Yes. Belinda Block coaches CEOs, senior executives, and leadership teams across industries. Her work with CEOs has included coaching a CEO of a specialty insurance company to enhance executive presence, manage emotions more effectively, and upgrade the talent of the leadership team.
CEO-level coaching addresses a different set of challenges than coaching a director or VP. At the top of the org structure, the decisions are bigger, fewer, and slower to feedback. The people who used to give honest feedback are no longer around the leader in the same way — direct reports are managing their own positioning, the board has its own interests, and peer relationships are complicated by competition. CEO coaching is one of the few places where a senior leader can think out loud with someone whose only loyalty is to their development.
What Belinda brings to CEO coaching is the combination of corporate insider knowledge — the realities of running organizations at scale — and an objective outside perspective. She’s a Ph.D. industrial/organizational psychologist with over 25 years of experience in corporate leadership development, so the work is grounded in evidence about how leadership actually functions inside organizations.
Belinda also designs and facilitates strategy meetings for senior teams — creating shared vision and mission, designing change management strategies, and supporting CEOs through organizational redesign and senior team development. The work can be one-on-one with the CEO, or it can include working with the leadership team as a unit.
Engagements with senior executives typically run three to six months, with monthly sessions and access between meetings. Many CEOs continue the relationship afterward to maintain the gains and address what comes next.