Executive Coaching is an emerging profession, both within organizations - where coaches enhance the leadership capacities of key staff and managers - and externally, where coaches work with business leaders. Coaching is the fastest growing process today for making successful people more successful.

Executive Coaching is a one-on-one training and collaboration relationship between a certified coach and a student interested in improving him or herself primarily in career or business related skills. The student is typically interested in one or more of the following:

1. Moving into an executive type position.
2. Assuming an executive position and looking for improvement/feedback
3. Interested in advancing his or her career.
4. Looking for advice on running their own business.
5. There is a need for a course correction in work or life due to a setback
6. There is a lack of clarity, and there are choices to be made
7. Work and life are out of balance, and this is creating unwanted consequences
8. There is a need and a desire to better organized and more self-managing

Coaching is not necessarily just for executives, it can help us all.

Sue Edwards , CHRP, PCC is the lead executive coach for McKinley Solutions and heads a team of coaches with a strong cross section of practical industry experience. Sue coaches leaders ranging from senior executives of Fortune 500 multi-national corporations to business owners and partnership teams for small and mid-sized organizations.  She has received the prestigious 2009 PRISM Award from the International Coach Federation-GTA Chapter. This award recognizes organizations that have created excellence and enhanced business performance through their commitment to coaching as a leadership strategy.

Sue has developed an international reputation for her work with leaders integrating into an organization or being promoted to a significantly more challenging level of leadership, Clearing the 90-Day Hurdle™.  She specializes in supporting leaders in gaining the new perspectives and skill-sets necessary to thrive in their new roles.  She is also particularly adept at partnering with senior leadership teams to support them in shaping their best future, aligning all team members with a common vision and optimizing their interpersonal dynamics.