Executive coaching in Los Angeles.
For Directors through C-suite leaders navigating consequential decisions, leadership transitions and complex organizational dynamics.
Based in Santa Monica, in the Los Angeles area, serving leaders across the US and internationally. Coaching is primarily virtual, with in-person sessions by arrangement.
Claudia Beck, MCC · Former SVP, Tory Burch · Former VP, Burberry · 6,000+ coaching sessions
The situations leaders bring.
Each engagement starts from what has changed in the role or around it.
A new or bigger role
A promotion, an external hire or an expanded scope, where the habits that built the career start to limit it. Executive transition coaching →
Restructuring and shifting priorities
Navigating restructuring, shifting priorities and competing stakeholder expectations.
Difficult feedback
Addressing feedback that challenges how a leader sees their own effectiveness.
The CEO, the board and senior stakeholders
Influencing CEOs, boards and senior stakeholders when the stakes are high.
Leading across cultures
A leader who has relocated, or who leads from a headquarters culture that is not their own.
A leadership team
Systemic team coaching, alignment intensives and executive team retreats for the whole team. Leadership teams →
What the coaching is designed to build.
The development plan names the specific shifts for each leader. These come up most often. Results depend on the leader, the sponsor and the context.
Performance through others
Build leadership capacity so decisions and execution no longer depend on one person.
Influence without the final say
Build commitment across functions, even without control of the resources or reporting lines.
Clearer decisions
Establish decision rights, priorities and accountability so teams can move without repeated escalation.
Trust with accountability
Create conditions where disagreement surfaces earlier, commitments are explicit, and difficult conversations happen before problems escalate.
A defined engagement, typically 4 to 12 months.
Company-sponsored engagements include an initial alignment meeting, a 360 assessment, a written development plan with 2 to 4 priorities, and structured progress conversations with the leader’s manager.
Self-funded engagements are scoped with each leader in the first conversation, including whether an assessment or a written plan is part of the work. In both, sessions are typically weekly at the start, then every 2 weeks.
Where the coaching happens.
Claudia coaches leaders across the US and in Europe and Australia. She has lived and worked in Austria, the United States, Japan, China and the United Kingdom, and has been based in Santa Monica since 2020.
Most engagements run virtually, so sessions stay on schedule across offices, travel and time zones. Leaders in the Los Angeles area can meet in person by arrangement.
You work with Claudia directly.
Claudia Beck, MCC grew up in a small town in Austria and spent 25+ years in global business. At Gap Inc. she worked in San Francisco, Tokyo and Shanghai, then became VP at Burberry in London and SVP at Tory Burch in New York, where she was a member of the Executive Operating Team. She founded Better Together Group in 2019, earned the ICF Master Certified Coach credential in 2024, and has led more than 6,000 coaching sessions since 2019.
Having carried responsibility for sales, margin, inventory and teams across international markets, Claudia understands the pressure of delivering business results while navigating organizational complexity. That experience informs coaching grounded in real decisions, stakeholder relationships and leadership accountability.
Leadership change in practice.
Three engagements, start to finish: the leadership challenge, the work and what changed. Names and identifying details have been changed.
Before you start.
The short answers. The first conversation covers the detail.
Do you meet in person in Los Angeles?
Yes, by arrangement. Most coaching is virtual.
Do you only work with leaders in Los Angeles?
No. Clients are based across the US and internationally.
Can the organization sponsor the coaching?
What does it cost?
Each engagement is quoted after a first conversation. The cost guide explains what drives the cost.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes about the role, the context and what you need from the work. Or write to claudia.beck@bettertogethergroup.co.
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