Corporate leaders and entrepreneurs around the world hire Grace and Rich to be their consultant, thinking partner and accountability coach to reach their  goals.
The Daily Beast, interviewed Grace for her take: Inside the weird, high-powered world of executive coaches.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, Grace has three decades of experience working for Fortune 500 brand leaders, serving on executive teams of five technology start-ups, and completing over 250 engagements for clients in technology, healthcare, consumer, financial & business services, education and non-profit sectors. Linked In Profile
Her classmate at MIT, Rich has three decades of experience growing large and small high technology firms as founder, CFO, CEO, and Chief Strategy Officer. Â He brings a unique perspective and addition of value to each CEO who engages his services.
Established leaders seek Grace and Rich as thinking partners to meet their growth goals. Others come to Savvy when stepping into a new leadership role, wanting to further the persuasiveness of their presentations, or desiring to optimize their personal brand. Companies wanting to invest in their high potentials hire Grace and Rich to deliver workshops and team coaching.
Grace and Rich work with a select number of high-level professionals through Savvy’s corporate executive coaching. Â Savvy offers 6-month and 12-month customized coaching programs for CEOs and their leadership teams. CEOs unleash synthesized insights by engaging one coach for themselves and their direct reports. Leadership is knowing thyself and Savvy will help you do that. Retainers start at $10,000/month for coaching the C-suite. Add-ons may include 360 interviews, on-site work, and strategy sessions. Â We work together to develop the specifics of your plan and the corresponding pricing.
For individuals seeking coaching outside their company, we offer these programs:
Intensive Strategy Coaching: $6,000. Good for individuals working on a specific goal and desiring a clear action plan for the next 12 months. You will complete Savvy’s in-take questionnaire. We will then have one 3 hour or two 1.5 hour virtual working sessions which will result in your 12 month plan. Â You will then have access to us for two additional 1 hour check-ins.
Ongoing Coaching Program: Good for ongoing accountability to reach both short term and longer term goals. Beginning with Savvy’s in-take questionnaire and 360 interviews followed by hour long coaching sessions every two weeks: Â $18,000 (6 months) or $30,000 (12 months)
CEO COACH AS OBJECTIVE LISTENER
The leadership issues at the very top involve organizational complexity and that’s why having an experienced executive coach can help. Serving as CEO requires providing inspiring leadership and the ability to act confidently and agilely to constant market changes. Leaders often want an outside thinking partner and advisor for support and guidance when dealing with complex people and business issues. CEOs call upon Grace and Rich as coach resources they can trust.
PERSONAL BRAND COACHING
Whether you are CEO of a Fortune 500 company or of an emerging growth company, your leadership style and personal brand have a big impact on your success. Boards call on Savvy to provide their CEOs a trusted outside advisor and personal brand coach.
Do you have the executive presence that exudes confidence and gains respect? Do you channel your energy and passion to your company’s advantage? Does your communication style command attention and trust? Grace’s rich and broad-reaching experience as an in-house marketing executive and as a management consultant to CEOs informs Savvy Growth’s personal brand coaching practice.
FOUNDER/ENTREPRENEUR COACH
For earlier stage CEOs not ready for Savvy’s consulting services, coaching can be a good way to start. Grace gives keynotes and workshops on Project Peak – Climbing the Mountain of Entrepreneurship.  Her 7 themes provide the foundation of Savvy Growth’s entrepreneur coaching practice.
LEADERSHIP TEAM COACH
CEOs often hire Savvy for themselves and then offer Savvy as a coach resource to their leadership team, making the sum of the parts stronger. Â One coach hearing from all voices and synthesizing to ask the right questions is invaluable. Being seen and heard and offering a safe place for sharing creates a culture of psychology safety, the key ingredient of the most innovative teams.
Coaching Philosophy | Process
Your Success is our Passion™
Executive Coaching
- Initial meeting to understand coachee’s goals and to assess fit
- Confidentiality is key to the 1-on-1 coaching relationship
- Ongoing relationship is with the coachee with agreed upon periodic touch points with executive sponsor
- Agreement of timeline, deliverables with executive sponsor and the coachee
Savvy Discovery Process:
- Savvy Intake / Background Interview
- 360° Interviews with Board members/CEO or appropriate individuals, executive peers, direct reports. May include customers/prospects/key stakeholders.
- Strengths Assessment
Savvy Coach Process:
- Regularly scheduled sessions over agreed upon timeframe for individual
- Communication as often as needed in between sessions
- Sounding board on strategic issues
- Role play in prep for key meetings
- Observing meetings / “day in the life”
- Mid-point touch base with executive and sponsor
- Closure meeting with executive and sponsor: timeline for articulated goals, accountability touch points
Founder/Entrepreneur Coaching
- 1 on 1 sessions keeping venture on track to hit milestones
- Communication as often as needed between sessions
- Sounding out roadblocks, issues
- Share latest challenges for feedback, iteration, repositioning
- Introductions to resources, potential partners
Leadership Team Coaching
- 1 on 1 sessions to help move toward best choices for your career advancement
- Strengths based focus
- Feedback on personal branding, strategic approach to reaching your goals
- Introductions that fit your interests, resources to enhance development
Grace trained as a positive psychology coach through Whole Being Institute, founded by Tal Ben-Shahar, creator of Harvard’s famed Happiness course.
Nothing makes us happier than having a client come back and say,
“You’ve made all the difference…thank you!”
Your Success is Our Passion.
Grace is a life-saver! She helped me regain my focus and get to the root of my professional “stuck places.” She provided great positive energy, encouragement and spot-on insights. She offered sound advice on effectively communicating with my CEO as well as executive peers, and made great recommendations on professional development resources.
Working with Grace helped me rediscover the confidence I needed to face my professional challenges head-on.
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Her positive results and complexity of my business made me decide to retain her coaching services for this coming fiscal year. I will always have challenges that I’d like to discuss with a wise and objective third party. Unlike other coaches, Grace looks through multiple lenses in asking her many good questions. She has become my go-to resource.
Apart from the obvious on why I would recommend Grace – all of her credentials – I would simply emphasize the trust you may place upon Grace to understand you, advise you accordingly, and know that everything comes from a professional and heartfelt place. She really cares!