High-performing teams aren’t built on strategy and deliverables alone—they thrive on trust, communication, and connection. When leaders foster relational leadership, they create environments where team members feel valued for their unique contributions and safe to openly share all perspectives, collectively problem-solve, and innovate. The rewards are an inspiring, creative, and supportive growth culture aligned toward an exciting, bold vision!
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Embark on a customized coaching and experiential program to help your leaders and teams clarify their shared visions, navigate complex challenges and conflict using healthy approaches, and build a culture where mature, authentic relationships drive results. Whether you’re an executive team, a leadership group, or a growing business, investing in relational leadership will transform how your team works together, innovates for the future, and unlocks greater success and fun!
Does Your Team Experience Any of These Challenges?
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Relationships that are transactional rather than connected, supportive, and creative.
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Difficulty navigating change and uncertainty while maintaining unity and momentum.
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A "Nice" culture that needs to boost Accountability.
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Decision-making struggles due to competing priorities or unclear decision-making processes and authority.
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Avoidance of or unhealthy approaches to conflict and hard conversations.
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Lacking psychological safety and trust required for open, collective problem-solving and innovation.
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And other challenges that would benefit from Clarity & Connection.
​If any of these challenges resonate, the solution isn’t just a new spreadsheet, process, or system—it’s a relational approach that strengthens true connection, emotional intelligence, empathy, perspective-taking, trust, camaraderie, courage, and confidence while fostering authentic and inspiring leadership, elevating accountability and shared visions, and boosting team effectiveness and business deliverables.
This is the right fit if you are...
✔ Looking to deepen alignment, direction, and connection.
✔ Seeking to elevate team dynamics and open, transparent innovation and problem-solving.
✔ Navigating transitions or organizational changes and wanting to recreate unity and momentum forward.
✔ Needing stronger connections, communication, and collaboration, even with dissenting views and strategies.
✔ Creating a culture of relational leadership, safety, and trust to more effectively drive your business mission and expansion.
✔ Desiring The Fun back in your workplace along with The Success.
THE Claffey COACHING EXPERIENCE
Tailored to You – Custom-built engagements designed around your people, goals, challenges, and aspirations.
Coach's Solid Foundation – Built from decades of working with leaders and teams, equipped with interactive modalities, tools and approaches, and grounded in whole body wisdom using instincts and intuition as well as intellect.
Client Awareness & Curiosity Driven – Data gathering from leaders, team members, stakeholders, and validated assessment tools to create a customized program and trajectory that fuel desired outcomes. New in-the-moment awareness, insights, and choice will reveal new possibilities and ways of being, thinking, and acting to drive forward momentum, unity, and deliverables.
Choice and Action Oriented – Focused on developing clarity of shared visions and strategies, relational and emotional awareness and capabilities, open communication and innovation, and authentic, grounded leadership presence. All to drive a sustained, measurable impact on culture and business success.
Designed for Transformation and Performance – More than just learning skills—a coaching experience that creates lasting shifts and ripples through your organization.
Michelle is the real deal. She is caring, smart, experienced, and will go to all lengths to make sure that she is finding material, insights, and modalities that meet the groups' and individuals' unique needs. Experienced and effective facilitator and coach. Loves what she does and brings compassion and love in all she does.
— Partner & President, Wealth Management/Financial Services Firm
Leadership Assessment Tools:
Understanding how leaders and teams operate is the key to unlocking their full potential. I utilize scientifically validated leadership assessments to provide deep insights into strengths, blind spots, behavioral patterns, and growth opportunities.
Stakeholder Interviews & Feedback Report
Stakeholder interviews and feedback collated into a report for the leader or team, to create new insights, identify patterns, and inform our areas of coaching focus.
iEQ9 Enneagram Tests for Leaders & Teams
A powerful personality assessment test that fuels personal, professional and team transformation and dives deeper than other tools of this type!Certified iEQ9 Enneagram Practitioner
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*My Favorite for Transformation*
Leadership & Human Key Polarities Indicators by Andiron
Self and 360 Assessment Tools to support a leader or team's ability to recognize and navigate polarities, simultaneously gain the benefits of both poles, and minimize overuses. Certified Andiron Polarity Practitioner
The Leadership Circle Profile™ 360º Assessment
Provides the leader with feedback on leadership competencies, reactive tendencies, and overall leadership effectiveness from the perception of selfand other stakeholders. Certified Leadership Circle Profile Practitioner
Team Management
Profile
Assesses individual team members’ work styles and function preferences and provides a full team view of what work functions necessary for high team performance are strengths and where there are gaps. Certified Team Management Profile Practitioner
What to expect:
✔ Stronger Relationships & Team Unity – Build a foundation of psychological safety, trust, and open communication through emotional and relational awareness and capabilities.
✔ More Effective Collaboration & Alignment – Create a shared vision, improve accountability, and strengthen connections and commitments.
✔ Inspiring, Authentic, and Confident Leadership of Self and Others – Support everyone to elevate their personal leadership presence and energy management to connect and inspire.
✔ Greater Curiosity and Innovation – Welcome all perspectives and ideas to generate more creative and game-changing possibilities, solutions, and directions.
✔ Enhanced Decision-Making & Conflict Resolution – Equip leaders with the relational skills and polarity thinking to navigate decision-making complexity and challenging conversations with empathy, intellect, perspective-taking, and collaboration.
✔ A Community of Belonging and Dedication – When team members feel valued, heard, and like "someone has their back", they perform as their highest, most creative, passionate self and focus on the greater good of the team and business.
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Relational Leadership isn’t just about improving teamwork—it’s about creating a workplace where people feel connected, inspired, and committed to shared success.