Executive Leadership Coach on Site (ELCOS)
Customized, on-site, real time strategic sounding board support for leaders conducted in person at your location to provide timely, top executive coaching across the organization.
What: ELCOS is an alternative method for confidential 1:1 strategic leadership coaching which allows any company to unlock the unrealized potential of more leaders across the organization. These sessions create a private space where leaders can pressure‑test thinking, prepare for high‑stakes conversations, untangle complex dynamics, and clarify their next steps.
These ELCOS days are essentially Strategic Sounding Board Days in your offices that provide leaders with expert, confidential, in‑person strategic thinking support for navigating complex, systemic, leadership, and interpersonal challenges.
Why: Business today requires flexible, just-in-time thinking support for leaders who are operating in constant ambiguity. Often leaders do not have a support structure that allows agenda-free thought partnership. An external coach provides an oasis for reflective inquiry that allows leaders to clarify thinking, increase strategic leverage, and make stronger decisions.
The purpose: give leaders access to a trusted sounding board/elite strategic thought partner when complex issues arise so they have real-time leadership support, gain clarity, make impactful decisions, and move your organization’s objectives forward with confidence.
Provide access to high‑level coaching without expensive long‑term engagements.
Allow more leaders across the organization to receive targeted support exactly when it is most useful.
Leaders get immediate value, not long programs. Results include:
• Better leadership judgment
• Faster resolution of complex issues
• Reduced escalation to the C-suite
• Higher quality strategic thinking across the organization
Who: A seasoned MCC coach (or a team of top executive coaches) provide real-time, as needed, masterful executive coaching to selected senior leader participants across x company. Particularly valuable for your. organization’s:
• VP and Director‑level leaders
• Emerging enterprise leaders and succession readiness
• Leaders managing cross‑functional initiatives
• Leaders stepping into expanded responsibility
• Senior leaders navigating complex organizational dynamics
Where: At your location, in an office or conference room that affords privacy. This provides easy access for leaders to have a coach on their premises.
When: Coach On Site is scheduled at regular intervals such as once a quarter, once a month, or once a week.
Whatever frequency would best serve the needs of the organization.
How: A dedicated day in your offices where leaders can schedule confidential sidebar access to and expert coaching from a trusted strategic thinking partner to work through real leadership challenges, decisions, and organizational dynamics.
Sessions may be used for individual leadership issues, facilitated two‑person conversations, or small leadership team dialogues when appropriate.
Strengthen leadership capacity across the organization without requiring long-term coaching commitments.
A confidential resource leaders can access before issues escalate upward — allowing executives to resolve challenges faster.
Typical formats include:
• 60‑minute sessions (6 – 8 leaders served per ELCOS day)
• 30‑minute quick-coaching for rapid issue‑focused solutions
• Two consecutive blocks when a longer session is needed, perhaps if alignment with another leader requires facilitation
Organizations typically communicate the availability of these days internally and invite leaders to schedule their sessions on a first-come, first-served basis.
Leaders use ELCOS Strategic Sounding Board Days for:
1. Preparing for high‑stakes leadership conversations or difficult conversations with peers, senior leaders,
or teams.
2. Navigating complex leadership challenges, political or cross‑organizational dynamics
3. Clarifying priorities and thinking through strategic decisions, priorities, and competing demands
4. Strengthening executive presence and influence
5. Working through difficult people or team situations
6. Thinking through leadership transitions or new responsibilities
Scalable: The model is highly scalable. Organizations typically schedule the full year, either 12 monthly, 4 quarterly,
or 6-8 days spread out throughout the year. Should demand increase, there is a volume discount for increasing to
weekly sessions or adding more coaches on site.
Investment: ELCOS Strategic Sounding Board Days are charged per day, for monthly or quarterly dates for one
coach on site. (Note: volume discount available for weekly dates or multiple coaches on site simultaneously.)
Comparable to the investment organizations already make in leadership training, ELCOS provides far more
customized value and greater return on investment.
Economy of scale: each day typically supports 8–10 leaders, making it one of the most cost‑effective ways to
expand access to senior‑level executive coaching/ strategic thinking support without requiring long-term
engagements.
Still not sure? Pilot it! Rather than commit to a full year, book one ELCOS date and assess from there.
Real Time Impact: ELCOS creates a trusted resource leaders can turn to when issues arise and access thought
partnership as well as strategic perspective in real time while navigating complex leadership challenges. We are
here to help!
E-mail us to discover how it can help your real-world situation. Since everything we do is customized to the
organization and the executives, schedule a call with us to explore what transformations are possible in your
scenario. Email info@suzipomerantz.com to schedule your transformation discovery call.
Just a few ideas to get you thinking about how ELCOS days can help you:
• Ensuring efficiency with changing workloads and staffing levels (i.e. org structure, functional structure)
• Leadership conflicts
• Process efficiency
• Implementing unpopular changes staff must adhere to even if they don’t support those changes
• Supporting your leadership during unstable times
• Guidance for leaders to support their staff during unstable times
• How to be proactive in a reactive environment
• Recalibrating culture during ongoing disruptions
• Observing and navigating burnout
• Talent retention during volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times