Executive Coaching
Build confidence to lead and clarity to inspire.
Executive coaching is a one-on-one partnership designed to unlock performance at the highest level. Whether supporting senior leaders or emerging talent, our certified coaches help individuals:
✓ Gain clarity on goals and direction
✓ Strengthen leadership presence and communication
✓ Navigate challenges with confidence and strategic focus
✓ Develop into trusted, high-impact decision-makers
While coaching often begins with a specific challenge or goal in mind, it quickly evolves into a broader journey of leadership growth, personal clarity, and long-term capability building.
We make good leaders, great.
Visionary leaders empowered across Australia
Leadership workshops shared with industry leading companies
Great teams start with great leaders
To attract and retain top talent, you need leaders who know how to inspire, engage, and support their teams, not just manage them.
Elevate’s leadership training equips new and emerging leaders with the tools to lead with clarity, communicate with purpose, and create a culture people want to be part of.
Is Executive Coaching Right For You?
Are you?
- An executive losing influence or impact
- A technically brilliant leader struggling to manage people
- Have potential leadership blind spots causing tension or disengagement
- Top talent frustrated or leaving due to ineffective leadership
You can become:
- A respected leader who leads with clarity and conviction
- A confident people-leader who brings out the best in others
- Greater self-awareness and improved team trust
- Stronger retention through values-led leadership
A PwC study found that businesses investing in executive coaching achieved, on average, a 7X return - a clear sign that developing leaders delivers long-term business value.
Meet Your Executive Coach
Daniel Norich – Executive Coach & Director
Dan brings a rare combination of calm clarity and sharp strategic insight to every session. With a background in executive coaching, sales development, and leadership training, he’s trusted by CEOs, founders, and high-performing teams across Australia.
His coaching style blends ancient wisdom with modern psychology — helping leaders move from insight to action, and from pressure to performance. Whether you’re looking to sharpen decision-making, navigate complex team dynamics, or unlock next-level growth, Dan’s here to cut through the noise and guide you forward.
The 7 Reasons Why Executive Coaching Is the Path to Business Success
Leaders set the vision for their business. Motivating employees to follow that vision and adopt it as their own is a skill that sets great leaders apart from the pack. Executive coaches help develop these skills. They ask objective questions and challenge assumptions. They help develop soft skills and people skills.
Executive coaching helps Executives gain self-awareness and grow their leadership skills. An executive and management coaching company like Elevate Corporate Training in Sydney can help leaders see goals more clearly and what it takes to achieve them. By providing an objective viewpoint, they can help Executives craft an effective pathway to reach those goals and motivate a workforce.
Lead. Develop. Build. Executive coaching provides a framework for effective management and optimising potential.
People skills
People are incredibly complex beings. Relationships take work. Learning how to navigate the human element with peers, colleagues, and associates can be the difference between significant success and mediocre results. Companies are finding that Executive Coaching can be a key factor in that success.
Boss-worker relationships are trickier than ever, there is great workplace diversity, and the next generation really does approach work differently. Developing empathy and understanding of the way different groups work leads to better communication.
After all, it’s not what you say. It’s what people hear when you say it.
Self-awareness
The best leaders are self-aware of their strengths and weaknesses. Studies have shown that employees are more likely to respect and follow leaders who have an accurate understanding of how they are perceived in the workplace. A disconnect between the way Executives see themselves and how team members perceive them is an impediment in the workplace.
A Harvard Business Review survey of 1,000 business leaders revealed that the highest-performing companies had better self-awareness. In fact, self-awareness was rated as more important than an MBA for Executives.
Conflict resolution
A happy workforce is a productive one. Invariably, though, there will be conflicts in the workplace that impact productivity. Leadership coaching helps equip Executives with the tools to resolve conflict as well as ways to spot it before it becomes a major issue.
Nearly 43 per cent of CEOs responding to a Stanford study cited conflict management skills as their “highest priority.”
Team development
A good plan executed by a good team will always beat a great plan executed by a dysfunctional team. In addition to developing leadership teams, Executive coaching can provide tools to engage staff and encourage team performance.
Leadership succession plan
For all companies, nurturing the next generation of business leaders is critical. Executive leadership coaching provides foundational work for identifying and coaching the next generation of leadership.
Objective analysis
Too many companies are still stuck in the “that’s the way we’ve always done it” mode. This means ignoring the warning signs or impending industry changes. Learning to objectively analyse data and trends can help Executives provide the vision and direction the company needs to prosper. Leadership coaching can give Executives even more confidence to make decisions by making sure objectives are aligned with vision and values.
Driving change and evolution
Today’s workplace is undergoing unprecedented change. Business moves faster than ever before. New technologies are disrupting traditional processes and systems. For effective management, Executives must recognize these shifts and create a sustainable culture. During times of transition, even experienced leaders can realise self-doubt. Executive coaching can help provide an objective assessment and give leaders the confidence to move forward.
Change makes most employees uncomfortable. Providing strong leadership can inspire others by helping them understand that change is not to be feared.
Client Experiences That Speak for Themselves
“In my mid-40s, I decided that I needed to change my career and my life. It was a fresh start and I wanted it to be driven by what I truly wanted and by my values. The problem is that it’s not always easy to intimately know what you want and what your values are. Having Dan as a coach has been a joy and it has helped me flesh out these issues allowing me to make decisions that are informed and authentic to who I am. I look forward to our conversations – they leave me in a good mood and with food for thought. I get to talk about complex relationships/issues where pragmatic approaches usually arise. Dan is a good listener, a nice person and authentic in his approach. His support has been very valuable.”
“I met Dan at a one-off group training session on leadership. I didn’t go into it with high expectations, but came out blown away by what happens when a leader/facilitator shows up with authenticity, vulnerability, and humility – it opens the door for others to do the same. During that session I had conversations with colleagues I had never met before that were genuinely transformative, and have had a lasting impact on my work.
After that I approached Dan and asked him if he would work with me individually. Since then we have met monthly and have had wide-ranging conversations about personal and professional topics that have centred around my struggle to stay present with myself and others when I’m feeling overwhelmed by life. Dan has helped me explore and practice the idea of ‘presence’, not only through the valuable insight he has offered me, but also in the way he has modelled it for me – he is a very skilled listener. We have only had a few sessions but they have been hugely impactful and I’m incredibly grateful. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dan to anyone seeking to make positive changes in their life.”
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Still Have Questions About Our Executive Training Courses?
Curious about what it’s like to work with an executive coach? These FAQs cover the most common questions leaders ask before starting – from what coaching looks like to how it delivers real results.
If you’re still wondering whether it’s the right fit, Dan’s always happy to talk it through.
What is Executive Coaching?
Executive Coaching is the skill and art of engaging with clients in ways that make them think differently and be more creative, inspiring and empowering them to take positive actions delivering better results for themselves and their organisation.
Why is Executive Coaching important?
In today’s world we move fast. We are constantly working on tasks, fixing problems, managing people, selling ideas and trying to look after ourselves. All too often we do not take the time to sit back and reflect on what we are doing and decide the best way forward. There is too much interference preventing us from being our best. The role of a coach is to remove the interference and allow their counterpart to think freely, constructively and creatively, finding solutions they have not previously conceptualised.
Does Executive Coaching work?
Executive coaching is all about the outcome. Each coaching session finishes with a set of action that the client is committed to making. They are empowered to act on these actions because they are there actions. They devised them, they own them and they are therefor more likely to see them through. The other role of the coach is to hold the client accountable for their actions. So chances of success are greatly increased with a coach to support you.
Who should undertake Executive Coaching?
Anyone who is an executive. The best tennis players, golfers and swimmers in the world all have coaches. This is not because the coaches are better than the client. It is because we all have blindspots and it is the role of the coach to open our perspective to new approaches and more creative and effective approaches. Barack Obama has a coach, Oprah Winfrey has a coach and so does Tony Robbins. Coaching is for anyone open to improving their performance.
How long does it take?
We typically run coaching in 60 minute sessions. They are sold in packages of 8. We like to run coaching sessions 3-4 weeks apart to allow the client plenty of time to put into action the learnings from the last session.
What improvements can you expect to see in an Executive?
Coaching can improve all areas of performance for an executive. It improves the way we relate to others, the way we make decisions, the way we lead and the confidence we have. We regularly work with executives who say that coaching has had a profound effect on not only their business performance but their overall levels of happiness and fulfillment.
How will the training affect an Executive’s team?
The effect of executive coaching on an executive’s team is compounded by the effect of coaching on that executive. Coaching helps executives find the best solutions to problems, learn how to better manage people and expectations as well as how to listen and apply coaching techniques with their own people.
What will an ROI look like after Executive Coaching?
According to a Price Waterhouse Coopers Survey coaching had a multiple of 7 times return on investment for most companies. Investing in coaching is a no brainer if you want more effective, more engaged and more fulfilled staff.