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  • CEO’s who invest in building a high functioning leadership team, aligned around a clear and prioritized strategic plan with a transparent system of accountability, deliver results.

  • Bottom line: a great coach is a sounding board, a strategist, a counsellor, a partner. An essential part of your leadership team.

  • If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it 100 times. It’s lonely at the top. Do you have a peer group of other CEO’s, Executives and Business Owners around you or are you trying to go it alone?

  • Our speeches dare you to be great. They are designed to inspire, to create change, to create action.

1. invest in Strategic planning & Building a high Functioning Executive Team.

Does your leadership team deeply trust each other? Does it feel like they have each other’s back?

Does your team know how to have vigorous debates without shutting down or shutting off?

Do they excel at fully committing and buying-in to key decisions, even when they don’t agree?

Does your team have a system of accountability to deliver results? Do they agree to clear leadership behaviours so everyone plays nicely in the sandbox?

Are they aligned around a simple and clear strategic plan?

Invest the time in annual and quarterly Strategic Planning

The most effective teams hold annual and quarterly planning as sacred.This approach consistently deepens team trust, and ensures annual and quarterly priorities are clear and moving ahead. We use a One Page Strategic Planning approach to ensure both the goals are crystal clear, and to ensure the team has clarity around who is responsible for making each goal happen. The one-page plan gives us a tool to hold the team accountable for results. Everyone knows what they are responsible for no ambiguity. We regroup quarterly with a focus on five things.

  1. how Is the leadership team doing?

  2. What key topics/issues need to be discussed?

  3. how did we do this past quarter?

  4. what adjustments are necessary in the upcoming quarter?

  5. are the future goals clear?

2. executive coaching

For years, athletes and executives alike have leveraged outside counsel to excel. Stepping into the C-suite is a far bigger and more comprehensive leap than most leaders realize. It’s not just subtle change that is required, it’s complete transformation. Outside counsel is not only recommended, but essential, because it’s lonely at the top and the feedback, friendships and development insights stop coming.Going it alone is not recommended. Having a confidante outside the organization is a game-changer. I have been a CEO and Executive coach and confidante for over 20 years. My clients have called me when they are in a career crisis or at an organizational inflection point. They have called when they have received unsolicited requests to buy their business or when their confidence has been rocked. They have called when they need an unbiased ear as they work through their toughest decisions or navigating a new challenge with their boards. They have called when they have faced challenges like covid and tariffs and constant macro chaos and disruption, to talk through ideas and opportunities. Bottom line: a great coach is a sounding board, a strategist, a counsellor, a partner. An essential part of your leadership team.

3. ceo forum groups

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it 100 times. It’s lonely at the top.

Do you have a peer group of other CEO’s, Executives and Business Owners around you or are you trying to go it alone?

Join an elite circle of visionaries where every conversation turns into a stepping-stone for success. Here, you don’t just meet leaders; you co-create the future of leadership. We bring results-oriented CEOs, executives, and business owners together to solve their toughest problems and maximize their best opportunities through the highest impact, least time intensive, and most diverse peer learning groups. I am a Master Chair with MacKay CEO Forums and I chair 4 extraordinary groups of leaders based in the Vancouver area.

The sooner you surround yourself with your peers, the sooner you will accelerate your business and your leadership learning. Join us.

Katie Bennett - MacKay CEO Forums

4. keynote speaking

Testimonials and infromation on Keynote speaking

Our speeches dare you to be great. They are designed to inspire, to create change, to create action. Katie brings a unique blend of positive energy, inspiration and laser insight to all of her events. Audiences love her vibrant energy, direct and conversational approach, and her ability to challenge her audiences to strive for something greater.Her gift is that she can relate to her audiences, and they to her, and the adjectives that consistently get spoken when she is finished are “inspired”, “engaged” and “compelling’! 

Keynote Topics Include:

  • How to build a high functioning executive team

  • Mindset – the leadership super power

  • Custom topics - to meet your audiences needs

Tanya Sadlo Executive Vice President, McElhanney

“Katie’s enthusiasm and passion for building effective teams came through during her presentation to our leadership team. Our leaders embraced her ideas and recommendations to build an effective team and implemented them following the conference at all levels of our organization.”

“The beauty of Katie’s vast experience as a coach and her ability to quickly learn her audience, allows her to easily custom create presentations that directly deliver to your audience.”

“we have had countless remarks made to us in person about your speech, and also in our online feedback form we sent out. Quite honestly, you were by far one of the favourite speakers of the entire weekend according to both our online form, and the impression our team gathered.””

“Very personable easy to relate too. Just the right amount of edgy and trendy, but still VERY wise, motivating and professional. I felt engaged the entire time.”

“One of the best (if not the best) speakers at the conference.”

“Thank you for being a brilliant orator. Thank you for being a passionate individual. Thank you for speaking volumes to me. Simply put: Thank you.”

“Everyone I talked to said you absolutely inspired them to follow their heart and that you were a very engaging speaker.”