Executive Leadership Coaching for Founders and Senior Leaders

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What is executive coaching?

Executive leadership coaching is a structured, confidential 1:1 engagement between a senior leader and an experienced coach. The coach helps the leader sharpen how they think, decide, and act in their role. 80% of coached leaders report improved self-confidence (ICF/PwC Global Coaching Client Study, 2024).

Coaching is not therapy (which focuses on emotional health and personal history), not mentoring (which shares career guidance), and not consulting (which delivers recommendations). Coaching builds the leader’s own capacity to solve the problems in front of them.

Every engagement includes structured measurement at baseline, 90 days, and 180 days. You see what changed in your own data and decide what to focus on next. The return extends beyond the individual leader: coached executives build teams that make faster decisions, retain key people longer, and execute with less friction. Organizations that invested in coaching reported a median ROI of 700% (ICF, 2023).

The research on executive leadership coaching

What leaders say about executive leadership coaching

“Coop has been an invaluable resource for my executive team and I. As a first time founder trying to scale a new business during a global pandemic, I don’t know what I would have done without Coops strategic guidance and counsel.”

Andrew Berberick

Cofounder, Baton

“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.”

Chris Akhavan

Chief Revenue Officer, Glu Mobile

“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

“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

“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

“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

Who is this built for?

You’re a founder, executive, VP, or senior leader. You want sharper tools and smarter thinking for the stressors, challenges and reality you face daily.

You want a private space to think through the decisions, conversations, and challenges that come with your level of responsibility: your leadership team alignment, a board relationship that needs attention, the strategic bet you’re weighing, the hire that could change the trajectory of your organization.

This program is for leaders who:

• Lead teams, departments, or companies and want to get better at it
• Make decisions with organizational consequences and want a thinking partner for the hardest ones
• Want coaching that measures what changed, not just what was discussed
• We’ve coached founders from pre-revenue through Series D in 37 countries since 1999.

If you’re a manager or director building core skills (delegation, feedback, leading better meetings), the High Performance Leadership Accelerator is a better fit.

Meet your executive coach

Michael “Coop” Cooper

Founder & Head Executive Coach

I’ve been coaching leaders since 1999. Over 27 years, I’ve worked with more than 3,000 leaders in 37 countries. Founders, executives, VPs, C-suite leaders, senior directors.

Before coaching full-time, I spent 15 years in operational leadership roles in tech, media, nonprofit, and startup organizations, including building and leading teams, managing P&Ls, and dealing with the same pressures my clients bring to coaching.

What i’ve observed over that time is the challenges change with the industry and the era. But the leadership patterns are the same. When you describe what’s happening with your leadership team, I’ve probably seen the pattern before. More about Coop.

I built a coaching method (the High Performance Leadership Operating System) that gives you the mindset shifts, skills, and tools for high performance leadership. Science-backed and battle tested so you can use them in your next 1:1, your next board conversation, or your next quarterly review.

How much does executive leadership coaching cost?

86% of organizations that tracked executive leadership coaching ROI reported positive returns (ICF/PwC, 2024). Most executive coaching programs at this level don’t publish pricing. You find out after a sales call, a proposal, and a follow-up email. I’d rather you know what it costs before you reach out.

$7,500 for four months of executive leadership coaching focused on the decisions, conversations, and challenges that define how you lead and the impact you make. Most clients tell me the ROI shows up in the first month and often the first conversation.

Many companies cover the investment through professional development budgets or Learning & Development funds. I’m happy to provide whatever documentation your organization needs. Learn more about executive coaching ROI and how much executive coaching costs.

Coaching vs. other options

Coaching, therapy, and mentoring are not competitors. Many of my clients work with a therapist and a coach at the same time. The work is different. Coaching focuses on how you lead right now. Therapy focuses on why.

AI coaching tools can suggest frameworks. They can’t hear the thing you didn’t say on a call with your leadership team, read the tension between two direct reports in a standup, or hold you accountable when you backslide on the commitment you made last week.

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