What’s the real cost of growing your company?
As a business owner or executive of a growing organization, you’re carrying immense responsibility. Every decision feels crucial, and every challenge immediate. While your company might be growing, you’re likely feeling scattered, depleted, and pulled in too many directions. The constant pressure to perform is taking its toll – not just on you, but on everything and everyone around you.
The data tells a sobering story:
- 42% of business owners experience burnout
- Leaders average 66 hours at work weekly
- Over 73% feel profoundly isolated in their role
- Nearly 3/4 struggle with mental wellness challenges
Leadership Can Be Lonely
I know the crushing weight of leadership because I’ve lived it. What started as a successful career in ministry and organizational leadership ended with me curled up in a ball on the floor, crying uncontrollably for hours.
I was supposed to be at a weekend training conference. Instead, I was having a full-blown breakdown. The symptoms had been there for months – sleepless nights, feeling like I wanted to crawl out of my skin, prolonged periods of depression. But like many overachievers, I thought powering through was the answer.
Until I couldn’t anymore.
The “Both And” Is Possible!
Success in business AND fulfillment in life
I know the weight you’re carrying. After two decades founding and leading organizations, I hit my own breaking point – literally finding myself on the floor, unable to move forward. Through that crucible, I discovered what many successful leaders eventually learn: pushing harder isn’t the answer.
But here’s the good news: you don’t have to choose between building a thriving company and having a fulfilling life. Through executive coaching focused on sustainable leadership, my clients achieve both:
Kent’s approach is truly unique. He doesn’t just offer one-size-fits-all solutions; he takes the time to understand you as a leader and the specific challenges you face.
PHIL LEE, Executive Director of Singing Hills Camp and Conference Center
I’ve seen Kent demonstrate remarkable resiliency, tenacious faith, and life-giving leadership. He’s the type of person that shines when the pressure is strongest. I count him as a loyal friend and a go-to partner when I need fresh vision, faith, and next steps. Kent has helped shape strategic decisions and pushed me to develop better rhythms. I heartily recommend him as your coach!
DAVID HILL, former business owner and senior pastor
Achieve Sustainable Success (without losing your soul…)
As a performance and leadership coach, we will work to integrate your personal and professional lives and improve your performance in every area, starting with your most prominent pain points.
My core philosophy of coaching is this:
True success comes through integration, not just achievement.
While integrity is about our character, it goes beyond that. Integrity comes from the Latin word, “Integer” and it means to be “Intact, whole, sound, or complete.”
After leading and founding organizations for over twenty years, I learned the hard way that an unsustainable pace only leads to ineffectiveness.
Owners and executives are a different breed of people. You deserve someone who can relate, listen, and coach you to success in life AND business…without losing your soul. Using my R.E.S.T. Framework, I will help you identify the most important areas of life and where to invest your precious time and energy to get the best results.
You’re in the driver’s seat, and I want to be in the passenger seat with you, helping you navigate adversity and opportunity so you can lead well in every area.
Your Plan to Achieve Sustainable Success
1. Apply to work with me
2. Take the assessment 
3. Create and execute a plan with my help[/one-third
My Coaching Journey
I’ve had my share of struggles through the years. I’ve battled through addiction, disappointments, burnout, financial lack, my own ego, marital difficulties, and other difficulties all while leading organizations. I get it. Life can often be disappointing and overwhelming. Through the crucible of life and much trial and error, I learned to integrate my personal and professional life in a sustainable and fulfilling way. Now I want to help you. Coaching helped me get unstuck and move toward my dreams, desires, and a more fulfilling life. It gave me the push to finally start my own business; something I had dreamed of doing for years. With the help of a coach, I was able to see things from a new perspective, identify obstacles that were keeping me stuck, and move forward with confidence toward my goals while doing it in a sustainable and fulfilling way.
What Is Coaching?
Leaders thrive on movement. A coach comes alongside motivated people who want to grow with support, encouragement, and accountability. I desire to draw out what is already in you by believing in you, actively listening, asking great questions, working with you to define clear action steps, and holding you accountable to those steps. In the words of the late John Whitmore,
Coaching is unlocking a persons potential to maximize their growth.
Coaches are “change experts who help leaders take responsibility and act to maximize their potential.” (Dr. Joseph Umidi) Here’s how coaching differs from other disciplines:
- Counseling addresses past hurts and feelings to you find healing
- Teaching gives acquired knowledge to a pupil
- Mentoring is sharing wisdom and experience from your journey to help others
- Consulting is giving expert advice to other professionals
A Coach is a thinking partner who comes alongside you with support, encouragement, and accountability to help you realize your dreams, goals, and desires and maximize your potential.
Successful coaching begins with a leader who is ready to take responsibility for their own life.
“I’ve had the privilege of learning from Kent for over 15 years. Wise. Centered. Creative. Resilient. Those are all words I have watched him model for me and countless others. It’s my pleasure to recommend Kent to you as a thinking partner and leadership coach!”
JOSHUA, Speaker, Author, Coach
FAQ’s
- Is coaching for you?
- What will we do and how often will we meet?
- How much does it cost?
Is Coaching for You?
Coaching is for motivated leaders who desire to take initiative, embrace responsibility, and lead with courage. In short, if you are not motivated to grow, coaching won’t help you. Simply having the right information doesn’t bring transformation; applying that information in the context of our experiences and relationships does. As your coach, I am trained to come alongside you to help you experience lasting change and achieve your goals. Some of the best times to employ a coach are times of major transition or when you are feeling stuck. Here are some common issues that coaching can help you with:
- Discover your purpose in life and align it with your career
- Integrate your personal life with your professional life so it can be fulfilling and sustainable
- Earn more money so you can do more of what you love and less of what you don’t
- Gain more time to do the things you are passionate about
- Navigate a major life or leadership transition
- Find clarity and know where to put your focus
- Move forward in areas of life where you feel stuck
- Perform at a higher level in your current role
- Equip others to thrive
- Create or recalibrate your systems and processes
Regardless of the industry, coaching can help you reach your potential.
How Often Will We Meet?
We will meet 2-3 times per month for fifty minutes at a time. Because life happens outside of meetings, you will also have reasonable access to me outside of meetings as well. I’m here to walk alongside you and help you shoulder the weight of leading a business.
Meet Your Coach
Hi, I’m Kent. At age 15, I led a group of friends to rappel off a bridge with a garden hose and rubber gloves. Admittedly, not my best idea, but I’ve been leading ever since.
Since then, I’ve led or founded three organizations, written two books, coached high achievers across multiple industries, and captivated audiences both large and small on four continents for over two decades.
I understand the challenges of leadership and organizational life, and I’m ready to support you on your journey as a business owner or director of a non-profit.
“I had the opportunity to walk with Kent as he developed his natural gifts and became coach-trained. Through that process, I saw firsthand his passion to come alongside the weary and breathe new life into leaders. Kent is a gifted coach; he is invested, wise, empowering, and intuitive. I wholeheartedly recommend him.”
SARAH FULTON, Coach Trainer, Bridges Coaching
Endnotes
¹https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/285079
*Featured image by Nik MacMillan on Unsplash
