I needed to expand the leadership capabilities of key team members for succession roles and usher in the next level for our rapidly growing business. The organic development of our leadership team is integral to the maintenance and expansion of our culture, which is at the core of our value proposition to our employees.

I recognized that I did not have all the tools I needed to fully empower key team members to be their absolute best and true selves as leaders. As Karen began to work with these team members, it was clear there are alternative paths that can help support the leadership development we were looking for.

Velocity helped my team members grow substantially in ways that we had not seen progress in before. Additionally, by working in tandem with the Velocity team, I was able to understand other gaps in team members that I might be able to work through with the Velocity team.

The growth and development of this employee empowered me to make systemic changes to my organizational structure that has set the stage for our next level of growth. By leaning into the program and galvanizing my leadership to engage and embrace these practices, we are now a much stronger organization as a result.

– Dave B., President, Integrated Logistics, NFI Industries

I have worked with high performing teams nearly my entire life and became overly focused on the team’s outcomes. My leadership approach was essentially the same for everyone; I had lost perspective on the fact that high performing individuals are each motivated and empowered in different ways.

With Velocity’s help I gained a much deeper understanding of what motivates different individuals, how to meet them where they are, and to provide the type of support they need. Velocity Leadership’s model of using behavioral queues and measurable goals resonated really well with me. It helped to ensure I was focusing on the right things and allowed me to build lasting change.

The people I work with are now more empowered and encouraged to continue growing. I have moved past letting the results speak for themselves. I learned the importance of helping each individual find what drives them and what allows them to perform at their best. 

– Kyle H., Executive Vice President – Commercial Lending, FirstBank

I have always been a leader inside and outside of the workplace. My leadership style has always been to lead by example. However, after several years of managing people, I found that my message wasn’t being received the way I had intended. Through both internal and third-party feedback, I was really struggling to communicate effectively to find a connection with my team and peers. Bottom line, I wasn’t developing my team, or creating the results in our business that I was seeking as a leader. Velocity is amazing! My coach helped me identify and overcome these challenges by getting to the root of my personal barriers and helped me understand how my behavioral patterns and communication methods have been shaped by my life experiences. Through Power Pathways techniques that Velocity taught me, I have improved my self-awareness and become a more effective communicator in both my work and personal life. I learned the power of asking questions so that others are heard and my message is received the way that I intend. Not only do I recognize my own progress, it has been recognized by my team and others in my organization. Thank You Velocity!

– Aaron S., RVP Operations, NFI Industries

My areas of opportunity were to improve my leadership effectiveness, specifically to drive team performance. I knew my team was capable of exceptional performance, and I wasn’t tapping into their individual capabilities; essentially, I was using the same approach with each person, rather than individualizing based on understanding their unique behavioral drivers. My Velocity coach challenged me to learn and utilize these individual behavioral drivers and techniques to meet team members where they are, lean into their natural motivations and tendencies, and facilitate an elevated level of engagement and performance. Through the accountability provided by our regular coaching sessions, what was initially uncomfortable actions have now become second nature. She helped me learn and apply all these things which had a domino effect, ultimately raising my level of leadership effectiveness. Now, we all experience the positive impact of this within my team, and the exceptional results are becoming reality at a company level. As a result of my executive leadership coaching work, I am a more well-rounded leader, with many tools and behavioral skills at my disposal, the benefits of which have also spilled over into my personal life.

– Jarrod L., Market President, FirstBank

I struggled with confidence in sharing my voice and would hold back in conversations, especially those around challenging topics.  My work with Velocity Leadership Development, helped me overcome my unconscious roadblocks and identify triggers that were self-limiting.  Through her thought provoking questions, methods of creating new habits and holding me accountable for my actions, I am a stronger leader.

– Krista O, Vice President of Agency Relations and Safety Services, Pinnacol Assurance

After sixteen years of leading teams, I realized my leadership style was no longer effective. I was anxious, unfulfilled and angry. My coach Karen helped me realize that some past life events had a hold on me, manifesting negatively in my professional life. Karen helped me identify the events, the significance, the barriers created, and the triggers associated. I was able to acknowledge behavioral patterns, and that provided me the ability to reprogram and rebuild upon my leadership brand. I have been able to achieve goals that were once tremendously difficult, and results that seemed only a dream. My breakthroughs have been life changing – I am incredibly grateful. Thank you Velocity!

– Gina N., Business Director, CopperPoint Ins Companies

PROBLEM: I wasn’t achieving my business or personal goals.

Most days I felt I was just jumping from one task to another.  I never felt I accomplished everything needed to for the day, my schedule was chaotic, and my company wasn’t hitting its goals. There were issues I needed to address; however, I did not know where to start.

Luckily, Velocity did.

My coach had seen these problems before and knew exactly how to solve them……. quickly.

SOLUTION: Coaching with Velocity Leadership Consulting

Are you as productive as you want to be?  Do you have control of your schedule?  Is your company hitting its metrics?  If you are like I was, the answer is “No.”

Velocity’s proven system is science based and their great coaches and proprietary tools make solving problems like yours easier than you think.

My coach took a holistic view of my company and focused on the key performance indicators and gap analyses needed to achieve my objectives.  I am now on the path to accomplishing goals more quickly and easily than in the 8 years I have led the company.

Velocity uncovered the lack of a productive schedule that was crippling me and my company.  Through a in depth Time Audit, I now have a clearly defined schedule with blocks of time allocated for each of my daily tasks.  I now find myself with extra time, rather than working 12–15-hour days where I still didn’t accomplish everything.

My coach identified behavioral patterns that were holding me back and showed me how to take control of the unconscious mind to harness its power and processing speed.  The velocity at which I made this transition is incredible.  I literally saw results in the first week.

Partnering with Velocity has been one of the best business decisions of my career. The ROI is off the charts.  Their expertise has put me on a clear path to achieving my goals and provided the tools to effectively lead my team and reach beyond our goals.

– Brandon Acker, President and CEO, Titan Abrasive Systems

I began my work with Velocity Leadership during the middle of the pandemic in 2020.  With all the chaos brought on by COVID, my team scattered around working remotely from home, and an increasingly troublesome level of “burnout” setting in among my team members, it goes without saying that I was in need of some coaching.  I needed to find ways to connect with my team members one-on-one and be a resource for them, and I needed to find ways to motivate them and battle the burnout.  My leadership style up to that point in my career was a more casual approach that I would sprinkle in as needed, and did not have a lot of structure to it.  That approach was not going to cut it given the circumstances.

With help from my coach, I was able to implement structure and processes that allowed for regularly-scheduled, impactful one-on-ones with my team members.  I was also able to implement a variety of tools to help battle burnout and raise the spirits of the team during weekly meetings.  The biggest surprise to me was the outpouring of positive feedback I received from virtually all of my team members around the tools I had implemented.  It was clear that the one-on-ones were much appreciated and meaningful to my team members, and our weekly team meetings took on a more positive, upbeat vibe as a result of the tools implemented to combat burnout.  That positive vibe is still there and going strong almost four months later, as are my one-on-one coaching sessions with my team members.

My coach at Velocity Leadership helped me by asking the right questions and getting me talking.  I believe the sign of a great coach is someone who can not only give sound guidance and ideas, but can ask great questions to help me arrive at solutions on my own as well.  Additionally, she has helped me create the structure, deadlines, and accountability that I need to be a more effective leader.  My coaching sessions with Velocity are upbeat, efficient, and concise, and my coach does a great job providing positive reinforcement and praise anytime I have a “win”.

My main goal when I started coaching with Velocity was to make myself a better leader for my team, find new ways to show up for them, and help them grow and thrive.  While coaching has had a positive impact on me personally as well, the truly exciting part has been to see the impact that my coaching sessions have had on all of my team members, and how the things we work on during my sessions have bled through into the culture of my team as a whole.  I’m engaging with them more regularly and am using structure that is producing positive outcomes, morale during meetings has improved, and we are functioning at a higher level, which is awesome to be a part of.

– Derek L., Executive Vice President, First Bank

After being appointed CEO, I knew that I needed to elevate my game. I knew that my schedule and where I focused my time was no longer going to cut it. I needed to make time for the imperatives that were required of me as CEO.

With the Velocity guidance, insights, and practical instruments to deploy, I was able to rapidly adjust the way I needed to operate to make time and space in my day-to-day schedule for the things that I knew needed to happen, the non-negotiables. Furthermore, my Velocity coach helped me realize that I needed a set of goals that pertained to improving and leading myself first. Over time, keeping me accountable to these has meant that I now have been able to effectively tackle the challenges that were up to me to resolve in order for the business to have a trajectory and operating plan not only for the next year but a clearer strategy out beyond 5 years.

My Velocity coach was critical in keeping me accountable and ensuring that I was facing the challenges and work head-on, taking the most effective path. She also helped me check my thinking and ensure I developed the skills required to rapidly assess and work on the right things at the right time.

By better leading myself first, I have been able to better lead the team and positively impact and influence all my stakeholders. This has created a great positive chain reaction throughout the business. I have not only achieved many of my goals faster than I anticipated but have gotten through many business imperatives significantly faster than originally planned.

– Paul Sulisz, President and CEO, Biarri Networks