Should You Work with Me?
Who you should choose as your coach depends on who you are and what you want. Professionals for whom my services are appropriate and with whom I work with very successfully:
- Take responsibility for their own development and want to solve their own problems
- Are capable of empathy and behave with integrity
- Define their own success by the success of their clients and colleagues
- Understand that relationships are valuable assets in business
- Can sustain commitments in the face of setbacks
- Want to be helped and supported in their efforts but know that their success hinges on their own initiative and persistence
- Are willing to try new approaches and behaviors
I am comfortable exploring business topics as well as personal development topics in order to improve an executive’s performance. Psychology is what I know and the lever I use most, but I also understand business and private equity quite well. I have a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and an MBA in Strategy and Finance and for the past 20 years I have brought that training to bear in working almost exclusively with private equity professionals and portfolio company executives.
Though the style I use depends on the person and goals, I encourage clients to figure out goals and ways of reaching them. I look at the client as a whole person and strive to foster a greater sense of purpose and more satisfaction with life and work.
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Much of my latest writing appears in The European Financial Review
About the Author
Leslie S. Pratch is the founder and CEO of Pratch & Company. A clinical psychologist and MBA, she advises private equity investors, management committees and Boards of Directors of public and privately held companies whether the executives being considered to lead companies possess the psychological resources and personality strengths needed to succeed. In her recently published book, Looks Good on Paper? (Columbia University Press, 2014), she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirically based approach to identify executives who will be effective within organizations – and to flag those who will ultimately very likely fail – by evaluating aspects of personality and character that are hidden beneath the surface.
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