Executive Coaching
Our specialty is simple: We help you become a leader others want to follow and build teams everyone wants to join.
ILS’s unique one-on-one coaching provides a personalized experience, helping leaders and emerging leaders build influence, master the art of communicative leadership, and drive business results, supporting you with skill and compassion.
Executive presence
Influencing others
Managing self-doubt and insecurity
Strategic thinking
Confidence
Communication
Managing time and energy
Self-awareness and self-reflection
Building relationships
Preparing for and achieving next-level responsibility
Developing others
Conflict management
Delegating and getting out of the weeds
Common Areas of Coaching Focus
Accolades and Distinctions
Top Executive Coach: Real Leaders (2025)
Preferred Executive Coach: Association of Corporate Counsel
Preferred Executive Coach: National Association of Women Lawyers
Results That Matter
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Tallgrass Energy is a fast-paced, high-performing culture that struggled to support high-performing individuals in senior-level roles and transition others into these roles. This challenge was compounded by the energy sector's diverse and evolving demands, requiring leaders to be adaptable, innovative, and aligned with the company's core values and strategic objectives.
Executives participated in six months of executive coaching with ILS that emphasized an individualized, tailored approach to executive development.
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80% promotion rate within one year of the program, including:
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Advancement of 2 participants to C-suite
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Promotion to leading 75% of the organization's employees
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Promotion to leading 70% of the organization's revenue
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100% retention rate among participants (four years and counting!)
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Culture impact: From client, “ILS’s executive coaching program has significantly contributed to our ability to meet its strategic objectives by developing a robust leadership pipeline, enhancing organizational performance, and fostering a culture of growth and innovation.”
Individual Case Studies
Experience real-life case studies that showcase some of our recent coaching engagements, highlighting the real challenges leaders face and the transformative strategies that lead to success. From CEOs navigating organizational change to executives overcoming burnout and building influence, these stories demonstrate the impact of personalized coaching. Each scenario is unique, but the results share a common theme: empowered leaders achieving measurable growth. Explore these recent successes—your story could be next.
Case study for Executive Presence
Case study for CEO and organization transition
Case study for confidence and influence
Case study for burnout
Case study for interpersonal skills and influencing
What Our Clients Say
Patty Fontneau
President
Cigna
"Anna Conrad is a remarkable coach, author, and mentor. Her empathy and insight shine through her work."
Crystal Heter
Chief Operating Officer
Tallgrass Energy
“The expertise that Anna brings through her executive coaching has allowed me to take my leadership skills to the next level. With her help, I have learned to lead more authentically and with greater intention. The heightened awareness of my teams individual styles, strengths and opportunities, as well as my own, sets forth a path to achieve my goal of being a growth-oriented leader.”
Sharada Sullivan
VP of Finance, Operations, and Strategic Products
CBRE
We worked with Anna and the ILS team to develop and deliver a customized executive development program for our operations and finance leadership team. ... Through ILS we have adopted collective tools and language that empower us to work more effectively together and developed the growth areas unique to each of us. The program was a clear success and worth the investment!"
Ted Ott
CEO
Colorado Barricade
"Our company experienced significant growth over the last several years and our management team started to feel the strain of leading a larger organization. We engaged ILS to help ... which have been transformative for us ... It’s impossible to overstate the importance and benefit Anna has provided to our company."
Rick Brandt
Chief of Police
City of Evans
"I hired Anna as a personal leadership coach during my tenure as Chief of Police. She is amazing and the results continue to astound me. I have been in police leadership for over 13 years and thought I had a good grasp of who I am and what I wanted to be as a leader. I not only teach leadership, I am a graduate of some of the finest leadership courses available to law enforcement, FBI National Academy and the Public Safety Leadership Institute. Anna took me to places in my heart and mind I did not know were there! I can only describe my experience as transformational! My time with Anna has been invaluable to me as a leader, mentor, and coach!"
Dani Sullivan
Senior Vice President
AdSwerve
"To say I am fortunate to have experienced one-on-one coaching with Anna Conrad is an understatement. The leadership and confidence skills I gained over the course of 6-months with Anna surpassed those developed during my 10-years of management experience by a very wide margin. I cannot recommend Anna enough. She evoked and expedited my intrapersonal growth in ways that are already changing the trajectory of my career."