"I work with successful people who want to be even more successful and  want a coach to help guide their personal development process."

Steve Laswell
...people developer



As a broadcast company executive I observed the impact of executive coaching on my VP/Market Manager's personal development and career path.

Within two years I was selected to participate in the Executive Leadership Program of Cox Enterprise. That was when I experienced the benefit of executive coaching.

My executive coach and the coaching process had a significant impact on my life. It was a year of accelerated personal development; my leadership performance improved and my career was advanced.  In fact, that experience helped me prepare for an enlarged leadership role in our organization, one year later.

Today, my passion and strengths, my 30 year career path and my coaching certification are focused to help successful people like you and the leaders of your organization pursue next level performance. 


Do your emerging leaders know their strengths AND what business behaviors need addressed in anticipation of an enlarged leadership role?


Do you have someone in your organization on your leadership team that you want to groom for their next assignment?


Is it time to invest in yourself for your next level of influence and impact . . .?


























How does NLEC help you improve your performance or that of your key players?

What situations would coaching help?

Some of the reasons you might work with an coach:

  • High Stakes - a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity is presenting itself and it is urgent
  • Fast Growth - your company needs leaders quicker than life can produce them so you want to accelerate development
  • Some Gaps - the promotion was given, but the pressure is revealing some behaviors needing to be changed for continued success
  • Office Conflict - the number of complaints is significant, the technical side is perfect; how do you help the soft side?
  • Balance - work & life are out of balance, the unwanted consequences are showing up
  • Reward - combine a job well done with an emerging leader's preparation & career path
  • Succession Planning
NEXT LEVEL Executive Coaching, LLC
"If you are selected for coaching, the attitude, as they say, is gratitude... You have after all, just been handed a customized map of the road to success.  And fortunate you are...in the employ that values you despite your flaws and actually - mirable dictum - wants to invest in you."

- Harvard Management Update
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"You can't decide if you are going to be a leader. You can only decide if you will become the type of person people want to follow."

Christ Widener
The Art of Influence
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Three Drivers Associated with Hiring an Executive Coach Today:

  • Pro-active: an emerging leader is on your radar, you don't want to loose them to the competition while "that position" opens up, you need to send culture message: "We invest in our leaders", and/or you know what got them here won't get them there...some "tweaking" of business behavior is in order

  • Incentive: your culture is about the people; this year a few select leaders will not only receive a "job well done" merit raise but the career-impacting investment of a coaching engagement a individualized road map to even greater success

  • Re-active: a leader's business behavior is hurting them and costing you with undesired turnover, disengaged direct reports, HR complaints, office conflict, low productivity; it has become a corrective measure you hope to keep the employee

Business Today

  • Everyone knows it's pretty tough out
there right now; the pace,combined
with cutbacks and "do MORE with less".

  • Or your growth opportunity is here and it's
coming faster than the leadership development.

  • The pressure is on you and your
leaders and management team which
exposes business behavior weakness.

  • Today's advantage is truly great people.

Turnover is costly, talent management is vital.

  • Leadership development requires
time and effort; achievement of next
level performance demands reflection.
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Steve Laswell, CSC
Five time U. S. Olympic Athlete on
the role of coaches
in her successs.








Winner of 12 medals!

Q - How hard was it to re-focus with such a short time off the medal podium and the next event?

"I had about five coaches on my rear in the warm-down pool making me re-focus so I didn't have a choice."

- Dara Torres
2008 USA Olympic Swimmer
August 16, 2008
More results
in their own words . . .

“Now I have the confidence that I can go and do whatever it takes in a new assignment in today’s business environment.”

- VP, Fortune 500 Company
We had our annual Christmas dinner last night and I drove past what used to be our meeting place earlier this year. 
I was reflecting on how
my  life has changed
so drastically after the coaching and how grateful I am. So as I
have said before, Thank You for helping mold me into who I am becoming and showing me to not worry about the past. 

- Executive Succession Client