Executive & Business Coaching

Leadership gets real when stakes rise: complexity, conflict, transition, growth. I coach leaders and teams to clarify ownership, strengthen decision-making, and build rhythms that hold—often using Kolbe® to make execution instincts visible.

What We Offer

Executive Coaching (1 to 1)
Kolbe® Instincts, decision load, delegation, conflict competence, executive presence, identity shifts, leading leaders.

Team Coaching & Workshops (including Kolbe®-powered insights)
Team<>Market Fit, decision rights, role interfaces, collaboration norms, execution cadence.

Business Transition Support (including CEPA® transition readiness insights)
For owners planning succession/sale/recap, I also support business owners as a
human capital value advisor—reducing key-person risk, building bench strength, and clarifying leadership readiness so the business has real options.

Read more about our Workshops & Training approach here.

  • Use Kolbe to reveal instinctive execution under pressure so you can assign work to strengths, reduce friction, and speed up follow-through.

  • Our proprietary H-I-R-E interviewing system equips interview teams with a repeatable, evidence-based process to assess role fit, avoid bias, and make confident hiring decisions.

  • Use our unique “5 questions to define any search” approach to turn a vague role into a clear “seat” with outcomes, decision rights, interfaces, and a scorecard for what great looks like in 12–18 months.

  • Help new managers build the core habits - delegation, feedback, accountability, and cadence - that turn individual talent into team performance.

  • Identify the people-system constraints (key-person risk, bench gaps, seat clarity) that will determine whether a transition succeeds - and create a 90-day readiness plan.

  • We use a 3-legged approach (personal, personal financial, business) to help owners/founders through the leadership and identity shift of stepping back by building successor readiness and reducing founder-as-operating-system dependence.

Executive Coaching

Our unique “Head / Heart / Hands” approach to Leadership Coaching unlocks the wisdom already living inside you. Our belief is that clarity, confidence, and momentum don't come from external frameworks, but from tapping into the wisdom, values, and instincts you already possess.

Mike Lee offers limited 1:1 individual leadership coaching. Please contact us for more information!

Head - What’s your unfair advantage?

We believe your greatest advantage isn't something to be learned, but something to be uncovered. It's the unique wisdom that already lives inside you, waiting for the right conditions to emerge. The question I ask is:

"What do you know that you haven't said out loud yet?"

Heart - Why do you show up every day?

Your "heart-set" – your values, your identity, your core "why" – isn't a soft concept; it's a powerful signal. It's the internal compass that tells you when you're on purpose, and when something is deeply, fundamentally misaligned. The question I ask is:

"What does it feel like when you're doing work that matters?"

Hands - How do your unique instincts drive you?

Your instinctive operating style, your "how," is often so natural to you it becomes invisible. It's the secret ingredient in your secret sauce, defining your unique impact. Yet, it's often the very thing that needs conscious examination when the path ahead demands a change. The question I ask is:

"How do you actually move when the plan breaks?"

Outcomes

Clearer ownership and decision rights

Strong managers and leadership bench

Execution without heroics

A more transferable, valuable business

Let’s Work Together

If your experience and background are strong, but execution is strained, coaching is usually the lever.