Leadership Coaching
From Personal Mastery to Organizational Impact
When the ground keeps shifting, leadership starts within.
In times of relentless change, leadership is no longer just about giving direction—it’s about evolving from the inside out. Today’s leaders are called to navigate complexity with steadiness, to meet disruption with clarity and to grow in step with the shifting realities around them.
The real work isn’t just reacting to change—it’s becoming someone who can lead through it.
We help leaders, internal consultants and OD professionals develop the inner awareness, resilience and presence to lead from within—while translating that growth into real-time insight, focused strategies and meaningful progress through personalized, one-on-one coaching.
Realize your leadership potential.
Each coaching journey and its benefits are uniquely shaped by the client’s context, focus area and inner readiness. Here is an overview of some of the benefits you may experience depending on your goals and growth edges:
Personal Resilience & Mindset Evolution
Leaders build inner steadiness to meet uncertainty and change with courage and curiosity.
Relational Awareness & Influence
Coaching strengthens empathy, listening, and perspective-taking, enabling leaders to engage resistance and hold complexity.
Activating & Sustaining Transformational Change
Leaders learn to balance strategic planning with adaptive responsiveness, turning insight into meaningful action that scales throughout the system.
Areas of Focus
We bring specialized expertise in four key areas of leadership transformation.
Leading Transformational Change
Are you responsible for leading change in your organization—whether a new initiative, merger, culture shift, or strategic transition?
We coach leaders seeking inner confidence, systemic perspective and relational awareness to foster alignment, trust and forward movement across complex systems.
Reclaiming Vision & Direction
Are you navigating a threshold moment, feeling stretched or seeking more effective engagement as a change leader?
Coaching grounded in the Change Maker’s Competency Wheel supports you to cultivate change literacy, emotional-somatic awareness and inner and outer guidance—tailored to your context, vision and appetite for insight.
Deepening Your Inner Capacity
Are you stepping up into a new role, phase of life or calling that demands more of you?
You may sense something shifting, but the path isn’t clear. We’ll help you reconnect with your inner compass and vision, using our expertise in visual approaches, guided processes, and meaning-making to chart your next horizon.
Activating Creative Leadership
Are you seeking to bring something bold and creative into the world?
Whether you’re launching a new business, writing a book, developing a podcast, or leading a culture shift, we help break through creative blocks and tap into your generative potential. Visualization, active imagination, and change-framing techniques bring your vision into action.
The Grove Approach
Our coaching is always centered on your lived experience, supported by resources that help you see and shape it more clearly. We provide spaciousness for you to explore key dynamics, powerful techniques and practical tools that help make the complex and often invisible aspects of inner development and systemic change more visible, tangible and workable.
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 that can complement your coaching journey and offer a communal space for reflection and practice.
Role-specific assessments using The Grove’s new transformational competency model, The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel™, which helps you explore your strengths and growth edges across four areas.
“I had the good fortune to benefit from Dr. Gisela Wendling's support as a coach. Her warmth, easy but professional style, grounded intuition, and depth of experience supported me in grappling with some of the most challenging aspects of leadership transition in my own organization while helping me expand the value I provide my own clients. It was an honor and a pleasure to be coached by her.”
Peter H. Bailey
President, The Prouty Project
“In exploring my goal of envisioning my legacy projects, I engaged David as a coach. I must say, his guidance with active imagination exercises and deeply reflective questions really broke things open for me. We are, I'm happy to say, continuing this journey. I recommend him highly.”
Diego Navarro
Educational Innovator
“Joran is a highly-skilled and balanced force that will put your commitments into action. He asks powerful questions that thoughtfully provoke the kindest and most direct path to realization. A coaching journey with Joran is a walk of authentic truth and fulfillment. I am grateful to work with him every chance I can.”
Michelle Royal
Founder, Royal Innovation Design Group
The Change Maker's Competency Wheel™
At the heart of our approach lies a robust and integrative framework designed to anchor and accelerate your transformational agency. Rooted in four essential domains, the Change Maker’s Competency Wheel™ (Wheel) supports you to develop not just what you do, but who you become as a leader in times of complex change.
Through coaching grounded in this model, you can deepen your capacity for change literacy, expand your emotional and somatic awareness, sharpen your inner and outer guidance and cultivate the relational fluency to lead with impact.
The Wheel isn’t a static diagram but a map for your evolution, helping you translate insight into action and agency into sustained transformation.
“Karen is a world-class coach who raises the bar for executive coaching excellence. I had the distinct pleasure of working directly with Karen, experiencing firsthand her skillful coaching that unlocked the full potential of her clients. She applies an impressive “whole person” approach in a variety of technical, business, and personal environments, in different industries and domains. Karen is a values-driven leader who will maximize your talent and energy. She is the real deal.”
M.B.
Medical Technology Executive
“Sarah has such a talent for words, a way of reflecting back what I’ve said in a way that is so crystallizing. It’s immensely valuable. As a result of coaching, I feel like I’ve hit a turning point and barriers are being lowered. It’s exciting to feel like I started something, enabled it, and now it’s gaining its own momentum. Six months ago, I was ready to walk away from it all, and now I feel rewarded and valued.”
K.M.
Senior Scientist
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Workshops
The Grove's integrated practices have been developed over 45 years of experience. We have courses on strategic and transformational change, visioning, team performance and graphic facilitation.
Consulting Services
We are experienced process consultants who are passionate about the challenges you and your industry face. We know how to partner with leaders and process design teams to create the conditions for success, even amid uncertainties.
Insights
Our blog brings together insights from decades of practice and shares emerging ideas to help leaders and teams navigate complexity, build alignment and create lasting impact.