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Executive Coaching

Personalized Support to Help Leaders Thrive

Support from a professional coach is a powerful tool for executives determined to make a lasting impact—for their careers and the teams and institutions they serve.

 

About Executive Coaching

Our executive coaching services are tailored to support you and your individual goals.

We provide confidential, personalized support through coaching sessions built on decades of experience helping leaders enhance their communication skills, strengthen their management abilities, and tackle the toughest challenges with confidence and poise.

Elise Partin, Executive Coach

Elise Partin—Mackey Strategies’ senior counsel specializing in executive communications coaching—empowers leaders and their teams to successfully build trust, make tough decisions, evaluate challenging situations, and gain influence through effective and persuasive communications. Drawing from extensive real-world experience, Elise works with clients in one-on-one executive coaching sessions, team trainings, and other engagements that provide guidance and tools for enhancing situational analysis, strengthening management abilities, handling high-pressure choices, communicating successfully, soundly managing crises, and more. 

An experienced leader, skilled communicator, and frequent public speaker, Elise is deeply trained in the art of coaching public and personal communication of all kinds. She currently serves as the mayor of Cayce, South Carolina, a position she has held through each election since 2008, and teaches at the University of South Carolina’s School of Public Health. 

 
“Mackey Strategies and my executive coach, Elise Partin, have enabled me to take my leadership to the next level. I had already accomplished a lot in my career, and was wondering what to do next. Elise has thoughtfully guided me through several pivotal career decisions. I am incredibly grateful to have benefitted from her support and expertise.”
— Geoff Marietta, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of the Cumberlands and Founder of Invest 606
 

What are the benefits of executive coaching?

Support from an executive coach can help you achieve any professional goal you want to accomplish—whether you want to become more strategic in your work, confront communications challenges, determine the next step in your career, and more. Some of our clients’ goals for their executive coaching sessions have included:

  • Enhancing communications skills

  • Strengthening leadership abilities

  • Taking your career to the next level

  • Pivoting to new opportunities

  • Finding new energy to excel

Who benefits from executive coaching?

Executives, leaders, and rising stars at all professional levels can benefit from the outside perspective and support of an impactful and empowering executive coach. Our services are tailored to each individual, and are intended for anyone ready to take the next step in their career, including: 

  • Executives and team leaders

  • Emerging nonprofit or education leaders

  • Communications and marketing directors

  • Admissions and advancement professionals

  • Young professionals who seek to lead and inspire others

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Ready to get started?

Schedule a free, 30-minute intro session to meet Elise Partin and discuss your goals.