Executive Coaching

Shane Kinkennon equips individual leaders and teams to be difference-makers when the heat is on, using the evidence-based techniques of executive coaching.

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I help my clients get more out of their people, prompting new levels of creative, collaborative problem-solving and creating the conditions for responsive, accountable leadership to flourish.

I am trained and certified executive coach by the Center for Executive Coaching, which is accredited by the International Coaching Federation.

Here’s what coaching looks like:

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Discover and Understand

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Set Goal

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Craft Accountability Metrics

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Coach

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Assess Progress and Trajectory

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Coach

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Hit Accountability Goal

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What coaching achieves

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Executive coaching results in: 

  • increased goal-related self-regulation

  • increased work-related goal attainment

  • enhanced solutions-focused thinking

  • greater change readiness.

(Sources: Harvard Business Review, Journal of Change Management, Journal of Positive Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology)

  • “Shane has a knack for calling to question the core parts of an issue or goal. He doesn’t generate the ideas; they emerge because of his skill and touch.”

    — Michael Johnson, CEO, Metrc

  • “After only my first session with Shane, I impressed my board chair with a major new strategy. The coaching work is just that good.”

    — Risa Wilkerson, Executive Director, Healthy Places By Design

  • “Shane is fearless about getting to the bottom of things. His questions are tough. Yet he’s warm and disarming. Creative problem-solving results from it.”

    — Chuck Wolfe, CEO, The Chiles Group (beachfront restaurants + organic farm)