Executive Coaching: Individualized Support for Leadership Growth
What could you accomplish with a dedicated team behind you?
Career Growth and Coaching
Our coaching program delivers results. For the Class of 2026, 100% of participants saw career progression, whether through promotions, leadership transitions, or new responsibilities, before graduation.
With personalized guidance and actionable strategies, the coaching program empowers you to achieve meaningful milestones while preparing for long-term success.
What Makes Our Coaching Unique?
Our executive coaching program is designed with you in mind, which is why our coaching sessions are:
- Customized: Every conversation is tailored to your personal goals, challenges, and ambitions.
- Flexible: Convenient one-hour Zoom sessions, scheduled once or twice a month, fit seamlessly into your busy life.
- Confidential: A trusted, private space to explore opportunities, overcome challenges, and refine your strategies.
“Coaching helped me find and use my voice more confidently within my organization. Having an outside perspective gave me the space to advocate for myself, clarify what I was working toward and navigate major professional decisions with greater confidence.”
How We Support Your Growth
Through one-on-one sessions with professionally certified executive coaches, you’ll:
- Clarify your leadership style and areas for growth.
- Develop strategies for current and future roles.
- Navigate key career transitions with confidence.
- Envision your “blank canvas” for the future and build actionable plans to achieve your goals.
“Executive coaching gave me an unbiased perspective outside of my company and family, something that’s incredibly hard to find. Having that trusted sounding board helped me navigate my career and earn a promotion that was more than incremental.”
Coaching Topics
Career Development
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Building/leveraging network for internal/external career progression
- Maximizing opportunity of a stretch project
- Networking for introverts
- Career mapping
- Developing, presenting, and executing a development plan to a supervisor
- Interview preparation and resume review
- W2 to Entrepreneur
- Discussing multiple opportunity situations
- Building a group of mentors
- Am I happy with what I’m doing? What else could be out there for me?
- Interpreting and countering a job offer
- How to maximize the EMBA
- Personal brand: Establishing/Fixing
Leadership Development
- Overcoming imposter syndrome
- Gaining skills to bridge the gap from individual contributor to leading others
- Improving relationship with a business partner
- Overcoming inferiority
- Skills to balance introversion with extroversion
- Understanding strengths and gaps to prepare for the next role
- Preparing for important meetings and gaining leadership visibility
- Leading/Managing current or new team members
- Onboarding plans for new team members
- Interacting with and maximizing relationships with new leaders
- Time investment strategy
- Workload and delegation
- Improving efficiency by challenging beliefs about what is necessary
- Managing emotions
- First 90 days in a new role
- Widening perspective of opportunities and career directions
- Managing up
- Influencing without authority
- Listening
- Leading and motivating change
- Leader as facilitator and coach
- Influencing strategy and systems
- Managing through systems
- Dealing with bad leadership and personal growth
- Interpreting personality assessments
- Improving emotional reactivity
- Finding the leader within
- Leadership without authority: Leading through influence
Team and Organizational Dynamics
- Team dynamics and working through friction
- Communication and messaging
- Framing questions effectively
- Strategic thinking
- Improving processes
- Leading/Managing current or new team members
- Onboarding plans for new team members
Personalized Leadership: The Power of Coaching in the EMBA Program
How does executive coaching elevate the Executive MBA experience? In our latest podcast episode, we sit down with Rob Mullins, one of Fisher’s expert executive coaches, to explore how personalized coaching transforms leadership growth.
Learn how coaching connects classroom insights to real-world challenges, helps students refine their leadership styles, and drives measurable impact for their organizations.
Questions? I'm here to help!
Hello! I’m Haleigh DePalma, your guide to the Executive MBA program at Ohio State. Whether you’re just starting your exploration or ready to apply, I’m here to provide personalized support. Please don’t hesitate to contact me—I look forward to helping you achieve your goals!