As a member of the leadership team here at Red Clover, I understand the responsibility executives, leaders and the C-Suite take on to grow their businesses.  Managing a company is multifaceted and requires focus on a variety of projects as well as meeting the needs of your various stakeholders – other executives, your employees and your customers.  How often are you able to focus on your needs and focus on your own professional development – so you can be the best leader you can be? 

What is Executive Coaching?

Executive coaching is a one-on-one professional development process designed to support leaders in growing their skills, navigating challenges, and achieving meaningful goals. It’s not training or mentoring.  It’s a structured partnership focused on unlocking a leader’s potential.

Rather than offering broad advice, coaching helps individuals reflect, ask the right questions, and build practical strategies to lead more effectively. It’s tailored, individualized, and centered on real-world leadership situations.

At its core, executive coaching is about:

  • Clarity: Helping leaders understand their strengths, values, and blind spots.
  • Confidence: Building trust in their own decision-making and communication style.
  • Action: Turning insights into behavior change that drives better outcomes for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Executive coaching supports leaders at all levels, whether they’re new to managing people or navigating complex executive responsibilities. It’s a tool for growth that aligns leadership potential with business needs.

What can you expect from Executive Coaching? 

Executive coaching is not a one-size-fits-all solution.  It’s a focused partnership built around your goals, challenges, and business objectives. Whether you’re navigating a new role, facing organizational change, or simply looking to sharpen your skills, an effective executive coaching should look like this – 

Data Driven Foundation – Executive coaching at its best is grounded in more than intuition.  It starts with data-driven insights built on valid and reliable science. Tools like DISC, Driving Forces, and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) assessments help create a clear picture of how a leader shows up, communicates, and makes decisions.

  • DISC reveals behavioral tendencies; how you lead under pressure, adapt to change, and interact with others.
  • Driving Forces uncover what motivates you on a deeper level; clarifying what energizes or drains you in the workplace.
  • EQ assessments offer insight into how you manage emotions; build relationships, and navigate conflict.

By starting with data, coaching conversations stay focused, objective, and personalized, ensuring the work is rooted in who you are and where you want to go.

Intentional Goal Setting – The executive coaching relationship starts by identifying what success looks like for you, your role, and your business. This could be anything from building executive presence, managing through change, or improving team performance. The goals, individualized to you,  set the direction and keep the work practical and relevant.

Real Time Guidance for Real World Problems – Executive coaching isn’t abstract or theoretical, it’s grounded in what you, a leader, are facing right now. Whether it’s navigating a tough conversation, leading through uncertainty, or making a high-stakes decision, coaching provides timely, practical support. Sessions are designed to meet you where you are and help you think through real challenges with clarity, confidence, and a game plan you can act on immediately.

Business Results You Can Measure – The outcomes of coaching often ripple beyond the individual. Improved communication, better decision-making, and greater confidence lead to stronger teams and more aligned organizations. That’s why executive coaching should be seen as an intentional investment, not an added perk. 

Executive Coaching in Action 

The best executive coaches are the ones with a proven track record.  They have direct experience in providing data-driven, practical guidance to business leaders and executives.  As part of Red Clover’s outsourced HR services, we work directly with key leaders in establishing and achieving goals for their business.  How have we coached executives to success in the past?  

Commercial Roofing Company

A commercial roofing company was growing fast.  They had a strong business reputation, but their people strategy was getting away from them.  The CEO and co-founder had built the business with his brother from the ground up out of their family’s garage.  Their ability to scale rapidly was directly connected to business success, but they were challenged by remaining competitive in an industry that was already starved for talent.  Not only did they need to find skilled tradespeople to work on the roofs, they also needed to develop a human resources infrastructure to retain and reward that talent.  We worked directly with the CEO and his Executive Vice President in identifying the individual goals they had for their business while also building out a strong HR foundation aligned with those identified goals.  Through weekly coaching sessions, we delivered clear, actionable items to drive success.  We actualized those goals and created accountability structures in our one-on-ones and in weekly leadership meetings.  This coaching was provided all within the context of the knowledge we learned through analyzing their DISC, Driving Forces and EQ assessment.  

Logistics Company 

A growing postal logistics company was working with a team of our HR consultants to improve their human resources function and processes.  Communication among their leadership team was presenting roadblocks to productivity.  After having completed the DISC, Driving Forces and EQ assessments as part of their engagement onboarding, we were able to provide direct, actionable feedback to the three partners in the C-Suite to overcome communication obstacles and identify blind spots in their business.  We provided clarity among the leadership team to drive efficiency for the outsourced human resources team.  

Specialty Coffee Company

Having promoted a tenured employee to a new Head of People position, the Director of Operations needed support in implementing key learning and development initiatives while supporting the growth of the new people lead.  Through use of their DISC, Driving Forces and EQ assessments and an individualized team report, we identified areas of balance and potential conflict and developes action plans on how they can proactively best work together. This was critical as they prepared the company for the next phase of growth post-pandemic.  We delivered a structured learning and development plan over our six week engagement while also giving real, in the moment feedback to these two key leaders on building a working partnership to drive success. 

Connect With Your Coach Today

Given our proven success with coaching in the context of our HR consulting engagements, Red Clover is thrilled to offer individualized, action-oriented executive leadership coaching to small business leaders.  Working directly with Eric Mochnacz, Director of Operations, executives will have access to his extensive leadership experience, 1,000+ hours of practical experience in HR advisory to the C-Suite, and his educational background in communication and counseling.  All coaching engagements begin with a TTI Trimetrix DISC, Driving Forces and EQ assessment to best understand your behaviors, motivators and EQ.  You learn key data about yourself through an extensive review of the results and establish a strong foundation for the coaching relationship.  Then, you set goals with your coach, establish a regular meeting cadence, and begin achieving your ambitious leadership goals!  

Interested in growing your leadership capability and the capability of people in your organization?  Reach out now!