Executive Coaching for Women
Go high. Be smart. Be authentic.
Coaching programs and tools help you overcome imposter syndrome anxieties, personal brand double binds and other challenges many women face in the workplace. Just because it’s harder for “most women” doesn’t mean it won’t be easy for you. Explore some of the professional goals that high quality executive coaching for women can help you achieve!
How to Succeed Authentically Without Burnout
“Women’s leadership coaching with an experienced and intuitive professional, one who’s worked in and around the C Suite, will transform your current challenges into opportunities to find success quickly and develop your authentic feminine leadership style. Working with a good coach, you’ll create a leadership and career development plan that puts you on the high road to personal mastery and visible achievement.
Women’s Leadership Coaching
The transition from being a doer to being a leader is challenging for everyone, and women leaders face unique challenges. With fewer role models at the top, many female leaders struggle to find their unique leadership style in executive positions, a style that increases their impact instead of catching them in an inauthentic double bind. Despite these obstacles, women are natural leaders and often develop the most innovative strategies for building strong and productive business cultures. InPower women’s leadership coaching programs empower women, helping them attain senior roles. These unique leadership programs are an investment in any successful career and business.
Coaching for Female Executives
Executive Coach Dana Theus has empowered and inspired hundreds of female leaders, giving them authentic strategies to develop confident personal brands and operate at higher levels. Her knowledge, sensitivity, leadership development experience and passion for helping professional women find their voice, explore their confidence and activate their higher potential gives you a strategic partner on your work-life path.
For over ten years, Dana has been a thought leader in women’s leadership, recognized by Forbes, The Atlantic and Smartbrief on Leadership and recommended by clients in Microsoft, Nestle and The World Bank, among many. As a result of her research and leadership programs, she’s created over 100 videos and workbooks of step-by-step, proven learning materials and strategies to empower female leaders. Leveraging decades of her own experience and study, she provides her female clients deep, intuitive insights, high-road shortcuts and in-depth development lessons, helping them achieve quick wins, build leadership skills and create long-term impact, all while creating personal brand visibility and management effectiveness.
“Dana offers an incredible blend of personal and professional development in her coaching. I hired Dana to help me navigate the complexity of managing from the middle in higher ed. She brought the right balance of empathy and accountability to our coaching sessions and helped me make multiple breakthroughs in my management style. I was so impressed with her 1:1 coaching, I also invested in a leadership development course with her. Working with Dana was an incredible experience, and I highly recommend her coaching to anyone looking to grow in their career.”
Benefits of Leadership Coaching for Women
Soft skills are critical to achieving your goals and are difficult to master, even for female executives experienced in leadership roles. While women have a statistical advantage when it comes to acquiring emotional intelligence and leadership skills, the average organizations’ workplace business culture doesn’t always reward them for their natural leadership style.
Coaching women makes the difference. Dana will help you refine your authentic style to lead with confidence and executive presence. She will help you put “discomfort” in your “comfort zone” so you take on bigger challenges more easily, personally and with your team. With her support you will you put overwhelm and your negative inner voice behind you and channel your surplus energy into mastering your work-life blend and cultivating a powerful leadership mindset. You will also learn techniques for gaining more benefit from the mentors and sponsors you’re developing on your own to support your career advancement and career goals.
“Before I started working with InPower techniques I was struggling with confidently getting my ideas across and standing for them without appearing to be aggressive or authoritarian.
Fundamentally my life changed after the 2nd session I had with Dana. It is like a veil has been removed from my face. It is like I can now breathe oxygen. I react to people very differently now than I did before. Working with Dana has been a life changing experience. I communicate clearly and I am more confident during my meetings with senior officials.”
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“Recently I’ve had the opportunity to take on new levels of leadership responsibility and found that what made me successful up until that point wasn’t going to be enough with more people reporting to me and accountability for more aggressive goals. I recommend Dana’s coaching to anyone who knows they can succeed at higher levels and needs someone skilled and trustworthy to help them get there with fewer bumps on the road that they can achieve on their own.”
R. Rothey
VP Development/Sr. Philanthropic Advisor at The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
“Dana coached and guided me through a new leadership role that was an opportunity for professional growth and success. She helped me learn how to handle business and people challenges and buoyed my confidence as progressed in my job. Everyone in leadership should consider working with an executive coach; I’m grateful that Dana is mine!”
K. Alexander
University Executive
“As our company grew quickly, I was feeling stressed and breaking down in my ability to do anything but work. Dana Theus and her InPower tools have been truly transformative, and I don’t say that lightly. I now feel empowered to take time to care for myself and “give myself permission” to not be always on and available – yet I feel I’m able to perform to a higher leadership level and feel accomplished at the end of most days.”
Melissa C
VP Client Services at Creating Results Strategic Marketing Agency
“I reach out to Dana whenever I have a big decision or a big career move to make. She has an uncanny way of always helping me tap exactly the right thought, perspective or belief within me to achieve the next stage of my career success. She recently advised me on making the biggest move of my career. With the confidence she helped me find inside myself I landed not only the job of my dreams, but the salary I deserve.”
Benefits of Executive Coaching
Operating at the executive level requires you to learn new tools and strategies for business dynamics you may think you’ve already mastered, but which challenge you in new ways once you reach higher levels in organizations. Dana’s support for women leaders will give you straight-forward, time-efficient, intuitive and authentic techniques to step into your best vision of yourself. Overcome the challenges before you now and set yourself for greater accomplishments in the future with executive coaching support.
Refine Your Authentic Executive Communications Style
Executive communications skills are a challenging combination of clarity, presence, mindset and organizational and interpersonal strategy. Hone your personal style with an experienced coach and professional communicator on your side.
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Solve the double-bind paradox of women’s leadership success to develop your authentic leadership style in any workplace
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Transform difficult relationships and empower others so you can make your greatest impact – with your teams, company, family and community
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Confidently learn to overcome imposter syndrome and trust your instincts for bottom line results, better strategic thinking and more trusting relationships
Learn to Play “The Game Within The Game” at The Executive Level
High potential female employees find that hard work and producing results aren’t enough to get them into the highest leadership positions. This can be frustrating if you can’t figure out the rules in this new game, but once you shift your mindset to see “the game within the game” you can also see the path to the win-win outcome.
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Uncover hidden opportunities in “promotable work” to help you get promotions into executive leadership, raises and greater visibility in your company and industry
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Find your most genuine voice of confidence and influence to be a more effective leader without falling victim to unconscious biases
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Tap your purpose and passion while managing the risk of going for your dreams
Lead Beyond Overwhelm to Focus on What Matters Most
Operating at the executive level means learning new strategies for managing time and energy (your own and your teams’). Gain new Emotional Intelligence (EQ) tools and strategies for prioritization and focus that will help you achieve more without burning out.
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Use self-reflection skills to develop your EQ, releasing the emotional triggers holding you back from achieving your personal vision
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Learn research-based techniques to leverage your left and right brain in establishing and achieving big career goals in your stretch zone
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Take on greater responsibility with more mindfulness and less stress
How It Works
Once you register for coaching sessions, you will receive password-protected access to Dana’s VIP coaching community and scheduling system, where you can set up your first call. Here is a brief outline for each session:
Schedule
at your convenience
Use Dana's online calendar to schedule and reschedule sessions at your convenience. You'll receive a calendar invite with a call-in number and/or Zoom link.
Options: Add a note about what you'd like to focus on during the session. Get a text reminder.
Session
you're the focus
You’re free to set the topic agenda at the beginning of each one-to-one 60-minute call. Whether you have a specific career, management or leadership issue to discuss or not, Dana will coach you with questions about where you’re feeling confident, what’s challenging you (focusing on key stakeholder relationships) and review growth opportunities and solutions to explore. She will help you develop your own self-awareness and authentic ability to manage your behavior for sustainable success. She will offer advice and may choose to walk you through some skill development exercises on the call. She will explain any homework, assignments and suggestions she has for you.
Recap
email summary
After your session, Dana will send you an email with a written summary of her advice (or call recording) to help you evolve your leadership skills and lead teams more effectively. This email may include insights she had after your conversation as well as custom assignments, resource links and attachments that may be relevant to the work you’re doing and behaviors you’re seeking to shift. You are free to reply with questions or comments based on your own reflections. Dana will support you between sessions via email.
Use Your Leadership Challenges to Become Your Best Self
“When you become my VIP Private Coaching Client, you gain immediate and unlimited access to the total InPower library of over 100 easy-to-use and in-depth executive coaching readings, videos, step-by-step worksheets and strategies PLUS you’re first in line to get my support with private access to my client-only calendar.
I know that coaching is a major investment of time and money we both make in your success. I sincerely enjoy every one of my clients and I’d love to get to know you and your potential. To explore a mutually successful relationship, we need to do our due diligence and assure ourselves we’re a winning match. I’m ready if you are! Click below to schedule your coach inquiry call right now. After we speak on the phone, if we both agree we’re a solid fit, I’ll send you more information and links to get started at your convenience. I can’t wait to see you on my calendar!”
Dana Theus, Executive & Career Coach
Free Resources for Women Leaders
Personal 1-1 support is one of many resources InPower Coaching offers to support women leaders on their career advancement journeys. Check out our InPower Women articles, fact sheets, guides, videos and programs for more tips and tools you can use to supplement your leadership development journey.