About
Stephanie Kotch-Tames Coaching works with executives and their teams to elevate their leadership game in an ever-changing workforce landscape. Every leader has the capacity for growth and improvement, and executive coaching is a powerful mechanism to drive this.
About Stephanie
Stephanie Kotch-Tames is an executive and leadership coach. She has extensive experience working with executives and corporate teams to improve their effectiveness, impact and potential.
After nearly 30 years in senior HR leadership roles where she was a strategic advisor and business partner, Stephanie left Corporate America to pursue the most rewarding aspect of her career - helping leaders and their teams be better. Executives depend on Stephanie to coach and support, but most importantly they need her to be a strategic advisor and truth-teller.
Stephanie has also worked extensively with military men and women who have transitioned out of long, distinguished careers in the United States military and into senior leadership roles in various industries.
As this transition is exceptionally difficult and can breed frustration, these individuals appreciate and depend on Stephanie’s deep knowledge of these leadership nuances, as well as her ability not only to coach them through assimilating into working in corporate America, but LEADING at the senior most levels in corporate America.
Stephanie knows intimately what it takes for executives and teams to remain competitive and to evolve with the changing workforce. She is a coach, supporter, strategic advisor, and truth-teller for her clients.
Stephanie is certified in Hogan Personality Inventory, and Energy Leadership Index.
A Formative Process…
Early in her career, she began working with a long-time leader of an organization who was struggling to get out of his/her own way. It was taking a toll on the individual’s health and home life, as well as the effectiveness of the individual’s team. The individual’s professional brand was so negative, the company was prepared to part ways. Coaching this individual was considered a last-ditch-effort before their employment would be terminated. Over the first 3 months, Stephanie and this individual quickly identified immediate gaps, built plans to address them, and began executing the plan. By the 6 month mark, the leader was ready to look ahead to the type of leader they wanted to be. Stephanie’s coaching combined with the individual’s willingness to go back to basics and rebuild, the leader’s turnaround was evident throughout the organization. By the end of 1 year, their team’s engagement scores rose impressively and their business results reflected this improvement. Most notably, the individual was now being tracked as a high-potential leader within the organization.
Stephanie’s Approach
Over nearly 30 years of leadership in corporate America has shown Stephanie that there will never be a one-size-fits-all approach for helping executives and teams be their best. We all have a starting point that is unique to our experiences, style, and inherent personalities.
Oftentimes leaders don’t know where to begin. They know what they have and they know what they want, but the path to get there is not always clear. This is why Stephanie’s approach to help clients is customized to ensure they get the most out of the time they invest in coaching.
We start by fully understanding the client’s or team’s current situation. This includes strengths, successes, opportunities and how they are experienced by others.
We then clarify their goals, some of which are known in advance, and some are uncovered based on an assessment of their current situation.
We develop a plan which keeps goals at the forefront, and allows for measures of progress.
We support our clients in taking action throughout the coaching process.
We measure progress and develop a plan for sustainment.
