Ben Colvin

Coach

Every day, leaders face the increasingly difficult task of meeting this quarter’s objectives, adapting to changing market conditions, while navigating the complexities of their organization. It’s no wonder so many leaders get stuck focusing on the here-and-now, without the time to lean into nurturing leadership talent or optimizing their team’s performance – all of which contribute to advancing their own career growth.

Finding the balance to run the businesses Ben led while discovering the innate talents of employees and transforming teams are common threads woven throughout Ben’s career. Today, they are the focus of his coaching practice. As a coach, his foundation is based on 25-plus years as a corporate business executive and firsthand experience in building and leading diverse, domestic, and global teams. Ben combines this business lens with his coaching to apply a singular perspective that’s relatable, enabling clients to apply their coaching in a transferable and sustainable way.

As a coach, Ben’s approach focuses on helping clients see their world from different perspectives. When leaders broaden their views, they achieve their greatest potential and inspire the highest degree of performance from their teams. The realization of personal truths enables leaders to make choices that are more fulfilling and transformational, equipping them for success beyond what they initially sought from him as a coach.

Coaching Experience

• Team, group, and individual coaching for a newly formed executive leadership team at a U.S. staffing company. This initiative was crucial in empowering them to devise and execute a transformative 3-year business strategy, addressing both their growth as a team and the novel challenges the business faced in an evolving market.

• Team coaching for newly appointed leader and their inherited marketing design team at a global software firm. The focus was on rapidly building trust and evaluating team competencies. This was key in guiding the team through to set its vision as it supported the company’s organizational transformation.

• Transition coaching for new head of a cloud service at an industry leading software company, focused on establishing her confidence to scale her leadership and find her voice as the leader she chose to be.

•  Transition coaching for the America’s CFO at a global data insights firm. The focus was on his ability to maintain the productivity and culture of success within his team as he made organizational changes.

• Coached a Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at a global software company on increasing his personal impact as a leader.

• Coached the Director of Sales Strategy and Enablement at an application performance technology company on her transition to a role she created in the UK. The emphasis was on balancing the realities of a global move, being away from the U.S. based headquarters and how to ensure her continued impact and advancement.

• Coached the Managing Director of Data Insights at an insurance company on finding her ‘true north’ as leader in order to navigate the complexities of a large organization while maintaining a start-up mindset.