, organizational politics and people decisions you can’t fully talk through inside the company.
- Ongoing advisory
- A monthly retainer, typically ten hours, drawn on as the month requires. Some months that is regular sessions. Others it is one conversation the day a decision lands.
- Executive Intensive
- Focused work on one high-stakes decision, relationship or moment.
Candid counsel, in confidence.
Whether you are stepping into a bigger role or already carrying one, the conversations stay practical and private. We work on the situations in front of you, as they happen.
Some sessions are about a decision you need to make. Others are about a relationship that isn’t working, or a pattern you keep running into. I’ll be candid with you, and I’ll stay on your side.
“A strategic thought partner for the decisions you can’t fully talk through anywhere else, inside or outside the organization.”
Claudia Beck, MCC
Working through a consequential decision
Say you are six months into a turnaround and deciding whether to replace a direct report. Here is how an advisory session on that call works.
- What would have to be true for this person to succeed in the role as it is now?
- Who else has already formed a view, and how did it reach you?
- What will the rest of the team conclude from the decision, and from its timing?
- That the gap sits with the person, and the mandate itself is sound.
- That a replacement could start delivering before the turnaround needs results.
- That waiting another quarter costs less than acting now.
- The decision itself.
- The timing.
- How it is communicated, and to whom first.
The situations that come up most
Each engagement starts from what is in front of you. These four come up again and again.
Decision Quality
How you make the big calls when the information is incomplete and the pressure is high.
Influence
Getting support for what matters from peers, boards and people you don’t control.
Cross-functional Dynamics
Getting functions that compete for the same resources to work toward the same result.
Sustained Scrutiny
Staying clear and steady while you’re watched closely from above, below and outside.
What stays between us, and what a sponsor sees.
We agree the boundaries at the start, in writing, so nobody has to guess later.
Our conversations stay between us, within the limits of our agreement and the ICF Code of Ethics. You decide what to share, and with whom.
Your sponsor sees your development priorities and your progress, at check-ins you lead. Session content stays with you, and so does any 360 report unless you choose to share it.
The first conversation is thirty minutes, in confidence. We decide whether working together makes sense before anything else is agreed.
Company-sponsored engagement? The full process, roles and sponsor touchpoints are set out for HR and talent partners.
Who I work with
The work fits best when three things are true.
High-performing Directors and VPs stepping into bigger roles, and SVPs and C-suite executives, including founders and partners, carrying enterprise-level decisions.
A transition, a bigger mandate, significant transformation, or leadership succession.
Willing to hear what others may not be telling you, and to act on it.
Want a private starting point? The ATTUNE™ Leader diagnostic is a self-assessment you complete on your own.
ATTUNE Leadership
When the work is about the whole leadership team, how it decides, aligns and delivers together, it happens at ATTUNE Leadership, my executive team practice.
“Claudia combines candor with empathy. She will challenge you, but always in service of your growth and performance. ... If you are a senior leader looking for a trusted thought partner who understands both enterprise complexity and the internal pressures that come with responsibility, I recommend Claudia without hesitation.”
“Claudia coached me through a really tough period, what I appreciated about her the most was her calm approach. She listened, she empathized and she helped me find a way forward, my way forward.”
Start with a conversation.
Engagements with Claudia Beck, MCC are selective and confidential. The first conversation is thirty minutes and carries no commitment.