The Top CEO Coaches You Should Know
The Top CEO Coaches
Navigating the challenges of being a CEO can be a daunting task. To shed light on this journey, I reached out to some of the top CEO coaches who specialize in guiding leaders to greater personal and corporate success.
With their diverse backgrounds and unique coaching philosophies, these experts provide invaluable insights and strategies for CEOs striving to enhance their leadership skills and organizational performance.
Drawing from extensive experience as former CEOs, venture capitalists, authors, and executive coaches, these professionals offer a wealth of knowledge tailored to help CEOs overcome obstacles, foster innovation, and achieve sustainable growth.
Whether through individualized coaching, frameworks like Radical Candor, or focusing on mindfulness and inner balance, these coaches bring a personalized approach to leadership development.
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In Brief : The Top Ceo Coaches
- Glenn Gow - Glenn Gow, a seasoned CEO coach and keynote speaker on AI, draws from his extensive experience as a CEO and venture capitalist to guide leaders towards personal and corporate success.
- Kim Scott - As the author of "Just Work" and co-founder of Radical Candor, Kim Scott is a transformative CEO coach renowned for her expertise in fostering inclusive cultures and radical respect.
- PK Narayanan - With over two decades of experience in scaling businesses and leadership development, PK Narayanan specializes in guiding SME business owners and CEOs to overcome challenges and accelerate growth.
- John Mattone - As the world's top executive coach and founder of leading coaching and leadership development companies, John Mattone is renowned for his expertise in driving executive excellence.
- Tanya Dalton - As a dedicated CEO coach, Tanya Dalton is passionate about empowering women entrepreneurs to thrive in the business world while maintaining a fulfilling personal life.
- Glenn Glow - With a journey spanning from startup failures to leadership roles at Oracle and beyond, I founded Crimson Consulting Group, a renowned strategy consulting firm. As CEO and Chairman.
- James Akin Smith - With a rich background in starting, building, and selling successful businesses across various industries, James Akin Smith brings firsthand experience and practical knowledge to his coaching practice.
Glenn Gow
Glenn is a CEO Coach, Keynote Speaker on AI and a Board Member. His experience as a CEO for 25 years (and in venture capital for 5 years) taught him more than just business; it taught him the essence of leadership. Now, he applies his insights by coaching CEOs to create their own personal and corporate successes.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
I was a CEO for 25 years and had a coach for 17 years. I learned through doing and by being coached myself. When I was in venture capital, I started coaching the CEOs of our portfolio companies and I fell in love with this work. Now I coach only CEOs.
My coaching enables the CEO to become an even better CEO. As a result they achieve higher levels of performance for their companies and for themselves.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
I was coached for 17 years by my own CEO Coach. During that time, I was becoming a better CEO. But what I didn't realize was that my coach was teaching me how to coach. It was a transformational experience for me. Now I use that 17 years of training to help my CEOs.
Kim Scott
Kim Scott is the author of Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-ass Culture of Inclusivity and Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and co-founder of the company Radical Candor. A CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter, Kim was also an Apple University faculty member and led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
Fighting the gravitational pull toward conformity and coercion requires much more than good intentions, but telling people what to do doesn’t work. Using the principles of Radical Candor — caring personally while challenging directly to give feedback that’s kind, clear, specific and sincere, I guide executives and organizations away from command-and-control cultures rooted in bias, prejudice and bullying. Instead, I teach people to consciously design systems of Radical Respect that honor everyone’s individuality, rather than demanding conformity; and optimize for collaboration, not coercion.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Developing the “Radical Candor” and “Just Work” frameworks, outlined in my books of the same names, has allowed me to identify the importance of soliciting feedback before giving it. In addition, I’ve learned we can’t solve problems we refuse to recognize. Identifying what gets in the way of creating a just work environment — bias, prejudice and bullying — and being willing to recognize and eliminate those things, is the only way to build trust and create an equitable workplace where everyone feels safe to generate the innovation necessary to thrive in the modern economy.
PK Narayanan
I’ve been helping SME Business Owners and CEOs Scale-up their Business since 2003. Also I help Business Leaders, CEOs / CXOs of Large Businesses Scale-up their Leadership Presence and create the Leadership impact they want to create! Prior to 2003, I’d been leading businesses growing at scorching pace as CFO and CEO, in India and Australia.
Business Owners on a Scale-up journey face multiple challenges on various fronts. The complexity and multitude of challenges seem to over power their not-so-structured efforts. Often this leads to Business Owners feeling stuck, helpless, stalling their scale-up journey.
