This is the question Angelique found herself pondering every time she was advising a newly promoted leader, or consulting with HR stakeholders on leadership skill gaps, or leading succession planning conversations with the C-suite execs at the various Fortune companies she worked for during her corporate HR career.
In 2017 Angelique Denius had spent close to twenty years supporting countless rising leaders and executives on their leadership journeys when she was in the process of completing a multi-year course of study and certification in coaching when the answer to this question came to her. Clear. As. Day.
Why is it that bright, hard-working, self-motivated new leaders often struggle?
Angelique Denius is an emerging leader coach, talent strategist, and the founder of Prepare to Emerge. Angelique spent twenty years providing Human Resources consulting at some of America’s most respected Fortune companies including Intel, Lucent Technologies, Time Warner Media, Southern Company, and McKesson. Throughout her corporate career she created and implemented value-added solutions around organizational effectiveness, leadership development, succession planning, talent retention, and employee engagement. During this time, she observed a critical gap in high-value leadership development options for emerging leaders. She witnessed many organizations struggle with new leader latency and knew these same companies were motivated to position their rising leaders for long-term success. Angelique’s vision was born: a coaching-centric leadership assessment and development practice dedicated to helping emerging leaders reach their leadership potential.
“Prepare to Emerge is on a mission to turn the applecart over on traditional executive coaching. We envision a working world where all rising leaders have access to leadership assessment insights and coaching support. We see companies growing their up-and-coming talent in meaningful, deeply personal ways that are focused on developing leaders that can go the distance.
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With this coaching-centric approach to nurturing talent we see early leaders able to clarify and embrace their leadership identity, develop a powerful leadership mindset, and elevate their leadership impact through more thoughtful choices. With the right tools and insights emerging leaders can absolutely reach their potential sooner and with greater ease, leaving no reason why organizations can’t be led by capable and confident leaders at all levels.”
Angelique graduated from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and attained a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a certified facilitator who is also certified in a variety of talent assessment tools. Angelique completed her coach training and certification through the esteemed Coaches Training Institute and is also certified through the highly regarded International Coaching Federation. Angelique resides in the Atlanta area with her husband Rick, and her children Nico and Ava. She enjoys animal advocacy, cooking, golfing, and spending time with her loved ones at her familial home in Kefalonia, Greece.
It’s a leader’s thoughts which fuel their behaviors, decisions, and actions. Our assessment and coaching services focus on how emerging leaders think because we know that powers everything else. Expansion in a leader’s thinking is evidenced by how they show up more present, more confident, more intentional, more aware, more engaged, and more connected to the people, situations, and outcomes that matter.
When a leader begins to think differently, others in the organization begin to experience them differently.
They’ll often see evidence of a leader who:
• Demonstrates more awareness of self and others
• Is receptive to new and different perspectives
• Makes strategic and timely decisions
• Explores creative ideas and solutions
• Establishes and nurtures critical relationships
• Has healthy habits and routines
• Makes the development of their team members a priority
• Creates a work environment that fosters employee motivation
• Communicates clearly, timely, and thoughtfully
These types of results matter to your company’s success and they are why we do the work we do. Since 2018 Prepare to Emerge® has successfully supported rising leaders across a wide variety of industries including Utilities, Information Technology, Media, Manufacturing, Leisure Facilities & Services, and Food Processing to name a few.
If fueling emerging leader growth is on your organization’s priority list (and why shouldn’t it be?) we want to be your assessment and coaching partner of choice. Let’s start to explore how we might help make your talent goals a reality.
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