Carrie Holtz is a Senior HR leader with deep experience working with high-performing global teams.
Her passion is helping people and teams achieve exceptional results through tailored solutions that drive individual, team, and organizational performance.
Colleagues and clients appreciate Carrie’s collaborative approach to interpreting and translating ideas into solutions that drive desired results. They also appreciate her deep business knowledge and experience including a focus on growth, operating efficiencies, and return on investment.
Leaders regularly seek Carrie’s counsel and perspectives on matters of importance to them. Further, she serves as a mentor and coach to many. Carrie is fully committed to helping people and teams achieve their goals and also to preparing the next generation of business leaders.
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Consulting, coaching, and Human Resources really do go hand-in-hand. Carrie has experience with both—and tells us more about coaching.
“So coaching in general will consider the whole person so it’s very much a holistic view of what’s going on for that individual in their life.
I would describe the distinction in that someone who’s an executive coach, business coach, it’s about goals for that person’s kind of professional life and their career.
Whereas the life coach is typically about goals in their personal life. So to give you some examples, a life coach might be working with someone to help them be more organized, or lose weight, or stop smoking, or a number of those things.
Whereas an executive or business coach may help someone focus on transition in their professional career, or achieve a goal such as promotion, or even specifically a goal around how they can be a better manager, or how they can strengthen their team or how they personally could be more emotionally leveraged skills and being more emotionally intelligent and a more effective professional based on what characteristics they’re looking to professionally achieve.
I’ve heard many people refer to it as their secret weapon. If you have that commitment, and you’re coachable. IF you really want this for yourself.
So I also very much view this as a gift for oneself. Again, if they’re committed to it and wanting to do it, you do need to give yourself the time and the space to really reflect and be aware of what behaviors you may want to change or what initiatives you’re going to put into place to achieve what you want.
So the coach will help you think about this, and give you that space, ask you some challenging questions. And they’ll also hold you accountable.
Now, at the end of the day, you as the person own it, and you need to.
But for me, if someone says they want to do this, and I’m finding after a couple conversations, they’re not actioning on it, we’re wasting our time, there’s no point in continuing. Let’s pick up coaching when you’re ready. That’s an important piece, you need to be ready, you have to really want this, you have to dedicate the time. Most of the work that happens is not during that one on one coaching conversation, it’s afterwards in between the coaching conversations.”
