Specifics
Stinson Advising's work is customized to each leader, team, and organization's needs and goals. Client programs typically include components from the following categories:
Executive Coaching & 360 Feedback
Executive Coaching maximizes professional and personal success for leaders of growing companies and their teams. Stinson Advising's coaching programs are unique in that they do not benefit only the individual being coached, but also the broader team and organization. These programs are intensive, customized, and aimed at eliciting transformation, and they generally begin with a rigorous 360 feedback program, based on live in-depth interviews. Stinson Advising brings experience coaching C-level executives as well as investment professionals within top private equity firms, venture capital firms, and hedge funds.
Organizational Diagnostic
Stinson Advising conducts rigorous, in-depth diagnostics of companies and teams. By maintaining strict confidentiality and building trust with all participants, Stinson Advising elicits deep insights about what's working and not working on a team or in an organization. Typical topics explored include culture, communication, decision-making, strategic clarity, teamwork, talent, leadership, and structure.
Talent & Leadership Advising & Assessment
Stinson Advising helps clients build and lead high-performing teams, make human capital decisions, and inspire organizations. Specifically, clients receive support in assessing talent, scoping roles, onboarding, and developing people. Along the way, Stinson Advising helps clients implement "best in class" people leadership practices, while also serving as a confidential thought partner on topics ranging from strategy to organizational structure.
On occasion, Stinson Advising will directly develop role scorecards and conduct Executive Assessments for clients making critical C-level hires. These assessments are chronological, structured, in-depth, in-person interviews aimed at predicting executive performance and maximizing the chances of a successful fit between executive and role.
Team Building & Facilitation
A collection of star individuals does not automatically become a high-performing team. Stinson Advising's customized team building sessions help make this transition happen. These interventions range from conflict resolution to off-sites to "put more team in the team," overcome dysfunction, build culture, and maximize performance. Leveraging best practices and rigorous diagnostics ensures sessions are time well spent.
Training & Speaking Services
Stinson Advising provides training and speaking services on talent management, people leadership, and high-performing CEO best practices. On hiring success in particular, Stinson Advising leads regular training sessions and workshops on how to interview effectively and optimize the fit between candidate and role. Past speaking events include delivering keynotes at VC and PE CEO off-sites, guest lecturing at Wharton and Stanford, and leading interactive workshops and training sessions for executives, hiring managers, and investment professionals.