Stories and Quotes From Leaders Steve’s Coached
Most leaders what to hear what others have to say before deciding on the right coach to help them master effective leadership. Here’s their feedback …
“One of the best coaches/leader developers in the business. Your career will improve, and your relationships with others will improve working with Steve.”
Lucy Rice
Director of Talent and Training | AdAbilities
Director of Talent and Training | AdAbilities
Executive 1-on-1 Clients & Next Generation Leaders
“Steve’s coaching has really created a process for me to be introspective about the things I’m responsible for and going about every day with a level of intent.”
Chris Province
“Next Level Coaching has changed my life for the better. I feel more confident, more focused on others, and more satisfied. I have found a freedom in my professional life that I never had before, and my personal life has also been improved.”
Medical Doctor
“Next Level Coaching is a step-by-step process that identifies potential development opportunities. The program allowed me to work through specific issues and to formulate a resolute action plan. My personal background includes over twenty years in management and an MBA. Steve Laswell created a collaborative environment that opened the door for effective communication. He used this communication pathway to reveal key behavioral drivers and to open new and more effective pathways toward my goals. Steve facilitated an unbiased look at the situation; a degree of enlightenment that was to a great extent like looking in from the outside. Now I have the confidence that I can go and do whatever it takes in a new assignment in today’s business environment. I highly recommend Steve and Next Level Coaching to those companies that are focused on developing leaders within their management team.”
Vice President
Fortune 200 Company
Fortune 200 Company
“Next Level Executive Coaching has been an incredible experience for me. It has allowed me to take a step back and realize the value of analysis. It’s helped me focus on the right things and to make better decisions to go forward.”
Sam Dutro
“This is called Next Level Coaching for a reason, Steve coached me toward identifying what motivates me to do great work, and we explored ways I could better express it in my work. As a result, I applied for and received a promotion to Senior Marketing Manager, a position in which I am able to make an incredible impact on the business and my own personal career, beyond anything I thought possible before.”
Sr. Market Research & Analysis Manager
Fortune 100 Company
Fortune 100 Company
“The coaching engagement that I participated in helped me in more ways than I can explain. On top of teaching me the invaluable lesson of taking the time to reflect and learn from my accomplishments and pitfalls, I can say with complete confidence that this experience changed my life. I was amazed how little about my work and personal life I had taken the time to think clearly about and to discern the best paths to take. Mr. Laswell helped me re-adjust my vision of work, success, and life to a point that I will be forever changed and grateful because of this experience.”
Director
University Center for Executive & Professional Development
University Center for Executive & Professional Development
“The benefit I received from coaching was directly related to improving my ability to be thoughtful in my approach to my career development.”
HR Advisor
Oil & Gas Company
Oil & Gas Company
“Steve really helped me understand the difference between telling and asking. I learned effective ways to ask open-ended questions in order to help people self-discover. What’s helped my productivity most is getting the noise out of my head and onto paper to clear my mind.”
Hannah Staub
“I want to express my sincere appreciation of your work with one of our employees whom we are grooming for a “Senior Leadership” position with us. I can honestly say that from the beginning visit, you have been very willing and able to help this person grow in a way that has already increased his abilities in our office. I can easily recommend for others to consider using you as an Executive Coach for emerging leaders.”
President
Family Owned Company
Family Owned Company
“Thanks to Steve for his willingness to challenge me when I did really want to be challenged, allowing me to reach the “next level” that I never even thought was there.”
Senior Market Research and Analysis Manager
Fortune 100 Company
Fortune 100 Company
“I learned so much from my Next Level Coaching experience. It was very helpful with isolating goals and enacting plans of action. I feel I will keep many of the basic concepts from the coaching in my “toolbox” regarding workplace communications. I especially benefited from the DISC analysis of my behavioral style in order to apply the findings to current work situations. I found that it was helpful to clarify both my strengths and limitations. I appreciate the process of working with Steve Laswell in that it resulted in bringing a crumbling business situation into a surviving structure that is built on multiple strengths and acknowledged weaknesses. We have gained access to a system of communication that can withstand future stresses.”
Medical Doctor
“I am constantly reminded of how much Next Level Coaching has meant to me. It has truly been life altering. Steve’s expertise and ability to identify processes and methods of doing business which can be improved is so helpful. And the insight into how to create richer, more meaningful and fulfilling relationships outside work has been wonderful. The experience has been outstanding.”
President
Service Supply Company
Service Supply Company
“The benefit of the coaching sessions and acknowledging (and understanding) my strengths and weaknesses has allowed me to make the adjustments necessary to be a more effective leader. The changes I have been able to make at work have improved my personal time as well … learning how to be more relaxed by being more effective at work has naturally made it easier to wind down at the end of the day to truly enjoy my family when I get home.“
Manager
PHR – Fortune 500 Company
PHR – Fortune 500 Company
“If you really want somebody to help you look into yourself and find meaningful change and make it sustainable, then Steve is the right one.”
Stacy
“This experience was not just about me as a professional but about me as a person … as an executive coach Steve provides a sounding board and tools, but to get there, it’s on you.“
Trey
References
David Litzinger
GM, Lexus of Tulsa; President, Audi Tulsa; GM, Don Thornton Volkswagen of Tulsa
Tony Young
Sr. VP/Administrator St. Francis Hospital Muskogee
Brent Dostal
Vice President, Cantera Concrete
Tom Black
Area Land Manager, WPX Energy
Trey Karlovich, CFO
CFO – NGL Energy Partners, L.P.
Timothy Williams
Operations Manager, Lexus of Tulsa
Brigitte Steinheider, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Director, Organization Dynamics
University of Oklahoma
Stephanie Isbell, Ph. D.
CEO, Ammons Scientific
John Hill
Audi Tulsa, GM
Chris Woodard, Ed. D.
Customer Operations Manager, AEP
Samuel Dutro, M.A.
Portfolio Management Lead, Pfizer – NYC Area
Chris Province, M.A.
Purpose & Performance Group, Principal