Transcript
Kate (0:00)
Foreign.
Muriel Wilkins (0:07)
I'm executive coach Muriel Wilkins and this
Muriel Wilkins (0:10)
is coaching real leaders. I've spent over 20 years working with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over that bump so they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show we have a one time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
Narrator (0:37)
Today I'm coaching someone we'll call Kate to protect her confidentiality. She previously worked for a large company for many years, steadily moving up the ranks and even getting some unexpected exciting opportunities.
Kate (0:50)
I got the amazing opportunity to rebuild part of the organization, to essentially re scope, rebuild it, give it a purpose and working really with the executive leaders of the company to assign a purpose like an added value to the company.
Narrator (1:08)
But even with that growth and the interesting challenges, she felt like it wasn't enough.
Kate (1:14)
I was really haunted by the desire to grow even more, but I wasn't able to find a place to grow in the company. And then after a while I came across this really amazing opportunity to join another company. At least from the outside it looked really amazing. And I thought, well, let's give it a try. Because not that I was desperate to find something else, but it came along and it gave me the perspective to essentially leverage the experience that I had from the previous company and rebuild it into a different company.
Muriel Wilkins (1:55)
Since she started in that new role,
Narrator (1:57)
though, things haven't existed exactly panned out as she might have hoped, largely because of a strained relationship. That's where we'll start today.
Kate (2:11)
So when I first joined, I realized it's just an amazing company and that is actually still what I think today. I love the culture. It's a purpose driven culture, caring type of culture. So I found it incredible in terms of purpose, in terms of place in the industry, possibilities, even, you know, for the employees, talent development. So on so many level it is really an amazing company. And I knew that I was joining a rather small team. I knew that there was a lot to build. As a matter of fact, I was actually brought in to do exactly that.
