Individual Coaching


Targeted Coaching
Focuses on quickly developing precise skills sets with minimal time involvement for executives who need a fast approach based on specific goals and agendas.

Perfect for:

  • Boosting key skills and talents needed by the organization to create or maintain a competitive advantage.
  • Catapulting the careers of high-performing leaders who simply lack one or two key skill sets.
  • Preparing leaders for promotion.
  • Retaining key talent.  

Coaching High-Potential Leaders
Focuses on the long-term development of high-potential leaders to equip them with success skills for their current role and the perspective and ability to lead at higher levels. Together with the leader’s organizational sponsors, the coach plans an effective mix of one-on-one coaching, on-the-job experiences, educational programs, readings, reflection, networking, and action assignments that accelerate learning and round out the necessary set of skills.

Perfect for:

  • Leaders with the potential to advance two or more levels.
  • Leaders with the right character and capabilities to reach the senior executive level.
  • Talented employees from groups that are underrepresented within the organization.
  • Leaders with skills that are most frequently recruited by competitors or that are otherwise in short supply within the current labor pool.

FS100 Coaching™—Fast Start in the First 100 Days
Research shows that leaders increase their chance of success if they are able to acclimate to their new leadership role within the first three months. With FS100, leaders begin the coaching process before their first day on the job and are coached for the first three months according to five agendas for success: leadership, business, relationships, personal and learning. Leaders gain the confidence that they are focusing on the right issues for success and organizations are safe-guarded in their talent investments.

Perfect for:

  • Leaders promoted from within a team.
  • Leaders hired from outside the organization or business unit.
  • Managers working with a new team as a result of a merger, acquisition, or restructuring.
  • Ex-pat assignments, as well as repatriation.
  • Leaders promoted or transferred into working with challenging teams or demanding business situations.

Coaching Expatriate Leaders
PDI’s expat coaching blends state-of-the-art techniques from two core areas of expertise:

how to facilitate the transition into a new role to rapidly achieve results, which requires learning about the business, establishing clear priorities, building new relationships, and managing time and energy efficiently; and how to lead effectively in a new culture, which involves strong cultural intelligence, focused learning strategies, and resilience to obstacles and setbacks.

Perfect for:

  • Leaders moving into expat assignments.
  • Expat leaders who are returning to their original location.
  • Leaders managing diverse cross-cultural teams.
  • Leaders who routinely work across various countries.

Coaching Women Executives
PDI’s coaching for women executives is based on a thorough understanding of the requirements for success in senior leadership roles and how those issues apply specifically to women. It also addresses the unique dynamics faced by women executives, including the unspoken expectations placed on them, heightened attention to every success and failure, and the pressure to serve as mentors, advocates, and role models for other women.

Perfect for:

  • The only female on a leadership team.
  • The most senior woman in the organization.
  • The first women to enter a particular role or level.
  • Women working in traditionally male-dominated industries or roles.
  • Women working for or following in the footsteps of a female leader with a different style.
  • Women of color in senior leadership roles.
  • High-potential women who need an extra boost.
  • Women working internationally or across cultures that have different views of women.

Fully Leveraging the Business Unit Leader Role
Focuses on building advanced leadership skills for presidents, general managers and product line leaders, to help them raise their game to peak performance levels. Coaching addresses issues such as managing disparate functions, thinking holistically about the entire business, building a unified team out of a group of leaders—often with conflicting priorities and dealing with an expanded network of internal and external stakeholders.

Perfect for:

  • High potential leaders who are on the succession plan to eventually move into business unit leader roles.
  • Leaders promoted to the business unit leader role for the first time.
  • Current leaders struggling with the unique challenges of the business unit leader role.
  • Solid performers who are already business unit leaders but who need to take their performance to the next level.

Fully Leveraging the Senior Executive Role
Customized, senior-level coaching focuses on a range of needs, driven by the challenges
the executive faces and may include addressing issues such as: balancing short-term and long-term issues, developing leadership versatility to meet organizational needs, projecting executive poise, presence, and impact to diverse stakeholders; translating strategy into organizational execution, fostering personal credibility in a cynical, media-driven environment; leading globally and making tough choices.

Perfect for:

  • Executives with specific developmental needs.
  • Executives seeking a more proactive, intentional leadership style.
  • Senior leaders facing new challenges or broader roles.
  • Senior leaders who are new to the organization.
  • High potentials on the succession path to senior executive positions.