Coaching is one of the most effective interventions to enhance leadership abilities and outcomes.  Not-for-profit organizations derive a high return on investment from skilled and well-informed coaching.  Windfires coaching draws upon over two decades of direct experience in the not-for-profit sector and offers innovative methods targeted on the particular needs of not-for-profit leaders.

What are some of the benefits of Windfires coaching?

• Boards of directors will more effectively contribute to strategic priorities such as shaping the vision, supporting fund raising goals, managing through executive leadership transition, etc.
• Senior leadership teams will achieve a much high degree of alignment, establish sustainable practices for collaborative decision-making, overcome internal dissonance that hampers the organization’s impact etc.
• Individual leaders will establish a clear and effective leadership style all their own, devise methods and practices to increase results of their teams, surpass performance expectations and advance towards their next career progression.

How is Daniel as a coach?

Drawing upon strong intuitive instincts, Daniel easily adapts to the individual client.  His approach employs substantial direct communication and offers gentle encouragement when most needed. He empathizes with the imperative for leaders to experience tangible forward progress, but ensures clients avoid easy short-cuts that can prevent them from making break-throughs as transforming leaders.

What is special about Windfires coaching?

Windfires leadership coaching offers a unique approach to transforming leadership called Bold Intentions. Through the Bold Intentions framework clients attain aspirations they have for themselves and those around them by becoming a Transforming Leader--a leader with five bold intentions:

                       Humility   Resilience   Inclusion   Creativity   Wisdom

Transforming leaders are heroic people who accept the moments of vulnerability that are needed in order to change and elevate themselves as well as their followers.  Transforming leaders look beyond their checklists and calendars and their ways of "doing" and explore further into their ways of "being".

They can then apply these transforming ways to the immediate demands and priorities of the every-day, succeeding and achieving in ways they previously thought to be beyond reach.

What is coaching really like?

Coaching is the collaboration between coach and client in a thought-provoking exploration of possibilities to inspire deeper understanding and intentional choices. The client is the expert of the journey: a whole and resourceful creator. The coach is the keeper of the process: a skilled and responsive supporter. Coaching is not advice-giving. It is not therapy and not the transfer of knowledge from coach to client.

Windfires coaching model is called 'CLIMB'.  CLIMB supports the client through a change process relevant to her or his goals with a proven methodology that reinforces commitment, expands perspective and brings discipline to the adoption of new skills and behaviors.