What do Tiger Woods, Shohei Ohtani, Simone Biles, Andrea Bocelli, Steph Curry, and Oprah Winfrey all have in common?
Besides a lot of hardware, these “all time greats” all have coaches. Coaches that offer what every top performer needs: someone completely invested in their success.
Over the past several decades, we have seen an increase in coaches for professionals of all kinds. Notably, the value of executive coaches is an open secret among today’s top executives and entrepreneurs.
The best executive coaches have a few things in common:
They typically reside outside of the power structure of their clients’ organizations. They help their clients reframe some of the most difficult questions facing their business, their career and often their life. They unlock hidden potential in their clients, helping them find the resilience to grow and the strength to soar.
GET TO know Clint
Clint McKinlay has spent his career mentoring executives and entrepreneurs, spanning three decades and four continents. His unique path to private executive coaching has included dynamic roles that have given him a 360° view of business, and compelling insights into people.
As a bilingual senior executive for several wellness and beauty brands, he drove sales growth around the globe, with P&L ownership in Europe, South America, and Asia. As CEO, Clint piloted an innovative fashion company through years of growth and increased profitability during the unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In these roles, Clint led his teams with an empathetic leadership style. Whether business objectives called for scaling sales organizations, revitalizing brand performance, or cultivating high-performing cultures, talent development has been his greatest passion.
Today, Clint channels his professional energy into developing leaders from a variety of industries. He coaches them to elevate their influence, improve their decision making, and achieve professional and personal breakthroughs.
“The deepest insights lie just beneath the obvious. We often don’t know what we think we know until we reframe the questions we ask” – Clint McKinlay
Personalized, tailored 1-on-1 coaching
Together, we journey into the presently untapped potential within you, and within your sphere of influence. We craft and evolve a career and life of purpose that brings out the best in your energy. We direct ambition towards the intersection of what you are actually inspired to do, and also best served to pursue. We build resilience in the face of adversity. We learn to better integrate your career into other important areas of your life: family, friends, personal interests, faith, service, etc.
Coaching is individually tailored. Common areas of focus include:
Your Effective Leadership Map
An effective leader knows themself. An effective leader has followers who “know where they are heading”. An effective leader galvanizes group activity, with culture supporting team cohesion. An effective leader is found in the trenches. Together, using your personality template, we develop and maximize your effective leadership map.
Managing up
It has often been said, “every boss has a boss”. Whether you report to a VP, a CEO, a Board of Directors, Investors, Venture Capitalists, or Private Equity, everyone manages up. This critical skill is somehow not talked about enough. What works best often does not mirror prevailing opinion. Together, let’s explore this underrated skill.
Emotional Intelligence
Your effectiveness as an executive will rely in large measure on your emotional intelligence, or “EQ”. It’s the ability to perceive the emotions of others, and to be skillful with the emotional information you pick up on. Importantly, it also involves regulating your own emotions competently. Better EQ drives better team performance. Together, let’s develop greater self-awareness, increased empathy, and useful social impact.
Presence and Persuasiveness
How do you show up in the arena? The kids these days call it aura. Your presence and your persuasiveness are bellwether indicators of your influence. The ability to stay in your frame makes you more credible to others and easier to follow. Curiosity into what makes others tick accelerates getting people on board. Together, let’s work on skillful persuasion, so you can more effectively influence your organization for the better.
Team Building
Effective collaboration within teams is a hallmark of great organizational culture. Learn to develop those mighty teams that win. When things go awry between colleagues, learn how to get back on track and stay on track with simple principles from behavioral science. Skillful conflict resolution is especially relevant in our world today. Together, let’s magnify your team building capability.
WORK WITH CLINT
Embark on a transformative journey with custom designed executive coaching. Together, we adopt the following approach:
Mind First: Unlocking your deep, resilient inner potential
Explore the resource of your mind, identify and challenge limiting beliefs, and apply strategies to establish a mindset that is truly open to growth. Identify your next significant big move.
Change Catalyst: Embracing transformation with confidence
Transform your perspective on change, learning to see it as an opportunity. Equip yourself with techniques to adapt to various transitions with grace and confidence.
Success Synergy: Bridging passion, purpose, and performance
Discover your truest values. Establish or re-establish your professional identity. Know your purpose. Values aligned with purpose create profound holistic growth, and fuel better professional performance.
What executives are saying about clint
Clarity and confidence
“With Clint’s coaching, I was guided to elevate my mindset and take the right risks with greater confidence. His insights helped me to see and pursue unique opportunities with higher belief and tenacity.”
Neo Khoei – Dubai, UAE
Founder | CEO | COO
My life has transformed
“Working with Clint unlocked possibilities I did not anticipate. When my thinking transformed, my life transformed, both personally and professionally. Additionally, I up-leveled my leadership and communication style.”
Leah Cadavona – Los Angeles, CA
CMO | CSO
Dialed into me
“The best part about being coached by Clint, is that he is dialed into me: my journey, my goals, and where I want to go. He is invested in my success. What I get from him is relevant to what I am working to accomplish.”
Jennifer Potrawski – Fort Myers, FL
Entrepreneur
FAQs
How are the coaching sessions conducted?
Coaching sessions are conducted online via secure video conferencing, ensuring convenience and accessibility for clients worldwide.
What are sessions like?
Our agendas are co-authored on a weekly basis. We follow a framework, but we are also flexible enough to include space for real-time learnings in your immediate professional environment. We often reframe the most critical questions you face. We work through simple mental models for better real-time and strategic decision making.
What commitment is required?
A commitment entails regular attendance to sessions, openness to self-reflection and adaptation, and a willingness to apply what is learned. The standard initial time commitment is six months, but can be variable. Typically, coaching sessions are 90-minutes, up to once per week. Twice per month is most common.
What results can I expect ?
Outcomes are dependent on a commitment to discovery and a growth mindset. In the often uncertain world occupied by executives and entrepreneurs, you can expect to learn to thrive in the eye of the hurricane. In the calm we find clarity of purpose and a shift the perception of obstacles and opportunities. You can expect a coach who is loyal to you, guards your confidentiality, and is deeply committed to your success.
How do I start ?
Schedule a 1:1 free consultation with Clint, using the link below. You will be asked to answer a few simple questions, and submit a brief questionnaire. We will then schedule the free initial consultation to discuss your objectives, assess fit, and determine the best coaching plan tailored to your arc.
Who can benefit from this coaching?
This coaching is for leaders of people, including senior executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners. The principles we review are useful to anyone seeking a deeper kind of growth to accompany their innate ambition. Whether you’re facing difficult challenges, aiming to elevate your performance, or simply wish to better understand and reshape your mindset, Clint’s executive coaching is designed to empower achievers from all walks of life.
Your next step.
Schedule a FREE 1:1 consultation with Clint to discover the possibilities and assess fit. This the first step to taking your professional growth to the next level.
clint@mckinlayec.com +1 801.703.0788 🇺🇸