Sue L.
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Executive + Team Coach | Ex-Microsoft Director | 20+ Years Experience
Studied at Pepperdine University
Works at Sue Larson Coaching and Consulting
Available Thursday at 7:00 PM UTC
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Sue’s Leadership Development Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Executive
100+ people coached for Leadership Development
Welcome to my profile! With over 20 years of experience in leadership and organizational development, I specialize in empowering leaders and teams to achieve exceptional results. At Microsoft, I coached hundreds of leaders and executives through transitions and leadership challenges, enhancing their effectiveness and fostering thriving cultures. My work at Providence/Swedish Health System involved guiding executive teams in cultural transformation and talent management. As the founder of Sue Larson Coaching and Consulting, I offer tailored coaching and facilitation services to drive organizational evolution and innovation. Let's connect to elevate your leadership journey and transform your team's potential!
Sue can help with:
Change Management
Emotional Intelligence
Coaching and Mentoring
About Sue
I have extensive consulting, coaching and facilitation experience as a senior organization design and leadership development leader in companies as diverse as global Fortune 100 tech companies, rapid growth start-ups and the largest healthcare system on the west coast (US). My sweet spot is as a coach, working with executives and their leadership teams to get at their root challenges, resolve issues, and springboard to the next strategic opportunity. As an executive coach, I am known for being disarming, yet candid in helping the client determine the areas for the most significant impact. I also utilize creative approaches to ensure the learning sticks. My career has evolved in the tech industry where I thrive on the fast pace and ever changing landscape. At Microsoft, I coached numerous leaders who were experiencing environmental shifts and organizational challenges that created the need to transform the way they were leading and how their organizations were working. I also led the team coaching program at Microsoft. It became the global go-to approach for leadership team performance across the company. I collaborated with Jon Katzenbach Partners and was a sought-after team coach to facilitate breakthrough performance with global leadership teams and their leaders. I hold a Master of Science degree in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University, Culver City, California and am pursuing an ICF ACC accreditation at Seattle Coach. I have various accreditations in individual, team and organization development.
Why do I coach?
They say that people don't leave their companies, they leave their bosses. I want to help as many bosses as possible to be the best boss they can be to bring out the best in their people to work together towards accomplishing what the company is aiming toward. I have personally worked with a number of bosses that I have chosen to leave - bosses that didn't have my back, didn't care about what could be done to bring out the best in me, didn't focus on how to bring the team together. As a boss myself, I've faced the challenge of motivating team members to be more than what they thought they could be, creating an environment of optimism when the company was conducting layoffs, and having to deliver compassionate feedback to an under performer. I have coached many bosses to be the boss of their dreams and set themselves up for career advancement - helping them to see how their behaviors were negatively impacting others, how they could makes small changes to 1-2 areas that would lead to greater results, how to align their teams to a vision of collective success. Ultimately, I coach because I care and there is no doubt we all can be more than what we are today
Work Experience
Coach, Facilitator, Consultant
Sue Larson Coaching and Consulting
May 2015 - Present
I have been self-employed over two stints - starting in 2015 and also 2023 to present. I partner with and coach forward-thinking leaders committed to enhance their organizations' capabilities to achieve exceptional results, while nurturing a dynamic culture where every team thrives. I am here to offer a spectrum of services designed to fuel your organizational evolution: 🌟 Team Coaching and Facilitation: Empower your teams to reach their full potential through expert guidance and collaborative growth strategies. With a focus on the power of psychological safety, your teams will be more innovative, engaged and achieve extraordinary results. 🌟 Leadership Coaching and Development: Enhance leadership effectiveness to drive business outcomes through one-on-one coaching in addition to customized experiences focused on leaders as coach, cross-group collaboration and influence, and organizational leadership. 🌟 Organizational Design: Craft and refine your organizational structure, work processes and people practices to maximize efficiency, innovation, and adaptability. 🌟 Culture Transformation: Through high impact offsites, retreats and large group meetings, engage your teams in defining and designing solutions to transform your culture.
Director, Leadership Development, Organization Development
Microsoft
December 2000 - May 2023
In my 15-year career at Microsoft (accomplished over 2 stints - 2000-2014 and 2021-2023), I coached hundreds of leaders and executives as they experienced leadership and organizational transitions, prepared themselves for leading at the next level, and dug deep into their personal leadership to become a better overall leader. I also coached dozens of executive leadership teams to align on their strategy and determine how they needed to evolve as a team to sustain a thriving culture. I was responsible for design and facilitation of executive development programs focused on cross-group collaboration, building organizational capability and enhancing leadership team performance.
Regional Director; Integrated Talent Management
Providence/Swedish Health System
August 2015 - January 2021
I coached the Regional CEO as he onboarded into his new role and supported him and his executive leadership team to drive cultural transformation strategy focused on improving the caregiver and patient experience. I also led a team of consultants to manage end-to-end talent management process to create a virtuous cycle of reviewing leadership talent, determining development needs, identifying successors and high potentials and implementing leadership development programs.
Education
Pepperdine University
Master of Science, Organization Development
North Dakota State University
BS, Business Administration
Activities and societies: Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
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