Executive Coaching

DRiV is a research-based leadership assessment that measures the motives, values, and drivers behind how you lead. It looks past style and skill to the forces that energize you, the ones that drain you, and the expectations you place on yourself, others, and your role.

What it reveals

• Your core drivers. The motivations that shape your decisions, priorities, and energy.
• Your drainers. The conditions and demands that wear you down and lead to burnout or disengagement.
• Your blind spots. Where your strengths, pushed too far, can create friction with your team.
• Your fit. How well your role, team, and culture match what actually motivates you.

How it works

1. Complete the assessment. An online questionnaire takes roughly 20 minutes.
2. Receive your personalized report. It maps your drivers across six dimensions: insight, impact, meaning, connection, harmony, and focus.
3. Debrief with your coach. We walk through your results together, translate them into plain language, and connect them to the challenges you’re facing now.
4. Build your development plan. Your results shape clear goals, practical actions, and measurable next steps.
5. Add a 360 perspective (optional). Colleagues, direct reports, and supervisors share how your drivers show up in practice, so you can compare your self-view with how others experience you.

When leaders understand their own drivers, they make more intentional decisions, communicate more authentically, and recognize what motivates the people they lead. Used with a leadership team, DRiV gives members a shared language for how each person is wired, which makes collaboration, delegation, and conflict resolution easier.

1. Discover. A complimentary consultation to understand your role, goals, and organizational context.

2. Assess. The DRiV and any additional input, such as stakeholder interviews or a 360, to establish your baseline.

3. Coach. Regular one-on-one sessions focused on your development goals, with accountability between sessions.

4. Sustain. Progress reviews and a plan to keep growing after the engagement ends.

• Individual executive coaching. One-on-one engagements for a single leader.
• Leadership team coaching. Group sessions with DRiV results used to build alignment and trust.
• Organization-wide coaching programs. Multi-year, in-house programs for cohorts of leaders, including individual development plans and program evaluation.
• Assessment and debrief only. A DRiV assessment with a focused debrief session for leaders who want insight before committing to a longer engagement.

• Public-sector depth. We’ve led communications through bond referendums, crisis response, election redistricting, and trauma recovery.
• Credentialed practitioner. Certified DRiV administrator. Accredited in Public Relations (APR), Prosci Change Management Practitioner, and Harvard Strategy Execution for Public Leadership, with an M.A. in Strategic Communications. Member of International Coaching Federation (IFC); pursuing ACC credential. University of Virginia Organizational Leadership Coaching program (December 2026).
• An integrated approach. Coaching, communications, and change management work together here, so your development supports your organization’s goals.

Is coaching confidential?
Yes. What you share in coaching stays between you and your coach. Organizational sponsors receive progress against agreed goals, not session content.

How long does an engagement last?
Most engagements run three to twelve months, depending on your goals. Organization-wide programs can span several years.

Do you work with government agencies?
Yes. Local and regional government is the heart of our work, and we can structure engagements to meet public procurement requirements.

Schedule a complimentary consultation to talk through your goals and see whether coaching is the right fit.