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CKO Coaching provides customized, confidential executive coaching for senior and emerging leaders with a focus on women and people of color.

Topics most important to our coaching clients include:

• Leading through change
• Moving from managing to leading
• Succeeding in a new role (including 90-day plans)
• Building confidence
• Navigating career and life transitions
• Starting a business/personal project
• Planning for a leave/sabbatical
• Achieving work/life harmony

A partnership with a coach you trust will help you get unstuck, stop your head from spinning, disrupt self-sabotaging thoughts, and help you pinpoint the behaviors that hold you back from reaching your highest potential. You will be more likely to access your existing gifts, turn your experiences into wisdom, and achieve your most audacious goals.

Assessments can be powerful tools for leaders to understand their own leadership strengths and blind spots.

The Leadership Circle Profile is a 360-degree assessment tool that connects a well-researched battery of leadership competencies with underlying and motivating internal assumptions that drive behavior. It measures two crucial leadership domains – Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies – and integrates information in a way that allows leadership strengths and development opportunities to emerge.

The Leadership Circle Profile Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA) delivers a powerful “litmus” test of collective leadership effectiveness for teams or the organization and it is used to gather information on how the team works with each other. Used for your entire organization, or just a leadership team, the CLA is a robust view of where employees view current collective leadership effectiveness compared to the desired collective effectiveness.

The DiSC Assessment is a personality assessment used to understand one’s communication and work style to improve team dynamics. DiSC will take the participant 20 minutes to fill out and once completed Caroline will debrief the results individually with the participants so they can better understand their communication and how they can improve communication within their team.

The Hogan Assessments is a set of personality assessments designed to evaluate workplace behaviors, leadership potential, and organizational fit. It is based on decades of psychological research and consists of three key components listed below. Caroline will debrief the results during a coaching session.

• Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) – Measures personality traits that impact job performance and leadership potential.
• Hogan Development Survey (HDS) – Identifies potential derailers—traits that may emerge under stress and affect career success.
• Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) – Assesses core values and drivers that influence workplace motivation and cultural fit.

Assessments are not a “diagnosis” or a judgment of any sort on the way you work or live. Caroline uses them as an invitation for her clients to pause, learn, and reflect on how they are showing up in leadership spaces and decide the area they want to improve. All assessments will be accompanied by a minimum of three coaching sessions to debrief results and create a development plan. Please reach out for more information on each tool and other tools Caroline may recommend for your leadership development.

Caroline is an experienced facilitator of important, often difficult, conversations.

Some examples of facilitation engagements include:

• Quarterly review and planning sessions
• Annual retreats
• Conflict mediation sessions
• Team building
• Team communication & collaboration
• Panel discussions
• Safe space conversations

Caroline is also a skilled facilitator and convener of leadership cohort groups. Caroline has supported multiple leadership groups on an ongoing basis, including four Core groups to date for Chief, a private network of women leaders, and a CEO group for Bolster, a marketplace for fractional executives.

Caroline has also facilitated online discussion groups for Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell for multiple cohorts of students.

CKO Coaching provides customized workshops for team meetings and offsites, both in person and virtually.

The most often requested topics include:

• Leadership Circle Profile
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Team communication and collaboration
• How to have better meetings

CKO Coaching also delivers leadership workshops for the Paradox of Leadership, a boutique leadership development company founded by Valia Glytis.

CKO Coaching’s Caroline Kim Oh is available for corporate speaking engagements. Her talks use personal stories to illustrate leadership principles and are appropriate for leadership conferences and corporate wellness programs. Caroline is available for virtual or in person talks. Contact us for more information on rates and specific topics.

Since 2014, Caroline has supported leaders, rising leaders, and teams working in a wide range of industries and organizations, both through CKO Coaching and in partnership with the Paradox of Leadership, My Factor Coaching & Consulting, NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, NYU Steinhardt School of Education, Sayge Coaching, Wind + Sail, and Chief. Caroline focuses on serving women and people of color in leadership.

Sample list of organizations where Caroline’s clients have served include:

• Amazon
• Amerigo Education
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• BMW
• CareerWise
• CatchLight
• Columbia University
• Dana Foundation
• Giant Machines
• Girls Who Code
• Goldman Sachs
• Help USA
• Literacy Academy Collective
• MIT
• Morgan Stanley
• The New York Times
• New York University
• Overdeck Family Foundation
• MoMA PS1
• SMA Technologies
• Stupid Cancer
• SuitUp
• Supergoop!
• The Kitchen
• TIA
• UBS
• United Nations Human Rights
• Yahoo!
• Year Up

“Caroline Kim Oh is simply the best executive coach I’ve ever worked with. For the past eight years, she has helped me to manage up, down and sideways as well as to navigate several precarious, complicated, work situations. With her guidance, I have grown as a leader and landed significant promotions as well as a dream assignment that transformed my career trajectory in a truly singular way.

She has an extraordinary ability to both dig deep into the minutiae of the many things that are on my plate while also encouraging me and guiding me to think broadly and ambitiously about the future. Caroline sometimes challenges me and pushes me out of my comfort zone, but always in a way that makes me feel supported and safe. I admire the way she utilizes tools such as DISC assessment to help her clients; and her pre-session prep is so evident. I cannot count the number of times she has pointed me to a book, article or podcast episode that is perfectly relevant to the moment I am in. She is strategic and smart but is also funny, empathetic and kind. She is someone I value, respect and treasure both professionally and personally.”

- Editor, The New York Times

“Caroline has been my sage guide through every major transition of my executive life. Her practice is caring, candid, and deeply reflective, and she pairs the space she creates for reflection with a laser-like focus on outcomes and impact. Through our work together, I took on greater and greater responsibility, built a high-functioning leadership team, and achieved our organizational goals with clarity and conviction. She also supported that team directly, facilitating many of our most important strategic conversations. In the hardest moments of leadership, including guiding my organization through significant change, she helped me lead from intention rather than from reactivity. Today, I am the kind of leader I always believed I could be––more spacious, clear, compassionate, and grounded in the values I hold dear. I simply would not have made the gains I have as an executive without her.”

- Former CEO, Girls Who Code