Individual Coaching

Although individual coaching is well-established in the corporate sector, professional services organizations are only now learning the powerful impact and ROI of personal coaching for top leaders, senior managers, practice group leaders and managers, and the high-potential leaders of the future. Doug Richardson has become a recognized national leader for individual performance coaching, especially for leaders in legal and professional services settings.

Sometimes the need is for remedial coaching to address attitudes or behaviors that threaten professional success or leadership effectiveness.  Sometimes the priority is to provide up-and-coming talent with developmental coaching to foster improved self-awareness, leadership skills and judgment, confidence and interpersonal effectiveness.  Or perhaps a top leader sees the need for a confidential advisor and sounding board to provide objective, long-term advice on emerging challenges, including people-related morale and communication issues, political challenges, leadership succession or other "hard conversations."

A Certified Master Coach, Doug Richardson has provided candid, practical coaching support to a broad spectrum of clients in individual programs that range from a few weeks to six months or a year or more. Coaching engagements usually build a logical sequence of steps:

• Comprehensive information-gathering, situation analysis and needs assessment
• Setting specific coaching priorities and creating a practical plan of action
• Guidance and instruction keyed to real-life on-the-job roles and challenges
• Continuing support to foster long-term mastery of new skills and insights.

Doug's experience in all sectors and settings means that his coaching is not simply a set of theories and abstract models.  His record of success was built on the ability to provide realistic advice for handling day-to-day challenges and building a rich repertoire of leadership abilities.

As architect of major state-of-the-art legal leadership development programs, Doug also has identified, trained and collaborated with a pool of other highly-qualified coaches.  All have proved their ability to provide sophisticated coaching support to demanding clients.  Although The Richardson Group does not contract with other coaches or provide coaching project management services, we are willing and able to make referrals as necessary to other eminently qualified coaching experts.