Executive coaching
Counsel for the person at the top
A confidential thinking partner for the decisions only you can make. See your blind spots, sharpen your judgment, and lead with more intention.
Executive coaching & organizational consultingSince 1989
Every organization has a map. We help leaders read the terrain.
The org chart, the strategy, the plan — that is the map. The terrain is everything underneath it: the relationships, habits, and unspoken tensions that decide what actually happens. For more than three decades, we have helped chief executives and their teams see it clearly, and cross it together.
Our perspective1989
Founded on a conviction that business could be led with greater integrity.
Hundreds
of organizations served, from start-ups to the Fortune 5.
Every sector
Business, government, and nonprofit — in growth, turnaround, and mediation.
Perspective
What we’ve learned in the room.
- i.
Strategy rarely fails on paper. It fails between people.
The barriers that stall organizations are mostly systemic and relational. That is where we look first.
- ii.
What a team can’t say, it can’t solve.
We make the difficult conversations possible, and keep them constructive, so issues are worked through instead of around.
- iii.
Lasting change is built, not announced.
Vision only matters once it lives in structures, systems, and daily decisions. We stay until it does.
Practice
We work directly with the CEO and executive team, where change has the most leverage.
Strategy & direction
From vision to structure
Make your vision clear enough to act on, then connect it to the priorities, roles, and decisions that shape the organization every day.
Executive team development
From capable individuals to a team
Work through the friction between strong people, rebuild trust where it has worn thin, and create real commitment to a shared direction.
Facilitation & mediation
Conversations with real stakes
An independent, steady presence for turnarounds, disputes, and moments when the usual meeting simply won’t do.
People
The people in the room.
Founder & executive coach
Bruce Saxton
Bruce founded the firm in 1989 with a clear aim: to bring greater integrity to the business world.
He has since helped hundreds of organizations work through the systemic and relational barriers that hold capable people back. He works alongside leaders to define their vision, then puts the structures and systems in place to carry it through.
- Advising leaders since 1989
- Start-ups to Fortune 5 companies
- Government and nonprofit organizations
- Turnarounds and mediation
Consultant
Kristen Chin
Kristen believes strong organizations start and end with authentic communication and personal integrity.
At Fox Hill Village, a continuing care retirement community, she leads assisted living sales and community relations. She grew its network to several hundred contacts and built the referral systems to sustain it.
- Business development coaching
- Relationship and referral network building
- Authentic communication for leaders
- Presentation and public speaking skills
Where every engagement begins
Not with a proposal. With a candid conversation.
Tell us where your organization is, where you want it to be, and what seems to stand in between. We listen first.