Leading an organization is part strategy, part skill, and — too often overlooked — part character. At Triad Psych I combine decades of clinical expertise, leadership experience, and applied psychological frameworks to help executives and leadership teams not only make better decisions, but become the kind of people organizations want to follow.
Below is how I work with leaders and teams, why character development is at the center of everything I do, and what clients consistently tell me they get from the engagement.
A practical, psychology-first approach to coaching and advisement
My work with executives and senior teams is rooted in clinical psychology and informed by real-world leadership practice. I bring together:
- Advanced psychological frameworks that help quickly diagnose the dynamics beneath difficult, ambiguous, or emotionally charged situations. These frameworks make complex problems more navigable — whether the challenge is strategic, interpersonal, or cultural.
- Emotional intelligence and empathic insight to understand what people are experiencing and why. That intelligence lets coaching get under the behaviors and into the drivers: what leaders feel, what they avoid, and how they show up under pressure.
- Group & organizational psychology to move beyond one-on-one coaching and shape safer, more inclusive, and more productive team environments. I work with groups to surface unspoken norms, design healthier interactions, and embed new habits across a team or company.
- Practical advisement for leaders and executive teams — not just therapy or abstract ideas. I help translate psychological insight into decisions about organizational design, talent, communication, and culture.
Clients routinely report that this blend of clinical discipline and pragmatic advisement helps them diagnose situations faster and act with more clarity and confidence.
Character development: the core of the service
Strategy can win a quarter. Character builds a company. I put character development at the center of executive coaching because leadership is less about technique and more about who you are when things get hard.
What I mean by “character” in practice:
- Integrity and courage — doing the right thing even when it costs short-term comfort.
- Humility and curiosity — being willing to learn, admit blind spots, and change course.
- Empathy and moral imagination — seeing stakeholders as people and weighing decisions against human consequences.
- Self-regulation — the capacity to remain calm, make deliberate choices, and model steadiness for others.
Developing character is not a one-time ethics seminar. It’s a set of targeted, measurable practices woven into the coaching curriculum: values clarification, reflection and narrative work, role-play under realistic stressors, targeted behavior change experiments, and repeated real-world feedback. Over time these practices change how leaders think and act — and how others experience them.
How a typical coaching + advisement engagement unfolds
I structure work so it’s concrete, measurable, and aligned with organizational needs:
- Assessment & diagnosis. We gather data: interviews, 360 feedback, team climate measures, and targeted clinical assessment to understand the problem space.
- Alignment. We clarify aims — what success looks like for the leader and the organization — and identify key character and skill targets.
- Development. Focused coaching sessions, experiential practice, and advisement on immediate strategic decisions. This stage integrates psychotherapeutic insight with leadership development.
- Embedding & measurement. We create accountability systems, train allies, and track outcomes (e.g., team engagement, decision quality, retention, and qualitative cultural shifts).
This process is tailored — some clients need rapid advisement during a high-stakes period, others commit to long-term character work that reshapes their leadership over months.
Why organizations choose this work
When companies bring me in they get someone who operates at the intersection of therapy, coaching, and organizational advisement. I’m an experienced psychotherapist and life coach who has led teams and advised leaders across sectors. The result is coaching that’s clinically informed, operationally useful, and oriented toward sustainable change. My group work is designed to make team environments safer, more inclusive, and more productive — and to translate individual growth into organization-level outcomes.
As one client put it: the frameworks and approach “allow individuals and teams to quickly diagnose and navigate complex situations,” producing benefits for the team, the company, and the wider community.
Want to learn more?
If you’d like to explore executive coaching or leadership advisement — whether a focused advisement for an urgent decision or a long-term character development plan — I’d be glad to talk. For a conversational primer on these ideas, I also discuss the connection between psychological insight and leadership on my episode of Marketing Mad Men.
Email me at [email protected] or visit TriadPsych.org to schedule a conversation. Leadership is a craft; character is the foundation. If you’re ready to build both, let’s get to work.