Executive Coaching for Dads

Executive coaching for dads winning the promotion and missing the childhood.

You're good at the job. That was never the problem. Using the Sherpa Coaching Process, I help executive dads find what's actually in the way, build a real plan against it, and make the change hold. At the office and at the dinner table. I'm not here to give you answers, I'm here to ask the questions that get you moving.

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Why This

What This Actually Is

This isn't theory, and it isn't therapy. It's a structured partnership built around clarity, accountability, and the kind of self-awareness most leaders don't get handed until something's already gone wrong. Using the Sherpa Coaching Process, we find the blind spots quietly capping your growth, build a real plan to address them, and I hold you to it. The goal isn't just a better quarter. Here's what most executives haven't considered: the weakness costing you at the office is usually the same one costing you at home. The impatience that loses you a good employee is the impatience your daughter gets at dinner. The avoidance that stalls a hard conversation with your VP stalls one with your wife. So we work on one thing, and it changes both.

The Process

Six phases. One measurable change.

Most coaching is a series of good conversations that fade. This isn't. The Sherpa Coaching Process is one of the most widely-recognized executive coaching methodologies in the profession, taught at the University of Georgia and Howard University, and built on a simple premise: behavior change is predictable when you follow a process, and accidental when you don't. Marshall Goldsmith, the world's leading executive coach, has publicly endorsed it.

Taking Stock

We start with an honest inventory. Who you are as a leader, how you actually communicate (backed by a DiSC assessment, not guesswork), and the ground rules for the work ahead. No plan survives a foundation you haven't examined.

Global View

We map the terrain around you: your support system, your values, and the gap between how you see yourself and how the people around you see you. Not just your team. Your wife, your kids, the people who get whatever's left at the end of the day. Most men have never asked. This is where they find the first thing they didn't know was there.

Destination

We name the specific weakness worth working on and define what success actually looks like. Not 'be a better leader.' A measurable change, with a measurable impact on the business and something your family would notice without being told.

Charting the Course

The heart of the work. We choose the route, relational or organizational, and the specific tools for your situation. This is where we find the replacement behavior, something specific enough to actually do on a Tuesday, not a resolution. It's where the plan gets built and the behavior starts to shift.

Agenda

Commitment and accountability. The plan becomes a set of things you're actually doing, and I'm the person who knows whether you did them.

The Summit

The change is in place in both rooms, and the support structure outlasts our engagement. You leave with the tools, not a dependency on me.

The process runs on real tools, not conversation alone. A DiSC assessment and analysis, so we're working from how you actually communicate rather than how you think you do. The Sherpa Journal, where the work between sessions lives. And Why It Matters, the text that gets at the question underneath all of it. Because the behavior that's capping you at work is rarely confined to work. Change it in one place and it changes in both.

Ways to Work

Two ways in.

Same process, same standard. The difference is whether you want the room to yourself or five other dads in it with you.

1:1 Executive Coaching

Twelve sessions

The full Sherpa process, built entirely around you. A DiSC assessment, all six phases, and one measurable change in what you're responsible for, with one in the life underneath it. Twelve sessions, then you're done. A finish line, not a subscription.

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The Executive Dad Roundtable

Six seats. Six months.

Six executive dads work through the Sherpa process together. Weekly calls with the group, plus a 1:1 with me every other month. Not a networking group and not a vent session. Capped at six so nobody hides.

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Not sure which one? That's what the call is for.

About Nick

Why I Coach the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

I'm a Marine Corps veteran, a Certified Sherpa Executive Coach through the University of Georgia, and a dad. I've spent over 15 years building businesses and coaching the people who run them, and I've watched the same pattern play out again and again. A leader gets better and better at the job and quietly worse at everything the job was supposed to be for. I lived it. I couldn't have hard conversations up the org chart, so I sat on what needed to change, meeting after meeting. Then I went home and didn't tell my wife I was miserable either. Same silence, different room.

I don't think that trade-off is required, and I've built my entire coaching practice around proving it. Using the Sherpa Coaching Process, I help leaders find the blind spots actually capping their growth, not just the ones that are comfortable to talk about, build a real plan to address them, and hold them to it. I've coached 150 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and managers, and countless more through health and wellness before that. Different rooms, same problem: knowing what to do has almost nothing to do with doing it. The Sherpa process is the first approach I've used that treats that gap as the actual work instead of an afterthought.

This isn't about working less. It's about being deliberate instead of accidental, so the leader you're becoming is the one you actually chose, at the office and everywhere else.

150 Leaders Coached · Marine Corps Veteran · Certified Sherpa Executive Coach, University of Georgia

Testimonials

What leaders say.

"Working with Nick through the Sherpa Method was an invaluable experience. His guidance helped me gain powerful insights that made a significant impact on both my leadership and the company. The tools and techniques we reviewed have proven incredibly effective in helping me manage not only my team but also myself. I feel mentally stronger and more equipped to handle the challenges I face in my business. Nick's support and expertise have been key to my growth. Highly recommend his coaching!"

Dan Olding

Senior Manager, Global Commercial Operations

"I've worked with Nick for several years, and he's had one of the biggest impacts on both my business and my life. My revenue has more than doubled, and I've been able to step almost completely out of day-to-day operations. He doesn't simply give advice, he changes the way you think. Years later, I still catch myself asking, 'What question would Nick ask me right now?'"

Jennelle Wax

CEO

"Working with Nick was a truly valuable experience. He brought a thoughtful, inquisitive approach to our sessions, enabling me to focus on areas where I wanted guidance while also helping surface deeper insights I had yet to consider. He equipped me with tools and skills that I continue to use beyond our sessions, and has supported my growth both professionally and personally."

Lisa Stearn

Senior Vice President

"Through the 12 weeks, Nick's challenging questions and guided thoughts helped me determine my Why It Matters. Having a better understanding of my personal why has led to me being more effective, not only in my career, but in my personal life as well."

Neil Krebs

Director of Product

"No matter how long we have been in a role, there is always room to learn and grow. Working with Nick as my coach has not only opened my eyes and mind to why I lead the way that I do, but he has led me to path of self-discovery on how to improve on my strengths and weaknesses to be not only a more effective leader, but human!"

Mike Earnshaw

Principal and Author

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Questions worth asking.

Next Step

Let's have a real conversation.

No application, no form to fill out, no sales pitch. Thirty minutes to talk through what you're working on and whether this is the right fit. If it is, we'll talk about what the engagement looks like. If it isn't, I'll tell you that too, and point you somewhere better if I can.