See beyond your function.
Examine how your decisions affect other leaders, their teams and the wider direction.
Lead the decisions that shape everyone else's work.
Consequential roles need candid perspective. Torch pairs senior leaders with experienced coaches to examine assumptions, work through difficult tradeoffs and change how they lead the people around them.
Explore the coaching approachThe role gets bigger. Perspective should too.
Make disagreement useful.
Surface competing priorities before apparent agreement becomes conflicting action.
Stop becoming the bottleneck.
Clarify what others own and where your involvement genuinely changes the decision.
Experienced leaders. Worth your leaders’ time.
- Every coach is ICF-credentialed
- At least five years of coaching experience
- Industry leaders with first-hand experience
- Many doctoral-qualified psychologists and therapists
- Matched to leaders and their responsibilities
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Coach Sandeep
Led businesses at Gap Inc. and Mars before coaching C-suite leaders and founders. MBA, Georgetown.
Previously at
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Coach Evelyn
Former CEO of The RNA Society and COO of Parkinson Wellness Recovery. PhD, Cornell.
Previously at
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Coach Rafal
Former Chief Learning Officer at Deloitte Switzerland and Vice President at Barclays. ICF Master Certified Coach.
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Coach Sheryl
Former Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo and Managing Director at Barclays.
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Coach Jorge
Former CEO of Axion Energy, a BP joint venture, and SVP of Global Strategic Partnerships at BP.
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Coach Sophia
Former Vice President and Business Unit CFO at Kraft Heinz.
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Coach Jon
Former Partner at Bain & Company and The Bridgespan Group.
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Coach Shirley
Former Chief People Officer at Zadara and Callisto Media. PhD, Organizational Psychology.
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Coach Andrew
Former Chief Technology Officer at Parametric and COO at Synoptic Data.
Previously at
Microsoft 
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Coach Anita
Former Partner in Accenture's global strategy practice and Head of Innovation at KPMG Strategy.
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Coach Shamar
Led coaching and development programs at AvidXchange and GEICO. U.S. Navy veteran.
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Coach Marie
Former Head of Commercial Excellence at Merck and Head of Marketing at Novartis.
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Coach Kevin
Former VP of Product Management at BILL and Head of Global Product Marketing for QuickBooks at Intuit.
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Coach April
Former Director of R&D at Johnson & Johnson. PhD, Organizational Leadership.
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Coach Don
Former Executive Vice President and COO at Gateway Ticketing Systems; led IT at Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World.
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Coach Catherine
Former APAC Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens Industry Software and regional director at IBM.
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Coach Frank
Former VP of Professional Services for North America at Unit4 and VP of Customer Success at Actifio.
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Coach Vanessa
Former Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Executive coaching certificate, Columbia University.
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Coach Jeff
Former President of Healthcare Solutions at Budco Financial and VP of Marketing and Product Development at Dialog Direct.
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Coach Andrea
Former Senior Director of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing at Procter & Gamble.
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Make room for the work only this leader can do.
Build an individual engagement around the responsibilities the executive carries now, with clear development and reporting agreements.
Torch coaches are ICF-credentialed and bring at least five years of coaching experience. Executive matching should also consider relevant leadership responsibilities, context and personal fit.
Name the consequential work.
Identify the strategic decisions, stakeholder relationships and leadership patterns that deserve attention.
Find a coach worth listening to.
Match relevant leadership experience and coaching credentials with the executive's goals and working style.
Bring the learning into the room.
Apply coaching to a live decision, peer conversation or delegation challenge, then examine what happened.
Review what others experience.
Return to agreed goals and stakeholder feedback to decide what the leader should continue or change.
Look for the difference around the leader.
Define observable goals before coaching starts. Do not treat a leader's self-reported progress as proof of enterprise performance.
Specific stakeholder feedback
Compare agreed observations of listening, delegation and decision clarity at the start and end.
Development goals
Review the executive's progress against selected responsibilities and distinguish self-report from others' observations.
Application to real decisions
Discuss suitable examples of changed practice without exposing confidential decision content or claiming causation.
“Our partnership with Torch, as well as the executive coaching we've been able to offer our leaders, is one of the things I'm most proud of in my entire career. It's been so impactful and such a differentiator for CrossCountry. We have people who say this program changed their life, that this was the most meaningful thing they've ever done.”
Rehearse the disagreement behind the agreement.
An illustrative Spark rehearsal begins with the leader's own description, not confidential meeting records.
Explore Spark AIAn illustrative conversation using context supplied by the participant. Spark is optional.
Questions about executive leadership.
Can this include the whole executive team?
Yes, with a separate team-coaching design. An intact team works on shared responsibilities; individual coaching focuses on one person's development. Agree coach roles and confidentiality for each.
How is this different from succession coaching?
Executive coaching addresses the demands of a senior role now. Succession and transition development prepare someone for responsibilities they may take on next.
Will coaching make the business perform better?
The program can focus on leadership behaviors relevant to business priorities. Business results have multiple causes, so coaching progress alone does not establish revenue, strategy or financial impact.
What is Torch?
Torch is a leadership coaching and alignment platform. For senior leaders, it brings experienced human coaching to the decisions and relationships that connect personal leadership with organizational direction.
What does your next consequential decision need from you?
Build a coaching partnership around the leadership work that matters now.
Become a Torch Changemaker:
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