Signature Executive Coaching
For executives, senior leaders, public-facing professionals, and organizations developing leaders for higher levels of visibility, responsibility, and impact.
The Work
Leadership today requires more than confidence in the room. It requires clarity under pressure, trust across stakeholders, strategic communication, emotional steadiness, and the ability to move people forward when the path is complex.
Polly’s work helps leaders become more effective in the conversations, decisions, presentations, and transitions that matter most.
For Individual Leaders
You may be preparing for a larger role, stepping into greater visibility, navigating a difficult transition, or realizing that your expertise needs to be matched by stronger presence, communication, and influence.
Private coaching helps you clarify your message, strengthen your executive presence, make better decisions under pressure, and lead with greater confidence in high-stakes environments.
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.
For Organizations
When leaders communicate clearly, manage pressure well, and build trust across teams, performance changes.
Polly partners with organizations to develop leaders who can hold difficult conversations, present to senior stakeholders, influence without authority, lead through change, and represent the organization with professionalism and presence.
For the Moments
When Leadership Matters Most
This work is designed for leaders and organizations navigating visibility, complexity, growth, and change — the seasons when how you communicate, decide, influence, and show up begins to shape everything around you.
For Individual Leaders
You may be stepping into a larger role, preparing for a high-stakes presentation, navigating a difficult transition, or realizing that what made you successful at one level will not fully carry you into the next.
Private coaching helps you strengthen your executive presence, clarify your message, lead with greater steadiness, and become more effective in the rooms, conversations, and decisions that matter most.
This may be the right fit if you are preparing for:
A promotion, succession opportunity, board conversation, media appearance, investor pitch, keynote, campaign, or major leadership moment.
Complex stakeholder conversations where trust, clarity, authority, and emotional steadiness matter.
A deeper level of leadership that requires more than polish — it requires presence, maturity, strategic thinking, and grounded confidence.
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.
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 regards 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.
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.
EXPLORE CORPORATE COHORTS
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 COACHINGWhy Leaders Work With Polly
Polly brings a rare blend of executive coaching, media training, performance expertise, and real-world leadership communication strategy. Her work is practical, highly personalized, and designed for leaders who need to be clear, credible, and effective when the stakes are high.As an ICF-certified executive coach, professional speaker, facilitator, and former commercial actor, Polly helps leaders strengthen not only what they say, but how they are experienced by the people they need to influence.The work is rigorous, human, and built around real moments: the board presentation, the media interview, the difficult conversation, the organizational transition, the keynote, the campaign, the promotion, the team reset, and the next chapter of leadership.
PROUDLY RECOGNIZED / CERTIFIED BY LEADING ORGANIZATIONS: ICF-ACC, CEC-ASCTH, BLANCHARD, DBE-MN, CERT, MNUCP
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