About
I am a chief executive, executive coach, speaker, and founder. My work is helping people find clarity inside complexity — the kind of complexity that comes with a title, a team, a budget, and other people depending on your judgment.
Not sure yet? Read Is Coaching Right for You? and What Is Coaching?.
The record
Leading
I run an organization: budgets, board, staff, service delivery, and the consequences of every decision. Twenty-plus years of leadership — including Head Start work — taught me what pressure does to judgment, and how to keep making sound calls anyway.
Building
I founded my own firm to do this work deliberately rather than on the margins of another job. Coaching, leadership development, and speaking are the practice, not a side interest.
Studying
The MBA gave me strategy, finance, and how organizations actually move. The Master's in Human Services Counseling, with an emphasis in life coaching, gave me trained insight into people and change. Most coaches have one of those. I use both in the same hour.
Recognition
Named twice to the Titan 100, which recognizes the top C-suite executives in Phoenix. A book on leadership and personal growth is forthcoming.
What I hold to
Waiting to feel certain is a strategy for staying still. We narrow the question, test it against reality, and decide.
Difficult conversations, unfamiliar rooms, unpopular decisions — competence in these is trained, not inherited.
I will name what I see. Coaching that flatters you is expensive company, not development.
Credentials
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Bring the decision, the team problem, or the next move you have been carrying around. We will talk plainly about where you are, what is actually in the way, and whether coaching with me is the right instrument for it. If it is not, I will tell you that.
Charity.Russell@outlook.com