A trusted executive coach and confidant to CEOs, C-Level Exec, and high-potential employees to help them clarify goals, unlock their potential, and create actionable strategic plans. A Trusted Executive & Professional Confidant to CEOs and C-Level Executives
Hire a trusted confidant advisor or right-hand person is an especially pivotal position and one that possesses great power and can make a si
gnificant impact. Trusted Confidant Advisor supports the company’s strategic and annual operating plan, to include hiring policies, compensation, benefits, performance management and succession planning. CEOs, can do the job without talking to someone about their experiences, which is why most develop a close relationship with a trusted Confidant—a person with whom they feel free to share their thoughts and fears. The most effective Executive’s find confidants who complement their strengths and sharpen their effectiveness. Bill Gates uses Steve Ballmer in this way; Warren Buffett turns to vice chairman Charlie Munger. In the end, both the Executive’s and their organizations benefit from these relationships. As your trusted confidant, I’m always by your side. Holding your deepest secrets. Never judging. Knows as much about you as you do, in complete confidence. Often missing from the busy Executive’s life is that trusted person who understands the holistic complexity in his or her business and personal life. I strive to provide solid financial and business expertise and serve as a dispassionate sounding board, a role I call “Executive Confidant”. By holding a safe place for the executive to work on life path issues, I’ve seen remarkable benefits as personal values become integrated with wealth and family decisions. This simply makes for a more meaningful life. As a Executive Confidant, I welcome confidential conversation about the most important issues facing the business leader including:
• career transition
• retirement
• legacy
• kids and money
• marriage and divorce
• health concerns
• values and life purpose
• vacations
• mentoring & depth of the executive bench
• succession planning
When I do my job well, I facilitate positive action in the leader’s professional and personal life. This can have a positive benefit of impacting the people in their sphere of influence. The job of an Executive can be lonely. For a variety of reasons, confiding in colleagues, company associates, family members or friends presents complications. Powerful individuals often isolate themselves as a reaction to their inability to find people they can confide in. Abundance and isolation are not often discussed in the same context because the assumption is that abundance only solves problems and does not create them. Material success does not make you invulnerable to the pitfalls of life – we need only to glance at the headlines to verify that. In fact, material success can create unique vulnerabilities that are often overlooked because, after all, the “problems” of the wealthy are not really problems. The Executive Confidant can be particularly helpful when:
• aligning life priorities with the responsibilities of wealth
• wanting more meaning and purpose in life
• desiring a candid and experienced perspective
• usually, the answers are within us but we can’t see them, or we are stuck. Clarity can come from skilled questioning and guided discovery. Being asked the right questions can be the first step in achieving ideal outcomes. Who do you turn to when you need to find clarity? Who is your “Executive Confidant”? Email me at: [email protected]
