Executive Coaching
Lead with confidence and compassion.
Sometimes it's a bigger role. Sometimes it's a conflict that won't settle, or a question of who you are as a leader. Coaching gives you a confidential place to think out loud, build the skills the moment asks for, and act on what matters most. Every engagement starts with listening, so the work is built around your goals.
Some ways to work together
Coaching for leaders and managers →Coaching for teams →Coach Approach Workshop →
Totals to date, updated 2026
Real Challenges
What leaders bring to coaching
- Stepping into a bigger role
- Figuring out who you are as a leader
- Working through conflict and hard conversations
- Leading people who used to be peers
- Building a team that trusts each other
- A business or program that has stopped growing
- Keeping the mission in view when the budget is tight
- Speaking up for your team without burning bridges
- Working with your board
- Stepping up when a key leader leaves suddenly
- Feeling stuck at the same level
Coaching Options
Some ways to work together
Every engagement is built around your goals. These are the most common starting points, and the work often grows from there.
Coaching for leaders and managers
One-on-one · usually 6 to 12 sessions
For leaders facing a specific challenge or stepping into a bigger role, and for organizations investing in the managers they are advancing. Sessions are built around your goals. About six is usually enough to get clear on a challenge and act on it; twelve monthly sessions suit a leader growing into a larger role. Organizations can bring coaching in for several managers through Leadership Coaching for Scaling Organizations, with a written summary of insights and next steps after every session.
Coaching for teams
The whole team together, plus one-on-one strengths sessions
For a team that wants to work better together, or a leadership team balancing strategy and daily operations. An engagement can pair one-on-one strengths coaching for each member with group sessions on communication, trust and shared leadership.
Coach Approach Workshop
A half or full day for a management team
Training that helps managers take a coaching approach with their own staff. Teams practice on real situations, out loud, and leave with a road map and one person they have already decided to try it with.
How It Works
How a coaching session works
Sharpen the focus.
Every session starts with what you want to work on and what would make the time worth it. Often that is not the first thing on your mind, so we narrow it to the one that matters most.
Stay curious.
Most of the session is spent exploring: widening your thinking, seeing the situation through someone else's eyes, and getting under the surface to what has not been said yet. Your own words come back to you, so you can hear how you are framing it.
You decide.
You choose what happens next. Each session ends with a step you set, and the next one starts with what happened.
The Approach
Coaching runs through all of our work
Coaching shapes everything Good Works Results does. It happens one-on-one, with leaders and owners working on what matters most to them. It is built into every peer forum, where each leader has individual sessions to turn what comes up in the group into specific goals. And it shapes how we teach, so the habit of asking instead of answering spreads past one leader to the people they lead.
"Thank you again for taking the time for the discovery call and putting structure to my scattered thoughts. I came into this week feeling very much in control and reinvigorated to tackle my tasks list…"
Discovery Call Recipient
Let's Connect
Tell us what you're working on. We'll follow up with a next step that fits: coaching, a peer forum, or a partnership.
Daniel Riemenschneider
Daniel's approach is grounded in deep listening and compassionate guidance, meeting leaders where they are before working toward a path forward.