Leadership Coaching

Leaders at all levels can benefit from hitting the pause button to reconnect with their purpose, re-evaluate their priorities and reflect on the quality of their leadership presence. Whether you are a CEO of a rapidly growing businesses, a senior leader facing significant challenges or a rising star who wants to develop their potential, leadership coaching will expand your capacity to succeed in the face of increasing complexity, uncertainty and change. I bring a strengths-based approach to coaching along with a systems perspective. The net result is new insight into who you are at your best along with new strategies for bringing your best self forward in all of your relationship systems.

Corporate Coaching

In today’s increasingly competitive market place, developing, engaging and retaining your top performers is more important and more challenging than ever. I help leaders to develop their key talent and to solve some of their toughest people-related challenges. Here are a few of them:

• Business demands are such that you need more out of your employees – how do you help them to expand their capacity without burning them out?
• Teamwork and trust levels aren’t sufficient to produce the results you want – how can you get your team to execute, coordinate and collaborate more effectively?
• You have technically strong managers who need to strengthen their interpersonal skills – how can you help them to develop the leadership skills that are so crucial to their success?
• A newly promoted leader is struggling – how do you help them take on expanded responsibilities with confidence?

My corporate coaching and consulting services include one-on-one coaching for individual employees, group coaching for teams, and customized training solutions.

Leadership Team Retreats

High performing organizations recognize that optimal results are possible when individuals learn together, engage in the right conversations in the right way and develop tangible action plans. I design and facilitate energizing and results-oriented retreats that accelerate your team’s development and produce valuable interpersonal, tactical and strategic outcomes. The result is a leadership team that is more productive, aligned and engaged.

Speaking Engagements

Looking to inspire your leaders and/or attendees at your upcoming conference? I have delivered key note presentations and break-out sessions for a number of organizations including George Mason’s Well-Being Conference, the American Gastroenterolgical Leadership Conference, and Booze Allen’s Leadership Summit. The most requested topic I speak on is Resilient Leadership: How to Lead with Calm, Clarity and Conviction in Anxious Times. To see a clip of a recent key note, click here

Leadership Training

Resilient Leadership: I have trained over 600 leaders and managers in how to become more resilient leaders in the face of escalating change and complexity. With my partners at Resilient Leadership LLC, we have designed and delivered ½ day, full-day and three-day programs that introduce participants to a new way of seeing and leading, one that pays huge dividends not only at work, where increased resilience helps them to rise above the turbulence of change, but also on the home front, where they are able to bring a renewed sense of calm that contributes to healthier functioning for all. For more information on Resilient Leadership training, click here

Strengths-Based Leadership: In addition to Resilient Leadership training, I design and facilitate customized ½-day and full day Strengths-Based Leadership development training, based on Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0, an on-line assessment that provides insight into a person’s greatest strengths. This program helps organizations to better appreciate, develop and leverage their individual and collective talent. It can be delivered as a team building workshop or as an employee engagement and development training program.

J. Terrell, CEO

"Bridgette has had a profound and powerful impact on my life as a leader and on my organization in general. She brings a lightness of touch, sense of humor and empathy in combination with deep expertise and experience as a coach. The result has been a new sense of clarity, direction and self-understanding for me personally and for everyone who has been privileged to work with her in the company. I highly commend her to anyone with the courage to face important change."

T. Serena, CEO

“Before I became CEO, I had a million ideas for improving our organization. I quickly discovered that the view changes considerably once you actually get the job. It was clear that the organization couldn’t absorb all these ideas in the way I envisioned. More immediately, I needed to improve soft skills that I hadn’t fully developed throughout my career. Bridgette worked with me to create a clear picture of where I wanted to lead the organization, how I would lead and how to communicate with clarity to those in the organization. She was particularly effective at helping me strengthen my leadership skills: resilience, empathy and especially the ability to bring calm to anxious situations. My investment in coaching and time spent with Bridgette was repaid a hundred-fold, as I have become more confident and clear about my role.”

E. Landis, VP

"There are people in life who cross your career path that make a lasting and immeasurable impact. Bridgette Theurer was that person for me. Charged with needing to “find my voice” among the executive leadership team at my organization, Bridgette transformed me from someone who was reluctant to speak up and share my opinion within this group to a team member who possessed confidence, courage, and clarity. In my work with Bridgette, I identified my core values as a leader, discovered and appreciated the strengths that I bring to the table, and came to embrace my introverted style as an asset rather than a disadvantage. I feel lucky to have crossed paths with Bridgette; my time spent with her was a pivotal moment in my career, bringing into focus what I was capable of achieving and helping me to create a hopeful future for a very gratifying career."

D. Leidig, CEO

“When I became CEO, I inherited a fractured board, an organization in need of reinventing and a culture that was anxious and reactive. Having Bridgette coach me through this transition was a game changer. She helped me to build a foundation of trust with the board, clarify and communicate my vision and develop a stronger and more effective leadership presence. While I had been with my organization for a long time before taking on the role of CEO, the learning curve in this new position was steep. I’m grateful that I had the support and guidance of Bridgette’s coaching to help me climb this learning curve quickly and well. If you are facing an important transition or have taken on a new leadership role, I highly recommend working with Bridgette. She will help you to more fully access the talent, potential and vision that resides inside of you so that you can lead from a place of strength.”

E. Hanke, VP and Partner

"I have worked with Bridgette on and off for over a decade and I can honestly say my life – personal and professional – is markedly better for it. What started as a traditional corporate coaching arrangement for a somewhat dysfunctional management team has developed into a partnership between our companies that extends to all levels. Bridgette is an expert relator. She listens, observes and pulls the important issues from our discussions. She helps us identify areas needing improvement and to draw on our own strengths as individuals and as a company to fulfill them. Her ability to assess and adapt is something that sets her apart. She effortlessly adapts to the person, the organization and even the energy at a particular point in time, all of which enable her to maximize the value she can add. Bridgette has helped us develop and understand seemingly simple concepts such as how to establish and build trust in relationships, how to give effective feedback and how to collaborate as a team, all of which have improved how we work together each day. Although it is clear that Bridgette believes strongly in the concepts she presents, it is not the material itself that produces growth and awareness in those she teaches, but her ability to elicit positive change in others. She genuinely cares about, and invests herself in, the development of our people. Because of Bridgette, our company as a whole is more effective and successful and so are our individual employees."