Navigate Critical Transitions.
Build Leadership Capacity.
Thrive for Generations.


Leadership coaching and team development that sets your business up for long term success—even when you’re not in the room.

Coaching & Strategy for Businesses in Transition


Whether you’re building your leadership bench, preparing the next generation, or planning your own transition, Authentic Impact Business Coaching provides hands-on guidance and structured programs that help your business grow through change—not just survive it.

Our signature programs are designed to meet leaders where they are and move them toward lasting clarity, confidence, and alignment.

Leadership Audits & Assessments

Identify gaps in communication, accountability, and alignment across your leadership team. Our leadership audits combine team assessments, stakeholder interviews, and communication reviews to uncover strengths, weak points, and opportunities for growth.

Alignment
Workshops

Break down silos and bring everyone onto the same page. These workshops align your leadership team around a shared mission, clarify roles and responsibilities, and help you operationalize your company’s Core Promise.

Executive Coaching

Through personalized coaching, we equip founders, emerging leaders, and next-generation successors with the skills and confidence to lead effectively. Our approach blends strategic insight with empathy—helping leaders grow without losing what sets them apart.

Communication & Conflict Coaching

When leaders learn to communicate with honesty and empathy, alignment follows—and so does momentum. We’ll help your team build the skills to communicate clearly, address conflict early, and create a culture of accountability and respect. 

Succession Readiness

Succession planning isn’t a single event—it’s a process. We help founders and leadership teams design transition plans, build trust in new leaders, and create systems that keep the business strong. And once the plan is in place, we provide ongoing support throughout the transition.

The Authentic Impact Method™


A proven 4-step framework to protect your legacy and prepare leaders who carry out your vision.

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A Proven Framework for Lasting Leadership


Every business faces transition—growth, succession, or simply the shift from founder-led to team-driven.



The Authentic Impact Method™ helps founders and leadership teams navigate those changes with clarity and structure, ensuring what you’ve built continues to grow.

Audit

Find the Gaps Before They Become Risks

You can’t fix what you can’t define. The Audit phase gives you a clear picture of where leadership, communication, and culture are strong—and where they’re holding you back.

Through leadership audits and team assessments, we help you identify the barriers that prevent healthy communication, collaboration, and accountability.

You’ll walk away with a comprehensive audit report that pinpoints risks, highlights strengths, and lays the foundation for leadership alignment.

Tools & Deliverables:


  • Leadership Assessments: Comprehensive individual and team-based evaluations (DISC, Driving Forces, etc.) to uncover blind spots.
  • Stakeholder Interviews: Get honest insights to reveal misalignment and tension points.
  • Communication Reviews: We’ll stress test your organization for an analysis of how information flows (and where it breaks down).
  • Employee Engagement Assessment: Evaluate how connected, motivated, and aligned your employees feel—and identify opportunities to strengthen team culture and retention.

Tools & Deliverables:


  • Core Promise Workshop: Define what sets your business apart and embed it into your leadership culture.
  • Roles & Goals Mapping: Clarify responsibilities, reporting lines, and success measures for every key leader.
  • Leadership Strategy Alignment: Facilitate team-wide alignment sessions to ensure strategic clarity and ownership.

Align

Get Everyone on the Same Page

Once we know what’s working and what’s not, together we rebuild alignment around your company’s Core Promise—the values, quality, and purpose that made you successful in the first place.


Through guided leadership workshops and strategy sessions, we’ll help break down silos, clarify decision-making, and ensure everyone understands how their work connects to the company’s mission.


You’ll walk away with a comprehensive audit report that pinpoints risks, highlights strengths, and lays the foundation for leadership alignment.

Equip

Develop Confident, Capable Leaders

When leaders grow, businesses grow. The Equip phase builds confidence, competence, and trust—especially in next-generation or newly promoted leaders stepping into larger roles.


Moving from the shop floor to the executive suite requires a shift in mindset, behaviors, and habits. It’s not about doing more work; it’s about thinking differently. Through one-on-one and team coaching, we help leaders step into authority with authenticity, make better decisions, and lead with greater clarity.


Leaders leave this phase with the confidence and tools to lead effectively—without constant oversight from the founder.

Tools & Deliverables:


  • One-on-One Executive Coaching: We create tailored sessions for founders, successors, and key managers.
  • Next-Gen Leadership Development: Coaching that helps “the owner’s kid” and young leaders step into authority with authenticity.
  • Team Communication Coaching: Practical frameworks for holding meetings, giving feedback, and maintaining accountability.

Tools & Deliverables:


  • Succession Planning Framework: Create a clear, actionable plan for founder transition and leadership continuity.
  • Accountability Rhythms: Establish meeting cadences and communication systems that keep teams connected.
  • Onboarding Systems: Build scalable structures that bring new leaders into the culture with confidence.
  • Long-Term Coaching Partnership: Optional ongoing advisory support for leadership teams post-transition

Sustain

Build Systems That Outlast You

Legacy isn’t a plan on paper—it’s a system that keeps working long after you’ve stepped back. The Sustain phase turns leadership alignment into long-term stability through practical structures and rhythms.


We work closely with you to build sustainable systems that preserve culture, accountability, and clarity—generation after generation.


This is how Authentic Impact ensures your business stays strong, aligned, and true to its core promise—long after you step away.

Coaching for Women in Business


Leadership doesn’t always look like grit alone.

Penny created Grit & Grace for women in business who want to hone their leadership skills and their confidence—without burning out or losing themselves in the process.

Through mastermind-style group coaching and community, Grit & Grace helps women align purpose and profit, creating a healthy business, a healthy mindset, and a fulfilling life.

You’ll Learn To:

  • Define success on your own terms.
  • Build systems that support both growth and balance.
  • Develop a leadership style that’s confident, authentic, and sustainable.
  • Connect with other women who understand the unique pressures of leadership.
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