“It is a privilege to be invited in on another person’s journey of self-discovery, learning and growth.” – Clay Parcells

I worked with Clay as my Executive Mentor during a year of leadership development with a fellowship I was fortunate to get. The work done with Clay has been transformational for me. Clay is a wonderfully warm person who immediately connects with the person he is working with. His style was perfect for me, as he didn't give me answers, rather he unlocked my inner potential and pushed me to find those answers from within. The result is very powerful. Suddenly I found myself in a much better position, more self assured in a leadership role. In addition, I brought in Clay to work with my leadership team and the results were phenomenal. Clay facilitated a team retreat in October and the team still lives the skills learned at that time. This has made work much more effective and efficient in so many ways.

I learned a great deal working with Clay. The biggest take away was developing my emotional intelligence skill of self awareness. I learned how my behavior impacts others I work with. I also learned the triggers that caused me to show up as a non-resourceful leader. With Clay's help I was also able to develop key self and relationship management skills to adjust my behavior.
My work has enabled me to be more effective with my team and others. It has also greatly improved my presence and my communication with others.
I highly recommend working with Clay.

I started this program with Clay as part of my work training and leadership within the work environment. I can truly say this has been a life changing experience. My profile revealed that I needed to work on some personal issues and I couldn't see how that would help my work and leadership skills but in a very short year, the change has been evident to myself, my family, my personal friends and co workers. This in turn has had a HUGE ripple effect for work and helped me thru a transition time in my career. It has revitalized my love for my job and myself and more importantly Clay has taught me how to coach myself. He has been instrumental at letting me look at myself and how I affect others. I can't recommend him enough. It is rare to find someone who can coach, be an advocate and also help you find for yourself the hard truth when needed.

I began my work with Clay at time of transition at work and at home. The work we did helped me expand my real time attention to how I took in and reacted to my environment and how that influenced what motivated me, how I showed up, and both led and supported team members. The different tools we used were insightful and worked together well to paint a well rounded view of my leadership style and how my strengths /weaknesses were perceived. It was a very valuable experience. Clay was also very flexible regarding how we structured our work together. I highly recommend Clay.

I learned so much working with Clay. By explaining my story to him, I realized how much of it showed up in my leadership and relationships. It helped realize what I needed to work on and change to be more effective.
My work with Clay has helped me increase my consciousness and self awareness, improve my communications in a more confident and courageous way, and positively impacted my leadership presence.
Clay used two powerful assessments (the Leadership Circle Profile and Enneagram), provided useful homework, asked great questions and adjusted the pace of our work especially after I received my 360 feedback.
I am extremely satisfied how our work has helped me grow as a leader and person. I highly recommend Clay.

I was extremely satisfied with the work I did with Clay. I learned a great deal about myself which impacted my effectiveness as a leader. Sharing my story with Clay helped me to identify some of my behaviors which are rooted deep in my own experiences. I gained a sense of self that I did not have before which allows me to let things go and view vulnerability differently and see its value in what I perceived as a weakness before.
Clay helped me improve my leadership presence and my emotional intelligence which enabled others to see my leadership differently. Clay is a excellent listener. He provided me useful tools, resources and leadership articles to support me. I highly recommend his services and approach.

I was extremely satisfied with my work with Clay. Clay's process and assessments he used: The Leadership Circle 360 and Enneagram were the key. I not only learned about myself and how I can leverage my resourceful strengths, I also learned about my leadership skills and strengths and how I am perceived by others. Finally, I learned how to coach my team instead of directing and telling then what to do. All this has led to improved teamwork, relationships. communications and greater self awareness. Clay was always organized, prepared and coached me by actively listening and asking more questions instead of providing me the answers. I highly recommend Clay as an executive coach.

I had the distinct pleasure of working with Clay for several months. His holistic approach to identifying genuine strengths and weaknesses was especially helpful. Clay is direct and will challenge his clients to be the best they can be. He ensure confidentiality throughout the relationship resulting in a strong trust between himself and the candidate. I would strongly recommend Clay to anyone seeking an effective leadership coaching experience.

I wanted to thank Clay for his excellent work at Carr Properties. Clay is dedicated, hard working and balanced in his approach. He is appropriately demanding with both the people he has been hired to coach and in getting their superiors involved. He is direct and uses a "tough-love" approach. He gives his clients hands on, practical ways to approach their deficits and encourages them to not only be accountable but to hold the person to which they report to also be engaged in the process.

He is results oriented and absorbs the company dynamic very quickly.

If you want some wisdom and advice that you can sink your teeth into then hire Clay. There is no fluff, it is all stuff you can implement the next day and for your career thereafter.

I recommend him without reservation.

When I met initially with Clay, we reviewed some of the issues our company and a number of key executives were facing. Eight months later I can report that because of Clay's insights, listening skills, problems solving, and coaching our company leadership has make enormous progress towards maximizing our corporate and individual potential. With respect to our initial assessment, Clay over delivered. He will be a valuable resource to our team in the future. I highly recommend him to any company executives who need coaching help to move "the ball down the field."