Services
Executive Coaching
Leadership development, decision clarity, conflict fluency, and negotiation mastery.
San Francisco Bay AreaSilicon ValleySan JoseOaklandRemote worldwide
At Cadenza, we coach leaders through the internal and external conflicts, as well as the critical decisions, that define a tenure. Our practice pairs a mediator’s read of a room with a corporate attorney’s discipline about consequences.
Leadership Development & Executive Growth
The hardest negotiations you will ever lead are not in the boardroom or across a bargaining table. They happen inside your own head. Meaningful growth requires uprooting limiting assumptions and conditioned ways of working that prevent leaders from scaling as executives or accelerating their trajectory. We reframe these hidden limits to accelerate growth.
Conflict Fluency & Negotiation Mastery
Leadership conflict rarely stays contained. One strained relationship between two executives is absorbed by their teams, reflected in how those teams cooperate, and eventually visible in the culture itself. We help leaders find the tension at its source, applying a mediator’s ability to reframe narratives so they can approach high-stakes dialogue with authenticity and empathy, turning friction into strategic storytelling that builds rapport and influences diverse stakeholders.
Career Pivot Strategy
When leaders navigate major career inflection points, we apply a neutral facilitator’s rigor and a mediator’s lens to help them step out of the noise and align their path forward. Executing a strategic pivot requires more than an updated resume; it demands narrative alignment and clear positioning. We help you articulate your unique value proposition, reframe your story for new markets, and execute a precise networking strategy to engage key decision-makers and unlock unseen opportunities.
What we handle
Where this fits
Conflict leadership coaching
For leaders whose roles absorb the organization's friction, including executives, in-house counsel, and human resources leaders, building the capability to engage disagreement early rather than inherit it late.
Strategic decision clarity
For consequential choices where a leader has ample advice and no clarity, structuring the decision rather than adding another opinion to it.
Negotiation mastery
Negotiation as a matter of interests and options rather than tactics, drawn from a foundation in Fortune 500 SaaS negotiations.
Bespoke career-design coaching
For professionals at an inflection point, designing the next move deliberately instead of accepting the one that arrives.
How an engagement starts
Who initiates
An executive or professional engaging a coach directly and privately.
A company sponsoring coaching for a leader, with the reporting boundary agreed in writing.
Legal and HR leaders seeking support for the conflict their roles carry.
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Plain-language guides
Short explainers on executive coaching. Start here, then reach out.
What is executive coaching?
Executive coaching is a confidential, one-to-one partnership that helps a leader sharpen judgment, navigate high-stakes …
ReadConflict coaching
Conflict coaching is one-to-one coaching that builds an individual's capacity to handle a specific dispute, or to lead t…
ReadBuilding conflict fluency
Conflict fluency is the learned ability to engage disagreement productively, which means reading a situation accurately,…
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Serving San Francisco Bay Area · Silicon Valley · San Jose · Oakland · Remote worldwide. Available in English & Cantonese.