Executive Coaching: Individualized Support for Leadership Growth
Leadership isn’t just about knowledge—it’s about applying it to advance careers and drive change. That’s why we’ve integrated executive coaching into our Executive MBA program, offering personalized, one-on-one guidance throughout your journey.
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.
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.
Career Growth and Coaching
Our coaching program delivers results. For the Class of 2024, 50% 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.
My experience using the executive coaching component of the Executive MBA program was professionally and personally transformational. The tailored strategies, valuable insights and unwavering support gave me much needed clarity about my career journey and reignited my passion for what I do. Thanks to coaching within the program, I not only recalibrated my professional goals but also have the necessary skills to surpass them. If you are serious about achieving your career aspirations, look no further - this program is your secret sauce."
Coaching Topic Examples
- 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
- 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 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
Discover how executive coaching can elevate your career to new heights. Join us at an upcoming Preview Day to speak with current students or schedule a one-on-one with a member of our team.
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!
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