I partner with board members, investors, CEOs, and founders to help their leaders deliver on their aspirations, through 1:1 executive coaching and team coaching for the C-suite. I care about the people I coach and I tell them plainly what I see, so the changes they make last well after our work together ends.
Investor or board member? See what the board and investors gain from a team coaching engagement →
Whether it's one leader, a cohort, a whole team, or a hiring decision, my approach is the same. I help people see themselves clearly, and then I help them act on what they see.
One-to-one coaching for senior leaders, based on evidence: interviews with the people around them, observation, and assessments like Hogan, the Leadership Circle Profile, and the Enneagram. We work on behaviors, which can change, and not on personality labels, which can't.
Explore coaching →Multi-session cohort programs for leaders at every level: RISE for emerging leaders, Accelerator for mid-level leaders, THRIVE for senior women leaders, and an Executive Team program. A company can run one, or run several so that leaders at every level share the same language.
Explore the journeys →I bring together interviews with each member of the team, assessment results, and your own people data, and I describe what is working, what is stuck, and what nobody has said out loud yet. Then we work on it together.
Explore team coaching →Hogan and other validated assessments, interpreted in the context of the person's role and your company, for development, for executive search and selection, and for understanding how a team works together. The score report matters less than the conversation that explains it.
Explore assessments →I also design workshops and speak on culture, the manager as coach, and leading through change. See facilitation & speaking →
Every engagement is built on what I observe and what people tell me. I share it with you directly, so the leaders and the team keep improving after I'm gone.
I don't soften hard things into euphemism, and I don't flatter. If something is difficult to say, I say it plainly, and I stay with you while you work through it.
What I tell you comes from interviews, observation, and assessment data, not from my opinion, and you are free to weigh it for yourself.
People can change what they do. Calling someone a personality type makes change feel out of reach, so we work on patterns of behavior that you can shift.
Whether a team is pointed in the same direction, coordinated in how it works, and committed to the plan tells me more than any one leader's profile. I begin by making it possible for every member of the team to tell me the truth, and then we work on the decisions and conflicts that are holding the plan back.
Getting teams to vocalize and clearly articulate what they believe in is an art form, and Adrienne has perfected it.
CEO & Board MemberShe balances encouragement with constructive challenge in a way that makes me feel supported, focused, and accountable.
Communications Executive, Fortune 50You are extraordinarily capable of deviating from a plan because you read the room, feel the room, boil it down to the true issues at hand, and titrate in real time.
President & CRO, Growth-Stage Company
After fifteen years in learning and leadership development at Target and Amazon, where every role I held became my new favorite, I fell in love with coaching. Since then I've coached leaders in almost every context, from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500, and I especially love working with growth-stage companies that are scaling fast.
I'm an achiever by nature, and these days I put that energy into your goals instead of my own, with presence, good questions, and the perspective that comes from working with hundreds of leaders over more than two decades. I'm also a wife and a mother of three, so I know first-hand what it takes to manage a full life with less stress and more joy.
Across Fortune 50 companies and growth-stage companies.
A short, no-pressure conversation is the best way to know. Tell me what you're working on, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person to help.
