Coaching & Advisory
Long-term partnerships for founders, CEOs, and leaders navigating complexity
Coaching Partnerships
Long-term partnerships for founders, CEOs, and senior leaders navigating terrain where something new is asking to emerge. Where the familiar frameworks no longer quite fit.
This is practical, real-time advisory work. A space to think through what’s live. The decision you’re holding. The relationship that’s shifted. The pattern you can’t yet name.
A sounding board when you’re navigating the unknown and need someone who can hold complexity with you.
You already know how isolating leadership at this level can be. The questions you’re holding can’t always be shared with your board, your team, your partners. This work creates space where you can be completely honest about what you’re seeing, what’s uncertain, what’s asking for your attention.
This work strengthens your capacity to lead. How you read situations. Hold creative tension. Communicate under pressure. Make decisions when the path forward isn’t clear. Stay connected to yourself as responsibility grows.
We meet regularly—usually monthly, sometimes more frequently when you’re in the middle of something significant. Between sessions, you have access when something can’t wait.
The relationship is built on trust and discretion. What we work on stays between us. The work evolves as your leadership evolves. Most partnerships last years.
“Carissa is just an outstanding coach and expert in the human condition.”
Executive Reflection
Some leaders need space for longer-term work. Not to solve immediate problems, but to tend how they’re evolving as leaders.
This is for senior leaders who rarely have space to reflect on how leadership is shaping them. For those navigating succession, stepping back from operations, moving into unfamiliar territory. For leaders whose work has become effective yet quietly isolating.
The focus is on your practice as a leader. How you hold responsibility. How you sustain yourself. How your presence shapes culture.
We meet monthly or quarterly. The work unfolds slowly.
Available as part of a coaching partnership or standalone.
“When winging it is not an option and you need your top talent at the top of their game, it’s a reflex to seek support from the best.”
Coaching Supervision
I offer supervision for professional coaches within ICF and EMCC frameworks. Faculty at CRRGlobal. Active in the Coaching Supervision Academy.
Space to examine your practice. Not just what's happening in client work, but how you're being shaped by the work, the patterns across clients, how you remain grounded.
Areas I typically support:
Coaches partnering with CEOs, founders, and co-founders navigating complexity at the top
Evolving identity for experienced coaches shifting toward presence, heart intelligence, and deeper ways of working
Team coaches finding their footing with senior leadership team dynamics
One-to-one and small group supervision available.
To explore any of these, we begin with a conversation.
“I dared to believe that anything was possible.”
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