Executive Coaching

Odom + Associates specializes in coaching managers of color to higher goal attainment.

We have assisted Fortune 500 executives in achieving positions as vice presidents; we have successfully coached graduate students in achieving their Ph.D. and J.D. degrees; we have coached teachers into principalships and into passing state teacher exams.

Our processes include but are not limited to the following:

• Providing individual and organizational assessments
• Engaging in mutual goal-setting and contracting
• Establishing mutual expectations
• Setting time-frames and schedules of interaction
• Using appropriate interaction strategies based on need, including:
• Active listening
• Neutral probing
• Teaching/sharing
• Reframing
• Planning

Additional coaching tools include the Integrated Performance Management System, with special attention paid to leadership/followership styles and Heartmath relaxation and refocusing techniques.