1:1 Engineering Leadership Coaching

Windward Coaching Services has demonstrated success and a specialized focus in providing human-centric leadership coaching and development services for experts at all levels in the engineering profession, including:

• Individual Contributors
• Supervisors/Managers
• Directors/Executives
• Small Business Owners

Our 1:1 coaching clients have regularly described working with us as a transforming, life-changing experience that not only improved their work relationships, but also changed how they showed up for family and friends in their personal lives.

Sample Process (flexible to the needs of the individual):

• Preliminary – Discovery: Define the Goal/Scope
  • Individual is interviewed and problem statement is defined — what is the goal of the coaching engagement? (i.e. improve communication style, address undesired limiting behaviors, think and approach problems differently in a new role, develop new leadership skills in a more demanding environment, work through other career/professional blockers, improve promotability, establish a career strategy)
  • Sponsor(s) interviewed separately, if applicable
• Phase 1 – Assessment: Gather Additional Background/Context
  • Individual receives and completes assessment invites as necessary
  • 360 verbal interviews and/or assessment invites sent to colleagues (if applicable)
  • Available assessment suite includes EQi 2.0/EQi 360, Everything DiSC, ProfileXT (based on scope of engagement)
• Phase 2 – Awareness: Revealing the Current State, and the Path Forward
  • Bi-monthly coaching sessions to review assessment/360 results, bring awareness to current barriers to growth
  • Identify opportunities to adapt and secure quick wins, solicit ongoing feedback, and build trust & leadership capital with stakeholders
  • Identify additional previously unseen gaps/opportunities to continue working through during coaching engagement, as well as strengths to re-calibrate/reinforce
• Phase 3 – Action: Commitments and Continuity Plan
  • Bi-monthly coaching sessions to reinforce short-term wins, and co-create a continuity action plan to sustain long-term growth & transformation
  • Meetings with sponsor(s) if/when applicable

Sponsoring a Coaching Engagement?

Many of our coaching engagements are sponsored by a senior leader or HR partner who has identified a high-potential engineer ready for the next level. If you’re looking to invest in one of your key people, here’s what to expect: we align with you on development goals at the outset, maintain confidentiality with the coachee throughout the engagement, and provide progress updates at a level that works for your organization. Our structured, phase-based approach gives you a clear framework you can point to when making the case internally — this isn’t open-ended, it’s a defined coaching arc with objectives and measurable outcomes.