Leadership Coaching
Slade & Associates provides leadership coaching for established leaders, emerging leaders and high potential individual contributors. Our coaching creates long term effectiveness for you and your organization by increasing your ability to achieve results and build healthy relationships. We help you stretch into your best self as a leader.
We assume that you are the expert on your own leadership. You define success and drive the focus of the coaching conversation. Our role as your coach is to draw out your leadership expertise through inquiry, curiosity and gentle challenges.
Leadership coaching increases your effectiveness by:
- Helping you target key behaviors to continue, do more, do less, start and stop doing to increase leadership effectiveness.
- Involving your direct reports, peers, managers and customers as appropriate in the process of increasing your effectiveness.
Together, we can measure your improvement with ongoing feedback on your targeted leadership behaviors.
Types of Leadership Coaching
Coaching for achievement maximizes your performance in your current role. The leader wants to move from good to great. Your Slade & Associates leadership coach will help you focus on the behaviors and thinking necessary to supercharge performance. Typically, the client has been in their role long enough to have learned the ropes (6 months or more).
Coaching in transition helps you adjust to a new role so you can have a fast start. Your Slade & Associates coach will help you focus on making sense of your new role (learning the ropes).
Rapid sense-making will help you adjust your behavior, thinking and expectations to accelerate maximum performance in your new role. Transition coaching may start before, during, or soon after the leader has moved into a new role.
Coaching in crisis is designed to turn around an unsuccessful situation. The leader’s performance is unacceptable in one or more ways, and the leader and the organization want to improve the situation. Successful crisis coaching requires the leader, HR and the leader’s manager to agree to have mutual candor, commitment to change and the expectation that things can improve.
What Our Clients Say…
I had the opportunity to have Dr. Allen Slade as a mentor and professional coach while attending the College of William and Mary. Dr. Slade's coaching sessions were invaluable to my personal and professional journey while at William and Mary. Dr. Slade is thoughtful, intelligent, and able to provide insight and guidance for nearly every situation. Our sessions were one on one and I always left feeling peaceful and re-invigorated about whatever situation was going on in my life. Dr. Slade provided coaching to me on my professional career path, conflict resolution, ways to work effectively in a team, and more. I would highly recommend Dr. Slade for any of your coaching needs.
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Carin Andrews Rhodes
Federal Advisory Associate at KPMG US
Allen's thoughtful approach and insights on leadership helped me to manage change and to grow as a leader. His guidance led me to a deeper level of self-reflection and knowledge. Allen is a professional with utmost integrity and commitment to his clients.
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Mark Begly
Associate Vice President for Development and Campaign Director, The College of William & Mary
Prof. Allen Slade coached me during my MBA coursework at The College of William and Mary. He helped me understand people and my profession better as an international student. Our conversations ranged across various topics, such as IT, Music, Philosophy, and more. He took efforts to connect with me and help me grow. I highly recommend Allen, as a person and as a coach.
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Gaurav Hombali
SharePoint Consultant at LANTek
Prof. Slade's instruction on leadership guided me to defining my personal leadership brand. His program activities immerse you in safe environments, where you can practice, review, and modify your leadership competency.
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Edmund Amoye
Retail Manager, Moët Hennessy USA
I came to Dr. Slade for coaching/mentoring because he was one of the greatest influences in my life. If you are considering procuring his services; I will tell you three things that you will receive. First, he will help you to visualize your goals. Second, he will lead you through a process that allows you to give a voice to your aspirations. Finally, he will help you to see how you can empower yourself through all of the hubris, naysayers and self doubts and arrive at a place that only you can equivocate, which is victory! If you are willing to let it all hang out, you are giving yourself one of the greatest gifts by having “Doc" work with you! Enjoy what will surely be a life changing experience.
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Martin Williams
Operations Manager, Shaw Industries
Dr. Slade was my LEAD guide and mentor during my MBA at the College of William & Mary. I got to learn a lot about active and intentional leadership from Dr. Slade. He made it a point to have a meaningful conversation. Coming from a different country and culture, my interactions with him were very helpful in grooming and enhancing my leadership capabilities and experience into a form relevant to the environment in the US business world. I continue to consciously use the nuggets of active listening and the power of feedback in my current leadership role and reap the benefits.
I would recommend Dr. Slade to anyone who is interested in furthering his/her leadership capabilities and execution via coaching.
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Alap Desai
Department Manager, Snyder's-Lance, Inc.
Dr. Slade is truly an expert in his field. He dedicated his teaching and coaching to integrating his experience in business with contemporary research on leadership to guide young professionals to become leaders.
I benefited from Dr. Slade’s coaching at a pivotal point in my career on three issues: clarity, courage and composure. I gained clarity through to define the nature of my career goals, unclouded by the distractions of daily life. I built courage to follow-through with my goals using tools such as centering in the moment and overcoming self-restricting barriers. Finally, Dr. Slade patiently directed my composure as I battled a major obstacle in my professionalism by helping slow my speech rate when articulating my purpose and passion.
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Arwa Zabarah
Consultant at the World Bank Group
