From sustainability to AI, operationalizing transformation is hard. BCG’s Transformation Academy brings together a top team of executive coaches to help industry leaders chart success.
How BCG Works with Executive Coaching Clients
BCG helps senior leaders and leadership teams drive transformational change and set the foundation for long-term impact and value creation. Research shows that coaching senior leaders can increase the likelihood of transformation success by more than 70%. We work in lockstep with organizations’ broader change initiatives, and our programmatic approach allows us to coach multiple leaders around a shared North Star. Moreover, this approach enables continuous feedback loops and rapid interventions.
We view every coaching engagement as a true partnership between leader and coach that provides a safe, confidential, and deep level of support when leaders need it most. Our coaches are former C-suite executives who have been in the same shoes as the leaders they coach. They have felt the same pressures, made the same tough decisions, and learned from the same mistakes. BCG’s executive coaches come with a deep understanding of strategic and operational context and can help other leaders deliver on their most pressing business or organization objectives.
We work with our clients’ most senior leaders in two ways:
One-on-One Executive Leadership Coaching
Our executive coaches serve as thought partners to help leaders navigate change and complexity, lead in new ways, and deliver on their organizations’ goals. We work at the intersection of strategy and leadership, applying a critical and operational lens while engaging across the coaching and mentoring spectrum.
Typical one-on-one executive leadership coaching engagements last six months and include in-depth sessions, frequent check-ins, and just-in-time support. Throughout this process, we help leaders see their blind spots, explore and challenge their assumptions, reframe their thinking, and experiment with new ways of working, engaging, and leading.
Typical one-on-one executive leadership coaching engagements last six months and include in-depth sessions, frequent check-ins, and just-in-time support. Throughout this process, we help leaders see their blind spots, explore and challenge their assumptions, reframe their thinking, and experiment with new ways of working, engaging, and leading.
Executive Leadership Team Coaching
The role of the leadership team in today’s environment is increasingly complex and critical. The team needs to define its purpose and role as a team instead of as a set of individuals. It also needs to align around a clear vision and figure out how to leverage each team member’s experience and perspective when making good decisions. Most important, the team needs to partner with each of its key stakeholders to learn, look around corners, connect the dots, and chart a path forward to drive positive impact and value creation.
Our executive consulting and coaching team partners with leadership teams to make this happen. Typical engagements last six months and include diagnostic assessments, facilitated workshops, observation during team meetings, and regular check-ins with the team leader and other team members.
Our executive consulting and coaching team partners with leadership teams to make this happen. Typical engagements last six months and include diagnostic assessments, facilitated workshops, observation during team meetings, and regular check-ins with the team leader and other team members.
Our Client Work in Executive Coaching
BCG’s executive coaching services team has helped leaders in multiple industries navigate change efforts of all kinds, including operating model redesign, agile ways of working, digital transformation, post-merger integration, organizational design, and culture transformation. Recent engagements include:
Next-Generation Leaders. BCG’s executive coaches worked with 100 leaders at a leading health care provider that was undertaking a transformation to become a more customer-centric, agile, inclusive, curiosity-driven, and digitally savvy organization.
New Operating Model. BCG executive coaches guided top leaders at a multinational oil and gas company through a successful transformation to a new operating model.
Agile Ways of Working. Our executive consulting and coaching team helped a major financial institution’s senior leaders adopt agile ways of working, embrace a new culture, and implement related processes and behaviors.
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BCG’s executive coaches bring deep leadership expertise and perspective. They are also rigorously certified, with years of experience coaching, advising, and mentoring. Our cadre of North American and European coaches has more than 1,100 years of collective
leadership advisory experience. It includes more than 20 former Fortune 100 company executives.
Kaye Foster
- Former SVP, Global Human Resources, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
- Former VP, Global Human Resources, Johnson & Johnson
- Seasoned coach to C-suite execs; 20+ years coaching experience; focuses on building and enabling new leadership teams and CEOs in new roles
Bob Black
- Former Group President, Kimberly Clark
- Former Chief Operating Officer, Sammons Enterprises
- Retained by numerous CEOs and their cabinets to improve organizational and leadership effectiveness; focused on enabling leaders through digital transformations
Vicki Escarra
- Former Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Customer Service/Ops, Delta Airlines
- Former CEO of Opportunity International and former CEO of Feeding America
- Coach to C-suite executives on leadership styles, effective communication, and mindset and behavior shifts
Harsha Ramalingam
- Former Global VP Ecommerce Platform, CIO, and CISO functions, Amazon
- Board directorship at Integral Health
- Serves on the Information Technology Advisory Board (ITAB) of the United Nations World Food Programme
- Advisor to senior leaders, with a focus on value creation through the identification of breakthrough and disruptive opportunities
Marijke Brunklaus
- Former CHRO, ING Netherlands; member of ING NL Board
- Led the agile transformation of ING—from initial design through implementation
- Responsible for ING's leadership development
- Advisor and coach to numerous financial institutions and other organizations embarking on agile transformation
Remco van Zanten
- Former executive board member at Booking.com, Zalando, and Bol.com
- Board advisor to 10+ tech (unicorn) founders; partner at a leading VC tech investor
- Participated in Executive Growth Mindset and Agile@Scale programs at leading European tech companies for 15 years
- Advisor and coach to individuals and teams with a focus on driving transformational growth by focusing on bold growth strategies and building high-performing, motivated teams
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