Find out who you really are, and offer your best to those around you.

Professionally, personally, or peer-to-peer, we help you and those important to you
to communicate well, work toward mutual goals, and strengthen your relationships.

As a leader, you are responsible for all aspects of your organization as well as the development of the people you lead. The significance of your decisions cannot be understated. As an executive coach, Mike provides a listening ear, partnership, and a leadership perspective to serve you and the success of your team.

Utilizing the Birkman Method®, Brackish Consulting’s coaching practice is designed to care for clients seeking to live out of their strengths. Each of us is created with unique needs, motivations, interests, and strengths. In caring for clients, we provide support, ask tough questions, talk things out, and assist in freeing clients to follow the advice of leadership author Gareth Jones to,

“Be yourself – more – with skill.”

Whether your goal is to gain self-awareness through an individual Birkman Assessment or to engage in a full service coaching engagement, we provide the type of coaching you desire. Mike works with you to:

  • Develop a profound sense of self-awareness and self-management

  • Identify and outline personal values and goals

  • Align personal and organizational objectives

  • Gain social awareness and leadership capacity for your team

  • Resolve personal and team conflict

  • Offer your best to those around you

Brackish Coaching Groups care for growing leaders looking for partnership, peers, and a unique perspective to help them put their leadership into a framework and live it out.

THE 3 P’S OF BRACKISH GROUP COACHING

Partnership – Leadership author Simon Sinek states, “if you want to go on a leadership journey, you have to go with someone”. As a leadership coach, Mike provides a listening ear, constructive questions, timely advice, and partnership in the trenches of leadership. Leadership requires the confidence and courage to make the tough calls; a coach is a great sounding board and advisor in these moments.

Perspective – Mike’s coaching perspective is one that believes each of us is created uniquely with specific skills, interests, motivations and needs that shape our worldview and determine our actions. He brings a leadership perspective that frees leaders and their teams to live this out. Leadership is about stewardship and empowerment and his coaching perspective will support and challenge leaders to truly understand themselves and those they lead. Only then can one truly unlock the personal and organizational potential for success.

Peers – Leadership is lonely. Brackish Coaching Groups provide leaders with a monthly opportunity to dig into relationship with peers who understand what a leader’s life is like in the day-to-day. Each month leaders will have an opportunity to share their business and life questions with peers who can offer insight, strategy and support. As you journey through the process of self discovery, leadership learning and business growth, the friendships developed in a coaching group will prove invaluable.

As a leader, you know your greatest assets are your people. The goal of your leadership is to unlock the potential of your team, setting them up for mutual success. Finding the right people and placing them in the right positions is the first step. Next, you must create an inquiry-based culture that allows them to engage everything in them for the success of the team.

Mike works with you and your team to:

  • Develop a culture of social awareness and mutual respect

  • Understand individual strengths and team composition

  • Clarify a hiring strategy to improve your team

  • Identify stress behaviours and how they affect the team

  • Create effective communication and collaboration strategies

  • Understand the needs of your individual team members

We cannot overstate the importance of family life and a harmonious marriage. Each day, you strategically navigate the culture of the marketplace, but often times it doesn’t seem as easy at home. Understanding the strengths, needs, motivations, and stresses of your most important relationship is of utmost importance.

Mike works with you and your spouse to:

  • Identify and support the strengths that each of you bring to your relationship

  • Understand each other’s motivations and needs

  • Identify and break unhealthy patterns of engagement

  • Create a great culture for communication