What we provide
Comprehensive Coaching
Helping Leaders bring out the very best in themselves, others, and the organizations they lead is at the forefront of our mission.
While leaders may share common experiences and challenges, each situation is unique and often demands a customized methodology that conventional "pre-packaged" approaches can't provide.
At Executive Performance Group, our team takes a personalized and tailored approach; we build upon the unique abilities of the individual leader, thier team, and the organizational system they operate within. Then, harnessing the latest in Neuro-leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Organizational psychology and Behavioral science, we provide targeted support to expand both leadership capacity and organizational health to achieve sustainable results.
Successfully transforming your company starts with transforming your leaders.
Organizational Success is a journey--- it begins one leader and one team at a time.
Since today's business environment is more complex than ever before, leaders are facing a constantly moving business landscape characterized by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (V.U.C.A). In this climate, even the best of leaders are finding old techniques buckling under the pressures of these new business realities. Helping leaders navigate, build resilience, and leverage these challenges takes a unique set of leadership skills.
At Executive Performance Group we help expand the
leaders capacity by challenging them to move beyond
one-dimensional approaches that often leave the leader
under resourced.
Our approach looks at YOU the leader and the distinct system you work within. We focus on four key quadrants of the leader: Inward-leading self, Outward-leading others, Onward-leading strategically, and Upward-leading aspirationally.
- INWARD: Since effective leadership starts within, we begin by looking at the internal "underlying operating system" of the leader. This comprises the leaders thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, values and perspectives.
- OUTWARD: we explore the business climate, culture, and environmental system leaders navigate through on a daily basis. Here, we look at how they lead others; how effectively they utilize Emotionally Intelligent skills to attune to, empathize with, challenge, and lead teams in aspirational outcomes that produce effective and sustainable change .
- ONWARD: As businesses grow, learning how to scale strategically is critical to achieving organizational outcomes which align to the vision, mission, and core values of the institution. Here we look at goals, strategy, tactics, and vital behaviors of the organization and the leader.
- UPWARD, This has to do with your developmental growth both personally and professionally. What are your life goals, dreams and aspirational objectives which fill you with meaning and purpose? How do you create an effective runway to achieve those dreams? What would healthy boundaries look like to live a more fulfilled life?
Skilled Practitioners
Our unique team is comprised of licensed, Master’s level Executive Coaches who are proven professionals in the field of leadership development, Executive Coaching, and Organizational Leadership.
With over 30 years in non-profit and for-profit environments, we have successfully coached C-level executives, their teams, senior managers and high-potential emerging leaders.
Chick-fil-A
A Distinct Advantage
EPG is a preferred provider of Executive Coaching and leadership development among many Chick-fil-A Owner/Operators, team members, and aspiring candidates. Since each of our Executive Coaches has personally worked in store operations, we provide real-world-solutions to growing Chick-fil-A stores.
About the founder
Douglas Aey,
Douglas has served as an executive level leader in both non-profit and for-profit environments for the past 37 years. As the founding partner of Executive Performance Group, a business coaching and consulting organization in Cleveland Ohio, he now works extensively with business leaders, executives, and their teams to help them achieve higher levels of performance both individually and professionally.
Douglas holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from the Townsend Institute of Leadership at Concordia University, and is a Certified Executive Leadership Coach (PCC). He specializes in leadership performance, emotional intelligence, and the neurological impact of behaviors, systems, and practices upon individuals, teams and business environments.
He also is a member of the Global Team Coaching Institute, and carries professional certifications as a Team Coaching Foundations Certified Coach, enabling teams to achieve higher levels of shared purpose, collaboration, and performance.
Currently he serves as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate studies in the Concordia University Master’s Program in Organizational Leadership in Irvine, California. He also is a licensed certified trainer of the EQi 2.0 /EQ 360, the world’s leading assessment tool for Emotional Intelligence and social competencies in leadership.
Preferring an individualized and tailored approach to each client, Douglas seeks to help executives face internal performance barriers, obtain measurable goals, effectively scale both the business needs and internal leadership capacity, and develop teams to effectively coalesce around a set of objectives with a shared purpose in a safe, supportive, and collaborative way.
His stated purpose is to “bring out the very best in the people and organizations they represent.”
Specialty
As skilled practitioners, we offer a variety of Organizational, diagnostic and psychodynamic instruments to provide our clients with time-tested tools to help them and their teams perform at peak levels!
Autumn Barkovich
As an Executive Coach and Consultant, Autumn has worked extensively within the Chick-fil-A organization for over 9-years creating tailored training solutions for organizational success.
Her vast experience as Multi-unit Training Director, coupled with her passionate desire to see people grow and develop, has provided unique value to Owner/Operators in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Virginia. Harnessing her experience in the food-service-industry, Autumn has developed a customized training platform providing stores with a virtual plug and play training system with distinct roles, responsibilities, and effective training outcomes. These unique systems have helped stores decreased staff turnover, reduce food waste, cut labor costs, increase customer satisfaction scores and enhance Team Member engagement.
Autumn holds a Master’s degree from The Townsend Institute at Concordia University in Organization leadership, and is currently completing her second Master’s degree in Executive Coaching.
Outside of office hours, she loves spending time with her husband, ballroom dancing, caring for her plants, and helping people grow!