Developing effective leaders isn't easy.
A failure of leadership is even harder.

Coaching, like any other significant investment, must add measurable value. It must be fully integrated into the overall business strategy and operating goals. Effective coaching maximizes strengths, identifies gaps, and establishes performance expectations, timelines, and outcomes.

What Our Clients Can Expect

We work with senior executives who are critical to the financial success of an organization: top corporate and operating officers; sales, marketing and business development executives; professional service firm partners, and high potential leaders.

No matter how good they are, or how much success they have enjoyed, many top executives struggle in environments where global competition is intensifying, margins are shrinking, and stakeholders and analysts are demanding quarter-by-quarter improvements in financial performance. They need advice and counsel from those who have “been there.”

Unfortunately, organizational politics prevents them from seeking help inside. They need a trusted outside advisor to help them focus on significant leadership issues and weigh critical strategic options. Shields Meneley Partners offers confidential counsel to senior leaders so they can develop strategic agility and confidence in their own judgment.

As former Presidents and CEOs, Shields Meneley executive advisors know the landscape and the minefields. They use business acumen and relationship skills to establish credibility, model leadership behaviors that top jobs demand, and teach executives lessons they have learned along the way.