Become the curious and courageous leader who leads with greater clarity and confidence.
Our Purpose
Assist nonprofit and purpose-driven for profit leaders in gaining greater clarity and confidence as they guide their organizations toward success.
Your Pathway
It will be customized and confidential. This affords flexibility to determine what resources are needed while offering safe, encouraging spaces to work through your leadership and organizational challenges.
“Behind every extraordinary leader is a coach and support system helping them to thrive.
I also practice what I preach. I have benefited from a business coach for more than a decade and leaned on mentors and peer groups for insight and guidance my entire career.”
Joel Kessel
Kessel Strategies
Trust is Earned.
For more than 20 years we’ve been coaching motivated leaders who want to enhance their personal leadership and elevate their organizations. These are some of the past and current organizations we’ve had the privilege to serve.
Choose Your Pathway
Every leadership journey is unique and contains its own unforeseen challenges and forks in the road you must address. Few if any leaders want to face those challenges alone. Take control by choosing the direction you will travel in – and who you’ll want on the journey with you. Those initial decisions can make a world of difference.
Executive Coaching
As a leader you can’t be expected to have all the answers, but it is your job to find them. Working with your personal executive coach through private 1:1 sessions, you’ll navigate your most challenging issues and develop strategies to move forward with clarity and renewed confidence.
Peer Groups
Every leader knows the loneliest seat is in the c-suite. Joining a Peer Group of like-minded leaders and similar-sized organizations makes your leadership journey less lonely. Moderated by a coach, you’ll share challenges and glean insights for the sake of executive level professional growth and needed connection.
Strategy + Planning
Plotting the multi-year strategic direction and priorities of your organization is the mandatory work. But the real challenge is in executing the plan, maintaining alignment, ensuring tactical implementation happens, and knowing what to prioritize and when to pivot. Our guidance provides the guardrails and focus necessary for you to maximize your time and effort to get the work done.
Speaking + Facilitation
Joel Kessel has a passion for sharing what he’s learned to help propel leaders and their organizations forward. Through keynote speaking and group facilitation, Joel has helped teams across a variety of business sectors find renewed purpose and inspiration in their work, and find common ground and alignment on how to get it done successfully.
Ready to Elevate Your Leadership?
We make it easy to get started.
Schedule an introductory call with us
A brief, get-to-know-you call allows you and us to determine the right fit and mutual interest. Get answers to questions about cost, time commitment and more. There is no obligation to go forward after this call.
Participate in a Peer Group session
To know if a peer group is what you need, you’ll want to participate in one. Most clients begin their journey this way, and your peers will welcome you into the group discussion.
Access a free Executive Coaching call
It’s your opportunity to test our Executive Coaching. You are encouraged to come prepared to talk about your most concerning needs to get value out of this call.
Confirm your pathway forward
We will follow up to learn about your brief experience with us – what was helpful, what wasn’t, and what you might find value in going forward. We make no assumptions and work to develop a pathway that suits your needs.
Why Courage + Curiosity?
Your ability to lead people and your organization forward – with greater clarity and effectiveness than you possess today – is rooted in executive confidence. But how do you get it, especially as it seems to swing like a pendulum between clarity and doubt?
Many factors go into gaining executive confidence, however, in our coaching experience we see two recurring issues that require attention:
- A hesitancy or fear of navigating hard things (need for courage)
- A paralyzing belief that you, as the leader, must have all the answers (need for greater curiosity vs. assumed certainty)
As you learn how curiosity reframes your approach to problem-solving, you show up and lead differently. Being insatiably curious and asking questions gives you access and insights to things you otherwise might not experience. And those insights are helpful on days when you need to muster the courage to address hard things. In that moment, you’ll have gleaned more clarity and confidence to act with compassionate conviction.
Perhaps more than anything, this is what your people want and need from your leadership.