Feroce Coaching

Executive and Leadership Coaches

A collaborative partnership for executives who want to raise their game

There is no more powerful change agent for you as an executive, or for a corporation’s executives and employees, than executive coaching.  Coaching’s return on investment is well-documented.  Executive coaching — professional coaching for performance, or leadership coaching — embodies everything truly effective that you merely read about in the best-selling business books or only hear about in corporate management seminars.  Add to the inherent power of coaching the deep C-level executive experience of our executive coaches in starting up, running, and even profitably selling businesses, and you have the makings of a strong partnership.

Our executive coaches have started up a dozen companies, with and without venture capital, run businesses at the CEO or similar executive level, and even successfully sold businesses.

Cameron Powell, Founder and Executive Coach

I work with senior executives, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals to enhance their performance in their jobs, from meeting strategic objectives to working effectively and amicably with colleagues and direct reports.

I have studied the art and science of effective leadership since the mid-1980s.  I’ve held leadership roles in law and business, and have studied and written extensively on topics of emotional intelligence in executive leadership.  I have also conducted leadership training and team-building seminars, including as the Associate Director and speaker on best practices for the Corporate Leadership Council, a division of the Corporate Executive Board consultancy, in Washington, D.C.  In the United States, Canada, South America, New Zealand, and Australia, I have coached executives in over 120 Global 2000 corporations and the Colorado National Guard.  Read more about my personal, legal, and business background.

C.J. Liu, Executive Coach

C.J. Liu has worked with individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.  C.J. is a former CFO and strategic consultant who brings the know-how of more than 20 years of business, finance, and product development experience to her coaching clients.  C.J. has worked at some of the leading Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, General Electric, and Clorox.  Before joining Feroce, C.J. served as an in-house executive coach at Microsoft and she continues to work with teams and individuals there today.  C.J. is a rarity in the world of executive coaching – she is one of few certified professional coaches with an MBA from a top-ranked program.

C.J. has coached executive directors at non-profits, business owners, and entrepreneurs on the issues that can create — or undermine — success: effective leadership and communications, conflict resolution, how to develop strong working relationships, and the hows and whys of emotional intelligence.  C.J.’s strong business background and diverse experience in product development, strategic planning, marketing, finance, and business development provides her coaching clients with a nice balance of Business IQ and Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

C.J. is pragmatic and realistic, and she brings an intense laser-like focus to issues of importance to her clients, which allows them to make quicker progress.  At the same time, she is perceptive, intuitive, optimistic, and light hearted, which is especially important in supporting her clients who are facing challenging business issues.

Wanda Ropa, Executive Coach

Working with Wanda will fundamentally impact your leadership advantage and sharpen your business acumen, as you begin to access predictability and control in today’s unpredictable climate.  A Master’s certified executive coach from the College of Executive Coaching, Wanda has successfully worked with individuals and organizations that truly want to embrace innovation and leadership.  With a proven track record of success as a business leader, Wanda developed one of the first corporate university leadership programs for a multi-site, million dollar, and international technical sales organization.  In addition to her leadership coaching and consulting practice, she is involved in 3 start-ups as chief strategist and partner, launching innovative programs that leverage neuroscience, psychology, and best business practices to shift leaders to achieve guaranteed success.

Wanda thrives on being on the cutting edge and benchmarking best practices of executive, leadership, and business coaching.  She conducted performance and leadership coaching before it was widely known and practiced.  A CPP certified assessments coach powered with innovative business tools, Wanda brings over 25 years experience in product development, sales and marketing, advertising, dot.com development, usability, project management, IT, telecommunications, e-commerce, healthcare, tax and financial services, media, call centers, recruitment, retention, human resources, leadership training, and organizational consulting, while successfully launching several entrepreneurial ventures in the Internet space.?Wanda is passionate about helping her clients get back in the game and exceed their own expectations.  Known for easily engaging clients and groups with her renowned humor, she will challenge you to reach for your highest leadership potential as an entrepreneur, business leader, consultant, executive, an individual who wants to improve their productivity and performance, or someone ready to launch their own business.  To work with Wanda is to truly experience innovative leadership at its best!

Wanda challenged me every time we talked, gave me ideas to expand upon, taught me a lot about myself, how to engage others, and how to realize and capitalize on the strengths that I own, not ones that I want to have. The culture in the organization has never been as strong, nor has the vision. I feel that I was transformed over the last 3 months.
Randy Scott
CEO

Try out a free coaching consultation with Wanda to boost your leadership performance, and above all your bottom line!

With over 25 years business experience in diverse industries, she has held leadership positions, coached senior leaders for success, designed and implemented leadership programs and team building workshops.

Working with Wanda in a collaborative relationship, you will learn innovative techniques as you develop immediate action steps to:
Achieve your highest leadership potential and peak performance
Become an inspired leader and raise your emotional intelligence (EI) quotient
Create and execute your leadership vision
Make organizational impact
Successfully sell your ideas
Manage up and manage down
Achieve results with ease and pleasure
Increase your 360-degree ratings
Get credit for your work
Navigate the politics of the workplace
Boost your creative problem solving skills and your creative intelligence
Differentiate your company from the competition
Experience work-life balance
Attract success in life, work, and business

Wanda is based in Seattle and coaches individuals and organizations throughout the world.

Read leadership and success coach Wanda’s longer bio.

Bradley Foster, Executive Coach

I’m executive coach Bradley. I lead by example. I’m a compassionate, intuitive and open minded executive, leadership and relationship coach who identifies your strengths and areas of growth motivating you to increased focus, higher productivity, a finer balance, an improved sense of purpose, clarity and authenticity. I am a deep listener, comfortable delivering frank feedback, practical tips and perspective to foster lasting, transformative change.

I have been dedicated to leadership studies since I was in graduate school. Since then I have held many executive positions in business and society and been fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from, observe and advise respected leaders. My unique background combines consulting, communications, therapy and coach training and mentoring. I have over 20 years of work experience consulting in a business environment and running successful companies. My formal instruction includes three years of leadership training at the graduate level. I have written extensively on coaching, authentic leadership and emotional intelligence and led seminars that have helped reshape the direction of corporations.

I am a highly skilled executive coach that combines my unique background with Feroce’s best practices in coaching. I believe every one of my clients are creative, resourceful and able. My goal is to help clients identify and work toward their goals instead of being caught in the daily grind or working toward other people’s goals. I am here to help you get more of what you want in life:

• Work/life balance
• Enhanced Communication Skills
• Confident, in-the-moment decision-making
• Improved Leadership Skills
• Genuineness
• Renewed Interpersonal Skills

Integrative Approach:
Bradley uses an integrated approach to help you find you passion and purpose in life. In addition to coach training and real life experience as a consultant, entrepreneur and an executive, he is trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Gestalt psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). If this sounds like alphabet soup to you, just know that these are merely tools that he can use. Bradley tailors his approach to each client, sounding out your strengths to find a path that is true for you. It’s not only what you bring to the table that’s important but finding a career that suits your suite of unique strengths is the key to satisfaction and fulfilment.

Process:
I have adapted the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) model. Together we create a survey of your situation, I do fact finding, then I identify and clarify problems and with them, discover opportunities. Next is idea finding which is similar to brain storming. Solution finding is the convergence of all that comes before it, distilling everything you have explored down into realistic and do-able solutions. Action finding is the final step which become your action steps.

Working with me, you will drive your own agenda, get valuable feedback and perspective and learn new ways to bring creativity into all aspects of your life. I’m available on a limited basis to coach individuals and work with organizations throughout North America and the UK.

Kate McNulty, Executive Coach

Kate coaches individuals and organizations in achieving greater satisfaction and creativity.  She’s a member of the Northwest Coaches Association.  Her approach includes an array of tools based in research from the behavioral and social sciences, combined with imaginative thinking and optimism.  The breadth and depth of her professional training and business experience allow her to work in an extremely focused and efficient way, getting to the heart of things and yielding substantial results.

She has been helping people grow for over 25 years, having made the transition from private practice as a clinical social worker to coaching in 2003.  She works with people on a variety on goals, including:

• refining social skills and emotional intelligence
• developing judgment and making well-informed decisions
• finding career satisfaction
• habit change toward increased health and wellness
• improving relationships with intimates, friends, family and colleagues

Ahjamu Umi – Executive Coach

“There is no progress without struggle!” — Frederick Douglas

Ahjamu transitioned from the inner city streets of Hunter’s Point, San Francisco to obtain a masters degree in Economics from California State University, Sacramento.  He has spent the last 15 years as an executive banking manager.  In that time, he received numerous professional accolades and awards for leading diverse departments and teams to success.  He’s an accomplished speaker and writer and has published a number of industry articles on successfully managing business relationships and building and guiding strong teams.

Ahjamu’s approach to team and executive coaching is rooted in his long experience mentoring young men and maintaining the delicate balance of personalities required to negotiate gang treaties in California.  This experience helped him develop a respect for diversity of experiences and opinions, as well as to call it like it is.  Ahjamu is clear, direct, and savvy.  He has merged these experiences into his professional existence.  As a result, he is a strong leader who understands how to gain the confidence and respect of professional colleagues and team members.  He can help you develop and maintain strong cohesiveness and productivity personally in your business relationships and with your team by helping you implement and maintain the following critical principles:

• Communicating employee and  business partner expectations clearly and concisely.
• Empowering your staff to “drink the Kool Aid” and buy into your goals and objectives.
• Facilitating conflict and disagreements so that resolutions are adopted and productivity isn’t adversely impacted.
• Maximizing potential to reach goals
• Applying one-minute-manager techniques so that team members and/or colleagues never question how much you value their daily contributions and input
• Maintaining a positive morale and environment, thus making you the person people want to work with and your work place the place people want to work!

You’re successful and your team is strong, but don’t you want to be even stronger with continued success?!  This coaching experience will definitely improve your professional and personal relationships!

What is executive coaching?

It’s no simple task to explain succinctly why coaching works.  But imagine this:  you’re a chief executive officer.  You’ve got goals and the need to reach them — and you have a chief of staff following you around all day with a clipboard.  Do you get things done?  Yes, you do. Now picture a chief of staff who knows psychology, best business practices and organization, and motivational behavior.  This is what I do for you, by means of phone, email, and instant messenger contact with you throughout every week, noting your intentions and plans and making sure you get things done on your own deadlines.  I am strategist; I am accountability.  And you get things done.

Coaching works, ultimately, because the client wants it to.  But it helps that coaching is the very definition of accountability; coaching runs 24/7 for months, and can (and should) last until the goals are inevitably reached; and, like the best partnerships between coaches and elite athletes, coaching is a highly effective joint venture, a performance collaboration between peers:  the executive, and the executive coach.

Raise the Level of Your Executive Game

Feroce executive and business coaching helps executives and managers to raise the level of their game by:

• Ensuring success in a new leadership position through our proven new-hire onboarding practices
• Developing or expanding leaders’ strategic vision
• Developing business empathy – the ability to listen closely to one’s self and others
• Becoming not just good managers but effective and empathetic leaders of their employees
• Helping them to become more at ease with themselves
• Becoming more authentic, or honest and transparent with themselves and others
• Grounding their self-esteem in themselves, rather than merely their positions or resume, and therefore enhancing a professional presence that is more effective because it is visibly authentic
• Thinking smarter and working harder, with less self-damage
• Increasing their ability to achieve buy-in from others
• Prioritizing what’s really important in their work, their lives, and between the two
• Enhancing their flexibility and responsiveness for better executive decisions
• Provide more value to the people they work with and the organization they work in
• Improving how they handle stress
• Helping them achieve more harmonic balance between life and work
• Increasing their personal expressiveness, including speech coaching

Why Executive Coaching Beats Anything Else You’ve Tried

Coaching does a better and more cost-effective job of all this than the alternatives — seminars, conferences, books and videos (see “Why Can’t I Coach Myself?”), one-or-two-day team-building sessions, or internal mentoring programs. Coaching is a unique, continual, one-on-one collaboration — in no other method do you have a full partner. Someone with whom you can check in several times a month — or even more often, with our instant-messenger, text-messaging and email services — and not just for the weekend or during a brief retreat, but for as long as it takes to attain goals.  The discussions become action-oriented because they occur while you’re at work or shortly before or after, and the assigned tasks flow into work.

The progress we make sticks because it’s grounded in your real world.  Learn more about our Executive Coach services and send us an email from the button above.

If you are looking for a coach in order to reach higher levels in your current position, you’ll also want to read about career coaching — sometimes it’s just a matter of emphasis or even of semantics, because all coaching is ultimately holistic, and deals with the entire person and his or her situation.

Most of our executive coaching is focused on growing a business or dealing with internal problems and conflicts, but it can also be directed toward fomenting individual executives’ growth, performance, and improved leadership (usually referred to broadly as executive coaching).

Our executive coaches serve clients in Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, New York City, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Madison, Milwaukee, NYC, Washington D.C., San Diego, Denver, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Honolulu, Baltimore, Boston, Kansas City, Omaha, Las Vegas, Newark, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Portland, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Fort Worth, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, Phoenix, Tucson, Tampa, Olympia, Spokane, Tacoma, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Sacramento, Santa Monica, Greenwich, Hartford, New Haven, Albuquerque, Austin, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Eugene, Salem, and many more!