Self-Funded Executive Coaching: Your Strategic Options
By Ronen Frieman | Leadership & Culture Strategist Self-funded executive coaching is a deliberate choice, not a fallback. Leaders who pay for coaching out of pocket operate with a structural advantage that organizationally-sponsored leaders rarely have: complete agenda ownership. When no organizational …
How to Find an Executive Coach for Your Organization
By Ronen Frieman | Leadership & Culture Strategist Finding an executive coach for your organization requires answering five questions before you source anyone: What specific behavioral outcome are you investing in? Who is the actual client: the individual or the organization? How …
What Is Leadership? Types, Foundations and How to Develop It
Executive summary (TL;DR) Leadership is not a job title — it is a pattern of influence that can be developed by anyone willing to work on themselves. There is no single correct style. There is fit: authoritative, participative, servant, transformational and distributed …
Authentic Leadership: When “Being Yourself” Is Not Enough
Authentic leadership has become one of the most cited frameworks in executive development. It has also become one of the most misapplied. In popular interpretation, authentic leadership means: be yourself, share your feelings, lead from vulnerability, bring your whole self to work. …
Executive Presence: What It Is and How to Build Quiet Authority
Executive presence is the most requested and least defined skill in leadership development. Companies spend millions training leaders on it. Most of those programs teach the wrong thing. The conventional view of executive presence focuses on surface signals: how you stand, how …