Coaching
Eric’s coaching practice is designed to strengthen business leaders and teams from the inside out. Through executive coaching, leadership assessments, Enneagram coaching, 360 reviews, whole-person development, and org assessment advising, Eric equips leaders with the clarity, confidence, and capability to lead at higher levels. His approach blends strategic insight with human understanding—helping individuals and teams grow in self-awareness, expand their leadership range, and unlock sustainable performance.
Areas of Expertise
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Eric provides highly personalized, goal-aligned executive coaching for senior leaders navigating complex roles and heightened expectations. His work focuses on helping leaders gain clarity around their leadership style, decision-making patterns, and impact on others, while strengthening confidence and effectiveness at the enterprise level. Through trusted, one-on-one partnership, Eric supports leaders as they address real-time challenges, elevate performance, and lead with greater intention and presence to accelerate goal achievement.
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Eric leverages customized leadership assessments to help individuals and organizations better understand strengths, gaps, and opportunities for growth. By translating diagnostic insights into practical development plans, he enables leaders to expand their capabilities, refine leadership behaviors, and align personal growth with organizational needs. This work creates a clear roadmap for sustained leadership development grounded in data, reflection, and action.
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Using the Enneagram as a tool for self-awareness and growth, Eric helps leaders understand their core motivations, stress patterns, and relational dynamics. This approach deepens emotional intelligence and supports more effective communication, collaboration, and conflict navigation. Enneagram coaching allows leaders to recognize habitual responses and intentionally choose behaviors that strengthen relationships and leadership impact.
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Eric guides leaders through comprehensive 360-degree assessments that gather feedback from peers, direct reports, and stakeholders. He helps individuals and teams interpret the results with clarity and perspective, identifying themes that inform leadership development and behavior change. The process builds self-awareness, reinforces accountability, and supports meaningful growth grounded in how leaders are truly experienced by others.
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Eric’s coaching approach recognizes that leadership effectiveness is inseparable from the whole person. He supports leaders in navigating professional responsibilities alongside personal values, emotional resilience, and life transitions. By creating space for reflection and integration, Eric helps leaders lead with authenticity, sustain energy, and make decisions that are aligned with both personal well-being and organizational goals.
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Eric partners with leadership teams to improve how they function together, focusing on role clarity, operating agreements, communication, trust, and collaboration. His team coaching work helps groups surface and address interpersonal dynamics, align around shared goals, and establish operating best practices that strengthen performance. The result is a more cohesive, accountable, and effective team capable of working through complexity together and improving business outcomes.
“I was fortunate to be introduced to Eric Severson as a business coach. Working with Eric has revealed faulty thinking that was holding my business back. He also helped me gain better insight into how to leverage my strengths, set healthy goals, and handle obstacles as a business owner. I can confidently say that if I hadn't worked with Eric, I wouldn't have experienced as much growth in my business this past year.”
-Marie Bonner-Horon, Founder & Licensed Therapist