Navigate Change – Carolyn B. Ellis

Level Up Leaders to Navigate Change

“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.”
~ Bill O’Brien, former CEO of Hanover Insurance

As business evolves at break-neck speeds, the struggle to inspire and retain top talent continues. The pressure to deliver more with less is relentless. Being able to develop strong adaptive leadership capacity within your organization is critical to its current and future success.

Being able to lead others effectively requires each of us to first be able to effectively lead ourselves. We believe that game-changing leaders deserve to have their highest potential fully realized.

Ready to help your leaders expand their adaptability and leadership capacity?

What You Can Expect

As the great leadership expert Marshall Goldsmith says, “What got you here won’t get you there.” Leadership mindsets that traditionally guaranteed success and advancement are needing to shift to meet the challenges of our current times.

Level Up Leaders Coaching offers emerging and senior leaders the opportunity to focus and develop three core results:

What makes your coaching different?

Address the source, not just the symptom. Using an integrative and holistic approach, you’ll be guided to uncover and release the root causes of issues or beliefs that develop into blocks or self-doubt
Take a holistic and systemic approach. Coaching that doesn’t take into account the dynamic interactions you have with those you work and live with. There is a wealth of joy, frustration, and valuable insight when you get a clearer perspective on the big picture and how to more effectively operate within it.
Information without action is useless. I incorporate real-time behavior change sustainment tools to help my clients adopt the new habits needed to achieve their goals.
Create a safe space where you can be heard. Your agenda and needs are paramount. I meet you where you are with respect, deep listening and a sense of humor.
I roll up my sleeves with you. You’ll never hear me utter the standard coaching phrase, “If you did know the answer, what would it be?” If you do, I’ll give you a full refund! My approach is a blend of coaching, consulting, challenging you to expand your perspective, and celebrating your progress.

Chart Your Course

Chart Your Course is a 90-day program for individuals at all levels who want to increase their confidence and raise their game.

The program is well-suited for clients facing a specific challenge, cross-roads decision, or who are looking to begin a new professional or personal chapter.

The program includes a client self-assessment; a kick-off “Deep Dive” facilitated discussion where we’ll create a custom visual map that identifies key goals, challenges and a specific action plan; 3 follow-up activation coaching sessions, and weekly email support.

Navigate Change Leadership Coaching

The Navigate Change Coaching program is designed for emerging and established managers and team leaders, and senior organizational leaders who recognize they need to take their leadership skills up a notch so they can truly unleash the full potential of their teams to innovate, adapt, and drive performance.

Typical coaching goals areas include:

Be more adaptable and resilient in the face of change
Improve decision-making and priority setting
Strengthen communication skills, including giving and receiving feedback
Have greater confidence to lead individuals and teams
Be better able to successfully meet work and life priorities, without burnout
Design and use systems to improve productivity and efficiency

The program includes an Adaptability Quotient (AQai) assessment and report; a comprehensive Coaching Objectives self-assessment questionnaire; two 90-minute debriefing and discovery sessions to review results and create an initial action plan; bi-monthly 50-minute coaching sessions; habit sustainment online tool access; email support.

The program is available for both a 6-month and a 12-month term.

What Our Clients Say

"Having Carolyn as a coach helped me crystallize the key pillars of my consulting approach. She leads each session with curiosity, creativity, and a genuine interest in supporting her client's success. Carolyn employs a number of interactive tools that allows you to co-create in real time. Taking what seems like disconnected thoughts and turning them into a cohesive model that clearly articulates my value proposition. I'm grateful to have had Carolyn in my corner and highly recommend her if you are looking to make clear, enhance, or take your leadership and practice to the next level."

Rachel Baptiste, CPCC, PCC

Leadership and Inclusion Consultant

“I am blown away by Carolyn’s brilliant capacity to synthesize complex forces into a powerful image of both pictures and words. In our work to create a professional transition, we developed clear and concise steps to guide me. Carolyn is bright, energetic, incredibly innovative and always brings new and powerful insights.”

Nancy Beer

Executive Coach

"Carolyn helped deliver clarity, asked important questions, and has always been a pleasure to work with. What I appreciate most about Carolyn is her ability to adapt to whatever the work is - she is a true collaborator."

Aline Badr

Brand and Leadership Consultant

Who will be the lead Coach for the program?

Carolyn Ellis
Visual Facilitator, Sense Maker and Thought Partner

Carolyn Ellis brings a unique blend of systems thinking, facilitation, and graphic recording to help her clients future-proof their people by developing the mindsets, relationships and adaptability skill sets needed to rise to the challenges we face today.

She brings over 25 years of experience working with clients from a wide range of industries facing disruptive change, including the financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, municipal, and not-for-profit sectors. As a visual facilitator, certified Adaptability Quotient coach, and trainer, Carolyn is known for her ability to make the invisible visible. She is author of the award-winning book, Lead Conversations that Count: How Busy Managers Run Great Meetings.