Management Coaching

Managing people is one of the most challenging aspects of the job. Sometimes, it can be beneficial to collaborate on your management issues and opportunities with an objective and experienced expert. I support many clients as their management coach to help them creatively and effectively problem-solve their management challenges.

What is management coaching useful for?

Management coaching is utilizing an experienced professional to support you in better understanding and developing practical solutions to management challenges. These challenges often pertain to team dynamics, effectiveness and efficiency, personnel issues, organizational concerns, politics, accountability, governance, situational challenges, team building, misalignment, performance, board and leadership dynamics, communication, collaboration, and other management challenges.

What is a management coaching session like?

Typically, clients sign up for an hour or two of coaching, which you can do below. Then, clients send over any background material that helps with context. We then have a video meeting to discuss the situation and begin collaboratively problem-solving, diagnosing the issues, and developing practical solutions. I’ll ask questions and work with you to clearly understand the issues and opportunities and create compelling solutions, strategies, and next steps. Strategy coaching sessions spark creative thinking, out-of-the-box solutions, and clarity. Clients enjoy the interaction, learn a lot, and appreciate the collaboration with an objective, non-biased expert. Here is more on working with a business coach.

What is your background?

I have significant experience supporting clients in thinking through and solving their management challenges. I spent 7+ years in management consulting firms, five years at McKinsey & Company, and two years at Oliver Wyman. I’ve been the COO of GoalZero, the 9th fastest growing company at the time, head of store operations and marketing at an 18,000-employee retailer, CFO of a successful startup, and the founder of KentleyInsights.com and of course Stratechi.com. Through Stratechi.com, I’ve coached hundreds of leaders on management topics. I have a unique combination of deep management consulting experience with practical executive experience in various roles and types and sizes of companies. You can see more of my background and testimonials here. I also have an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where I graduated top 5 of my class, and a BS in Science, Technology & Society with an emphasis in Computer Science from Stanford University, where I graduated top 10% of my class.

How do we get started?

If you have some management topics you want an objective and experienced coach to support you on, set up some time below, and we’ll get started soon. If the below schedule doesn’t work, reach out to me at joe@statechi.com, and we’ll find a time that works for both of us. I’ll refund you if you don’t see value in your first session.

SCHEDULE A MANAGEMENT COACHING SESSION WITH JOE NEWSUM

Are sessions confidential?

Of course. I am bound to this confidentiality agreement with every paying Stratechi.com client.