What is an executive coach?

Your effectiveness as an executive is based on your behaviors, the quality of your relationships, and the quality of your decision making. An executive coach understands this and helps inform the factors that impact all three of those areas. My role is to guide leadership performance and help executives manage and reduce stress to live a more integrated life.

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Why executive coaching?

You are leading through public health crises, through increasingly quick change cycles, through volatile markets, and during a time where talent has more agency than ever. Your effectiveness as a leader has never been more important.

Together, we will explore how you can take yourself, your team, and your organization not just into a future of success but into a future of significance.

Executive coaching clients

Excellus BCBS

• University of Rochester

• YMCA

• WNY Energy

• Excellus BCBS • University of Rochester • YMCA • WNY Energy •

What can you achieve with executive coaching?

An executive coach is a thought partner to explore situations and approaches.
An executive coach expands a leader’s perspective.
An executive coach explores decision making and unconscious bias.
An executive coach provides feedback and uncovers blind spots.
An executive coach aids in increased self-awareness and awareness of impact on others.
An executive coach expands the executive’s ‘How’ to influence, increasing emotional awareness to create positive impact.
An executive coach broadens skills to take on more responsibilities.
An executive coach understands brain functioning and how to create positive team experience and performance.

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View executive coaching significance stories.

It was certainly a commitment to carve out time for personal development, but I found the investment of time to be well worth it

Cicely Strickland | Chief Operating Officer
United Way of Greater Rochester
"Sherri’s leadership coaching is transformative. I now realize it is feasible for a leader to be both effective and loving."

Xin Zhiguo Li, PHD | Associate Professor
University of Rochester
Taking time from the day-to-day to reflect and grow as a leader was not only refreshing but has positively impacted my life, both at work and at home.

Barbara Pierce | Director, Bureau of Communications
City of Rochester
I am grateful to have been afforded this opportunity to work with such an insightful and kindhearted leadership coach. I would highly recommend Sherri to any leader who is looking to inspire themselves and others.

Heather Smith | Vice President of Medicare and Individual Market Sales
BlueCross BlueShield