“What got you here, won’t get you there.”
– Marshall Goldsmith
We will help get you there.
TAO Executive Coaching & Training Programs provide high-performing, on-the-rise leaders with the contemporary tools, techniques, and ongoing resources needed to lead at a higher level. Learn more about our Executive Coaching, Training, and Entrepreneur Programs below.
Executive Coaching
Our coaching programs are customized, one-on-one leadership development experiences. They guide you step-by-step through the process of understanding, elevating, and leveraging your authentic strengths, skills, values, and vision in ways that expand your influence and drive extraordinary business success. Lead virtual teams? See VIP Coaching for Virtual Leaders.
Executive Coaching
Brand Y.O.U.™ For Executives helps you identify, communicate, and leverage your authentic personal brand in ways that elevate your visibility, increase your value, expand your influence, and accelerate your ability to drive results in your organization. The 4-step process starts with a 360 assessment to unearth your unique strengths, vision, values, and skills and culminates in a detailed action plan that elevates and leverages your authentic personal brand in ways that drive business success.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential Executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve in their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
6-12+ Months
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person (if feasible) + Virtual
GROUP SIZE:
1:1
VIP (Virtual Influence & Presence) Coaching For Executives equips leaders of virtual teams with the strategies, practices, tools, and techniques to engage and cultivate high-performing remote teams. This coaching program is highly customized to your unique virtual leadership challenges and provides you with a step-by-step blueprint (strategy + action steps) for building and maintaining an engaged, energized, inspired, and motivated virtual team.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Leaders of virtual teams.
PROGRAM LENGTH
3-6+ Months
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
Virtual
GROUP SIZE:
1:1
Training Programs
Our training programs are energetic and interactive learning experiences that equip you with the contemporary strategies, tools, and practices to build real-world skills quickly. We provide practical tools + targeted, real-time coaching and feedback + ongoing virtual resources that you can use immediately.
Personal Branding
Brand Y.O.U.™ is an acronym for Brand Your Own Uniqueness. It is a comprehensive Personal Branding Program that helps you identify, communicate, and leverage your Authentic Personal Brand in ways that add value to your organization, increase your visibility, fuel your rise, and expand your influence.
Brand Y.O.U.™ For Leaders follows a 4-step process that starts with a 360 assessment to unearth your unique strengths, vision, values, and skills and culminates in a detailed action plan that elevates and leverages your authentic personal brand in ways that drive business success.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Brand Y.O.U. Business Bootcamp™ helps you launch, re-brand, or build a business rooted in your authentic personal brand. This online ”bootcamp” follows a 4-step process that starts with a 360 assessment and culminates in a detailed launch plan. In this intensive course, you will learn: how to identify your authentic personal brand, clarify your target audience, leverage your differentiators, develop your marketing strategy, begin to establish your thought leadership, and so much more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Consultants, Coaches, Small Business Owners, Professional Services Providers.
PROGRAM LENGTH
8-Weeks
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 30 Participants
Executive Presence
Our Stand & Deliver Programs help you elevate your Executive Presence in ways that get your ideas across, get buy-in from stakeholders, build relationships, and increase your leadership influence. These contemporary programs provide practical tools + targeted, real-time coaching and feedback + ongoing virtual resources (videos, podcasts, webinars).
Stand & Deliver: Executive Presence™ teaches you to communicate authentically, in ways that project confidence and credibility, engage stakeholders, inspire trust and loyalty, and motivate others to action. You will learn to prep for high-performance, especially in stressful situations, deliver prepared and off-the-cuff messages, use storytelling effectively, deliver authentic feedback, and more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Stand & Deliver: Virtual Presence™ teaches you to communicate authentically, in a virtual environment, in ways that bridge the digital divide, engage remote teams and stakeholders, inspire trust and loyalty, and motivate others to action. You will learn how to craft a communications strategy, prep for high-performance in virtual meetings, engage a distracted virtual audience, structure and deliver impactful messages in a virtual environment, use expressiveness effectively, and more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Stand & Deliver: Persuasive Presentations™ will equip you with the tools and contemporary skills to craft, prepare, and deliver compelling presentations. You will learn the key principles of contemporary presentation design, how to structure your presentation for maximum impact, how to leverage your authentic presence, energy, and expressiveness, and more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Stand & Deliver: Strategic Storytelling™ will equip you with the tools and contemporary skills to craft, prepare and deliver stories that engage, inspire, and motivate others. You will learn the basic types of stories and how to use them in a business setting, a structure for telling your story in a clear, concise manner, and a rehearsal process to ensure your delivery is authentic and seamless.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Stand & Deliver: The Perfect Pitch™ will equip you with the tools and contemporary skills to craft, prepare, and deliver an elevator pitch and/or an idea/product pitch (think, Shark Tank) that engages, inspires, and gets buy-in from your audience. You will learn the 2-3 types of pitches and when and how to use them in a business setting, how to structure your pitch for clarity and maximum effectiveness, and a rehearsal process to ensure your delivery is authentic and compelling.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1-Day
Custom Program Length: ½-Day and 2-Days
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Stand & Deliver: Authentic Feedback™ will equip you with the tools and contemporary skills to prepare and deliver authentic and considerate feedback up, down and across in your organization. You will learn how to structure your feedback for maximum clarity, honesty and kindness, and how to deliver feedback with confidence, even in difficult situations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
High-Potential executives who are newly promoted, prepping for promotion, or need to evolve their current role.
PROGRAM LENGTH
½-Day
Custom Program Length: N/A
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 21 Participants
COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR MANAGERS/DIRECTORS
The Communicate With Impact Programs are designed for Manager/Director Level leaders and for Virtual Team members who want a proven formula for crafting and delivering messages that get buy-in and drive action. These are our most popular programs for Licensing.
Communicate With Impact for Managers/Directors™ will help you develop greater skill in influencing up, an increased ability to deliver clear, concise, and compelling messages to senior leaders, engaging your teams in weekly meeting and huddles, and motivating teams and vendor/partners to take action on the strategic objectives from senior leaders.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Managers/Directors who lead teams.
PROGRAM LENGTH
1 Day
Custom Program Length: N/A
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
In-person + Virtual Learning
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
Communicate With Impact for Virtual Teams™ is for members of virtual teams who want to have greater visibility and influence at the virtual table. You will learn the best ways to prep for a virtual meeting, how to maintain your focus and energy, how to grab and keep your audience’s attention, the optimal message structure for conference calls and videoconferences, how to be authentically expressive, and more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Members of virtual teams.
PROGRAM LENGTH
4-Hours (Four sessions total, 1-hour each session)
Custom Program Length: N/A
PROGRAM DELIVERY OPTIONS:
Virtual + Live Coaching Calls
GROUP SIZE:
Up to 15 Participants
