Coaching
I can help you become a more influential and impactful leader, or make a powerful career pivot.
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You are a high performer.
Your organization is changing amid disruptions.
You want greater impact and influence.
Seize the moment!
Get the ImpactYou Crave
I work with individual leaders.
Common client scenarios:
- Dealing effectively with a more powerful colleague who does not value collaboration.
- Showing up confidently when changing organizational priorities are disrupting your job.
- Transitioning to a new leadership role.
- Making a career pivot.
- Meeting work commitments while dealing with new or intractable family obligations.
Coaching Options & Milestones
Options:
- 12-month engagement
- 6-month engagement
Process Milestones:
- High-level goal(s) definition
- Assessment of client's current context, key stakeholders, etc.
- Stakeholder input
- Formal goal(s) definition
- Action plan creation
- Plan into action & regular meeting
- Periodic check-ins with key stakeholders (including sponsors and mentors)
- Final impact assessment
- Final coaching session
- Check-in 2 months post final coaching session
Gena Cox, PhD, Executive & Leadership Coach
Coaching Perspective
Gena Cox has spent most of her 25+-year career helping individual leaders enhance their leadership impact and guiding executives as they build psychologically healthy workplaces. She has decades of experience in executive coaching, measuring and improving employee experience, and diagnosing and enhancing organizational culture. Gena is the award-winning author of Leading Inclusion, a guidebook for helping leaders build inclusive organizations from the top down. She has been named to the Thinkers 50 list of Top 50 global coaches.
Gena’s training as an organizational psychologist is the foundation of her impact as an executive coach. She uses communication, group dynamics, insights into power and influence, and other lessons from psychological science to help her clients achieve their coaching goals.
Client, Organization, Industry Experience
Gena coaches executives from mid-level to C-level management, using tried-and-tested processes customized to each client’s needs. She often incorporates assessments, 360-degree interviews, role-playing, and client observations into her coaching to help clients get the input their peers and colleagues might not otherwise provide. In addition to individual coaching, Gena is an advisor and speaker on leader influence, impact, and inclusion strategy.
Gena’s coaching experience spans organizations in diverse industries, including Financial Services, Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Manufacturing, in North America, Latin America, and Europe. She also works well cross-culturally and has lived and worked in the US, England, and the Caribbean.
Leadership Experience
Gena’s professional career has encompassed several diverse and challenging assignments, including Executive Consultant at IBM and Perceptyx, advising those company’s external clients on how to enhance employee experience. Director of Organizational Consulting for HSNi, guiding leaders on organizational change and leadership development. VP, Selection and Assessment for Raymond James Financial, building the company’s first in-house selection assessment program and leading the Talent Acquisition function.
Education and Professional Activities
- Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Member Professional Practice Editorial Committee
- American Psychological Association (APA) - Chair-Elect, Committee for the Advancement of General and Applied Psychology (CAGAP)
