Iris Gelt Warner is an Executive and Career Coach with an extensive track record helping hundreds of clients strategically achieve their development goals.
Business leaders want a coach who has experienced the same rigors and challenges they face. Having worked, consulted, and coached in just about every business sector, Iris knows first-hand what it takes to inspire excellence in leadership.
Iris’s strengths-based coaching approach combines her extensive “walked in your shoes” experience, deep emotional intelligence, strategic insight, and high-level communications expertise to help her clients achieve the best results.
Navigate the changes in your career.
Iris takes a strengths-based approach to creating uniquely customized programs based on six core principles.
Her unique framework offers leaders and their teams a creative context to identify and explore development opportunities they may not have recognized before.
Iris has successfully coached hundreds of individuals and teams at numerous complex organizations in a wide variety of business sectors, including:
Viacom CBS · Sony Pictures Entertainment · AMC · PBS Kids · TV Academy Foundation · The Refinery (Agency) · Rose Bowl · Pluto TV
Accenture · Crescent Capital · Kelly Services · Alsace Development Agency (France)
Rio Tinto · El Paso Electric · Hydrogen Energy California
Helen of Troy · OXO · Hydro Flask · Osprey · MaCher
CSL Seqirus (Novartis) · University of Pittsburgh Medical Center · Locum Tenens · CVS Minute Clinics
Inroads · Culver City Unified School District
Dynamic examples of how Iris has helped her clients move their careers forward, achieve their goals, and experience transformational change.
“At my level, I’m always thinking about growth, development and driving the business, but Iris helped me pause and think about it in different ways. This process really challenged me to think about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it. I’m getting the results I wanted and I’ve learned that progress is not just about the numbers we’re getting, it’s how we’re getting them.”– Kash I., GVP, GM, ACS North America, Oracle
“I really enjoyed the process. It was an excellent six months, and an experience that will stay with me for a long time. Despite all my years of leadership experience, it’s always good to reflect again. Leadership is a continual process of renewal and re-establishing the base-line. I’m always working on myself and there’s always more to learn. As soon as you think you’re ‘there,’ you’re not.”– Jim C., VP, Projects, Avangrid
“This has been a very happy time for me. Without having done the work with Iris, I wouldn’t have been prepared to make a decision about anything, and I wouldn’t be where I am now, moving my life forward. I have a feeling of possibility and excitement every day. I can’t wait to get this new thing going. I wish I would have done this and had support like Iris earlier in my career. Nobody should wait till they’re in middle age or mid-career to do this. I would say to any company that this should be a built-in service because the return on investment is infinite.”– Shawn K., EVP & COO, California Resources Corporation
“Iris was the perfect guide for my transition from corporate executive to happy consultant. We were connected through an executive coaching company and to be honest, I chose the company specifically because of Iris. Coaching is a calling for Iris and she is truly gifted. She provided insights and guidance that prepared me for my next steps and future opportunities. She is well-informed, intuitive, creative, and responsive to each unique circumstance. I so appreciate the positive influence she has had on my journey.”– Charissa G., SVP, Corporate Communications, Disney Global Entertainment
A comprehensive 1:1 conversation with Iris where you’ll get to know each other, discuss your goals, and explore a coaching approach that works for you.
A thoughtful summary of the goals, process, and envisioned outcomes that you discussed – all within a scope and timeline that best fits your needs.
A final alignment conversation and commitment to pave the way for scheduling your sessions and launching your coaching experience with Iris.
A series of meaningful conversations, working together as thought partners to develop your action plan, test your results, document your progress and experience the permanent mindset shifts to keep going and growing.
Iris draws from her depth of business, consulting, and coaching experience to design customized plans for individuals and teams.
Build on your strengths. Open up blind spots. Elevate your impact.
Approach every conversation with a growth mindset.
Wherever you are in your journey – whether you are just starting out in your first job, seeking the next rung on your ladder, or are already an established leader seeking meaningful growth – career coaching with Iris can help you identify your next steps based on your innate strengths, quantifiable ambitions, and marketable skills. Working together in confidential, one-on-one coaching sessions, you and Iris will clarify your goals and develop a strategic approach to create the change or growth you seek.
Major work and life shifts — such as a career change or retirement — are opportunities to re-examine goals, seek new experiences, or even re-invent your vision for the future after decades of success.
Leaders who engage in coaching bring exponential value back to their organizations. Executive coaching can help leaders deliver measurably enhanced performance for themselves and their teams.
A commitment to leadership development within organizations can invaluably increase company performance, improve operational efficiency, boost retention and team morale, and measurably increase ROI.
Once your growth or development plan is in place, how do you influence others to hire, support, collaborate, or engage with you? The answer is through delivering effective communications that are targeted to get results.
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