THE ROOM IS ALREADY WATCHING YOU.
COACHING MAKES YOU UNDENIABLE.
Not through cheerleading or a confidence course, but through precision-matched executive coaching that meets you where you are and builds the strategic edge that makes your leadership impossible to ignore.
We work with senior leaders, founders, and the organizations that invest in them. We bring the rigor and measure the wins, and we absolutely bring the fun…because - in our experience - that's the combination that actually makes results stick.
Our executive coaching is a strategic partnership built for leaders at inflection points:
✓ When your influence is expanding faster than your systems or skill
✓ When your decisions are starting to shape more in your organization
✓ When being capable isn’t enough to stand at the top level anymore…and you feel it.
When the stakes are real and the room is watching, you need a trusted partner who sees what you can't see, and who will ask the hard questions, hold the line, and drive solutions that compound your wins.
That's what executive coaching with us looks like…and these are some of our client results:
$10M
$4M
PRESERVED
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CEO role defended and secured through high-stakes governing board intervention
Female divisional partner at a top U.S. law firm
Strategic plan advanced after operational conflict adjustment
Expected client funding after NCI designation
we’re not checking boxes here.
We work with senior leaders and founders navigating the moments where the cost of getting it wrong is real: culture friction, stalled momentum, quiet credibility erosion, decisions that carry organizational weight. We bring 30+ combined years of real-world leadership, coaching mastery, and behavioral science to every engagement.
This isn't just coaching. It's a strategic alliance.
► If you’re a leader, this is your strategic partnership.
► If you’re an HR or L&D leader, this is how you protect the investment you’ve already made in your best people.
Coaching is the pathway. Performance diagnostics bring clarity. Measurable traction makes it stick.
We meet you there.
Every leadership challenge has a starting point.
If you’re seeking coaching for yourself:
You're trusted, visible, and carrying more than most people can see - even if you don't say that quiet part out loud.
You need a strategic partner who can hold space for the tough conversations and necessary skill-building, so you can perform with clarity, confidence, and follow an unshakeable game plan.
If you're an HR leader or executive sponsor:
You've already invested in your leader: developed, championed and/or promoted them. Now, their influence is expanding faster than their leadership systems, and you're seeing that gap show up as friction, rework, quiet resistance or poor communication.
That fallout is preventable. Coaching with us protects and advances the investment you've already made.
We are not the right fit for everyone.
It’s okay, you won’t hurt our feelings.
Our coaching is not corrective, remedial, or a last resort. We work with capable leaders who are organizationally supported, and who are ready to close the gap between how they intend to lead and how their leadership is actually landing.
If that's not where you are right now, we're genuinely not the right call today.
OUR COACHING ENGAGEMENTS
Four paths, one through-line: leadership that holds.
Our work follows an intentional progression. Clients enter at the level that matches their current moment and move forward from there. Everyone leaves with measurable & meaningful wins.
Executive Coaching for Scaled Influence & Decision Clarity
6 months · 12 sessions · Starting at $14.5k
Calibrating Leadership
For senior and visible leaders whose influence is expanding faster than their internal systems can manage, and who want to lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic intention.
Standard Package Includes:
12 private coaching sessions
2 leadership assessments: Interaction Styles + Essential Motivators
Executive communication support for high-stakes moments
Curated resources delivered when relevant - no library login
Between-session follow-up for traction
Sponsor/HR touchpoints + Leadership Insights Report at close
Leadership Calibration Index (LCI) Score - our proprietary measure of progress across 4 dimensions. This makes your the investment visible at every stage.
Organizationally sponsored or self-funded.
Direct entry welcome; no prior engagement required.
What shifts:
✓ Decisions land more cleanly and hold without re-clarification.
✓ Move from doing to directing; results happen through others, not around them.
✓ Navigate politics and perception with more intention and less second-guessing.
✓ Develop a leadership posture that’s grounded, not performative.
Translating Authority
High-Stakes Presentation Coaching
6 sessions · 30–90 days · $5,250
Coaching for leaders with a specific, imminent high-stakes moment: a board presentation, funding pitch, designation review, media appearance, or interview.
This is focused, skill-forward work that is tied to one concrete leadership moment. It’s not for general confidence-building.
We work on:
✓ Execution: nerves, hesitation, delivery under pressure
✓ Language clarity: tone, structure, nonverbal presence
✓ Performance drilling until you’re settled and the delivery is clean
✓ A repeatable framework you keep long after the moment passes
Strategic Jumpstart
Strategy Sprint for Focus, Clarity & Momentum
6 sessions · 3 months · $7,500
For leaders who are scattered, overwhelmed, or operating without a clear system, and who need to get sharp and focused, fast.
This is also the “home-base” offer for Calibrating Leadership clients between full engagements.
We work on:
✓ Clarity and prioritization: naming what matters most right now
✓ Leadership lens: what you’re signaling and where you’re leaking energy
✓ Relationship triage: key stakeholders for the quarter
✓ Resilience systems: time, boundaries, decision filters
Holding Power
Confidential Advisory for Leaders Carrying the Weight of the System
6 months · Starting at $30k
For women CEOs, founders, and senior executives whose decisions deeply affect their entire system: herself, her people, the politics, finances, culture and future.
This is not strategy coaching.
It is a confidential container for leaders who have mastered strategy and now need a place to think clearly, challenge their own assumptions, and hold power without leaking anxiety into the system.
We work on:
✓ Judgment and decision quality under sustained visibility and pressure
✓ The personal cost and internal contradictions of holding power
✓ Stewardship, well-being, and sustainable leadership presence
✓ Not publicly available - referral and invitation only
A different kind of executive coaching.
Rooted in data and structure. Delivered with warmth and humor, always.
Every engagement we offer - regardless of length - follows the same three-layer progression:
01 MINDSET
The goals, values, beliefs and priorities that are driving you forward right now. This is blueprint-mapping.
02 CONTENT
The words, tools, frameworks, and /or practices you need to learn and apply. This is the skill architecture of our work.
03 TECHNIQUE
The visible output - what others see and experience. This the application phase. We adjust, fine-tune, practice, drill and polish your performance and outcomes.
Invest in yourself
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"This experience is powerful beyond measure and effortless. Andrea and I talk about real challenges, and then - sure enough - when those challenges comes up in my daily happenings, I know precisely how to handle them. It’s such an important alignment for me.”
– Melissa Suchodolski
President, USC Builds
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"I started working with Andrea after I received feedback from a leader that he had ‘never seen me with such low confidence’ as a presenter. Six weeks later after - coaching with Andrea - I received feedback from senior leadership that my ‘presentation was at the level of a TED talk’. Andrea is an outstanding coach
– Sarah Bain-Lucey
Partner, Deloitte-Audit
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“This experience opened doors for me as a speaker that allowed me to look beyond my stutter. Andrea reminded me that I have control and gave me space to look within so I could powerfully get my point across. So much of what she did for me was allow me to find myself. For that I will be forever grateful.”
– Christopher Richardson, MD
Trauma Surgeon
Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall
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“Coaching with Andrea is the best investment you can make. You will grow exponentially from it. I'm a more confident and skilled leader today after working with her for a year, and she has supported me in all of my leadership communications - from social media to strategy, feature writing and more. She is one of the warmest people I've met, and cares deeply about your success.”
– Maria Fisher
Communications Director, Local 66
The people behind our work.
Meet our executive coaches. Combined, we have 30+ years of real-world leadership and coaching mastery experience. Our styles vary, but our commitment is the same: measurable results that stick.
Andrea Holland
Founder & Chief Leadership Strategist
Andrea geeks out on the data, tells the story that makes it land, and then holds you to it - with warmth and humor for excuses. Fifteen years of coaching leaders across industries. Five thousand hours of the real thing. She has an absolutely riotous laugh and will call you out in the most productive way possible. You’ll thank her for it.
2026 Athena Award Finalist
2025 RBJ Women of Excellence Recipient
National Speaker
Creator, The Executive Deck
Creator, the Cultivating Potential Platform
Nikki Parris
Executive Coach & Team Performance Lead
Nikki has thirty years of corporate experience and the kind of wisdom that makes you wonder why you didn’t call her sooner. Unbothered in the best way. Joyful in every room. She makes big, complicated ideas feel not just possible — but inevitable. And she will absolutely celebrate with you when they happen.
Published Author, Sorry Not Sorry
Course Creator
Chief Facilitator, Executive Deck Happy Hour
Succession Planning & Talent Development Specialist
Still have questions?
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You don’t have to figure that out before you contact us. The inquiry form asks enough questions that we can route you correctly, and we’ll confirm the right fit on the call.
What we’ll want to know: your role and scope, what’s prompting you to reach out right now, and whether there’s a specific deadline or moment driving this.
If you already know you want Calibrating Leadership, you can apply directly. Direct entry is a valid and common path — no prior engagement with us is required.
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Here’s what leaders have accomplished through this work:
$10M in additional funding secured after NCI designation (Healthcare)
585 hours of executive time reclaimed through leadership restructuring
$4M growth plan advanced through role restructuring and performance alignment
First female divisional partner at a nationally recognized U.S. law firm
Chief-level officer role secured after a deeply rigorous interview process
CEO role defended and preserved through critical board conversations
Record-breaking fundraiser results through high-stakes public speaking
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Our coaching engagements range from $5,250 to $30,000 depending on level, scope, and duration. Most clients invest between $7,500 and $14,950. Payment options are available at all levels.
Engagements are available as self-funded investments or employer-sponsored arrangements. For organizationally sponsored engagements, we include sponsor touchpoints and a closing Leadership Insights Report so the investment is visible and accountable.
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We’ve worked - and work with - leaders from Fortune 100 companies and award-winning regional cancer institutes to international MBA programs and small nonprofits alike.
We’re not here to name drop, though. Our clients speak for themselves. You can read their testimonials throughout our site.