CEOs Helping CEOs

Get practical guidance from former CEOs to help you lead with clarity and confidence.

How CEO Coaching Supports Better Leadership

Even experienced CEOs face high-stakes decisions—often with limited outside perspective. A seasoned coach provides a confidential, unbiased sounding board to help you think more clearly, navigate change and lead with confidence.

Here’s how our coaching can support you:

  • Reset direction when your current strategy isn’t delivering results  
  • Reframe market pivots into a clear path forward  
  • Translate vision into execution when the team is unclear 
  • Break through misalignment on priorities and accountability 
  • Resolve friction between top executives that’s holding you back  
  • Refocus your team around what really drives results 
  • Talking through M&A, succession or major investment choices 
  • Get perspective when the path forward isn’t clear 
  • Navigate sensitive personnel decisions with confidence 
  • Lead through restructures, rapid growth or external shocks 
  • Balance investor demands with internal realities  
  • Keep your team engaged when uncertainty rises
  • Improve how you show up in the boardroom and with your team  
  • Strengthen your decision-making under pressure 
  • Turn 360 feedback into real behavioral change 
  • Step into the CEO seat without second-guessing yourself  
  • Stay focused through the pressure of private, family-owned, PE-backed or public company leadership  
  • Build resilience so stress doesn’t become the story  

Work with Coaches Who’ve Sat in the CEO Seat

Our more than 20+ coaches are former CEOs who’ve led through growth, crisis and transformation. They know what it’s like to sit in your seat—and how to help you move forward.

SHULMAN.BART

Bart Shuldman

Former Chairman & CEO, Public Technology Company
Expert in scaling, IPO readiness, investor relations and strategic pivots. Bart helps CEOs align vision with execution, especially under board or market pressure.
HOWARD.RUSS

Russ Howard

Founder & Former CEO, Tech and Retail Companies
Through his unique combination of entrepreneurship and traditional corporate leadership, he can guide CEOs and their teams to identify new growth opportunities and quickly solve their most pressing challenges.
CARROLL.BILL

Bill Carroll

Former CEO, Mid-Market Manufacturing Firm
Focuses on culture, communication and leading through change. Bill is especially effective with CEOs managing restructuring or executive team trust issues.

Getting Started Is Simple

Working with a CEO coach is designed to be straightforward and respectful of your time.

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Schedule a complimentary discovery call

We’ll talk through your current challenges, goals, and what you’re looking for in a coach.

Resume review and candidate search
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Get matched with a potential coach

We’ll recommend a coach with the right background, leadership experience and skillset for your needs.

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Have a fit conversation

Meet your potential coach to confirm chemistry and discuss how you might work together.

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Review your coaching plan

You’ll get a tailored coaching plan outlining focus areas, format and timeline — no surprises, just alignment.

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Start your engagement

Once you’re ready, your coach gets to work — helping you move forward with clarity and confidence.

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See if Chief Executive Coaching is the right fit for you

Request more information or a discovery call, and let’s see if this could be the right fit.

Roundtable

Strategic Planning Workshop

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process

Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:

  1. Lack of systematic approach (70%)
  2. Laundry lists without prioritization (68%)
  3. Decisions based on personalities rather than facts and information (65%)

 

Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns.  They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning.  Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process.  This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented.  If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form.  The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

New York, NY: ​​​Chief Executive's Corporate Citizenship Awards 2017

Women in Leadership Seminar and Peer Discussion

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations. 

Limited space available.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $495 will be added to your total.

Golf Outing

10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS

General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.

The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $295 will be added to your total.