About Michael Hoffman

Michael

Philosophy 

Coaching is your opportunity to share your new ideas, personal doubts and honest feelings with someone who has just one interest: to help you be great at what you do.

The only requirement is that you have a burning desire to continuously improve.

Together, we will get you there – and continue accelerating your growth as a leader, a colleague, a friend, a spouse, or a parent.

Background

Seventeen years ago, Michael made the transition from conducting symphony orchestras to coaching, mentoring, and consulting. Since then, he has been at the helm of ScaleYOU Coaching and LeanMail. In addition, he has been teaching at IESE Business School in Barcelona, all with the singular goal of helping others unlock their full potential.

Michael’s success stories are a testament to his expertise and dedication. Over half of his clients have worked with him on a weekly basis for more than seven years. Included in his roster are CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies. Michael’s coaching also helped facilitate an American CEO in turning around a large law firm that was over m in debt to achieving over m in profits in less than four years. Remarkably, their profitability tripled in just three years after that initial transformation.

Michael has also had a significant impact on small businesses. He helped transform a one-man band oil company into a team of six employees, increasing their turnover by 300% in under two years. Additionally, a CEO of an IT services company who received coaching from Michael for six years doubled their number of employees and more than doubled their turnover before helping the owner sell his company.

These snapshots of success stories exemplify Michael’s expertise in coaching and consulting. His commitment to helping others achieve their full potential has proven to be invaluable to individuals and businesses alike.

17 Years of Experience Coaching Executives

What kind of coaching are YOU looking for?

Executive Coaching

Typically for managers at different levels (up to C-Suite) – focus tends to be on leadership related topics such as team leading, leading organization, emotional intelligence as a leader, driving engagement, navigating politics, etc.

Mentoring is offered for less advanced CEO’s

Business Coaching

Tends to focus more on business owners. Could be start-up entrepreneurs or more established owners; topics could vary widely from leadership related topics, to innovation, taking the business to a higher level, succession, turnaround, etc.

Life Coaching

Team Coaching

It’s about working with an intact team that may be functional or dysfunctional. It’s important that all team members and the team leader are involved. The coaching is more about the communication (how the team members and the team leader engage with each other) and effectiveness (how the team member and its leader gets results) of the team.

Professional suggestions on how to begin

  • Do some quick Kaizens (continuous improvement) in order to get your head above water. 
  • Healthy Routines help you create some healthy routines to ensure that you keep your head above water often including how to delegate more. This may include practical tools and methods used in your day-to-day.
  • Begin with the end in mind. Establish your roles, responsibilities, concerns, values and get clarity over what we want to achieve
  • How-to-begin. Pareto Principle or 80/20 Rule. Decide what the most important areas for improvement will be in order to focus on them and bring about the greatest results. 
  • Develop your Mission and Vision. Develop your mission and vision statements so that you have clear personal objectives. More likely than not, we will start with finding your Why.
  • Core Values. Without assessing your core values, you may be locating the right streets but on the wrong map. 
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