Executive Coaching and Leadership Development

A New Way of Seeing. A New Way of Doing.

In this rapidly changing business environment, leaders find themselves facing unprecedented complexity and challenge. Often a leader’s natural response is to dig in, double down, and do more of what they believe has led to their current success.

Sometimes, this is exactly what’s needed.

But what if it’s not?

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Have you ever considered that what got you here might not get you there? And how do you know?

Real growth in leadership requires growth not only in one’s competence or skill, but also in one’s level of awareness both of self and the external environment. Leaders need to understand whether their strengths are positively impacting their organizations or whether a core strength being over utilized might do more harm than good. (It’s like a strong muscle that’s fatigued and no longer able to function.)

At Vista Leadership, we partner with you to dig deep and examine how the way you see the world influences the way you lead – and the results you’re currently getting. We explore what’s getting in your way. We work together to clarify what you want to achieve. Finally, we help you re-discover the competencies and mindsets you need to get there.

Services

Executive and Leadership Coaching

Individual coaching designed to address issues of critical importance to you. Whether you are a new leader finding your footing, an experienced leader taking on greater challenges, or a highly seasoned executive considering your next steps, we partner with you to understand your goals and determine a course of action to achieve those goals.

Leadership Development Programs

Bob Anderson, author of Mastering Leadership, says “The organization cannot perform at a level higher than the collective effectiveness of its leadership.” If you are truly interested in improving your organization’s performance, take a hard look at the collective effectiveness of your leaders. We take a cohort based approach to leadership development focusing on improving individual leadership effectiveness to drive improvement in the team’s effectiveness.

Mentor Coaching for Leadership Circle Practitioners

Whether you are a highly seasoned LCP practitioner or a newly minted one, Vista offers a variety of services to help you ascend the LCP learning curve. We offer individual and small group mentor coaching as well as workshops to support practitioners in leveraging the LCP for greater impact. All of our coaches have deep grounding in adult development theory and somatic coaching and a wealth of hands-on, practical experience with the Leadership Circle Profile.

Coaching Skills for Leaders

Highly effective leaders don’t need to be coaches, but they do need to have coaching skills. Why? Because coaching others is the number one way to make your leadership scalable. No matter how talented you are, if your leadership doesn’t scale, you will eventually exhaust yourself or be met with diminishing returns on the effort you are expending. We work with leaders one on one and in group settings to grow the mindsets and skillsets leaders need to powerfully coach others.

Assessments

For every engagement, we partner with the client to determine what type of feedback or assessment would best help them achieve their desired results. We recommend the following approaches:

The Leadership Circle Profile:

A uniquely powerful 360 degree assessment designed to build self-awareness and accelerate the pace at which leaders develop their consciousness and improve their effectiveness.

Stakeholder Interviews:

Highly customized interview, analysis, and reporting process to gather stakeholder feedback.

Growth Edge Interview:

A 75 minute interview and a 45 minute reporting session in which the interviewer, using adult development theory as a guide, assesses the client’s stage of development and offers practices (Habits of Mind) for moving to the next stage.

Testimonials

As a “data person” I found that the Leadership Circle 360 assessment offered a vivid portrait of both my strengths and weaknesses. But as informative as the data was, it was coaching with Tracy that helped turn the data insights into true personal transformation. Coaching helped me get in touch with the internal aspects of myself and develop a deeper understanding of what I needed to change. I realized I was dragging around an anchor that was weighting me down and keeping me stuck. I am now willing to be authentic 100% of the time. My stress level has gone down and I am better at dealing with difficult or contentious situations.
Chief Technology Officer, S&P 500 Tech Company
Tracy is an incredible coach and mentor. She is a great listener and helped me through a number of situations by patiently asking questions to help me understand and discover the most effective solutions on my own. She’s helped me to think more clearly and feel better about my work. And after selling my company, Tracy helped me integrate with the new leadership team in a way that was very impactful and positive. I’ve been able to increase my effectiveness and success in the new company thanks to Tracy.
Chief Executive Officer, e-Builder, Inc.
Tracy helped me understand not only my strengths and opportunities as a leader, but also the underlying drivers, which provided me with a great deal of clarity. Possibly even more importantly, Tracy’s activities and exercises made me conscious of how to harness my energy and become a better listener, mentor, and coach.
Director, Workforce Planning, Consumer Goods Industry
My relationships and my career are in a completely different place. In the year that we worked together we surfaced some longstanding leadership challenges that I had been ignoring. Tracy created a safe space for me to learn how I was undermining my effectiveness as a leader and develop a plan to bring forward my best self. She helped me find the joy in work that I had been seeking.
Vice President, Colorado Permanente Medical Group
Tracy is a phenomenal coach, mentor and person! Her lead facilitation on our school’s purpose, mission and vision work this spring brought together a diverse group of stakeholders towards a common goal. Her intelligent, creative, calm and reflective approach to coaching created a safe, fun and productive process.
Principal, Boulder Valley School District
Coaching with Tracy was a profound experience. She approached every coaching call with uncanny grace, sophistication and intelligence. Where most would provide a pat answer, Tracy listened deeply, asked insightful, unexpected questions, and helped me find my own honest outcome (or “true north”). Add to that her compassion, professionalism and humor and you can’t find a better coach.
CEO, Victoria Labalme Communications, LLC
Thank you so much for your support last year. Our work together has truly made me see the world differently.
Principal, BCG Digital Ventures

Our Philosophy

We purposely chose the name Vista Leadership because we believe “it’s all about the view.” Whether it’s taking a step back to get the bigger picture; stepping aside to get a different perspective; or choosing to explore someone else’s point of view, development work is all about what we see. What patterns do we see in our own behavior or the world around us? What perspective do others hold about this issue? Can we actually teach ourselves not only to see the world around us but also to examine the way in which we see the world? To actually get perspective on our perspective?

For us, great coaching is about helping people see things differently so they might do things differently. In order to do this, we take an inside out approach adhering to the belief that to truly develop one’s leadership effectiveness, leaders must not only develop their competence or skill but also grow their level of consciousness.

We believe that leadership development has historically been overly focused on teaching people skills and competencies. While this is certainly important, building new skills and competencies without evolving consciousness typically leads to short term change. True transformation is not about knowledge acquisition or information gathering. It’s about evolving the way in which we see the world.

About Us

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Tracy Burke, MSW, PCC
Founder and Principal

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As founder and principal of Vista Leadership, Tracy brings over 30 years experience as a consultant, leadership coach, and organizational development practitioner. She began her career as an experiential educator, creating break-through learning experiences for at-risk youth. In 1989, she joined Pecos River Learning Centers and began utilizing her expertise to create high impact, transformational experiences in the corporate sector. While at Aon Consulting, Tracy co-led the development of The Change Architecture Process, a step by step guide to leading large scale culture change in organizations. After 15 years coaching and consulting, Tracy joined the Customer Experience Department at Kaiser Permanente, where she led project teams in their efforts to improve service and build customer loyalty. She designed and delivered service curricula, coached leaders and staff, provided expertise on building employee engagement, and led strategic projects requiring a strong foundation in the integration of human and business systems.

In 2015, Tracy founded Vista Leadership, an executive coaching and leadership development practice. She uses her deep and diverse background to support change efforts at all levels working with individuals, teams, and organizations in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare.

Tracy’s deepest passion is helping leaders and teams focus their energy to create more meaningful impact. Leaders who have worked with Tracy describe her as authentic, clear, intuitive and committed. She is known for nudging people outside of their comfort zone to experience profound levels of self-awareness, growth, and personal reward.

Tracy has a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith College School for Social Work. She holds certifications in Co-Active Coaching; the Leadership Circle Profile; the Leadership System; and Growth Edge Interviewing and Coaching. She also holds the PCC through the International Coach Federation.

Beth brings 28 years of experience to her work as a catalyst for positive change in the areas of executive performance, team building and personal growth. Her corporate background in the New York and Asia/Pacific advertising industries has given her a unique framework of communication, multi-culturalism and problem-solving to bring to her passion for developing leaders. Clients include Managers to C-level executives in corporate, non-profit, government and startup sectors.

Prior to Colorado, Beth worked in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai, including a role as the regional manager of training and development for 5,000+ employees across the fast-growing Asia/Pacific network of advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather.

As a coach, she helps clients multiply their contribution while staying true to the authentic core of who they are. She uses provocative questions, emotional intelligence, unbiased feedback, and a healthy dose of accountability to help leaders grow and perform optimally. She enjoys guiding individuals and teams through transition periods, and specializes in helping clients to build trusting, influential relationships with their peers and teams as the key to driving results.

Beth Ronsick, PCC

Beth Ronsick, PCC
Executive Coach

Paul Wyman, PCC

Paul Wyman, PCC
Executive Coach

Paul has over 22 years of experience as an executive coach and leadership development consultant. He has coached leaders at all levels from senior executives to new managers, in a wide range of industries, with deep experience in healthcare and professional services. Paul served as Director of People Development at Children’s Hospital Colorado from 2004-2015, leading the hospital’s non-clinical training, organizational change and leadership development practices. He is currently providing executive coaching services globally for public accounting firm Ernst and Young. His prior clients include Banner Health, University of Colorado, WOW networks and GE Johnson Construction.

Paul specializes in working with leaders from the professions, particularly medicine, law, engineering and accounting. He coaches professionals to identify and achieve their leadership vision in the face of complex, ambiguous and challenging circumstances. He has particular expertise in helping leaders identify and deploy their strengths, exercise influence without authority, and bring out the best in their teams. His clients describe working with Paul as a blend of challenge and support. A recent client described coaching with Paul as follows: “He really makes me pause, take a step back, and think differently about the issues I’m facing. He challenges me to get off autopilot and lead with purpose.”

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About Us

Tracy Burke, MSW, PCC
Founder and Principal

Connect on LinkedIn

As founder and principal of Vista Leadership, Tracy brings over 30 years experience as a consultant, leadership coach, and organizational development practitioner. She began her career as an experiential educator, creating break-through learning experiences for at-risk youth. In 1989, she joined Pecos River Learning Centers and began utilizing her expertise to create high impact, transformational experiences in the corporate sector. While at Aon Consulting, Tracy co-led the development of The Change Architecture Process, a step by step guide to leading large scale culture change in organizations. After 15 years coaching and consulting, Tracy joined the Customer Experience Department at Kaiser Permanente, where she led project teams in their efforts to improve service and build customer loyalty. She designed and delivered service curricula, coached leaders and staff, provided expertise on building employee engagement, and led strategic projects requiring a strong foundation in the integration of human and business systems.

In 2015, Tracy founded Vista Leadership, an executive coaching and leadership development practice. She uses her deep and diverse background to support change efforts at all levels working with individuals, teams, and organizations in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare.

Tracy’s deepest passion is helping leaders and teams focus their energy to create more meaningful impact. Leaders who have worked with Tracy describe her as authentic, clear, intuitive and committed. She is known for nudging people outside of their comfort zone to experience profound levels of self-awareness, growth, and personal reward.

Tracy has a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith College School for Social Work. She holds certifications in Co-Active Coaching; the Leadership Circle Profile; the Leadership System; and Growth Edge Interviewing and Coaching. She also holds the PCC through the International Coach Federation.

Beth Ronsick, PCC

Beth Ronsick, PCC
Executive Coach

Beth brings 28 years of experience to her work as a catalyst for positive change in the areas of executive performance, team building and personal growth. Her corporate background in the New York and Asia/Pacific advertising industries has given her a unique framework of communication, multi-culturalism and problem-solving to bring to her passion for developing leaders. Clients include Managers to C-level executives in corporate, non-profit, government and startup sectors.

Prior to Colorado, Beth worked in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai, including a role as the regional manager of training and development for 5,000+ employees across the fast-growing Asia/Pacific network of advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather.

As a coach, she helps clients multiply their contribution while staying true to the authentic core of who they are. She uses provocative questions, emotional intelligence, unbiased feedback, and a healthy dose of accountability to help leaders grow and perform optimally. She enjoys guiding individuals and teams through transition periods, and specializes in helping clients to build trusting, influential relationships with their peers and teams as the key to driving results.

Paul Wyman, PCC

Paul Wyman, PCC
Executive Coach

Paul has over 22 years of experience as an executive coach and leadership development consultant. He has coached leaders at all levels from senior executives to new managers, in a wide range of industries, with deep experience in healthcare and professional services. Paul served as Director of People Development at Children’s Hospital Colorado from 2004-2015, leading the hospital’s non-clinical training, organizational change and leadership development practices. He is currently providing executive coaching services globally for public accounting firm Ernst and Young. His prior clients include Banner Health, University of Colorado, WOW networks and GE Johnson Construction.

Paul specializes in working with leaders from the professions, particularly medicine, law, engineering and accounting. He coaches professionals to identify and achieve their leadership vision in the face of complex, ambiguous and challenging circumstances. He has particular expertise in helping leaders identify and deploy their strengths, exercise influence without authority, and bring out the best in their teams. His clients describe working with Paul as a blend of challenge and support. A recent client described coaching with Paul as follows: “He really makes me pause, take a step back, and think differently about the issues I’m facing. He challenges me to get off autopilot and lead with purpose.”

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