About High Performance Orgs

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The coaching firm behind the operating system

High Performance Orgs is a San Francisco executive coaching and leadership development firm founded in 1999 by Michael “Coop” Cooper. We coach founders, executives, VPs, and senior leaders through 1:1 High Performance Executive Coaching (4 months, 8 sessions), and managers, directors, and high-potentials through the High Performance Leadership Accelerator (12 weeks of group coaching, 3 individual sessions, lifetime curriculum access).

Both programs run on the High Performance Leadership Operating System (HPLOS): mindset (how you think about your role), skillset (the specific behaviors that produce results), and toolset (frameworks you use in your next 1:1, your next team meeting, your next difficult conversation). We measure every engagement at baseline, 90 days, and 180 days so you can see what changed in your own data.

We’ve coached 3,000+ leaders and trained 150,000+ employees in 37 countries. Based in San Francisco, working with leaders worldwide. The most common outcomes: faster decisions, fewer repeating problems, stronger relationships with the people who matter most to your role.

Most leaders were never trained for their job

The skills that earn a promotion aren’t the skills you need for leading teams. A VP who earned their role through technical brilliance discovers the job is now trust, feedback, and decisions made with incomplete information.

The good news for you: the skills for high performance leadership are specific, the methods are proven, and your results are measurable.

Coaching secrets collected since 1999

After coaching 3,000+ leaders in 37 countries, the patterns are clear. The leadership problems repeat. The skills are learnable. Most leaders have never been taught them.

We built High Performance Orgs as an executive coaching firm to close that gap. Battle-tested with Silicon Valley startups and Fortune 500 companies. Results measured every 90 days.

High performance is built on daily habits

Every leader already has a leadership operating system. It’s how you make decisions, manage meetings, give feedback, delegate. You built most of it through trial and error. Coaching upgrades the parts that aren’t working.

We help you upgrade that operating system with the mindset, skillset, and toolset for high performance leadership. You bring your real challenges. We help you see what you’re missing and build your action plan.

The levels are sequential. You can only build a high-performing team if you’ve become a high-performer yourself.

We built rubrics that show you what high performance looks like. Paired with data, feedback, performance coaching, and repetition, you can see the gap between where you are and where you want to be. We help you grow faster.

When you can see the behavioral economics of your actions, decisions, and outcomes, you focus on what matters most to deliver better results, faster.

What changes when leaders get the right coaching?

Coaching produces measurable change. 80% of coached leaders report improved self-confidence. 70% report improved work performance. (ICF Global Coaching Study, 2023)

We measure coaching results with baseline assessments at the start and reassessments at 90 and 180 days. You see what changed in your own data and decide what to focus on next.

The most common outcomes you’ll see: fewer repeating problems, faster decisions, stronger relationships with the people who matter most to your role.

What leaders say about leadership coaching

“I know and have worked with a number of leading executive coaches. Coop ranks among the best. He is highly intuitive, a superb communicator, extremely insightful, incorporates a broad range of approaches and techniques. He pushes you in a thoughtful way, which really accelerated my learning and growth.”

Jeffrey Balash

Founder & CEO, Comstock Advisors

“Coop is highly intuitive and is masterful at reading individuals and situations to quickly identify areas for potential growth. As an executive coach he acts as a mirror, allowing you to see yourself as others see you and provides actionable strategies to take advantage of individual strengths or overcome real or perceived roadblocks.”

Megan B. Atiyeh

Strategist, Engage PR

“I had the great pleasure of working with Coop last year. He’s 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. ”

Ashraf Karim

VP Product Management, PayPal

“He has had the opportunity to coach a number of our leaders to this point and I have heard nothing but amazing feedback on the work that he’s doing. The staff really enjoy working with him and find his approach very helpful and refreshing. In fact, Coop’s coaching and support recently helped one of our leaders obtain a promotion!”

Maira Lazdins, SPHR

Manager, Human Resources, Spark PR

“From all his reps working with early stage startups, Coop has incredible pattern recognition on everything we have run into. He can speak with a high level of detail towards what has worked and hasn’t worked at other companies, and can abstract away overarching principles to navigate virtually any situation.”

Nate Robert

Cofounder & CEO, Baton

“Coop not only has the uncanny ability to hold a problem and rotate it through space, but also more than enough empathy to create recognition of the depth and width of the problem in his client. I consider myself quite insightful, but working with Coop I’ve found new ways to understand myself, my environment, my career and my business.”

Marc Shillum

Chief Creative Officer, eBay

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