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Sloan’s Resilience at Work program is designed to help leaders and teams move beyond simply enduring change. The program helps organizations build the capacity to thrive through stress, complexity, and growth by strengthening resilience at the individual, team, and organizational level.

In today’s business environment, senior leaders are expected to do more than deliver results. They must lead through uncertainty, influence across complex stakeholder groups, make high-stakes decisions, and keep teams aligned during constant change. That is why executive coaching is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a strategic investment in leadership performance. Sloan’s Executive Coaching is designed for senior leaders and C-suite executives who need a high-impact, results-d

At Sloan, we believe effective leadership development starts with accurate insight. Our assessment suite gives organizations a clearer view of individual leaders, executive teams, culture, and succession readiness so development investments are focused, strategic, and tied to business outcomes.

Individual success often hinges on collective strength. That's where group and team coaching come in structured approaches to elevate performance, foster collaboration, and drive results. Drawing from proven methodologies like those offered by Sloan, this post explores what these coaching models entail, their benefits, and how they can transform your organization.

Assimilation Coaching is a targeted program that helps new leaders and their teams build trust, align on goals, and establish effective working relationships from day one. Unlike generic onboarding, it focuses on the interpersonal dynamics that determine long-term success.

Charismatic presence is often misunderstood. It is not about personality or performance. It is about authenticity expressed with clarity. When leaders understand what they stand for and communicate with intention, people feel it. This creates a natural influence.

In this December 2025’s Forbes Business Development Council Editor’s Choice article. We explained that emotional presence is not about removing emotion from leadership. It is about regulating your internal state so you can show up in a supportive, stabilizing way for others. Leaders who develop emotional presence create psychological safety, build trust more quickly, and communicate with clarity during moments when people are looking for direction.

We define somatic presence as one of four key building blocks of true executive influence alongside mental, emotional, and charismatic presence.

What does it really mean to have executive presence in today’s leadership landscape? In this deeply insightful piece, Sloan’s Sue Reynolds-Frost unpacks the evolving definition of executive presence and how being authentic is now more powerful than being polished.

Our book LEMONADE: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work is launched! I’m so excited to say, it is now available on Amazon.com. I was...

Greetings readers! Choose an area that you really want to work on: Think about things that you personally want to change, enhance and...

The Resilience at Work Questionnaire looks at our unique strengths in how we adapt to and bounce back from change and challenge. We can...

Good business readers are asking for more tips and information on social media strategy, and who better to comment than our own resident...

Executive coaching is an act of inquiring, feeding back, and eliciting excellence, often with some wise counsel thrown in for good...

Donna Karlin (no relation…but people do ask!) has a new book out, and I was lucky enough to get a few insights from the author. Donna...

Greetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books I recommend, all of whom...

As leaders one of our most important assets is our reputation. So why are we seeing so many respected leaders going down in flames...

Some days you just need a little bit of inspiration. A colleague of mine sent me a poem that I thought was a beautiful reminder and...

According to the Hay Group’s latest research study, two out of the top three companies for leadership are on the Karlin Sloan & Company...

Most of us know intuitively that trust, collaboration, and leadership make for more successful organizations. But what if we could prove...