Executive Coaching Is How CEOs Stay Sharp, Resilient, And Ready To Lead

Alex Puutio Features Expert Lorraine Wiseman’s Perspective on “Executive Coaching Is How CEOs Stay Sharp, Resilient, And Ready To Lead”

In a new article, Forbes contributor Alex Puutio covered a story on why leadership can be a lonely place. As he shares in the article: 

CEOs sit at the nexus of critical decision-making, which is a sword with two edges.

On one hand, they have a vantage point that allows them to see the bigger picture no one else in the organization can.

On the other, CEOs can easily become blinkered in a way that makes it difficult to gain an unbiased understanding of their organization.

This is in part thanks to the "sycophant problem", where leaders are fed overly optimistic views and unjustified affirmation. Another driver is the “everything I see is broken' problem”, where issues needing fixing are escalated to the CEO far more often than successes

Providing personal experience as someone who has walked in the shoes of her CEO clients, Lorraine Wiseman PhD, a 7-time past CEO and executive coach turned coach, explained in the piece that “CEOs often grapple with isolation… and that balancing internal and external perspectives, and learning to work through what limits a CEO’s visibility often requires external input, and this is where executive coaching comes into play.”

Read the full piece on Forbes: 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderpuutio/2025/03/14/executive-coaching-is-how-ceos-stay-sharp-resilient-and-ready-to-lead/