Achieve Your Greatness While Enjoying the Journey

As a professional executive coach, my passion lies in serving high potential, high-performance executives and athletes, helping them unlock their fullest potential and drive lasting, positive impact. I am deeply committed to empowering these individuals, guiding them to cultivate leadership excellence, overcome challenges, and achieve exceptional results. In this journey, I am fueled by gratitude—grateful for the opportunities to learn and grow alongside such driven individuals, and eager to pay it forward by contributing to their success. Every coaching session is a chance to create ripple effects of growth, not just for the individuals I work with, but for the organizations, teams, and communities they lead. Through this work, I strive to create a cycle of positive influence, where success is not only achieved but shared with others, amplifying the impact across all spheres of life.

As a high-performance executive or athlete, you face immense responsibilities and high stress, making it challenging to balance professional and personal life. Executives navigate decision-making, strategic planning, and career transitions, while athletes deal with identity shifts, new career opportunities, and psychological impacts post-sports. Both experience burnout, isolation, and the need to stay innovative.

I offer customized coaching programs to address these challenges and help you achieve your goals. Through clarity, assessments, support, resources, and a customized plan, I will help you manage stress, enhance leadership skills, and achieve a better work-life balance. Together, we will navigate career transitions, ensuring you maintain peak performance and foster innovation.

Partner with me to gain the tools and insights needed to overcome your challenges and reach your highest potential.

Additional Information

I work with executives struggling with burnout and athletes not knowing what to do next in life. I partner with individual talent as well as teams and small groups. My hands-on, highly supportive approach and extensive lived experience in both athletics and corporate environments has helped me shift culture and drive sustainable success. I have a portfolio of tools and assessments to support executive coaching, leadership development, stress management, work-life balance, career transition, athlete career transition, identity reconstruction, skill transfer and mental health support.

Frequently requested and delivered leadership development workshops include:

Emotional Intelligence (EI): Focus on enhancing leaders' EI, including self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills. EI is vital for effective communication, conflict resolution, and building strong relationships within teams and across the organization.
Resilience and Stress Management: Provide training on resilience-building techniques and stress management strategies to help leaders navigate challenges and setbacks effectively. This includes promoting work-life balance, practicing self-care, and developing coping mechanisms for stress.
Communication Skills: Enhance leaders' communication skills, including public speaking, active listening, and persuasive communication. Effective communication is essential for inspiring and motivating teams, aligning vision and goals, and influencing stakeholders.
Coaching and Mentoring: Train leaders in coaching and mentoring skills to develop the potential of their team members. This involves providing constructive feedback, setting development goals, and empowering employees to reach their full potential.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Provide training on fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization. This includes addressing biases, promoting inclusivity in decision-making processes, and creating a culture of belonging for all employees.

Book a consultation today and start your journey towards unparalleled growth and success!

People Say

Laura Capello

President/CEO Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona

"I had the great pleasure to meet Brian when he was interviewing for Valley Leadership and I was on the selection panel. I was impressed with him right away and I thought he was one of the most prepared candidates we had that year. I specifically remembering making myself a mental note to get to know him better and was sure he would be selected to be a part of Valley Leadership next class. Over the next several years, Brian and I became friends and I always felt better when I walked away from one of our conversations. He always thanked me for this time and help, but I don't think he realized how much our meetings meant for me and how much better I always felt about myself. Brian just has that way with people. He knows how to coach you even when you don't realize you are being coached. He asks all the right questions and listens better than anyone I know. He is motivating and inspiring but not afraid to speak the truth. Brian's passion to make our community better by making people better makes him an inspiring leader and great coach and I would recommend him highly to anyone interested in self-development."

Christy McClendon

MSW President/CEO New Pathways For Youth

"Coaching with Brian was a gratifying and growth oriented experience. His approach of gently challenging and co-creating possibility was validating while allowing for personal and professional insight to ways of being present and intentional. I am not only more aware but have clearly defined possibilities and practices to advance my goals in an authentic and grounded presence. I was so impressed with his coaching that I invited our entire team to a session with Brian."

J. Ibeh Agbanym

Amazon best selling author, Leadership Coaching Strategist, Public Speaker

"Brian is very instrumental and present in his coaching practices. He understands the importance of meeting his clients where they are in their journey, before taking them to place of relevance. I have worked with Brian as an organizational psychology practitioner and a leadership coaching strategist! he is a transformational leader by application and displays intellectual humility in his work."

Elaine M. Armfield

Office of Development Arizona State University -W.P. Carey School of Business

"Brian Wood is truly a game changer. His wisdom in all realms of life - family, professional, and athletic - make him the exact right coach for me. I was at a point in my career and personal life when I needed to take a hard look at my options, and decide what I really wanted. Brian's thoughtful and caring coaching helped me ask difficult questions, examine my motives, and decide how to best move forward. He offered unique perspectives that opened up new areas of my life - healing old wounds, building bridges, challenging my preconceived limits, and considering the impossible - I would never have thought of, but in hindsight were just what I needed. I am now building my own version of success - not anyone else's. Brian, and his unique and humorous coaching style, has encouraged me, with no judgment, to move forward towards the most fulfilling life I can live."

Jeanne-Marie Hormell

Supervisor, Design Center APS - Arizona Public Services Electric Company

"Brian and I met through the Tempe Chamber "Women in Business" program last year - he was assigned to be my mentor. Brian Was encouraging and asked me very challenging questions that helped me figure out my goals as an individual and professional. He would always say "JM, you got this - the sky is the limit!" His coaching helped me build the confidence I was lacking and taught me to leverage my strengths. For six months he strategized with me on how to approach applying for a leadership position and he also coached me as I was training for a fitness competition. At the end of the six months I accomplished both! I was offered the supervisor role and placed 4th in the competition. I am so thankful for meeting Brian and for how much he taught me about myself and my strengths."