From Consultant to Corporate Executive:
How to Navigate a Big Career Change
How to Navigate a Big Career Change
Do you know the 7 biggest challenges former consultants face in the corporate world?
Do you know the 5 biggest mistakes consultants make when moving to corporate jobs?
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Does this story sound like someone you know? Does this story sound like you?
Meet Victor Prince - The Executive Coach for Former Consultants in Corporate Leadership
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Are you a former management consultant who has moved into a corporate executive role?
Are you seeking to understand new colleagues who don't share a consulting mindset?
Are you analytically-driven and have to work to connect with people who are not?
Are you a clear, concise communicator who toils to understand people who are not?
Are you used to a fast-paced, results-driven environment and get frustrated by the pace and politics in a large corporation?
Are you an innovative thought-leader seeking a peer outside your organization as a sounding board?
Victor Prince is a different kind of executive coach. He understands the challenges of transitioning from consulting to corporate roles because he's done it. He became an executive coach to help people like him make similar transitions.
As a Chief Operating Officer (COO), Victor led a team with 300+ people and $100+ million of budget. As a strategy consultant, he advised senior executives across six countries and several industries. As a noted leadership book author, he helps leaders find innovative ways to provide the best leadership to their teams.
Victor applies proven tools and techniques to help executives identify the root causes of their problems and implement the solutions that will work for them. These techniques begin with an understanding of each client's situation, their thinking and communication style, their interests and behavioral traits, and their performance goals to find the best approach for their success.
Contact Victor to learn how he could help you, or a consultant-turned-executive you know, achieve full-potential in a corporate career.
Industry Expertise
Financial Services
Internet Services
Management Consulting
Private Equity Portfolio Companies
Federal / State / Local Government
Work Experience
Bain & Company (Consultant)
Capital One (Marketing Executive)
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Chief Operating Officer)
Geographic Work Experience
United States
United Kingdom
Middle East
Coaching Expertise
Board Certified Coach,
Center for Credentialing & Education
Certified Executive Coach,
Center for Executive Coaching
Member,
International Coaching Federation
How Our Executive Coaching Works
Victor approaches coaching like a consulting project. He helps the client identify their goals and then employs the right information, tools, and techniques to achieve those goals.
A typical engagement has Victor meeting with the client every week or two for six months. The meetings can be over the phone, via a video call, or in-person.
Every client is different, but a typical coaching engagement may look like this:
- Gather Baseline Information - Victor interviews the client's key colleagues to get anonymous feedback on the client's strengths and opportunities for improvement. The client also takes a standardized assessment to measure their working interests and style relative to other people.
- Identify Opportunities for Improvement - Victor reviews the feedback and assessment results with the client. They identify and prioritize the most important things to work on.
- Set Improvement Goals - Victor uses a conversational technique called active inquiry to help the client identify solutions to their problems and opportunities. Each session ends with the client identifying a few next steps they want to do before the next meeting.
- Track Progress to Build Accountability - Each session starts by reviewing the progress on the next steps from previous sessions. Victor uses a web-based tool to help the client track progress.
- Review and Assess - At the end of the six months, Victor interviews the client's key colleagues again to get feedback on the client's strengths and opportunities for improvement, focusing on the areas the client wanted to target. Victor prepares a short summary of the results of the coaching that the client can share with others, as desired.
- Provide Ad Hoc Support As Needed - As needed, Victor can help the client by playing other roles too. He can be a sounding board for new ideas. He can role-play to prepare the client for a crucial conversation or a big meeting. He can help with time management and communication skills. He can facilitate meetings. If needed, Victor can also provide consulting and training as separate engagements.
Client Testimonials
"Victor’s extensive leadership and consulting experience, and his strength in coaching combine to create amazing impact! Victor’s coaching pushed me to think outside of my comfort zone, helped me identify options I hadn’t considered, and develop a plan to take action. I’m excited about the direction, ambition, and clarity his coaching unleashed in me. Victor is an excellent coach, and I highly recommend him."
- Paula, Assistant Director of HR, Management Consulting
"Victor is a gifted Executive Coach. In working with Victor, I noticed that he was truly able to bring the best out in my by helping me breakdown barriers that existing in my mind, which were holding me back from reaching my goals. Victor's approach is steady and intuitive. He was quickly able to help me assess both the opportunities and the path to capitalize on those opportunities. If you are looking for an Executive Coach who can help you realize the your full potential as a leader in your organization, Victor is a great choice!"
- Adam, President of a Distribution Company
"Victor exceeded my expectations during a recent coaching session. By asking great questions, challenging my assumptions, pushing me to really think and answer some of my own questions, and making practical and actionable recommendations he really helped me move an initiative forward. I'd highly recommend engaging him as a coach."
