High-Flow

Strategic Leadership Coaching

Cause a New Future

What is Strategic Leaderhsip?

Bring a Strategic Leader is your ability to know your aim and stay the course, even when curve balls are thrown at you. It gives you agility and stability and allows your people to create stellar results.

Strategic leadership brings together the hard and soft skills of business. We dial in your peak performance skills, working with your neurobiology. We monitor your Key Performance Indicators regularly while getting a strengths-based assessment of your team, and building the human systems that propel your business forward.

Together, we set and measure goals for your bottom line and your leadership, ensuring your progress.

Elevate Your Leadership

Accelerate Your Team

  • Impact

    You're working hard, but you're not sure if your team is making the impact you need.

    It's tough to know if you're on the right track. You pour your heart and soul into your work, but it often feels like you and the team are missing the mark. Why?

    This is where your coach comes in. To get the results you want, we’ll define your aim, then systematically measure and adjust so you make the impact you want in the areas you choose - personal and team performance, business strategy, and even your bottom line.

    You’ll leave with the tools to keep moving forward long after I’m gone.

  • At Cause

    We all know that great leaders are people of action, but sometimes it's hard to figure out the right action to take.

    Instead of casting about, impactful leaders are strategic, focused, and effective. This can be hard to do if you're not sure where to start, or you constantly find yourself on the defensive, reacting to problems.

    It’s time to step off the hamster wheel of reaction, and learn to steer the ship. Through a unique questioning and listening process, I’ll teach you to pause, look beyond what you think you know, and take decisive action from clear seeing. You'll become adept at taking productive right action, even in the thick of difficulty.

    Think more productivity, with less stress and more joy so that you can cause your future, rather than reacting to the present moment.

  • Clear Seeing

    You're a great leader, committed to your excellence and your team’s top performance. Yet leadership can be lonely and isolating, and the next right steps can feel mirky at best.

    Through our coaching engagement, you will cultivate pathways for productive and honest feedback with your team. You’ll gain insight to grow your strengths and implement a development plan to close your winnable gaps. You’ll experience a rigorous process to see all aspects of your work more clearly.

    Learning to really see yourself, your team, and your projects as they are, you open up a world of possibilities so you can up-level everywhere.

  • Wholeness

    You're trying to do your best, but you feel like you're constantly fighting fires and scrambling to keep up. It just never feels like there is enough time to get it all done, let alone consistently attend to your wellbeing.

    It's hard to stay focused and motivated when this level of stress feels constant, yet as a leader it’s never really gone.

    In this approach to leadership coaching, your whole being matters. You’ll be supported to move your body every day, even if it’s small. You’ll harness your creativity and intuition, and reignite your energy.

    In order to be a great leader, and make a meaningful impact, your wholeness is the foundation for your greatest impact.

I’m a stand for your greatness, because the world needs great leaders now.

I’ve help leaders step up their game, while having fun and being more effective in the process. If you sense it’s time for an upgrade, I may just be the person you are looking for.

My no-nonsense approach will challenge your old patterns, while bringing a balance of honesty and compassion to meeting your business needs.

As a small business owner with extensive experience leading teams toward success, I know that real results on the ground matter. You don’t have time to work on your leadership as a stand alone. This is about putting learning into action in real time, so you can realize your bottom-line business goals.

I specialize in helping small busiess owners and teams become peak performers.

I take only a handful of executive clients at a time, providing extraordinary service. Let’s create your new future together.

Let’s Have a Conversation

Some Questions Answered

 

    1. Set Goals and Achieve Them: Together, we set strategic goals that you can achieve. We make plans for how to make these goals real. We monitor progress and adjust. You are not alone. I keep you focused on meeting your goals.

    2. Lead With Balance: We balance big picture vision and leadership development with tactical know-how to help you and your business thrive.

    3. Enjoy Positive Development: Your measurable development plan includes key elements to help you close your winnable gaps and meet the needs of your unique circumstances.

    4. Lead With Flow: Harnessing your neurobiology to experience more flow, we attend to your whole being so you can consistently thrive in all areas of your life.

  • Research shows that consistency is central to lasting growth and change. Thus, my preferred method for our engagment is high-touch, high-impact. We meet twice a week for the first three weeks, then once a week thereafter for the remainder of our contract. Minimum contracts are 6 months. Email support is always available. I am committed to helping you make lasting change, and working myself out a job.

  • We define both qualitative and quantitative outcomes for our work, revisiting these metrics frequently. We adjust as necessary, and define our processes based on the desired outcomes.

  • Together, we craft a development plan that provides the framework of our time together.

    We begin with an empowering 360 degree process meant to uplift you and your team. We interview 8-10 people, including team members, your leaders, and your peers, garnering invaluable insight. In the process, the people we interview become your champions along the way, invested in your success.

    We then review this information together and craft a development plan meant to close your winnable gaps, elevate your effectiveness, and help you become the leader you are meant to be.

  • Three key principles that underpin my coaching methodology:

    1. You already have within you what you need to lead. Through our process together, you learn to listen deeply - for yourself, others, and your work - to lead effectively.

    2. To be a leader means to create a future that would otherwise not have existed. Our work is to spark your ability to see with new eyes to be both visionary and tactical, creating a new future.

    3. Your body is an unharnessed fount of information. Through real-life mindfulness you learn access this knowingness whenever you need it.

  • I work on retainer with a 6-month minimum contract . The monthly commitment is $1200-$3400 per month. This is sliding scale based on the profit margins of your business.

    This fee includes the initial 360 Degree Review and 3 month follow up, which is a $5000 stand alone investment.

 

Who is Michel?

 

Michel E Spruance, (M.Ed., ACC, E-YRT 500, Lightyear Coach) is an executive and leadership coach, who helping small business leaders reimagine success and build new pathways for excellence based on the neurobiology of flow state. Michel brings a unique blend of traditional strategy and embodied mindfulness to help individuals and businesses reach new heights.

Committed to helping you build a meaningful life and making a positive impact in the world, Michel draws on 20+ years as a small business owner, teacher, facilitator, and coach, supporting individuals and teams. She currently consults for and leader trainings on behalf of the Flow Research Collective.

Michel has weaves 20+ years of leadership, coaching, educational design, and human development training into practical skills you can master for better performance right away. She is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, holds a master’s degree in educational design, and is certified with Lightyear Leadership, the Chopra Center, and Shift Positive 360 to name a few.

Michel owned and operated a successful yoga studio in downtown Seattle for 13 years, is an author, and co-founded Space Between, a non-profit that facilitates educational transformation through mindfulness practices in Washington State.