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SOLID Leaders Capabilities
Since 1989, SOLID Leaders has developed thousands of CEOs and their direct reports. It remains on the cutting edge of executive leadership coaching.
Growing Highly Effective Leaders
Companies We Have Served
SOLID Leaders, LLC has been providing services to executives since 1989. SOLID has hundreds of individual and corporate case studies, which are available upon request with permission from our clients. Our references include:
Consumer Services
CreditCards.com
frog design
RMM Online Advertising
TicketCity.com
Healthcare & Wellness
Brackenridge Hospital
HealthCare International
Hills Medical Sports Complex
Seton Healthcare
Total Fitness
Wellness Consultants
IT Distribution
ARC
Avnet
GE Access
General Electric
Intelogic Trace
SYNNEX
IT Manufacturing
Alchemy Semiconductor
AMD
Applied Materials
Cisco Systems
Cypress Semiconductor
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft
Motorola
STATS ChipPAC
Sun Microsystems
Manufacturing
3M
ANADIGICS
Coca-Cola
ETS-Lindgren
Fisher-Rosemount
Nonprofit
ABBA Ministries
First Evangelical Free Church
First Colony Church
Gateway Community Church
Grace Covenant Church
Lakeway Church
LeTourneau University
LifeAustin Church
Priority Associates
VC / Private Equity
ATI
Austin Ventures
DFJ Mercury
Seed Stage Capital
Sevin Rosen
Information Services
Digital Globe
Dun & Bradstreet
Hoover’s Online
IHS
Executive Search
DES Growth Partners
Heidrick & Struggles
John Casey & Associates
The Insource Group
Oil & Gas
Apache Corporation
Athens Group
Baker Hughes
BG Group
Diamond Shamrock
DONG Energy
Dynegy
Energy International Group
Flotek
Halliburton
Medco
MicroFlow
PathFinder Energy Services
PetroSA
Schlumberger
Professional Services
Booz & Company
Decision Consultants
Deloitte
Environmental Resources Mgmt.
IBM
Process Core Group
Sapient
Tatum CFO
Waterstone Management Group
Xerox
Software
BazaarVoice
BMC Software
Cadence Design Systems
ClearCommerce
ClearData
Convio Software
Exterprise
Globeset
Liaison Technologies
Pervasive Software
Silicon Metrics
Synopsys
Tivoli Systems
TManage
Tonic Software
Traq Wireless
Trilogy Software
Unisys
Vartopia
Vignette Software
Waveset Technologies
Websense
Zilliant Technologies
Telecommunications
AT&T
Cellular One
GTE Mobilnet
PVT
Southwestern Bell
Construction
Fun Vacation Rentals
Ryland Homes
Tellepsen Construction
Scott Felder Homes
Transformative Results
Since 1989, SOLID’s fanatical focus on results has produced more than 1,200 satisfied clients in more than 30 industries, from startups to the Fortune 50. With more than 65 Executive Partners, SOLID brings thousands of years’ experience to your toughest individual, team, and organizational challenges.
Comprehensive Services
We specialize in helping individuals and organizations grow to the next level of performance. An innovative national leader in coaching, training, and consulting, we serve leaders at all levels and excel at helping transform them, those they lead, and the organizations they run. We do this by delivering superior, leading-edge CEO and board advising, executive leadership and career coaching, and C-suite consulting.
Custom Solutions
We develop custom-tailored solutions for each person and company and serve as an expert matchmaker. Each SOLID advisor, coach, or consultant is carefully matched based on your very specific needs and their sweet spot of capabilities. This is defined as the intersection between their greatest skills, abilities, and passions with the natural direction of their career.
Consistent Quality
SOLID’s matchmaking ensures our clients get the best resources with consistent quality delivery and a single point of accountability. Most of SOLID’s delivery team started out as clients of SOLID sometime during the past three decades. They are known quantities with long-term, proven track records of significant business success. You can rely on us to deliver year after year.
Certified Business Advisors
We provide extensive training and certification for our team. Our certified executive advisors provide business and management advice for senior executives who want an outside, objective perspective to optimize the functioning of their organization. Your advisor is a highly respected business executive, carefully matched to your needs by size of company, location, functional role, and industry.
Certified Executive Coaches
Our certified executive coaches provide one-on-one development of the individual executive. We deliver the full range of executive development services, including interview-based and electronic 360-degree assessments, leadership and management development coaching, and high potential identification and development. We also provide all-team coaching.
Certified C-Suite Management & Organization Development Consultants
Our certified executive consultants provide traditional management and business consulting. We solve difficult issues by leveraging real-world executive experience, subject matter expertise, and industry knowledge. Well beyond theory, our team has personally encountered similar situations throughout their senior executive careers. Our management, business, and organizational development consultants have sat in your chair, experienced your pain, and can collaborate with you as true peers, designing practical solutions that work. The extreme pedigree and real-world experience of our team sets us apart from most consulting firms that can’t truly understand how to solve your difficult business challenges in practical ways that get cost-effective and immediate results. Our favorite expression: “We provide you a resultant, not a consultant!”
Our Leadership Development Platform
SOLID Leaders provides transformational leadership development coaching, training, and consulting, leveraging our proven team of seasoned entrepreneurs, CEOs, and senior executives alongside a stakeholder-centric methodology with supporting IP and tools to help any leader or organization achieve measurable results for optimizing investments in their talent.
Senior Executive Coaching
Our senior executive coaches are certified, seasoned, and highly credentialed executives. Because of their extensive business backgrounds, credibility and trust are quickly established, clients are more coachable, and the results more immediate and noteworthy.
Execution Coaching
- Personal time management
- Task and priority management
- Hitting goals and objectives
- Performance enhancement
- Meeting management
- Organizing self and others
- Solving problems
- Driving action and results
- Running the business
- Creating innovation
- Leveraging intelligence
Management Coaching
- High potential development
- Retention of top talent
- Managing teams
- Managing operations
- Fast-tracking high-potential executives
- Planned succession
- Management/leadership of former peers
- Assimilation and onboarding
- Managing human capital and performance
- Managing through change
- Profit and loss management
Core Character
- Balancing/navigating work and family demands
- Personal life issues; non-work related
- Self-esteem, morale, and motivation
- Boundary setting and accountability
- Personal self-motivation, drive, and initiative
- Character, ethics, and core values
Relationship Coaching
- Listening to others
- Reading body language
- Conflict management and resolution
- Relationship building and management
- Personality/behavioral assessments
- Interfacing with boss and boss’s peers and superiors
- Staff cohesiveness / team building/development
- Political awareness and sensitivity
- Whole-team executive coaching
- Adapting own behavioral style
Leadership Development Coaching
- Casting vision
- Demonstrating courage
- Leading strategy
- Inspiring others
- Exercising good judgment
- Expanding organizational influence
- Instituting leadership best practices
- Gaining and leveraging leadership mentors
- Driving consensus and alignment
- Increasing political awareness
- Becoming more sensitive; improving emotional intelligence
CEO Advising & C-Suite Consulting
Our team of seasoned CEOs and senior executives are proven change agents with undeniable track records of helping organizations and their leaders achieve difficult objectives and produce significant ROI. Examples of some typical topics include:
Operational and Strategic
- Strategic and operational planning
- Executive off-sites and board facilitation
- Functional planning (sales, IT, finance, etc.)
- Strategic business planning
- Business process reengineering
- Market analysis and planning
Corporate Performance Management
- Performance management systems
- One-on-one direct report effectiveness
- Sensitivity and harassment interventions
- Employee performance assessments
- Identification/assessment of top talent
- Mentoring programs
Team Design and Development
- Team assessment and surveys
- Team collaboration and communication
- Driving alignment
- Process improvement
- Reporting structures
- Succession planning and retention
Change Management & Organization Development
- Organizational assessments
- Culture change initiatives
- Change management
- CEO/board transitions
- Downsizing and reorganization
- M&A and post-merger integrations
Board and Executive Team Initiatives
- Executive staff retreats
- Strategic planning off-sites
- Team building
- Mission/vision/values development
- Restructuring board
- Assimilating new CEO / C-suite officer / SVP
Building a Legacy of Transformational Leaders
Years in Business
Clients Served
Hours of Coaching
SOLID Leaders Capabilities
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Extraordinary Team
- 1,500+ combined years of CEO- and SVP-level experience
- Broad range of industry expertise
- Experience across all corporate sizes & structures
Innovative Approach
- Team-based coaching
- Large stable of talent
- Certified coaches
Bottom-Line Results
- Proven, ROI-driven solutions
- Individually tailored selection process
- Senior executive specialists
Solid Competency Model
Online Cloud-Based Solutions
Our online leadership development systems are accessible from anywhere and easy to use, and develop senior executives, their direct reports, and all levels, including first line managers. Highly effective for succession planning, our system provides senior executives with unprecedented visibility into the strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots of all managers within their organization.
Phase 1
Become Oriented
- Set Expectations
- Develop Leadership Skills
- Advance Career
- Expand Responsibilities
Phase 2
Gain Insight
- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Leadership
- General
Phase 3
Set Goals
- Attain Goals
- Map Competencies
Phase 4
Improve Performance
- Improve Myself
- Improve Others
1-Minute Coaching
Thought Leadership That’s Always On Point
Execution: Solving Problems
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Execution: Running the Business
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Execution: Managing Time and Priorities
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