Nicole Pavelka
Executive judgment coach for founders and senior leaders in Beverly Hills
| Hourly rate range | $175 to $325 an hour |
|---|---|
| Focus areas | CEO and founder coachingLeadership developmentTeam performanceStrategy and decision makingStartups and foundersLeadership and team building |
| Works with | Founders and business owners, Executives and Managers |
| Also coaches | Business coach |
| Based in | Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Practice | Leadership by Design |
Nicole Pavelka is an executive and business coach who works with founders and senior leaders. She helps them make clear decisions when pressure builds. Her work is based on Executive Thinking Architecture, a diagnostic system she built from a career in design strategy and executive settings. She finds where a leader's decision sequence breaks down and rebuilds it. She runs her practice, Leadership by Design, from Beverly Hills, California.
What Nicole helps with
Nicole works with leaders who own decisions larger than their past experience. She looks at how their decision making changes under sustained pressure.
- Decision quality slipping under sustained pressure
- Closing decisions once and defending them upward
- Scaling decisions beyond yourself
- Leadership teams that keep re-arguing the same decisions
- Losing momentum between strategy and execution
- Growing a business as an entrepreneur
- Leaders working from different information without knowing it
Who Nicole works with
Nicole works with founders and senior leaders who suddenly own decisions bigger than their experience. She also coaches entrepreneurs and innovative leaders in corporate roles. Her team work is for CHROs, CEOs and senior leaders whose leadership teams stall on decisions.
How Nicole works
Nicole uses Executive Thinking Architecture, a diagnostic and recalibration system she built. It treats every leadership decision as drawing on six structural inputs, from direction and constraint through alignment and execution. She finds which stages of that sequence give way under pressure. Then she rebuilds the ability to decide cleanly. The individual option is a thirty-day 1:1 engagement. A separate team option is built for leadership teams.
Background and qualifications
Nicole built her practice on a career inside design strategy and executive environments. From that work she developed Executive Thinking Architecture, her own diagnostic system for decision making under pressure. She coaches entrepreneurs and innovative leaders in corporate roles. Her clients include founders, former CEOs, a head of design and a VP of strategic planning and operations. She is based in Beverly Hills, California.
Nicole Pavelka pricing
Programs and services
- Executive Diagnostic Engagement, a thirty-day 1:1 program
- Leadership Team Intervention
- Academy login for program members
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The CoachVouch take
She built her own diagnostic system, Executive Thinking Architecture, that pinpoints where a leader's decision sequence breaks under pressure.
Best for founders and senior leaders who feel their judgment has slipped under pressure and want to find out why.
Common questions
How much does Nicole Pavelka charge?
Coaching with Nicole runs $175 to $325 an hour. Message Nicole from this page for an exact quote.
What does Nicole Pavelka help with?
Nicole Pavelka helps with decision quality slipping under sustained pressure, closing decisions once and defending them upward, scaling decisions beyond yourself and leadership teams that keep re-arguing the same decisions.
What is Executive Thinking Architecture?
It is the diagnostic and recalibration system Nicole built. It looks at six structural inputs behind every leadership decision and finds where they fail under pressure.
Does Nicole work with teams as well as individuals?
Yes. Her Leadership Team Intervention is for CHROs, CEOs and senior leaders whose teams keep re-arguing decisions or lose momentum between strategy and execution.
How do I contact Nicole Pavelka?
Send Nicole a message from this page. It's free and takes a minute.
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