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Executive coaching for leaders & organizations
Leadership gets more complex.
Growth must go deeper.
I help accomplished leaders examine the patterns that shape how they lead—and develop the clarity, range, and judgment their next chapter requires.
Depth of practice.
Breadth of perspective.
& applied positive psychology
When success asks more of you
A bigger role calls for
a broader way of leading.
The habits that helped a leader succeed can become harder to rely on as the stakes, relationships, and responsibilities change.
Working harder. Having the answer. Staying close to every detail. Each can be valuable. Each can also limit what becomes possible next.
Coaching creates room to notice those patterns, question assumptions, and practice a more deliberate response to the challenges that matter.
01 / Executive coaching
Deeper reflection.
Practical change.
Individual coaching grounded in the leader’s real work, relationships, and organizational context.
Step into greater responsibility
Navigate a transition, broaden your perspective, and decide where your leadership will make the greatest difference.
Lead through complexity
Work with competing priorities, strengthen your influence, and approach difficult conversations with greater clarity.
Change the patterns
that hold you back
Explore what drives overwork, over-involvement, or the need to have every answer—and experiment with a more sustainable way to lead.
For HR, Talent & organizational sponsors
Personal development.
Organizational relevance.
A thoughtful coaching engagement connects the leader’s growth with the work your organization needs them to do.
Begin with context
Understand what matters.
Explore the leader’s situation, the sponsor’s priorities, and what a useful engagement could make possible.
Agree on the work
Create a clear foundation.
Establish development goals and agree on roles, confidentiality, and how progress will be discussed.
Bring it into practice
Connect insight to action.
Use real leadership situations to test new approaches, reflect on what changes, and build on what is learned.
The coaching relationship needs trust. Sponsor involvement and progress conversations are agreed with the leader, with clear boundaries around confidential session content.
A thinking partner, with a human perspective
I’m Tom.
I work where leadership
and personal growth meet.
My background brings together engineering, applied positive psychology, executive coaching, and years of helping groups work through complex problems.
I bring an engineer’s curiosity about how things work—and a coach’s attention to the person doing the leading.
Our work can be reflective and challenging, but it stays connected to your decisions, your relationships, and the way you show up every day.
My work spans executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational workshops, including work with Google.
My training in strengths and somatic coaching helps us explore what you do well, notice how pressure shows up in your body, and practice a more grounded, deliberate response.
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Hudson Certified Coach
- Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
- Somatic Coach Certification
- Graduate education in electrical/computer engineering and applied positive psychology
02 / Workshops & facilitation
Develop the leader.
Strengthen the team.
Sometimes the work needs a roomful of people. I design and facilitate practical experiences that help leaders communicate more effectively, teams work better together, and groups make progress on shared challenges.
Design thinking and creative problem-solving remain part of that toolkit—used where they serve the work.
Discuss a workshop or offsite
Ideas worth spending time with
A continuing conversation.
Selected conversations from The Next Year Now Podcast on learning, originality, and a meaningful working life.
Achievement, learning,
and becoming an original.
A conversation about how we think, learn, and approach the work of doing something differently.
Listen to the conversation From the podcast / Tom RathA healthy, meaningful life.
At work and beyond it.
A conversation about the choices and practices that shape how we live and contribute.
Listen to the conversationStart with a conversation
What does the next chapter
ask of your leadership?
Whether you’re considering coaching for a leader in your organization or exploring it for yourself, let’s talk about the context and whether we’re a good fit.
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