30 years watching who gets promoted, and why.
You were built to plateau. Let’s change that.
You're succeeding. But something's missing. Leadership isn't built by adding more. It's transformed by understanding the hidden patterns that shape how you lead.
Ways we work together.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
1:1 Coaching
You already know how to perform. One-on-one coaching for Directors, VPs, and C-Suite, ready for the possibilities you always knew were there.
ORGANIZATIONS
Corporate Coaching
Your best people are stalling, but training didn’t fix it. Corporate engagements bring the “Built to Platea” into your organization for leaders and teams who need more than just another workshop.
Do you find yourself asking…
The questions you are afraid to ask out loud.
Why does something feel slightly off when everything looks fine from the outside?
Why do I keep getting in my own way when I know better?
What am I protecting myself from?
I know I am capable of more. Why doesn’t it show?
Why do my strongest people stall right when they should be stepping up?
What would change if I could finally see what was getting in the way of my team?
The leader who is ready to look underneath.
The Leader Who Senses There’s More
Things look good from the outside. You’re performing, respected, life is fine. But there’s a quiet, persistent sense that you haven’t reached the edge of what’s possible and you can’t quite name what is in the way.
The High Performer Who’s Hit the Invisible Ceiling
You’re the person everyone counts on. You deliver, but still the next level feels just out of reach. It isn’t a capability problem. It’s something no one has exposed, but is ready to be explored.
The Leader Who’s Done Guessing
You’ve read the books, tried the frameworks, done the work, and you’re still not getting the traction you know you are truly capable of. You're ready to find out what’s actually in the way.
"Susan saw what I couldn't see about myself. Within three months, I had the job I wanted and the confidence to keep it."
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FAQs.
A leadership coach works with how you lead, not just what you know. The focus is on the behaviors, patterns, and decisions occurring beneath your skill set. Susan Collins is an ICF-certified global leadership coach, PHR, with 30 years in talent acquisition, working with directors, VPs, and the C-Suite, ready to look for a new level of self-defined success.
Built to Plateau exposes the behaviors that made you successful and are now quietly capping your growth. The work moves through four steps: see it, understand it, interrupt it, rewire it. Leaders come out of it with a clear read on what’s actually running their behavior and the ability to choose differently in the moments that matter.
Directors, VPs, and C-Suite leaders who are performing well and sensing there is more, or a better way to do it. They have found success in their careers, but have hit an invisible ceiling, a discomfort they have never encountered, or a frustration they can’t quite explain. Susan also works with CHROs and CPOs whose strongest people are stalling right when they should be stepping up.
Most coaching stops at insight. This goes further into automatic behaviors, stories, and biases that run beneath skills. Susan spent 30 years on both sides of the hiring table, so she knows what gets someone hired and promoted, and what quietly holds them back.
1:1 coaching for individual leaders, corporate engagements for organizations, and group coaching for small cohorts working together.
If you have a track record of success, but are sensing something is quietly in the way. If the next level keeps feeling out of reach, if something feels slightly off though everything looks fine, those are the signals. You don’t have to be in crisis. You have to be ready to go deeper.
“Executive coaching” usually signals senior title and higher stakes. “Leadership coaching” is broader; it’s about how someone leads, regardless of level. In practice, the two overlap more than labels suggest. What matters isn’t the title on the door; it’s whether the behavior running the room is still serving you at your current level.
Most 1:1 engagements run six to twelve months, long enough to see a pattern, understand it, and build a new one in its place. Corporate engagements are scoped to the organization and can run longer.
A conversation is where this starts.
We’ll talk about where you are and whether this is the right fit.
