Narrow is the road that leads to our potential
Executive coaching and leadership development providing the clarity needed to create and walk your narrow road.
WHAT WE DO:
Bespoke Coaching and Leadership Development Solutions
Executive Coaching
Focusing and gaining clarity to achieve audacious goals while fulfilling your potential!
Are you satisfied with how you and your team are achieving goals?
We will hold up a mirror to help you see what you are like and then help you shape your context by assisting you in illuminating the path in front of you so you can more effectively navigate obstacles and achieve goals.
With the benefit of a view from the corner while you’re in the ring, we will help you see yourself and your organization with clarity and discover new ways to take your game to the next level.
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A Partnership
As an executive coach, we partner together to help you grow from where you are to where you want to be, while achieving personal and organizational goals. We help leaders seek the truth about themselves and their organizations and shape their context to create their narrow road. Essentially, as coaches this means we fulfill two roles.
Mirrors
First, based on deep exploration of your background, we hold up a metaphorical mirror so you can see what you’re like. We investigate your narratives and identify your blind spots and triggers. Armed with that awareness, I help you focus on achievement.
Flashlights
Through our discussions, we help you turn on your metaphorical flashlight so you can see the hidden obstacles in your path and navigate around them. This involves investigating your current reality, clarifying the gap between reality and an ideal state, diagnosing why the gap exists in the first place, and recommending ways to close the gap.
“John Vermeesch is an exceptional executive coach. His distinguished career in leadership for The United States Army, combined with his private sector experience, give him a combination of authority and practicality in his coaching. John quickly builds trust and creates relationships that encourage growth through self-reflection. His unique blend of military and coaching expertise has been transformative for me and our teams. I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone seeking a coaching experience.”
—Andy Pocock, Executive Vice President, Building & Transportation Products Group, Lippert
Career Coaching
Discovering and shaping your narrow road professionally
Are you at an inflection point in your professional journey?
Unleashing your potential lies at the confluence of discovering your values, compulsions, and what you’re excellent at.
Through deep exploration of your journey so far and synthesis of what you’re learning we help you discover the narrow road that was meant for you.
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Exploration:
We will focus several sessions on exploration and discovering together the path you’ve been on and why.Synthesis:
Based on what we discover during exploration we will synthesize what it means with special attention to your triggers and blind spots.Synchronization:
We will get in sync around what you are like and what drives you.Discovery:
Armed with this new-found awareness, we will begin to explore what your future narrow road might look like.
“…Career Coaching is the single best investment I have ever made in myself and ultimately my family. I came searching for purpose and clarity and John helped me find both during an eight-week Career Coaching module.”
—Chris, Co-Founder and Entrepreneur
Leadership Development Seminars And Training
Inspiring your leaders to make the workplace and world better every day
Are your leaders performing up to their potential?
Fully customized, highly interactive, seminar-based learning experiences that will help your leaders be better builders, leaders, and sustainers of high performing teams founded in trust.
Bespoke leadership development solutions for all your leaders from Executives to High Potentials to Front Line Leaders based on their unique needs.
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Build leader competencies in areas such as Building Trust, Building & Leading High Performing Teams, Self-awareness, Effective Communication, Managing Conflict, Driving Organizational Commitment, Providing Developmental Feedback, Leader as a Coach, Setting Priorities, Creating Accountability, Action Planning.
Custom designed leadership development for:
EXECUTIVES
Example Enterprise Leadership Development Program:• Self-Awareness
• Ethics and Character at the Top – Maintaining an Ethical Culture
• Understanding Enterprise Level Leadership Competencies & Strategic Leadership in Practice
• Creating the Vision for Your Organization’s Future
• Decision Making: Empowering Decentralized Execution
HIGH POTENTIALS
Example Development Program to build your bench:• Self-Awareness
• Tailored Skill Building Based on Organizational/High Potential Needs
DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS
Example Leadership Development Program for Leaders of Leaders:• Self-Awareness
• Leading with Character and Maintaining a Climate of Trust
• Building and Leading High Performing Cross Functional Teams Founded in Trust
FIRST-LINE SUPERVISORS
Example Leadership Development Program for Front Line Leaders:• Self-Awareness
• Followership – being a great teammate
• Leading and Following with Character – Being Worthy of Trust
• Building and Leading High Performing Teams Founded in Trust
“We have a blend of levels of experience in our leaders at Capital Resin, as most organizations do. Having a need to elevate some smart people to be more in touch with leadership, trust, and accountability, we asked for help from John Vermeesch. John drew in the leadership with his approachability and openness, allowing for a great learning environment. The results have had a noticeable impact on leading ourselves, working with each other, being accountable and being held accountable, as well as handling difficult situations with empathy. John worked with not only our management team but also our executive team and board of directors. We look forward to the next sessions.”
—James Bull, President, Capital Resin Corporation
Culture Development And Advisory
Focusing on your Organizational Culture — the linchpin of your organization’s success
Are you satisfied with the way your organization lives out its values and defines excellence?
A great organizational culture is foundational to every great organization.
Through assessment, delineation, and implementation we will help you see where you are, where you are going, and help you increase the probability that once you get there you will still be who you say you are as an organization. We will help you see the consistencies and incongruence between what you say is important, what you believe is important, and what you do as a team.
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Assess:
• Identify Artifacts, Espoused Values, and UnderlyingAssumptions
• Identity gaps between: espoused values and values in use; your reality and your ideal state
Delineate:
• Clearly articulate/redefine Mission, Vision, Values• Describe the key indicators of culture
• Messaging: Key messages broken down by stakeholders
Implement:
• Create and institute your cultural strategy• Implement cross functional organizational communication and engagement plan
• Envision culture at scale
• Reinforce Through: Leader development plan; One-on-one/Team coaching; Periodic assessment
“Getting to know and trust John was quick and easy, mostly because of his great listening ability and honest, open feedback. Our conversations left me thinking about the insights he provided for days after. His advice, perspective, and challenging questions were extremely pointed and relevant. The impact on me, and through me on my teams, was incredibly powerful.”
—Joe Thompson, General Manager, Manufacturing Operations & Sales, Global Manufacturing Company
WHO WE HAVE SERVED:
Leaders with the desire and agency to achieve audacious goals and drive change in themselves and with their teams
MY NARROW ROAD:
About John Vermeesch
Founder and Steward
My narrow road is defined by my faith in Jesus, my love for my family, and my compulsion to inspire leaders to make the world and the workplace a little better every day! My journey has been shaped over a lifetime through the peaks and valleys of military, entrepreneurial, and corporate experience. Along the way, I have always been privileged to walk alongside amazing people and steward excellent organizations.
In the Army, I served as an infantry officer, leading and training soldiers stateside and abroad for nearly 28 years. I had the extraordinary and rewarding privilege of leading “America’s sons and daughters” in combat during Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. As a commander, I led over 900 people in Baghdad, serving over three million Iraqi citizens. As a Colonel, I Directed an Army-wide Center of Excellence focused on the ethical and character development of the entire U.S. Army.
In the private sector, I’ve helped leaders through both high touch 1-on-1 coaching as well as senior executive leadership facilitation. As an executive coach I’ve walked alongside dozens of leaders at early stage, high growth, and manufacturing organizations. I’ve been blessed to create and deliver leadership development programs for thousands of individuals at all levels of organizations.
My life is amazing not only because I get to do what I’m called to do, but more importantly because I attempt to live out my faith, I’m married to my best friend, and we have incredible kids. I’m also blessed to be able to be an avid sports fan and an outdoorsman.
JOHN’S PHILOSOPHY:
What you can expect from me as I walk my narrow road
What Clients Have Said