Executive Coaching

Find Your Personal and Professional Excellence

Discover powerful solutions for you and your team! Understand where you shine and identify areas to elevate to create your path to excellence.

About Lori Gorrell

Lori is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, has a Master of Science in Management, and is a licensed trainer for the Academy for Coaching Excellence. Since 2009, Lori has been working closely with individuals and organizations to be clear about their most important objectives, to manage conflict more productively, improve their communication, measure success, and have a better experience in the workplace. She is passionate about coaching Executive Leaders to help them gain clarity so they can focus on what really matters in their work and beyond.

Lori’s clients describe her as approachable, empowering, and even tenacious as she guides leaders to:

  • Hone their innate abilities
  • Overcome obstacles with a lot more ease
  • Create clarity to inspire and propel their teams to success
  • Find balance in their lives (spoiler alert... it’s not 50/50)

Always growing to offer her clients the best, Lori is embarking on the rigorous process of pursuing her Master Coach Certification. She will provide you and your colleagues with the tools to succeed as a team and work more purposefully together every single day. 

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Our Services

One size coaching never fits all. This is why we have a toolbox of services to meet you where you are and guide you to where you want to be.

Executive Coaching

Accelerate your career growth, develop better relationships with colleagues, and engage your team for maximum impact.

Organizational Health and Strategy

Bring your organization back into alignment and eliminate distractions like unhealthy conflict, missed deadlines, and turnover.

Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0)

Understand your emotional intelligence skills and potential areas for development.

Everything DiSC®

Help your people—and you—gain a better understanding of themselves and others and work stronger together.

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™

Understand how trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results can build a more efficient and effective team.

The Six Types of Working Genius

Maximize joy and fulfillment at work, increase productivity, and boost morale.

Positive Intelligence®

Practice mental fitness to handle challenges with greater positivity—and less stress.

“Worked with Lori while on the Board of Trustees of a non-profit. She was facilitating and coaching our annual retreat workshop. Lori enabled us to focus and accomplish our mission through team collaboration. I highly recommend Lori. She is unbelievable.”

- Chuck W.

“Lori has provided many different and amazing employee development, engagement, and leadership and growth training/programs to our staff and leadership team. She has facilitated training, provided training to the trainer, one-on-one coaching for staff, and individual assessment tools.”

- Jen W.

"It’s been a pleasure working with Lori over the last year. She’s challenged me to be a more effective leader and doesn’t hesitate to provide direct and candid feedback. It hasn’t been easy at times but her encouragement along the way has truly been a blessing."

- David F.

"Lori combines the ability to ask the key, probing, important questions with concrete tools so that I can not only understand the “why” of the situation, but so I can also organize a workable way to address it. I have found this focus on “actionable” content to be very effective."

- Karen W.

“It is not often that I have the privilege of working with people who have that unique combination of people smarts, humility, and passionate desire to help those around them succeed. Well, that is Lori Gorrell. She is an extreme professional and superbly skilled and talented player."

- Frank A.

"Lori is a dynamic leadership development professional who leverages strong interpersonal and communication skills to foster meaningful connections which drive learning. One on one she is a thoughtful and empathetic coach who helps folks become better versions of themselves."

- Melanie S.

"I’ve worked with Lori over the course of 8 years and appreciate her support, challenges, and perspective as I continue my personal development. Her approach creates an opportunity to be a self-reflective leader while understanding the needs of those around me."

- Matthew H.
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