Executive Coaching · Leadership Development
Smart, capable leaders don't always need more answers. Sometimes they need space to think, reflect, and reset, and an experienced partner to help them do so.
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Grounded in systems thinking, practical experience, and evidence-based tools.
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About
Today's environment is more complex than ever, with faster decisions, higher stakes, and relentless change.
At LeadersConnect, we bring decades of executive experience, coaching expertise, and organizational insight to help leaders and organizations navigate complexity and perform at a high level. Our background includes leading teams, managing P&L responsibility, building enterprise strategies, and developing leaders across functions and industries.
We understand how leaders think, how organizations function, and what often gets in the way of performance. Our work is grounded in systems thinking, practical experience, and evidence-based tools that help leaders identify what matters, align people and priorities, and create meaningful behavior change that strengthens performance over time.
What We Do
We provide practical, evidence-based leadership solutions that help executives, HR and Talent leaders, and organizations strengthen performance, deepen alignment, navigate complexity with confidence, and support leaders at critical moments in their careers and organizations.
Personalized coaching for leaders navigating transitions, complexity, new roles, or expanded responsibilities. We help leaders gain clarity, strengthen decision-making, and build the confidence and capacity required to perform at a high level.
High-impact programs designed to elevate leadership capability across your organization. Our offerings include management essentials, coaching and feedback, communication, team effectiveness, mentoring programs, and women's leadership development. Every program is practical, research-informed, and built to drive measurable behavior change.
We use validated tools such as Hogan, MBTI, DiSC, EQ-i, Change Style Indicator, and more to deepen insight, accelerate growth, and support stronger talent decisions. Assessments provide leaders with the clarity needed to understand strengths, patterns, and opportunities for improvement.
Engaging, actionable experiences for leadership teams, high-potential groups, and organizational communities. From executive offsites to tailored workshops, we create sessions that spark clarity, alignment, and meaningful performance shifts.
Clarity solidifies your internal leadership foundation so your mind can finally settle.
Alignment supports how you contribute inside complex systems.
Performance stabilizes your leadership capacity over time.
Trusted Voices
"I am happy to recommend Lisa. Working with her is a joy! She impressed me with both her knowledge and professionalism."
"For over a decade I have had the great pleasure of working with Lisa Beutel (and her team). The experience has been extraordinary. Lisa and her staff have always provided exceptional service and support to her clients and their business partners. Under Lisa's guidance and leadership, her team came to exemplify the best in professionalism, client care, expert educational programming, and relationship management."
Why LeadersConnect
Most executive coaches and consultants have spent their careers on one side of the desk. Lisa Beutel has worked on both. She has held P&L responsibility, built Talent and Leadership Centers of Excellence, led inside complex organizations, and partnered with executives from the outside as a coach and consultant for more than two decades.
That dual lens, operator and advisor, is what makes the work practical, not theoretical.
We see the system around the leader, not just the leader. We work with individual executives and design organization-wide leadership programs so development sticks. And we stay long enough for it to matter.
Not leadership theory. Applied leadership that works.
LeadersConnect is an executive coaching and leadership development practice founded by Lisa Beutel, PhD. We work with senior executives, from Vice President through C-suite, and with organizations building leadership capability at scale. Services include one-to-one executive coaching, custom leadership development programs, leadership and psychometric assessments, and keynotes and facilitation.
Senior executives across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, technology, financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, energy, government, aerospace and defense, and higher education. Most engagements come by referral from board members, other executives, or HR, Learning, and Organizational Development leaders sponsoring a high-value leader. Clients have included leaders at Procter & Gamble, Honda, General Electric, Elevance, PNC, Cargill, Copeland, Cleveland-Cliffs, AES, CareSource, Premier Health, Nationwide Insurance, and the U.S. Air Force.
LeadersConnect is based in Los Angeles, California, in the Playa Vista neighborhood. We work with clients across Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, and Southern California, with additional engagements in San Francisco, Dallas and Plano, Dayton, and Cincinnati. Coaching and programs are delivered virtually nationwide and worldwide.
Most executive coaches and consultants have spent their careers on one side of the desk. Lisa Beutel has worked on both. She has held P&L responsibility, built Talent and Leadership Centers of Excellence, and led inside complex organizations, while also partnering with executives from the outside as a coach and consultant for more than two decades. That dual lens, operator and advisor, is what makes the work practical rather than theoretical. We look at the system around the leader, not just the leader in isolation.
Lisa Beutel holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Dayton, a Master in Education from the University of Akron, and a Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina State University. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), holds the SPHR credential, and is a Level-1 Certified Corporate Athlete Facilitator through the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. She serves as an executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership and as an affiliate coach with Leadership Alliance International.
We use validated instruments matched to what a leader or organization actually needs to see. Certifications include Hogan (Level 2), MBTI, DiSC, EQ-i, Benchmarks 360, FIRO-B, Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, WorkPlace Big Five Profile, Skillscope, the Leader Network Diagnostic, the Change Style Indicator, and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Instrument.
Follow Her Lead is a 12-week Leadership Recalibration Intensive for senior women leaders, and it is one specialization within the broader practice rather than the whole client base. It runs as a small cohort built around three pillars: Strategic Clarity, Organizational Alignment, and Sustainable High Performance. Learn more about Follow Her Lead.
With a conversation. Most engagements start with a short call to understand what is happening, what has already been tried, and what needs to shift. From there we scope the right approach, whether that is one-to-one coaching, an assessment, a cohort program, or an organization-wide leadership initiative. You can reach out to schedule a conversation or start with the free Leadership Clarity Assessment.
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Sometimes leaders need space to think clearly, challenge assumptions, and reconnect strategy with action. Let's start there.
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