

We build high-capacity leaders through a practical, results-oriented approach.
Since 2002, Leslie has been on the front lines of building, training, and leading teams. Following a successful career as an attorney and executive, she founded Profusion Strategies to help leaders find the support and development they need to achieve their most important goals.
Leslie calls on her first-hand experience as a business leader and extensive training as a professional coach to help her clients build the capacity they need to meet their biggest challenges.
Our team of experienced professionals are dedicated to supporting our clients through the various stages of their development. With experience across the worlds of business, law, governmental entities, and human resources, we are able to meet the needs of a wide variety of clients. We're passionate about our work and have invested hundreds of hours on our own professional development - as demonstrated by our numerous certifications and advanced degrees.
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Executive coaching is a 1:1 development activity where a leader or executive meets privately with a coach in a series of conversations designed to develop the leader’s capacity and capabilities. Coaching is perhaps the most individually tailored development activity available and involves a close, confidential relationship between the coach and the client.
The executive coach provides a safe and structured environment for the client to explore her goals, address her struggles and blind spots, and challenge current habits that may be impeding her success. The coach also helps the leader to understand how she might be perceived by others, clarify her professional goals, and plan action steps to help her achieve them.
Common themes in executive coaching are developing key leadership skills, enhancing team-building capabilities, identifying and leveraging key strengths, improving communication, and building emotional intelligence.
Our process for executive coaching is built around open dialogue. During the beginning phase of each engagement, we work with the client, his leader, and other key stakeholders to clarify the development goals to be addressed. This work includes a multi-party meeting where each party’s goals are discussed and we work to resolve any differing perspectives on the objective of the engagement before coaching begins.
The main difference between coaching and training lies in the highly individualized nature of coaching. Whether coaching is being conducted 1:1 or in a team or group setting, the goals, and objectives of the relationship are driven by the client. The coach’s role is to support, question, and explore differing perspectives with the client. The specific approaches, topics, and models used by the coach may differ widely depending on the needs and the desires of the person(s) being coached.
In training, there is a clear set of learning objectives established at the outset of the training engagement. It is the trainer’s job to teach these objectives and any accompanying frameworks, processes, and best practices to the attendees. While there may be some customization in the training, the specific topics covered will not be individualized based on the needs of individual group members.
Yes. We pride ourselves on partnering with our clients to build development solutions that meet their most pressing challenges while making the most of precious resources. It all starts with a Discovery Call. Book yours today.
At the heart of any leader’s journey is the need to more deeply understand themself and how he interact with others. We utilize the Hogan Personality Assessment as well as other data-backed assessments to help our clients boost their self-awareness, tap into their hidden strengths, uncover their blind spots and potential derailing behaviors, and discover their personal leadership style.
In a word - experience. Our team is comprised of experienced leaders in the world of business, law, governmental agencies, and human resources. We carry a variety of advanced certifications in their individual fields and spend a significant amount of time each year in professional development and study. But leadership isn’t just theoretical to us. We are dedicated to providing practical, timely solutions to support real change for you and your organization.
Challenge: Multi-national, Fortune 100 Company tasked long-term leader (15+ years) with improving performance and culture within a local production facility. Faced with significant operational and talent challenges, the leader struggled to maintain a balance between driving results and connecting with his team and was at risk of being reassigned, demoted, or terminated.
Solution: Profusion Strategies provided one year of executive coaching support to this critical leader to assist him in building self-awareness and improving the core leadership, communication, and team development skills needed to meet his mandated KPIs.The following year, we provided a comprehensive team development experience to his leadership team to further support their development. We supplemented this effort with targeted individual coaching for key members of the team.
Result: Three years later, our original client has been promoted to lead a larger international facility and continues to thrive. He has successfully developed an outstanding team, 30% of whom have since been selected for promotion within the organization. The company avoided the loss of institutional knowledge, cost, and disruption associated with losing this leader. One of the key leaders who received individual coaching was selected to fill the role vacated by the original client’s promotion.