"What got you here won't get you there"
Marshall Goldsmith
Marshall Goldsmith’s now-ubiquitous quote has become a kind of executive gospel. It’s catchy, teachable, and absolutely right. Except it’s also misunderstood.
What Goldsmith actually argued wasn’t that your past tools are obsolete. He meant something subtler, and far more relevant today: that success, especially in complex roles, often comes despite our blind spots, not because of their absence. And when the context changes, as it inevitably does, those once-manageable gaps can quietly become liabilities.
Executive coaching begins there: in the awareness that sustained leadership requires more than technical skill or emotional fluency. It requires the ability to update how one thinks, decides, leads, and even defines performance—in real time, under pressure, and often in solitude.
FM Executive Coaching™ Programs
At FM Coaching™, we work with leaders navigating both developmental growth and transformational inflection. Some arrive seeking sharper tools and strategic recalibration. Others come because the very role they built no longer fits who they’ve become.
Whether you’re reshaping your leadership in response to new complexity or facing the quieter dissonance of outgrowing your own success, coaching here isn’t formulaic. It’s an adaptive partnership: one that helps you identify the invisible, close the meaningful, and choose what kind of leader you’re willing to become next.
FM Executive Coaching™ offers two distinct pathways, depending on your leadership horizon:
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The FM Core Program™ – for leaders adapting to new challenges, roles, or performance thresholds
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The FM Inflection Track™ – for seasoned executives navigating identity-level transition, decision fatigue, or purpose misalignment
Each program is tailored, but shares a common foundation: rigor, discretion, and real-time clarity under pressure.
The FM Core Program™
The proprietary FM Core Program™ is a high-impact, efficient process designed to help leaders drive results and accelerate commercial delivery in a sustainable fashion.
Faced with a new context and new challenges, what felt stable is now turbulent and what was once permanent feels like transitory. Leaders find themselves in need of a new set of skills, or more likely in the further development of skills they already have, reshaping and expanding the current boundaries of their performance.
The focus of the Core Program is on surfacing leadership blind spots - subtle patterns that limit effectiveness - and addressing them with targeted, sustainable development.
This approach equips clients with the personal and professional skills to lead and grow a commercial enterprise, fostering a shared purpose, clear objectives, and a vibrant, supportive environment.
The outcome: improved team morale, lower staff turnover and higher profitability.
The FM Inflection Track™
The new FM Inflection Track™ is a strategic coaching engagement for senior leaders at pivotal junctures - founders, partners, and C-suite executives - facing decisions that no longer fit within standard performance metrics or quarterly dashboards.
Building on the foundations of the Core Program, the Inflection Track is designed to recalibrate leadership around internal clarity, not external validation. It helps clients confront what no longer fits, articulate what still matters, what responsibilities they choose to carry forward, and how to lead from that new center with decisiveness and integrity.
The outcome: durable alignment between the leader and the role, where direction is not just strategic, but coherent.
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ASSESSMENTS
Beyond the proprietary FM Executive Coaching™ programs, I leverage two world-class Executive Assessment tools trusted by the majority of S&P 500 companies:
- HOGAN: for decades Hogan has pioneered the use of Personality assessments to improve workplace performance, from talent acquisition to executive development and everything in between.
- LEAD NOW: has created Leadership Development Model assessments to further empower leaders on their path to excellence.
These tools complement the FM Executive Coaching™ experience by providing actionable insights that drive sustainable growth, bolster team morale, and elevate overall organizational success.
As a licensed and certified practitioner for both companies, I am able to offer the assessments separately or together, in a variety of formats and packages to suit every situation, from the small start-up to the listed multinational, for talent selection or development.
Contact me for more details and a bespoke offer.
HOGAN®
In a data-driven world, personality assessments are people analytics. Personality is a significant factor influencing human behavior, often in highly predictable ways.
Hogan’s personality assessments have been scientifically developed to evaluate all facets of personality - the inner values, the strengths but also the dark side - and to provide employers with an objective lens through which to understand people better.
In business, personality assessments provide essential insight into job candidates that cannot be uncovered by interviews alone. They allow us to look beyond education, experience, and technical skill to predict how job candidates will perform in a particular job role; how they will interact with teammates, superiors, and subordinates; and if their values are aligned with the culture of the wider organization.
LEAD NOW!®
The “LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model Assessments" has been developed to further empower leaders on their path to excellence.
The “LEAD NOW!” Self-Assessment helps you identify critical strengths across 45 distinct leadership behaviors, making it ideal for those aiming to level up or prepare for new roles.
For a more comprehensive view, the “LEAD NOW!” 360 Assessment offers feedback across 80 leadership behaviors, giving a balanced, multi-level analysis.
The Lead Now! Assessments results can help guide discussions around professional development and cultivate strategic self-awareness, enabling people to perform at their best, manage their professional reputations, and achieve their career goals.
Realign with a new vision of leadership
Forget the hero sprinting alone towards distant summits – contemporary leaders are nimble acrobats wired for connection and partnership. They know burnout's a one-way ticket to mediocrity, that empathy fuels innovation, and that rest isn't weakness, it's the secret weapon that sharpens the mind for tomorrow's climb. Family and friends are honored, not neglected.
This new dance demands knowing oneself before leading a team. Agility, grace, and a quiet defiance of gravity are required. But the view from the top? Breathtaking.
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