Psychodynamic Executive Coaching explores the interplay between your unconscious motivations as a leader and the psychology of the organization. This process of discovery helps you more precisely identify your executive challenges and opportunities, and effective strategies for addressing them.

With a focus on personal growth within the professional context, we will work together to deepen your understanding of yourself and the organization you work within to unlock your full professional potential. Topics may include:

• Identity Alignment. Which aspects of your work identity are concordant or discordant with your core identity?

• Work Values. How do your unstated, and maybe unconscious, beliefs about how work should be done create friction between you and the organization?

• Feedback Synthesis. Which aspects of the feedback you receive are ego-syntonic - inline with your view of yourself, and which are ego-dystonic - misaligned with your self-conception? With an illuminated understanding of the feedback relative to your identity, you’re empowered to decide what you want to take in and how to address it, and what you want to leave behind and how to navigate potential consequences

• Transference. Are you projecting emotions from past experiences onto present workplace relationships? Are colleagues projecting onto you? The greater your awareness about workplace transference, the more you are able to pause, process, and respond objectively

• Workplace Dynamics. Which aspects of your company’s psychology support your success and which aspects hinder it?

The co-founder relationship and early-stage executive team dynamics are key indicators of success of growth-stage companies, requiring direct communication, impactful feedback, and goal alignment.

Co-founder coaching starts with two individual coaching sessions with each person, exploring privately how their personal and professional history filters their own experience of the team and impacts the team dynamics. The core of the work, however, happens in joint conversation. Together we’ll slow down to explore the root cause of communication challenges and identify strategies to overcome them so that the team can speed up again - more effectively.

These sessions are not about the “what” of running the business - strategy, operations, organizational design - but rather about improving the “how” of team communication and feedback in order to shore up the foundation that those pillars of the business are built upon and reinforcing the energy and passion that brought the business into being. Each individual and the team as a whole will come away with a clearer understanding of how their own personal and professional history contributes to team dynamics, how to harness that knowledge to more effectively communicate, and how to navigate team dynamics for more effective performance as a leadership team and company.