Case Study: Preventing a High-Potential Female Leader from Leaving

Situation

• A fast-track executive was dissatisfied with her career path and was close to exiting.

• Her boss was distressed when he learned that the company may lose her.

• Her boss strongly recommended coaching, and then they'd let the chips fall where they may, once the Candidate went through the entire process.

Solution

• An in-depth coaching process ensued.

• The Candidate immersed herself in a comprehensive discovery process.

• The Coaching identified the sources of her career path dissatisfaction (she had been selling herself short). She also acknowledged a blind spot that, if it had gone unattended, almost certainly would have either stalled her career or derailed it.

Results

• In collaboration with management, the Candidate set and then achieved a major “stretch goal.”

• Achieving this stretch goal reoriented her career path and re-energized her.

• She did an exemplary job of addressing her counter-productive tendencies.

• This high-potential leader remained with the corporation and has become a role model for the organization.