Leadership is the lever that moves every part of your business.
Let’s make yours stronger with 360° Coaching.
Executive Coaching in Austin
Talent development and leadership acceleration unique to each client’s personality and each organization’s performance goals. Facilitated by a licensed, career therapist and successful agency owner/director.
You’ve already figured out how to succeed in a high-pressure profession. My job is helping you lead with more clarity, influence, and impact — without burning out or selling out.
Ellen Lindsey, LCSW
If you’re looking for a thoughtful, relational, no-BS approach to staff development and effective leadership — we should talk.
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Trusted guide, safe landing spot, sharp lens. Executive coaching with 360° Coaching is more than accountability and goal-setting. It’s a rare space where strategy meets self-awareness — and where you don’t have to lead alone.
As a licensed mental health counselor, entrepreneur, founder, and former agency director, Ellen Lindsey brings more than tools and frameworks. She brings wisdom earned from decades of experience helping people grow through challenge and lead with clarity. You’ll get real-time insight, honest feedback, and a soft place to land when the pressure is high.
Because even the strongest leaders need somewhere safe to sort the swirl, sharpen perspective, and reconnect with what matters most.
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Revealing your blind spots. You know what impact you're aiming to make. What you may not see clearly is how your mindset and behavior are shaping — or sabotaging — that impact.
360° Coaching starts here. Where are the gaps and hidden roadblocks.
That’s where the Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP) comes in. It’s a research-backed 360° tool that helps leaders:
▸ Gain visibility into blind spots
▸ See the relationship between inner beliefs and outer results
▸ Translate feedback into focused development goals
360° Coaching uses this as the launch point for personalized coaching— not just to raise awareness, but to activate transformation.
See how 360° feedback changes leadership from the inside out →
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Insight is important — but insight alone doesn’t create change. If it did, one podcast or one performance review would be all it takes.
Take insight into action. 360° Coaching works with leaders to close the gap between what they know and what they do.
Our process is designed to:
▸ Uncover the limiting beliefs and self-protective strategies that hold leaders back
▸ Shift ingrained patterns that limit effectiveness under pressure
▸ Embed new behaviors through real-time practice and accountability
This is where leadership transformation really happens — in the space between understanding and action.
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Strong individuals don’t always make a strong team.
And when alignment slips, you feel it in trust, collaboration, and performance.That’s where the Collective Leadership Assessment® (CLA) comes in. It reveals the gap between how a team wants to function and how it’s actually operating — using the same powerful LCP framework, applied at the group level.
We help teams:
▸ Identify blind spots and strengths that shape team dynamics
▸ Develop a shared language for leadership and culture
▸ Navigate conflict, change, or growth with clarity and cohesion
Whether you’re addressing conflict, preparing for scale, or developing your next layer of leaders — CLA gives your team a mirror and a map.
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Leadership drives business results — but it can’t be scaled casually. You need more than insight and inspiration. You need a system.
The Leadership System® is an enterprise-ready approach to scalable, sustainable leadership development. Built on adult learning theory and real-world complexity, it gives your leaders the tools to grow with the business.
Through this program, organizations:
▸ build leadership capacity across all levels
▸ align individuals with strategic goals and culture
▸ track ROI with 360° assessments and benchmarking tools
This isn’t training that fades after the flip chart. It’s the kind that shifts how people show up — long after the session ends.
Leadership Development Solutions for
Today’s Challenges
Bringing together real-world business experience and deep psychological insight — to help Texas leaders improve their influence and their results.
Find Fresh Insight and Trustworthy Consultation
Leadership can be lonely. Problem-solving in an echo chamber can be less than helpful. Find the support you need from an experienced mental health leader who also brings a successful track-record and keen business insight to the conversation.
Develop Effective Leaders
Moving from individual contributor to manager? Rising leaders need dedicated help to make that shift. It’s no longer technical. Now it’s about people and people can be complicated. (Founders and execs benefit from focused development, too!)Retain Talent
Don’t lose the folks you’ve already invested time and training in. Engage and inspire them by investing in their development. That investment will keep them invested in you, too.Navigate Growth
Growth puts the pressure on. When the strain expands, you start to see the cracks. Leadership development can keep the whole thing from breaking.Strengthen Team Dynamics
Is your team energy flat? Is it conflict-filled and fiery? Get everyone working together and be wow’ed by the results.Grow Your Leadership Pipeline
Is your protégé ready? Do you even have anyone in mind? Don’t leave yourself in the lurch when it comes to succession planning.
Whether you’re a founder or CEO navigating growth and change, a manager learning to lead others, or a team seeking alignment, you’ll get a partner who sees the full picture and knows how to help you move forward.
360° Coaching
Executive & Leadership Development in Austin, TX
The friendly face is genuine. So are the decades of success facilitating transformation and elevating business outcomes.
At 360° Coaching, I partner with Austin businesses who want more than one-size-fits-all training. I help organizations strengthen their leadership pipeline, retain top performers, and prepare rising leaders for higher responsibility.
The 360° Coaching Quick Start Guide
Identify your rising talent or challenged senior leaders.
Pair them with me.
I’ll run a Leadership Circle Profile to accurately determine what their current impact and level of effectiveness are.
With the LCP, I will also have a clear view of how they show up under pressure and what their blind spots are. From there, I weave your organization’s past reviews and performance goals into a coaching journey lasting three to six months.
The leader focuses in on one aspirational and achievable growth edge.
We work closely together to understand the origins and organizing belief systems that have driven the unproductive ways of being in the past. With that in hand, we craft new approaches that are in line with their personal goals and the company’s vision.
The result is leadership development that aligns directly with your business performance goals—not a generic one-size-fits-all program.
Honest Feedback Sparks Growth
I begin every engagement with a confidential 360° review using the Leadership Circle Profile®. Some leaders and managers find this step intimidating—usually because they haven’t worked with effective facilitators before.
In reality, gathering focused feedback is the key to change.
If you don’t start with the truth of how your key player is impacting others, leadership development efforts tend to spin their wheels.
I am highly skilled at helping leaders receive challenging feedback without shutting down—and then turn that data into actionable growth.
From Insight to Action
The Leadership Circle Profile provides a detailed view of both strengths and blind spots. Together, we’ll identify:
A blind spot to work on
A development goal to pursue
A clear pathway to achieve it
This process ensures that both the leader and the organization have a shared focus and measurable goals.
The Inside Game of Leadership
True leadership growth doesn’t stop at insight—it requires transformation of the “inside game.”
Because of my background as career counselor and licensed clinical social worker, I bring a unique depth to executive coaching.
At 360° Coaching, I don’t provide clinical treatment—I’m not diagnosing or keeping medical records. But I do bring everything I learned in two decades of therapeutic practice—attunement, presence, and clarity—to guide personal and professional transformation.
Over three to six months, I help leaders shift at a deeper level by:
Exploring the origins of counterproductive patterns (often rooted in early family dynamics)
Identifying the belief systems that grew out of those experiences
Challenging outdated stances and rehearsing new, more effective behaviors
This means leaders don’t just gain new communication techniques or delegation skills. They change the way they think, decide, and lead when the stakes are highest.
The Business Outcomes You Can Expect
At the end of this process, your organization doesn’t just get a more polished executive—you gain a leader who is:
⇒ More self-aware
⇒ More resilient
⇒ More effective under pressure
⇒ Ready to step into greater responsibility with confidence
⇒ Aligned with both team needs and business strategy
Let’s connect…
Why Austin Leaders Choose 360° Coaching
Austin is a city of innovation and rapid growth. Small to mid-sized companies, nonprofits, and fast-scaling organizations need leaders who can keep pace with complexity, inspire diverse teams, and deliver measurable results. That’s where 360° Coaching comes in.
Clients choose me when they want executive coaching in Austin that goes beyond motivation and actually delivers business impact.
Whether your organization needs leadership development Austin, executive leadership coaching, leadership pipeline development, or targeted support for high-potential employees, I provide a process that is structured, evidence-based, and deeply human.
The Difference at 360° Coaching
Most coaching stops at surface skills. My process transforms the roots of leadership behavior, ensuring growth is both personal and tied directly to business performance. That’s why organizations that invest in this work see stronger retention, improved collaboration, and a deeper bench of leaders ready for the future.
If you’re ready to strengthen your leadership pipeline and invest in your people in a way that delivers ROI for your business, let’s talk.
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I’ve spent over 20 years working at the intersection of psychology and leadership — supporting high-performing professionals as they navigate complexity, tension, and change. I’ve built a company, led teams, weathered conflict, and survived an acquisition. I have come out wiser on the other side.
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I’m not here to give you vague affirmations or empty frameworks. I’m here to gather useful feedback, ask better questions, help you see what’s driving your patterns, and partner with you as you grow into the leader your organization needs next.
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As a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of clinical experience, I’ve spent countless hours behind closed doors, listening with care and helping clients untangle their stories. I've witnessed the healing and transformation that can germinate in this private, intimate setting and flourish out in the world.
Sometimes, though, that process takes awhile when the client has old, entrenched blind spots that are invisible to them. And, let's be honest. We all have old, entrenched blind spots.
If clients aren't equipped to perspective-shift, to see themselves as others experience them, it can take a very long time for the counselor to grasp what's really going on in the client's world.
Athletic coaches have a better vantage point. They actually watch the players play instead of hearing about it from the player. They witness their style of teamwork. They know the player's technique and impact.
In therapy, I rarely get to see the moment someone swings and misses—or freezes under pressure. I don’t see how they talk to their kids, how they lead a meeting, or how their tone changes when they’re challenged. I hear about their struggles, but only through their own lens.
My therapy clients' first-person perspective is very important, but adding in the other perspectives for a full 360° view can be key to real growth and progress.
Unlike therapy, coaching steps out of the private and personal to include the public behavior and interpersonal impact.
This is what makes me excited about taking decades of counseling into executive coaching. Just like the athletic coach who actually witnesses the player in action, I no longer have to rely solely on what a client reports is happening. Their first-person input is still foundational, but I also get input from their teams and the people who work closely with them. This jumpstarts their journey in meaningful ways.
We begin with a 360° view—rich, specific feedback from colleagues, direct reports, and supervisors. We get a map of how the leader is actually showing up: not just what they intend or imagine, but how others actually experience them.
Coaching lets us work with actual behavior, full context, and real-time learning. It’s not just about insight. It’s about visible growth—in the meetings, in the hallway, in the outcomes that matter. And, it's about 360° views leading to 360° growth. These shifts ripple outward in every direction — from work to family to community. That’s the power of real leadership growth.
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Leadership itself can be understood as the ability to guide, influence, and inspire others toward a shared goal.
Leadership development is the intentional process of expanding an individual’s capacity to do that well.
What challenge is your company facing?
Discover the 360° Method.
Reveal Blind Spots. Increase Your Edge.
Ask me anything.
Transforming may sound lofty — but that’s exactly what this work achieves. 360° Coaching clients include small to mid-sized organizations across Austin and the surrounding Central Texas region. We partner with:
CEOs & senior executives
Professionals, founders & entrepreneurs
Startups, firms & agencies
Nonprofits & boards
Leadership teams
High-potential managers
Emerging leaders
Our clients are ready to make leadership development a strategic priority — and achieve measurable, meaningful results.
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The shifts our clients make aren’t confined to boardrooms or business goals — they ripple 360 degrees out, into every facet of life.
Leadership isn’t just what you do — it’s who you are. Clients come to 360° Coaching for stronger performance, clearer strategy, and better communication — and leave with deeper confidence, improved relationships, and a renewed sense of purpose.
When leaders experience 360° growth, they don't just advance their careers. They change the way they lead, live, and connect — inside their organizations and beyond.
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The “360” also speaks to the powerful feedback tools we use, like the Leadership Circle Profile™ and Collective Leadership Assessment™, gathering feedback from every direction — supervisors, direct reports, and peers — to illuminate patterns, spark insight, and accelerate growth.
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360° Coaching uses The Leadership Circle®suite of assessments and development curriculum to open the doors to your leaders’ transformation.
While other tools can bring a sense of personal insight and belonging, they are static assessments that don’t show you where to grow. Our approach goes farther than that — helping you evolve beyond where you are today.
This is deep, focused work that blends psychology, leadership science, and practical strategy — all tailored to your context and personal growth goals.
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This isn’t surface-level coaching or generic advice. We aren’t going to discover your color, determine your mystical number, label you with a type or an acronym.
⦿ Gathering 360° feedback, we will gently reveal your blind spots — the ones hindering your impact.
⦿ We will leverage decades of counseling experience to help you upgrade your mindset and influence so that everyone around you can feel the difference.
⦿ We can scale this process to work with your teams and provide effective group training to support and extend ongoing leadership development in your organization.
No fee, no pressure.
Because we don’t know what we don’t know,
gaining valuable and targeted feedback — paired with
experienced coaching and structured development —
is crucial to your leadership growth
and organizational success.
The Benefits of an Executive Coach /
Licensed Therapist / Successful Entrepreneur
The benefits of an executive coach are many. Those benefits multiply exponentially when your coach has been a therapist for decades, an agency founder, a business and staff developer, a software product owner, and an acquisition survivor.
Not only will the benefits be evident in your organization’s bottom line — but they extend much further. CXO’s, directors and founders often struggle with isolation. Who do they get to go to for support, to vent, to show their vulnerabilities and worries? Executive coaches can play a key role in providing the much needed privacy, confidence and camaraderie that leaders so desperately need, and deserve.
Professional development is personal work. With 360° Coaching, you will overcome blind spots that have kept you from thriving professionally. There is a powerful bonus to this work — when professionals grow in leadership, the impact is also felt at home, in the community, and in every relationship they touch.
This is the essence of 360° growth — true leadership development that changes more than just business metrics. It changes lives.
Executive coaching services that guide leaders through the personal development needed to turn blind spots into strengths.
Expand this approach to your teams.
Build a culture of continuous leadership growth.
Implement an intentional system of leadership development.
When you do, the rewards are transformational — for individuals, teams, and your entire organization.
Professional growth is personal work.
Choose a coach who sees the whole picture — and can help you lead with clarity, courage, and purpose.
At 360° Coaching, you’ll work with an experienced executive leadership and transformation coach — a licensed professional, certified practitioner, seasoned business founder, and experienced leader who is deeply trained in executive coaching and leadership development.