We Turn Visions into Blueprints

Leadership coaching for business executives who are building big things


Coaching for Business Leaders & Executives

Are you facing a new role, a challenge with your team or do you lack the support you need to develop or train your leaders?

Keystone Leadership Advisors helps build, design and strengthen healthy organizations with a generous, people-first focus.

Services

Keystone 1:1 Coaching

Keystone Enterprise Coaching

Keystone Workshops

The Keystone Difference

How we serve executives in their business building

Some leaders are born, most are built. We like to think of your leadership journey as one that is designed, scaffolded and engineered. We use a four-step design and build process to help you create your personal leadership blueprint:

  • We use active listening, and years of deep experience, to help you articulate the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.

  • Through a series of assessments, we identify the challenges and opportunities in front of you, then agree on a clear path of action: 1:1 coaching, enterprise-level coaching or team workshops are the solutions we offer to help you achieve your vision. 

  • First, we understand your business and how you think of things. We then determine your "keystone habits” that can be used to strengthen your business structures. These will be unique to you and can be used time and again to get the results you need.

  • We wrap up our work with both a hindsight of where you’ve been and a future focus of how you’ll use what you’ve learned. We aim to leave you and your organization stronger than we found you and ensure our work has a clear return on investment.

Let’s partner to draft, build and shine your leadership blueprint.

No one builds a cathedral alone

Hi, I’m Susan.

Principal Coach and Founder of Keystone Leadership Advisors. 

As an International Coach Federation certified executive coach, I coach business leaders to build their organizations into thriving, sustainable practices. Whether it is designing a leadership development program, leading your team through a workshop or 1:1 coaching, my partners and I go deep to understand your goals, strategies and roadblocks, then help you build from them.

Let’s work together to define and hone your leadership behaviors and plot your future. Through the co-creation of your custom leadership blueprint, we’ll help you execute strategies more effectively, engage people more deeply and increase your fulfillment of work.

What are you building?

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What people are saying

  • "Susan is not just an active listener, she is a deep listener. Her insights, even after a brief anecdote, inspired our team to go deeper in our self-inquiry. I love that she provides resources that align with the growth edges she observes. Susan has a generous spirit which comes through authentically, and models the grace I would like to embody in leadership."

    - Vignetta Charles, CEO etr.org

  • “Susan is simply incredible. She possesses the unique ability to quickly identify leadership opportunities for both an individual and an organization. Her greatest impact on me was the manner in which she helped me apply leadership principles in a tangible and impactful way. Susan quickly identifies important questions to ask, and is not afraid to ask the tough ones. Her extensive experience and expertise is immediately evident. I know she has helped to strengthen my leadership approach and the future of my organization. I truly came away from our time together a better person and I will always be grateful for that.”

    — Ed Barberini, Chief of Police, San Mateo, CA

  • “Susan has been an amazing coach. Her sense checking was very intuitive, helping to really call out areas I had taken shortcuts or too many assumptions in my business plans. This helped me deepen my understanding and fill in the gaps that existed because of my prior lack of understanding. Many of these items I'd just put in the "too hard" basket which Susan helped to flesh out and develop simple, meaningful plans around. Susan has a really high level of empathy, and was able to put different customer / target market lenses on our pitch deck, which resulted in us developing one that resonated far better with our target audience. I highly recommend Susan's coaching capabilities.”

    — Dave Rouse, CEO CarbonClick

  • “Thank you very much for your insightful coaching. The reframing we have done has already been of tremendous value. It has already helped me both to step around some of my self-imposed blockers and to recognize opportunities for adopting enabling behaviors. I look forward to seeing what more you will help me to achieve in the coming year!”

    — Susanne Jul, PhD, Executive Director, Creative Crisis Leadership

  • "Susan, Your coaching yesterday helped me so much. Today, I had a conversation with X where I feel that we improved our understanding and relationship. It was your recommendations that made the difference. Helping people communicate and understand each other is likely the best thing a person can do to help improve the world. THANK YOU for your coaching."

    - Lisa Lindberg, Director of Tax, Alsco

  • "Susan worked with my team using the Working Genius assessment to uncover the source of our internal communications issues. We discovered that while our natural styles overlap, the challenge was our individual styles for processing information and the level of detail required to get things done. Some need A-Z ground-level detail and others only the really high-level big picture.The number one thing that we took away from our Working Genius workshop is that we must thold different levels of meetings that will be lead by the person who operates best at that level of detail. It’s made a world of difference in team communications and making sure we are focused on the right level of detail in a meeting. "

    -William Pitney, Founder FocusYOU

  • "Thank you for the really great {Working Genius} session you guided us through when we were out on our team retreat. We have used the concepts and ideas you provided to reorganize our internal staff meetings and use the language often to have clarity around the stage of our projects. It has really helped us to understand each other's strengths and when best to bring each person into the stages of the project.”

    - Amy Mullen, President, MoneyQuotient

  • Susan is very knowledgeable and easily related my values and leadership tendencies to categorical norms. Understanding how "the sauce is made," so to speak, was very helpful to me in addressing areas I want to maintain, improve, or change. In a world that often prioritizes speed and efficiency, Susan serves as a shining example of the transformative power of patience in coaching, as well as patience in developing. She has not only helped me become a better professional but also instilled a deeper appreciation for the journey of self-discovery and growth.

    - Sgt. Kurt Rodenspiel, SMPD