Executive Coaching

Cultivate Grit. Amplify Action.

“If you want to transform your team’s performance, you must first master the three pillars of Self-Reliant Leadership®

- Jan Rutherford

Leaders often point to three issues that prevent teams from breaking through mediocrity to achieve the extraordinary:

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    “I am not seeing people take Ownership of problems and initiating collaborative approaches to solve them.”

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    “I’d like to see my team hold each other Accountable for results and relationship so that I can do the work only I can do.”

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    “I’d like to eliminate silos, turf wars, and petty politics to create a one-company mindset where we’re truly focused and Aligned on our top priority.”

Before you can guide others to greatness, you have to build a strong, solid base for yourself as a leader.  For today’s executive, this means mastering the three pillars that are the foundation of Self-Reliant Leadership®.

I

Leading
Self

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Amplify personal responsibility and ownership by cultivating grit.

  • Self represents a personal responsibility to be squared away mentally, emotionally and physically.

II

Leading
Others

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Boost accountability by getting people to not only work with each other, but work for each other.

  • Others is first and foremost about fostering an environment of trust.

III

Leading the Organization

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Conduct courageous conversations that result in greater collaboration, alignment and focus.

  • Organization happens when teams are aligned on destination, direction, and pace.

With these three pillars as your foundation, you are in a sound position to instill your teams with the courage and resilience they need to realize your organization’s heroic aspirations. 

My coaching is tailored to the goals, challenges, issues, problems, and opportunities that are unique to you, your team, and your organization.

Together we’ll establish goals, and develop a specific program that helps you control, and influence where you spend your time so you can do what only you can do.  This will ultimately help you cultivate greater cross-functional collaboration throughout your company to create and sustain exceptional team performance.

Outcomes

The executives I partner with consistently gain a sharper ability to…

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    Cultivate inner grit and enhance their personal resilience during difficult challenges

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    Engage in definitive, clear-cut conversations with stakeholders, peers, and employees

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    Accelerate achievement by slowing down to reflect and work on the right problems

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    Assess the gap between the plan and the outcome to reframe expectations

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    Create tighter collaboration, accountability and focus within their team

Leaders I work with find that leveraging the 3 pillars of Self-Reliant Leadership® helps them build a team that is truly committed, not just merely compliant.

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"I found your TEDx talk very wise…and refreshing. You have the quiet authority to make the case, without a trace of bluster or inauthenticity, for the value of perseverance and sacrifice; all the better that you tie the sufferance of personal risk and discomfort to the need to reflect on your deepest values and to live by them. Your call to action is not to change the myth-of-your-life so you like yourself better but to change your life to earn the change of story."

Vincent Stanley

Director of Philosophy at Patagonia, Inc.
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“Thank you for what you’ve done for me, for my team and for veterans and leaders everywhere.”

Jacqueline Molnar

Chief Compliance Officer, Western Union
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"Jan is definitely one of the most committed, passionate, and knowledgeable teachers and practitioners of leadership and management I have worked with."

Jim Downey

Vice President of Global Learning and Organizational Development, CH2M Hill

CONTACT JAN RUTHERFORD today for more information about Self-Reliant Leadership®