Becoming a Senior C-Suite executive implies expertise, a wealth of experience, an impressive track record, and, altogether, being results-oriented. As a C-Suite executive, you are viewed as the best of the best, the 1% of the crowd, and for a good reason. However, with these top positions come heavy responsibilities and immense pressure to perform and achieve the ‘impossible’ results. Since many executives are looked up to as superhumans, they sometimes forget how to function as the regular people that they are, and this would eventually have potentially disastrous effects. They would often not be understood because few people operate on the same level as they do, and the need to present a strong face sometimes overrides the need to deal with personal matters. This is why the first area that a coach tackles is the personal front. Given just how crucial an executive's decisions are and the ripple effect that a wrong move can have, a coach first approaches you as the individual, not you as the business executive. A skilled coach knows that when the individual is calm and thriving, they are in a better place to make decisions as an executive. A skilled business coach views the executive’s responsibilities from his own point of view, examines the various challenges he faces daily or periodically, then collaborates to strategize long-lasting solutions that would bring about tangible results. A coach examines the various aspects of your business and responsibilities, from the massive to the minuscule, and highlights practical ways to improve. If this necessitates the development of certain personal skills, teams, processes, or frameworks, a coach then recommends a system to bring these to fruition. For many senior C-Suite executives, this is very well the pinnacle of their careers, and as such, they may not find the role challenging enough to stimulate excitement. This may, in turn, result in a mind-numbing routine that impacts productivity and decreases fulfillment. A skilled coach is conscious of these possibilities and immediately gets ahead of them by providing a fresh perspective and actively preferring solutions to escape such a rut. If you’re already thinking about where you can find a coach, then you’re on the right track. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mike Ungar, and I’m a business coach and executive coach. I began my career in the Army, where I observed and instilled in myself the true values of leadership and collaboration. Afterward, I worked at Michelin for 35 years, serving in various leadership positions and coaching teams, individuals, and leaders across the company, primarily focusing on continuous improvement, employee engagement, and satisfaction, diversity and inclusion, and achieving real and sustainable business results. I now have the professional privilege of drawing from this pool of experience and expertise to coach executives from various industries, cultures, and countries to maximize their potential. Through this journey that would spell fresh self-discovery and new ways to approach our professional lives allow me to steer you in the direction you need to go to get the results you want.