Private Executive Coaching - Designed for the Season You’re In
Not every leader needs the same kind of support.
Some leaders come to Polly with a defining moment on the horizon: a presentation, promotion conversation, media appearance, board meeting, campaign, stakeholder challenge, or high-stakes conversation where clarity and presence matter immediately.
Others come because their leadership season has changed. The role is bigger. The expectations are higher. The decisions carry more weight. The visibility is increasing. The old ways of preparing, communicating, and leading are no longer enough.
Polly’s coaching is designed to meet leaders with precision - whether they need focused support for a critical moment, sustained executive coaching for a complex season, or a deeper leadership experience that reshapes how they carry presence, influence, energy, and responsibility over time.
For executives, senior leaders, public-facing professionals, and organizations developing leaders for higher levels of visibility, responsibility, and impact.
Focused Coaching: 6-Session Leadership Intensive
For leaders preparing for a specific challenge, transition, or high-stakes moment.
This is the right fit when something important is close on the horizon and you need to sharpen your message, strengthen your delivery, prepare for pressure, and show up with clarity, authority, and confidence.
Best for: presentations, media interviews, board conversations, promotion preparation, difficult stakeholder conversations, executive presence refinement, campaign moments, and communication challenges that need focused attention.
Sustained Executive Coaching: 9-Month Partnership
For leaders stepping into greater complexity, visibility, and responsibility.
This is the right fit when your leadership growth is no longer about one moment. It is about how you think, decide, communicate, influence, manage pressure, and lead across a meaningful season of change or expansion.
Over time, the work supports stronger decision-making, stakeholder influence, change leadership, executive presence, strategic communication, and the confidence to operate at the next level with more steadiness and authority.
Best for: senior leaders, rising executives, founders, public-facing professionals, and leaders navigating expanded scope, organizational complexity, succession visibility, or a major career chapter.
VerdaMethod: 12-Month Signature Leadership Experience
For high-impact leaders ready for a deeper evolution.
VerdaMethod is Polly’s most immersive coaching experience, designed for leaders who want more than stronger communication or better performance in the room. This work supports the whole leader - presence, identity, capacity, influence, energy, decision-making, and the way they carry success over time.
It is where executive coaching, strategic communication, embodied leadership, and sustainable performance come together in a deeply personal, exquisitely designed leadership experience.
Best for: senior executives, founders, public leaders, and high-impact professionals who are ready to lead with greater clarity, presence, steadiness, and lasting capacity.
As an ICF Certified Executive Coach, I partner with C-Level Executives, Senior Leaders, and Legislative Professionals to unleash their highest potential and master the art of impactful leadership, ensuring their legacy is built on unshakeable influence and genuine fulfillment.
Trusted by leaders who are preparing for bigger rooms, higher stakes, and more visible leadership.
"You've given me great insights and targeted guidance in regard to what I was focusing on." ~ P. Lilly, SVP Food Manufacturing Industry
"I really felt like you were invested in my success, and there’s no other feeling like that - when someone from outside of the organization supports you and is invested in your success." ~ Rashanda B Associate, Robins-Kaplan Law Firm
"Her message of grace, showing up, determining the one thing that I will change when I get back to the office. I love Polly!" ~ Audience Member at Minnovation Summit
Experience With Leading Organizations
Leadership Development, Coaching, and Communication Training Experience Includes:
John Deere, WCCO, Kohler, Project Management Institute, ExxonMobil, CFMoto, Minnesota Department of Health, SC Johnson & Co., Donaldson, Culligan, Olmsted County, State of Minnesota, Hennepin Healthcare, Allina, Cub Foods, 3M, Honeywell, and others.
For Organizations
Organizations bring Polly in when leaders need to communicate with more clarity, presence, and influence in the moments that affect trust, alignment, culture, and performance.
This work supports leaders who need to present to senior stakeholders, influence without authority, lead through change, navigate difficult conversations, and represent the organization with professionalism and confidence.
This may be the right fit if your organization is developing:
Emerging executives, high-potential leaders, managers, directors, senior teams, or public-facing representatives.
Leaders preparing for executive presentations, customer conversations, internal change, media moments, or high-visibility communication.
Teams that need stronger trust, clearer communication, better alignment, and steadier leadership through complexity.
Navigating change, fatigue, fractured alignment, or a season that requires stronger trust, clearer communication, and more unified leadership.
Ready to explore the right level of support?
Whether you are seeking private executive coaching, leadership development for your organization, presentation support, media training, or a deeper VerdaMethod experience, the best place to begin is a thoughtful conversation.
Featured Coaching Programs
Executive Coaching & Team Coaching
Powerful Leadership Development Training
For executives, senior leaders, and teams who need stronger presence, clearer communication, better decision-making, and greater influence in high-stakes environments.
This work may include leadership transitions, stakeholder management, executive presence, team alignment, strategic communication, and preparation for pivotal conversations or presentations.
Embodied Leadership Cohorts
A high-touch leadership development experience for organizations ready to help leaders build presence, confidence, communication skill, emotional steadiness, and practical self-leadership.
Designed for leaders who need more than information. They need tools, practice, reflection, and coaching they can apply immediately in meetings, presentations, and moments of pressure.
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Media Training & Presentation Coaching
The camera doesn’t miss much. Neither do I.
For executives, spokespeople, public figures, and teams preparing for cameras, microphones, stages, panels, interviews, investor meetings, or high-stakes presentations.
Polly helps leaders refine their message, strengthen delivery, manage pressure, and show up with credibility, warmth, and authority when visibility matters.
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Keynotes. Presentations. Workshops.
Polly designs and delivers HIGH-ENERGY, STRATEGY-FILLED virtual and in-person keynotes, presentations and workshops. Her keynotes are high-energy, and her virtual presentations use all the tech and gadgets you'll find in a professional production studio. A professional commercial actor with over a decade of experience, Polly knows how to engage and entertain a virtual and in-person audience. Learn more about what Polly and her team can do for your next event or workshop.
Candidate & Public Leadership Coaching
For candidates, elected officials, and public-facing leaders, communication is not just messaging. It is trust in motion.
Polly helps public leaders prepare for speeches, debates, forums, media interviews, donor conversations, and high-pressure community moments with greater clarity, warmth, authority, and presence. The work blends message strategy, public speaking, media readiness, and executive coaching so candidates can communicate what they stand for in a way that feels credible, grounded, and genuinely human.
EXPLORE CANDIDATE COACHINGWhat Makes This Work Different
Polly brings a rare combination of executive coaching, strategic communication, media training, and performance expertise.
As an ICF-certified executive coach, she helps leaders think more clearly, make stronger decisions, navigate complexity, and lead with greater steadiness and confidence.
As a former professional actor and trained communication strategist, she also understands how leadership is experienced in real time — through presence, voice, timing, message, posture, emotional regulation, and the ability to hold a room when pressure rises.
This intersection is where her work is distinct. Leaders do not just become more polished communicators. They become clearer decision-makers, stronger influencers, more trusted strategic partners, and more grounded leaders who can show up with presence when it matters most.
PROUDLY RECOGNIZED / CERTIFIED BY LEADING ORGANIZATIONS: ICF-ACC, CEC-ASCTH, BLANCHARD, DBE-MN, CERT, MNUCP
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