“The responsibility of leadership is to give people a cause to belong to and then give them permission to find ways to advance that cause”
Simon Sinek
Lorissa Garcia – leadership development coach and facilitator, culture designer, people strategist
HOW I CAN HELP YOU
I work with teams, leaders, and organisations to move them from where they are to where they want to be. My approach uses evidence-based methodologies, the power of people, and business strategy.
BOOST LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY & IMPACT
Leadership Development
CREATE A FUTURE THAT LOOKS BRIGHT
Culture Design
CHANGE BIG IDEAS INTO REALITY
People Strategy
Leadership Coaching
Leaders are in a constant push-pull between everyday tasks, unexpected issues that pop up, their responsibility to their leader, and to people who report to them.
With these conflicting priorities, how do they find the time to lead, instead of just manage?
Leadership coaching with me is a partnership – it encompasses thinking and strategy for clients to understand and get clear on the most important part of successful leadership – themselves.
Our stories and beliefs about leadership, the lens through which we see the world and the behaviour that follows, have a ripple effect. Using proven methodologies, I focus on helping leaders understand their unique values, strengths, and personal brand. We also delve into reactions under pressure, limiting beliefs, and unhelpful narratives.
Accompanying assessment through the Leadership Circle Profile or CliftonStrengths supports the coaching process, and the development strategy. I create a specific and measurable plan to increase clarity and leadership impact for them and their team.
Here are some of the focus areas we work on:
- Recognising and leveraging soft skills
- Building self-awareness
- Unearthing leadership narrative
- Discovering ways to leverage strengths
- Creating authenticity and your own leadership style
- Strategies to move from uncertainty to clarity
- Leverage strengths and address areas for improvement
- Principles of trust and influence
Delivery
Coaching plans are tailored to meet individual and organisational objectives and can include the use of psychometric assessments like Leadership Circle Profile (a 360 degree feedback tool) or CliftonStrengths (a tool grounded in positive psychology).
To ensure results, coaching packages are a minimum of 3 sessions. Each coaching program is designed to be fully tailored to your individual development needs, with programs and coaching packages tailored between 3 and 12 months for a transformative coaching experience.
Leadership Development for your Team
Have you ever heard the saying ‘can’t see the wood for the trees?’
Cambridge dictionary defines it as: “Being unable to understand a situation clearly because you are too involved in it”
In work life, whether you’re C-suite, a leader, or a team member, I can guarantee at some point, you have questioned your abilities, felt misunderstood, or like you’re swimming against the current.
What happens when all team members are experiencing those feelings? And the behaviours they result in are bumping up against one another?
High-performing teams share a few secrets. My engaging team coaching and facilitation works to turn those secrets into reality for your team, their leader, and the wider organisation, and create sustainable change.
Some common objectives are:
- Assess and develop emotional intelligence skills to create psychological safety
- Create clarity around core strengths, styles, and how you best use your energy
- Utilise EQ and strengths-based coaching to improve impact and performance
- Develop a consistent emotional culture
- Open communication
- Identify and end unproductive patterns
- Find power through diversity
- Renew passion for work
- Increase engagement, efficacy, and overall employee satisfaction
- Execute a specific and measurable strategy
In work life, whether you’re C-suite, a leader, or a team member, I can guarantee at some point, you have questioned your abilities, felt misunderstood, or like you’re swimming against the current.
What happens when all team members are experiencing those feelings? And the behaviours they result in are bumping up against one another?
High-performing teams share a few secrets. My engaging team coaching and facilitation works to turn those secrets into reality for your team, their leader, and the wider organisation, and create sustainable change.
The Culture Edit
We’ll explore
The values of the organisation (espoused or enacted), and how they set your organisation up for success.
The positive practices, rituals and habits within your organisation.
The beliefs, stories and legacy that exist in the organisation.
The signals that are being transmitted through people practices and leadership.
Delivery
Tools Lorissa Loves
It’s great to innovate, think of the future state, and have big ideas, but ideas without a strategy to execute are just ideas. To succeed, a strategy needs the right people, with the best skills, in the right roles.
My people strategy approach considers the big picture – the external landscape, economic, social, and political factors, the internal environment, culture, performance, leadership potential and organisational stakeholders.
I identify key drivers and desired outcomes to develop an actionable people strategy that supports the organisation’s goals, facilitates change, increases capability, and mobilises teams and organisations for the current and future state.
2020 taught us to expect the unexpected – to navigate uncertainty and maintain desired results, a human-centered strategy is more important than ever.
Delivery
All strategic plans are tailored for clients after an initial assessment. You can choose your level of support from a Done with You or Done for You approach with ongoing support and coaching for your teams.
Delivery methods range from a full program of works taking place over several months, bespoke workshops, discovery and co-creation sessions with people up, down and across your organisation.