Empowering leaders to reach their highest goals

Purposeful leadership. Intentional growth. System-wide change.

Transformational leadership coaching with Judy Lubin

About Judy

Judy Lubin, MBA, PhD, PCC, ACTC

Now more than ever, today’s leaders need to be sense-makers and visionaries. In our uncertain and volatile world, organizations rely on leaders to navigate complexity and forge a purposeful path for others to follow.

As an Executive Coach, I specialize in empowering leaders and teams in complex, dynamic environments, and in helping them to reach their highest goals with vision and agility. And in today’s upside-down world, what situation isn’t complex and dynamic? I’ve long worked with innovators, entrepreneurs, change-makers, and professionals at all levels moving into more complex situations than what they’ve been trained for. Whether you’re experienced with - or new to - the terrain of change and complexity, I’m ready to help you make sense of your new normal and to move forward with purpose.

When you partner with me as your coach, you’ll follow a process of self-directed intentional change. My support brings ease to growth with a solutions-focused process to envision and move deliberately towards your desired outcome. I’ll help you to challenge and replace old thought patterns and take on a systems-wide view so you can catalyze lasting impact.

I’ve been coaching, consulting, researching and leading in various types of business environments for 30 years. Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, I advised mission-driven organizations on strategy, governance and management as an independent consultant, helping clients to build organizational infrastructure to implement their visions. My passion for agility in business leadership began in the early days of my career while doing IT innovation for Accenture and spending time in tech hubs throughout the country. This sparked an interest that led me to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where I investigated the ways in which ecosystems, collaborative partnerships and empowered workplaces unleash innovation and success. As I moved into Executive Coaching, I began to focus on the leadership skills and capacities it takes to lead in these dynamic, innovative environments. I continue to bring these insights to my clients by supporting you to build the systems and leadership capabilities you need to achieve success, however you define it.

I have a PhD and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from Indiana University Kelley School of Business. I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and an Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF). I’m also certified to deliver a broad range of leadership capacity and style assessments.

I inspire and empower executives, entrepreneurs and change-makers to catalyze lasting and impactful change. Let's launch your journey towards your highest dreams today!

Why Coaching?

Reach for the Stratosphere!

Where do you REALLY want your organization to go? How high do you want to reach? Is the sky a good enough limit for you? Or do you want MORE? At Stratosphere Leadership Coaching, we help our clients see the impossible as possible, and we help them get there! Buckle up. At Stratosphere, we travel at Mach speed.

The Voyage

If you’re ready to take your leadership to a whole new level, Stratosphere has your travel plans. We begin by envisioning a desired future, freed of your current limitations. Then, we get feedback from your colleagues on your ability to lead with courage, agility and resiliency in a complex and uncertain world so that you know exactly where the starting point is. Using the results of this assessment, we work together to set goals and create a learning agenda. I'm there to guide and support you all the way to your destination! This process typically lasts 6 to 9 months, but can be tailored to meet your time constraints as well as your growth needs.

The Destinations

What does your personal stratosphere look like? Wherever you want to go, Stratosphere can help you get there. Below are a few ideas to get you started on defining your objective.

Individuals

· Leadership Presence. Do you want to inspire others without relying on formal authority? To instantly give the impression that you are the right person to follow? Modern organization styles like ecosystems, networked industries, collaborative partnerships and empowered organizations can hold enormous power, but only for a leader who can use an authentic, trustworthy Leadership Presence to harness that power. At the end of your coaching journey, you will embody and emanate your purpose and vision and will naturally inspire others to engage in achieving your mission.

· Mastery of Complexity. Do you want to lead with agility? Or to catalyze a major change? Are you up against the limits of old fashioned binary reasoning? Would you like to be able to rewrite your cognitive operating system on demand in order to thrive where others are flailing? Learn the tools of complexity of mind and grow your perspective so that you can make agile, resilient, system-changing decisions even in the throws of uncertainty, ambiguity and chaos.

· Own Your Narrative. Does your story inspire others to join you? Is your story authentic and compelling? Revitalize your leadership with the power of narrative. Find the story inside you that will inspire and ignite the change you want to lead.

· Strategic Visioning and Framework. (Individuals or Teams) Does your strategic plan sit on the shelf becoming obsolete while the environment changes at break-neck speed? What if you could make real time strategic decisions day-in and day-out, even when the strategic plan assumptions are out of date? Learn how to hone-in deeply on your vision and to build and implement a framework that will give you more agility than a plan.

· Systems Thinker (Individuals or Teams). Do you ever feel that the people who are supposed to be on your side are working against you? Do you understand how your actions impact every corner of your organization and ecosystem? Is your mission to solve a problem that is much bigger than your organization? When stakeholders don’t understand the whole system, we can end up band-aiding minor problems at the expense of real solutions and working against each other along the way. Your organization and your ecosystem will become more effective when top leaders and stakeholders understand the full impact of their actions and build a culture of systems thinking and system-wide collaboration.

Teams

· High Value-Creating Teams. Effective team-based leadership helps an organization become agile, flexible and responsive in the face of today’s uncertainty, especially when the teaming model is system-focused. More than a team improvement exercise, systemic team coaching is based on a whole new leadership model that focuses both on internal team dynamics and on external value-creation for stakeholders. By enabling your team to improve its functioning and effectiveness, as well as the team’s well-being and development, systemic team coaching results in a leadership team that performs, and one that team members want to belong to!