Ideal Clients

I appreciate clients who want to learn more about themselves and are committed to their growth and development. I love working with people who are contemplating or are in the midst of personal or professional transformation.

Areas of Expertise

My expertise is in helping my clients work through how to:

• Imagine their future
• Think strategically
• Achieve work/life balance
• Grow self-awareness
• Be present
• Build trust
• Increase emotional intelligence
• Strengthen listening and communication skills
• Ask thought provoking questions
• Hone their leadership style
• Delegate effectively
• Deliver effective feedback
• Develop employees
• Inspire team members
• Make conflict less stressful and more constructive
• Create healthy work environments
• Enhance executive presence

Coaching Style

My role as a coach is to ask thought provoking questions to help clients coalesce their thinking, elicit their innate knowledge, and look at issues from fresh perspectives. Although I can offer clients suggestions, it is much more powerful when clients develop their own plans because—let’s face it—we humans are more committed to doing what we decide to do than what other people tell us to do. I view a coaching conversation as successful if: 1) My client gains new insights as we work through the topics they bring to our conversation, and 2) By the end of our conversation my client has a plan of action for the days and weeks ahead.

Meet John

John Schuhart is an International Coaching Federation master certified coach who helps clients gain self-awareness, increase emotional intelligence, think strategically, refine their leadership capabilities, strengthen communication skills, build deeper relationships, and plan their future to realize their full potential. He earned his coaching certification from Georgetown University in 2014 and has enjoyed partnering with hundreds of clients during more than 3,000 hours of coaching conversations. Prior to becoming a coach, he served for nearly two decades as a senior executive in multiple intelligence agencies, capping his career as the chief financial officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

John runs his own coaching business—Graybeard Leadership and Executive Coaching, LLC—and serves as a leadership coach and adjunct faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership. He is a certified interpreter of numerous 360 and personality assessments that give clients great insight into how they relate to other people and their performance.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas, a leadership coaching certificate from Georgetown University and is the author of the New Supervisor Survival Guide: Simple and Proven Practices to Help New—and Not So New—Bosses Thrive.

Coaching Fee Structure

Flexible rates starting at $300/hour, 20% discount for Georgetown alumni, 5% additional for GOLD alumni

Contact Information

Get in touch with John Graybeardcoaching@gmail.com

More Information

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• LinkedIn

Client Testimonial

“John is an exceptional listener. He is quick to understand the situations I present to him that I need coaching through. He is very good at not offering solutions and instead asking guided questions to help me either validate my own thinking or find alternative solutions. If directly asked for his solutions or additional material he always has great references or resources to refer me to expand my knowledge more. In addition, he was always able to pull some great examples from his personal life to illustrate some of his coaching points.”