Executive coaches who understand how to help management teams perform at their best while offering insights on building productive working relationships with these leaders can accelerate value creation.

When a private equity portfolio company CEO invites her executive coach to also coach her management team, she is inviting the coach to serve as a convener and centralizing force that continually reminds the players that “we’re all on the same team and we win together.” This can accelerate value in a way that nothing else can, especially when you consider the human elements (ego, fear, mistrust, etc.) that can run amuck under the kind of pressure that will surely come with growth and scale. READ MORE