The Top Executive Leadership Coaches
The Top Executive Leadership Coaches
Have you ever wondered what it takes to lead effectively in today’s complex business landscape?
Behind every successful leader often stands a trusted executive coach, guiding them through challenges and helping them unleash their full potential.

These coaches bring a wealth of experience and insights, shaping the leadership journeys of their clients with profound expertise and a commitment to personal growth.
One such coach specializes in fostering collaboration among leaders to enhance organizational dynamics. By focusing on presence, communication, and relationship-building, clients discover how these elements can profoundly influence their ability to lead, resolve conflicts, and adapt to change effectively.
Join us as we delve into the strategies and philosophies of these top executive leadership coaches. From leveraging systemic constellations for deeper insights into social dynamics to applying strengths-based coaching principles that emphasize positivity and personal growth, their unique approaches offer invaluable lessons for aspiring and seasoned leaders alike.
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In Brief : The Top Executive Leadership Coaches
- Volker Frank - Volker Frank specializes in empowering leaders to cultivate environments where collaboration thrives.
- David R. Landes - David R. Landes, a cross-cultural trainer and executive coach, supports leaders passionate about growth and team development.
- Michael Vaz - Michael Vaz, with over two decades of leadership experience, brings a strengths-based approach to coaching, focusing on clients' innate abilities to drive personal and professional growth.
- Chris Z Yu - Chris Z Yu, Head of Design at Arista Network's security division, offers a unique perspective honed from years in enterprise design.
- Payal Rajaratnam - Payal Rajaratnam's coaching spans various leadership areas, emphasizing people-centric approaches, conflict management, and emotional intelligence.
- Sue - Sue, a multifaceted leader, combines her diverse background as a CEO, mentor, and strategic advisor to catalyze change and empower high-potential leaders.
- Lolly Daskal - Lolly Daskal, renowned for her expertise in executive leadership coaching, offers a proprietary program designed to elevate performance and drive meaningful change.
- Joel Garfinkle - Joel Garfinkle's coaching style blends energy, insight, and challenge to motivate and guide clients toward success.
- Joyce Weru - Joyce Weru, a global expert in executive leadership, emphasizes transformational principles and positive psychology in her coaching.
Volker Frank
Volker Frank supports leaders to create the circumstances in which collaboration flourishes. Early in his career he designed the way people interact with information systems that foster collaboration and then turned his attention to the leaders whose goals depend on the way others collaborate. His clients discover how much their quality of presence, communication style, and ability to build trusted relationship networks shape their ability to effectively influence, resolve conflicts and respond to change.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I bring attention to the interactions between my clients and their organizational context. I leverage Systemic Constellations to offer my clients a direct experience of the underlying social dynamics that emerge between themselves and the people around them. It provides them with an emotional compass to navigate the most challenging situations that require empathy, courageous clarity and inner fortitude.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
I take coaching personally. I can only share with others what I can deeply embody. I find opportunities to grow and learn, for example, the crew work when racing sailboats or connecting intimately with myself and others in acting class. These practices, like leadership, depend on far more than conceptual understanding.

David R. Landes
David R. Landes is a business consultant, cross cultural trainer and executive coach. He founded a few business ventures, amongst other a consultancy based in Laos, supporting foreign investors in their pursuit of starting small to medium companies with a bent on social welfare in the developing nation. He coaches and trains upcoming, innovative leasers of cross cultural teams across the globe.

What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I coach leaders who operate in a cross cultural context and are passionate about their own growth and developing the capacities of their team. My coaching is founded in positive psychology principles, focuses on actively listening and encourages my clients to explore options, have the courage to try something new and build a circle of trust. As leaders we are at our best when we can work out of a paradigm of trust and inspire others around us to join us in the journey.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
As executive coaching skills were an important tool in my toolbox. Many employees have gone on to do great things, because of it. Apart from experience, I have gone through ILCA’s rigorous 18 month training program with over 200 ICF accredited coach training hours and have a certification as Associate Coach from the ICF.

Michael Vaz
Michael Vaz has spent over 22 years heading leadership, learning & transformation across a selection of truly global organisations. His corporate leadership journey has seen him impact over 60+ brands & thousands of leaders and professionals across the world, in their personal and professional development.

Michael has also partnered with incredible business leaders to launch the service and leadership culture for some truly globally recognized hospitality icons & Brands across the planet including the Raffles Singapore and many others, which you no doubt have experienced today.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
One of my biggest differentiators is only using strengths based coaching to remind people of what’s right with them vs what’s wrong with them. This is the most positive psychometric in existence today. As human beings generally gravitate towards weakness fixing and weakness discovery, i intentionally stay away from all of that. People often know what their issues are and don’t need to constantly be reminded of this. Strengths allows them to use their greatest abilities, talents and intrinsic gifts to do more of what they were born to do and fulfill their greatest potential. My coaching calling is to help people discover ore of what they were truly meant to do and live their best life.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Being absolutely real with them and highlighting their most positive gifts, talents and abilities to truly make a difference has been a game changer. There are enough people in the world focused on making improvements and fixing weaknesses, in fact our culture is obsessed with it. The biggest breath of fresh air is only having conversations with people who light up when you begin talking about their strengths.

