Farah Hussain, Executive Coach for Ambitious CEOs
MBA, CPCC, PCC
You wish you could get your team to think like you, I get it. Even as you value their diverse skills and perspectives.
You keep a high standard, and you want your leaders to think far into the future while executing for the short-term.
How can you help your team think even bigger and stay the course, especially through waves of change?
The answer lies in helping your leaders work with what's visible to them...and to help them see what isn't. Broadening their perspective as they recommit to their agency and purpose as a team. I'm here to help.
My Coaching Approach
I started listening to my long-standing intuition to get trained as a coach when colleagues across multiple departments sought my guidance at once.
My executive coaching approach today merges techniques from four coach training programs with nearly two decades of global corporate leadership experience and more than 700 hours of executive coaching.
My lived experience in understanding both dominant and minority perspectives also influences the coaching approach I take, the frameworks we develop, and the options we consider to accelerate your team's effectiveness and growth.
COACHING CREDENTIALS
My Lived (Corporate) Experience
When I first started coaching, I worked with leaders privately while working as a director in tech. Four years of leading teams while coaching "on the side" kept me close as a coach to the challenges leaders deal with day-to-day. It allowed me to see scenarios both from a coach's lens and from the lens of the leader in the trenches.
My greatest growth as a leader came from advancing at PayPal as it transitioned through many stages of growth: a spin-off from eBay, IPO, a rise to the Fortune 200, and competitive pressures that kept us on our toes. I managed up, down, across, and externally. I led multiple “firsts,” managed people on different continents, and launched programs in 13+ countries. I was promoted 3x in 5 years. And I stayed for another 5.
I gained a reputation for "making anything possible." It's why now I merge my coaching skills with my execution excellence to help leadership teams to do the impossible, even in disruptive times.
My Lived (Personal) Experience
As the daughter of immigrants to the U.S., I know what it’s like to straddle different worlds. While being in the minority comes with its own challenges, the ability to see multiple perspectives at once is incredibly valuable in leadership and business. It’s one of the reasons why coaching leaders to see multiple perspectives is so important to me.
All of my clients are driven by a desire to have a big impact. It's not lost on me that many of them chose to work with me because they saw me as someone who has had to push through barriers to growth. I'm a woman of color who advanced into leadership levels where there are few people who look like me.
Coaching involves vulnerability, whether it's one-on-one or in a team setting. My personal relatability, clients have told me, helped them to open up and navigate challenges in ways they felt they could not easily in other environments.
My Mission and Values
My mission is to empower leadership teams to do the impossible, even in disruptive times. The world is becoming increasingly diverse and dynamic. Teams who can see far into the future, execute towards a big vision, and adapt to the changing ways that people engage along the way are the ones who will succeed.
My core values are impact, oneness, and transformation.
- IMPACT - We focus on delivering progressive outcomes. We are intentional with our words and our actions. We hold ourselves to a high standard of excellence because we recognize that our choices have power.
- ONENESS - We respect the interconnectivity between everyone and everything in our universe. We seek to live in community with deep integrity. We lean in as individuals to contribute to the whole.
- TRANSFORMATION - We make the effort to evolve continuously to be our best selves. We create supportive environments for everyone in our spaces to do the same. We believe that when people take responsibility, and they feel empowered, anything is possible.