Leadership Coaching
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Why Leaders Need Support
Leaders shape the conditions that allow transformational change to take root and flourish in organizations. While their ability to realize visionary futures requires having a vision and strategy, it also depends on bringing their capacity to lead from within to the complexity around them.
Leading transformation from the inside out means cultivating ongoing personal and professional growth, resilience, change literacy, and supportive systems that match the depth of today’s evolving challenges.
At The Grove Consultants International, we’ve spent decades guiding leaders through change in the context of large-scale systems work, team development, and strategic design.
We now bring that same depth of experience into personalized, one-on-one coaching tailored to leaders leading organizational change initiatives or experiencing significant personal or professional change themselves.
We support leaders who seek to expand their change confidence through a transformational partnership tailored to their journey.
Focus Areas
Are you responsible for leading change in your organization?
Navigate Transformational Change:Â Lead Organizational Change from the Inside Out
Whether you're leading a new initiative, merger, culture shift, or strategic transition, we coach leaders who want to access an inner sense of confidence and systemic awareness in the face of complexity. Drawing on decades of facilitation and strategic visioning experience, we’ll help you frame what’s unfolding and strengthen the relational awareness and influence needed to foster alignment and trust among your stakeholders and create forward movement across the system.
Are you stepping up into a new role, a new phase of life, or a calling that’s asking more of you?
Reclaim Vision & Direction: Clarify What You’re Stepping Into
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You may feel a strong sense that something is shifting, but the path isn’t fully clear. We’ll help you reconnect with your inner compass and personal/professional vision, using The Grove’s deep expertise in visual approaches, guided processes, and meaning-making to chart your next horizon.
Are you navigating a threshold moment, feeling emotionally stretched, or seeking to engage others more effectively as a change leader?
Deepen Your Inner Capacity:
Grow the Whole-Person Skills That Support Change
You don’t have to figure it out alone. We offer coaching grounded in the Change Maker’s Spindle™, the Grove’s transformational competency model, supporting you to cultivate change literacy, emotional fluidity, somatic awareness, and inner and outer guidance. This is deep development work, is shaped by your context, vision, and appetite for insight.
Are you ready to bring something bold into the world?
Activate Creative Leadership:Â Unleash the Ideas, Energy & Offerings Within You
Whether you’re launching a new business, writing a book, developing a podcast, or leading a culture shift, we help leaders break through creative blocks and tap into the generative potential within you. Our approach includes active imagination, visualization, and change-framing techniques to unlock stuck places and move your vision into action.
What You Can Expect from Grove Coaching
Each coaching journey is unique, shaped by your context, your focus area, and inner readiness. That said, Grove Coaching consistently supports leaders in growing their capacity to navigate complexity, lead change confidently, and deepen self-awareness.
Depending on your goals and growth edges, here are some of the benefits you may experience:
Personal Resilience & Mindset
- Feel more grounded, centered, and resourced in times of uncertainty.
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Learn to step beyond your comfort zone with courage and curiosity.
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Recognize and work with emotional vulnerability as a leadership asset.
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Cultivate a mindset that embraces change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Relational Awareness & Influence
- Expand your empathy for others’ internal change processes.
- Engage resistance not as a barrier but as a source of insight and building alignment.
- Strengthen your ability to listen, reflect, and respond with presence.
- Be seen as a trusted leader who can hold systemic and interpersonal complexity with emotional intelligence and discernment.
Activating & Sustaining Transformational Change
- Balance strategic planning with the ability to navigate the emergent.
- Step more fully into your visionary role with purpose and integrity.
- Access momentum and feel energized through stakeholder engagement.
- Empower others to move through stuckness and take meaningful action.
Coaches
Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.
CEO of The Grove with long experience in leadership, organizational work, and transformational change.
David Sibbet
Founder of The Grove is a visionary, artist, and master facilitator focusing of coaching for creativity.
Sarah DeWitt
Senior Associate of The Grove. Certified ICE Coach and experienced executive coach and systems thinker.
Coaching Is Supported by Tools and Resources
Grove Coaching is grounded in providing spaciousness for the client to explore key dynamics as well as providing powerful techniques and tools that help make the complex and often invisible aspects of inner development and systemic change more visible, tangible, and workable. Over decades of guiding leaders and teams through transformation, The Grove has developed a rich library of mental models, visual templates, and guided practices that support growth at both the personal and organizational level.
Depending on your goals, we may draw on selected assessments or creative practices to help you deepen insight, track growth, and connect your inner shifts with outer action.
For those wanting to dive deeper into the foundations of this work, Gisela Wendling’s new book, The Liminal Pathways Study, explores how leaders and consultants are facing today’s unprecedented change environments and how the competencies of the Change Maker’s Spindle™ are showing up in real practice.
At The Grove, tools support but do not replace the power of human relationship. Coaching is always centered on your lived experience, supported by resources that help you see and shape it more clearly.
Visual templates, workbooks, and guided visualizations that help you map change processes, uncover inner knowing, and make decisions from a place of alignment.
Interactive workshops, like Stepping Into Transformational Agency (SITA), which can complement your coaching journey and offer a communal space for reflection and practice.
Targeted assessments using The Grove’s new transformational competency model, The Change Maker’s Spindle™, which helps you explore your strengths and growth edges across four competency areas.