Executive Coaching and Leadership Development to Deliver Results, Faster
Stop Winging It.
Become a High Performer.
You're navigating one of the most demanding leadership environments of your career, including economic anxiety, geopolitical instability, multiple rounds of layoffs, AI disruption, and constant, overlapping change. You need a leadership operating system that works in the messy, intense reality of your day-to-day.
High Performance Orgs equips managers through executives with the mindset, skillset, and toolset to lead themselves, build stronger teams, and drive results without burning themselves or their teams out in the process.
FOR MANAGERS & DIRECTORS
Upgrade your Leadership Operating System
Start with a free 2-hour workshop.
If it's the right fit, the High Performance Leadership Accelerator is the full 12-week program with group coaching, 3 individual sessions, and lifetime content access (including upgrades).
FOR EXECUTIVES, VPs & SENIOR LEADERS
Request a free 55-minute
High Performance Executive Coaching Test Drive
Real coaching, not a sales pitch.
One session to get clarity, a sounding board and a personalized action plan for your biggest leadership challenges.
27
Years Experience
3,000+
Leaders Coached
150,000+
Employees Trained
37
Countries Served
TRUSTED BY
Why Is Leadership So Hard Right Now?
AI can analyze data, draft messages and reports, and automate workflows.
But here's what it can't do and will never be able to do: AI can't develop psychological safety on your team. It can't rebuild trust with your direct reports and colleagues. It can't have a performance conversation for you or inspire your team through uncertainty.
Those are human leadership skills.
Now they matter more than they ever have.
In the Age of AI, the expectations for human performance and output will dramatically increase.
And our leaders are already struggling without the skills they need to drive results in this environment.
The numbers tell the story.
Employees navigate 10 enterprise-wide changes per year on average now, up from 2 in 2016, and 66% say work is changing faster than their organization can adapt (Deloitte, 2025 Human Capital Trends).
75% of HR leaders say their managers are overwhelmed by expanding responsibilities and 70% say current leadership programs aren't preparing them for what's ahead (Gartner, 2025)
74% of managers say they lack the resources and influence to effectively support their teams (Microsoft, 2025).
Only 29% of employees say their leaders are effective at the human side of leadership (Gartner, 2025)
The result: trust in managers has dropped from 46% to 29% in just two years (DDI, Global Leadership Forecast 2025).
The environment is harder.
It requires different leadership skills.
The leaders who thrive will need to master the skills AI will never replace: self-awareness, self-regulation, ruthless prioritization, value-driven decision-making amidst uncertainty, cultivating psychological safety, earning and rebuilding trust, shared leadership and the ability to bring out the best in the people (and the AI tools) around them.
Meet Your Executive Coach
Michael "Coop" Cooper
Founder & Head Executive Coach
High Performance Orgs
Over 27 years, Coop has coached over 3,000 individual leaders and trained 150,000+ employees across 37 countries, from fast-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Along the way, he noticed something: the highest-performing leaders weren’t the ones working the hardest. They were the ones operating at a different level. Clearer (and fewer) priorities. Sharper decision-making frameworks. The discipline to self-regulate and focus when everything around them was chaotic.
He built the High Performance Leadership Operating System (HPLOS) so you can develop the clarity, discipline, and decision-making that elite performers spend decades figuring out on their own. Those patterns are now teachable, measurable, and repeatable. You don’t have to figure it out the hard way.
Request a Free High Performance Executive Coaching Test Drive to try it for yourself.
Your High Performance Leadership Operating System
A Structured Path to Higher Performance
Not tips and inspiration. A complete leadership operating system for high performance.
The High Performance Leadership Operating System (HPLOS) is a structured, measurable framework built across three levels: leading yourself as a high performer, building and leading high-performing teams, and influencing and leading high-performing organizations.
Developed over 27 years of coaching 3,000+ leaders and training 150,000+ employees in 37 countries, HPLOS translates leadership science into specific, repeatable behaviors you can practice, measure, and improve.
According to Gallup, managers who receive coaching-focused development see 20-28% improvements in their own performance and their teams show up to 18% improvement, with results holding 9 to 18 months after training ends. (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2025)
Leading Yourself as a High-Performer
Foundations: 10-domain assessment, self-awareness, self-regulation, high-performer mindset
Energy & Sustainability: cognitive load, recovery, sustainable pace
Focus & Prioritization: Thinking like a ceo, fiduciary and humanitarian, ruthless prioritization, deep work time blocking, strategic no's, value-driven decision-making
Leading High Performing Teams
Team Foundations: psychological safety, trust, alignment
Communication: clarity, difficult conversations, stakeholder management
Performance Management: feedforward, performance conversations, development plans, stress management, burnout prevention and recovery
Influencing & Leading High Performing Organizations
Strategic Thinking: systems thinking, decision-making amid uncertainty, organizational design
Influence: stakeholder mapping and management, conflict resolution
Culture Crafting: modeling values, developing vision, executive presence and impact
Measurement Cadence:
Every engagement includes a Baseline Assessment, End of Program Assessment & 90-Day Post Assessment.
You’ll know exactly what’s changing and what still needs work.
Choose Your Path to Higher Performance
Whether you want structured group development or dedicated 1:1 coaching, both programs are built on the same HPLOS backbone and the same measurement cadence.
FOR MANAGERS THROUGH SENIOR DIRECTORS
Secrets of High Performance Leadership Workshop
The High Performance Leadership Accelerator is a 12 week group coaching program that equips you with a science-backed and battle-tested mindset, skillset and toolset for high performance.
Includes 3 individual coaching sessions at key program milestones.
You get lifetime access to content and upgrades.
Includes a pre-program, ending and 90-day post-program assessments to measure progress over time.
Start with the free 2-hour Secrets of High Performance Leadership workshop. It's your first look inside.
FOR EXECUTIVES, VPs AND SENIOR LEADERS
High Performance Executive Coaching
Dedicated 1:1 coaching for executives and VPs who need a trusted thinking partner for the decisions, risks, and strategic challenges that don't come with a clear playbook.
You get a seasoned executive coach with deep operational and strategic experience as your thinking partner, sounding board, and performance coach.
8 structured sessions over 4 months. Tailored to the specific challenges of your role, your team, and your organization.
Your first session is complimentary.
The Coaching Test Drive is real coaching, not a sales pitch.
Results After Upgrading Your Leadership Operating System
Proven across different markets, industries, and organizational transformations in 37 countries. You’ll:
- Make faster, sharper decisions with incomplete information.
- Keep your best people engaged during uncertainty and change.
- Navigate complex initiatives without burning yourself or your team out.
- Stop reacting and start leading strategically.
- Build the kind of team that delivers results without requiring heroics.
Leaders Like You Are Already Seeing Results
Coop’s coaching was invaluable in helping me work through many challenges and opportunities that came out of this period of growth.
He provided clear insights, tools, and frameworks that were consistently actionable.
He strikes the right balance between being supportive and challenging, and regularly kept me accountable and pushed me to always handle difficult items directly and effectively.
I had the good fortune of working with Coop at multiple companies and I found him to be a really valuable resource for me and our team.
Not only does he bring some solid frameworks but he has the unique ability to inspire positive change and flex the muscles needed to achieve growth.
I highly recommend him.
Coop is a true master of human communication.
His easy-going style and techniques make it easy to discuss and unravel complicated situations.
Coop is great at advising through political situations and helping you “lean in” to push forward.
I learned new skills like human-centric leadership, psychological safety, vulnerability in leadership, feedforward, and others that are extremely important to build a strong company culture.
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Common Questions
What makes executive coaching actually work?
What makes coaching work is the combination of a structured framework, real-world application, and a feedback loop with an experienced coach that shows you whether behavior is actually changing and how to improve.
At HPO, every engagement includes a Baseline Assessment, an End-of-Program Assessment, and a 90-Day Post-Program Assessment. You don't have to guess whether it's working. You know.
How much time does leadership coaching take?
Our High Performance Leadership Accelerator gives you lifetime access (including upgrades) to self-paced video lessons and field work, 12 weeks of group coaching sessions for questions and implementation support, and 3 individual coaching sessions at key program milestones.
Leaders in the program typically recover 2-5 hours per week within the first month through sharper prioritization and better decision-making. The program is designed to give you time back, not take more of it.
Is leadership coaching worth it for senior leaders?
86% of companies that invest in structured coaching report positive ROI, and 82% of leaders say coaching helped them develop stronger leadership behaviors (ICF, 2023; Kapable, 2024).
Whether it works for you depends on starting with clarity on your specific challenges.
That's what the free High Performance Executive Coaching Test Drive is for: a real coaching session, not a sales pitch, so you can experience the approach before committing.
What is the difference between executive coaching and leadership development?
Our High Performance Executive Coaching is 1:1 and tailored to your specific role, challenges, and goals as senior leaders and executives.
Our flagship leadership development program The High Performance Leadership Accelerator equips you with the mindset, skillset and toolset for leading yourself as a high-performer, building and leading high-performing teams, and influencing and leading high-performing organizations.
Both programs are built on the same framework (HPLOS) and the same measurement cadence, so whether you're an executive or VP who needs a thinking partner or a director building leadership fundamentals, you're refining your leadership operating system, not just having a good conversation.
What is the High Performance Leadership Operating System?
The High Performance Leadership Operating System (HPLOS) is HPO's core framework for leadership development.
It covers three levels: leading yourself as a high performer, building and leading high-performing teams, and influencing and leading high-performing organizations.
Every HPO program, whether group or 1:1, is built on HPLOS, equipping managers through executives with a structured, measurable path.
How does the HPO group coaching program work?
The High Performance Leadership Accelerator (HPLA) is a 12-week evergreen group coaching program. You can join at any point.
From your start date, you get 12 weeks of access to our live group coaching sessions for implementation support and to answer any questions, lifetime access to self-paced curriculum, and three individual coaching sessions at key milestones.
It ends with a Post-Program Assessment and a 90-Day Follow-Up Assessment. You measure your progress and know what to focus on next.
Ready to Stop Winging It?
Managers & Directors
Join our free 2-hour live workshop
Secrets of High Performance Leadership
that gives you core frameworks from the High Performance Leadership Operating System.
You’ll walk away with tools you can use immediately.
No selling.
Executives & VPs
Your first coaching session is complimentary.
You’ll get immediate clarity on your most pressing leadership challenges and a concrete plan for moving forward.
Request a free 55-minute
High Performance Executive Coaching Test Drive
High Performance Orgs (HPO) is an executive coaching and leadership development company founded in San Francisco, California in 1999 by Michael Cooper (known as Coop). Operating under the legal entity Loving Leaders, LLC, HPO has trained more than 3,000 individual leaders and 150,000+ employees across 37 countries. Its proprietary methodology, the High Performance Leadership Operating System (HPLOS), is delivered through two programs: the High Performance Leadership Accelerator (HPLA) for managers through senior directors, and High Performance Executive Coaching (HPEC) for VPs, C-suite, and founders.