… Balancing objectivity with empathy
For more than 20 years, Dr. Lisa Webb has been pushing the envelope beyond conventional consulting to incorporate business strategy, human behavior, and psychology for C-level executives to realize equivalent success at home as in the boardroom.
Cost-benefit analysis is critical to implementing new products or services.
This analysis is also critical to evaluate how relationships impact bottom line business costs.
High-conflict relationship stress in executive families costs U.S. employers $6 billion annually.
Stress costs corporations an estimated $2.5 billion per year with equal amounts of cost to business in terms of alcoholism, absenteeism and depression.
Divorce is rated the second most stressful life event, following the death of a spouse or child. Severe marital or family issues can become an emotional roller coaster that impacts the executive’s productivity. Thus, corporations should consider their executives’ relationship success a top priority.
“An unprofitable work environment results from failing relationships: increased absenteeism and presenteeism (being physically present but mentally absent), decreased health, increased anxiety and stress, and increased health insurance costs. ”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The key is not to prioritize whats on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities"
Stephen Covey, Author, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
"It takes both sides to build a bridge."
Fredrik Nael
The Executive Relationship Advisor (ERA) strategy has been crafted over 20 years of working with high performing executives and entrepreneurs with their spouses, partners and families. It provides a roadmap for thinking differently about successful relationships-- and tangible actions you can implement to maximize relationship investments and relationship capital.
Address communication issues and help to repair organizational leader's broken relationships. This is accomplished by developing your situational leadership capacity, strengthening your executive presence, improving your emotional intelligence and addressing behavior that derails your path to advancement at work and in personal relationships.
Much as a business may need to modify its strategic plan to keep up with changing market needs, partners may need to revisit the inner workings of their relationship. Concierge consultation services help relationships move from a state of confusion and conflict to one of clarity and harmony.
Solution-focused, strategic coaching with the Executive Relationship Advisor is productive and efficient. By applying proven techniques you will acquire new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving in relationships. The result is lasting positive change.
Marital/Relationship Urgent Interventions may be after infidelity, or when one or both spouses are in the midst of an affair with their work life.
Retreats teach Executive Marriage Solution principals and assist partners to implement new approaches “in action” thereby leading to increased self-awareness and effective engagement in crucial conversations.
There is a belief that to be successful, executives must choose between career and family.
Many say they feel they must be “married” to their work, and that it takes too much time to cultivate a successful marriage or committed relationship.
The key to finding success in your marriage is to invest as much energy in your relationship as you do in your profession.
About 90 percent of CEOs struggle with work-life balance. Several executive clients of mine are very successful in business, yet their difficulties with work-life balance have caused them to make choices that have deeply affected those they love.
Contrary to popular opinion, you can enjoy both a thriving career and a fulfilling family life. Simply apply the work ethic, strategy and discipline you honed in your profession to your marriage. Choose where you want to allocate your time and energy.
Over time many execs choose to internalize their professional stress because it seems like “too much work” to share their feelings with their spouse. As a result they don’t feel “understood” by the person who is supposed to be their closest confidant.
If you no longer feel understood by your partner, look in the mirror. Are you engaged in what they say, or do you dismiss their concerns as trivial compared to yours? Seek to understand where they are coming from. Once they feel heard by you, their tendency to listen will be greater.
Executives admitted to finding their positions intensely lonely. The chief executive is typically the most isolated person in the company. This role accounts for such a small percentage of the population, and CEOs simply don’t have peers within their companies.
Very few people succeed by building walls around them. By building a wall, you are metaphorically isolating yourself. Although it may feel “safer” to shut your significant partner out, more often than not doing so will amplify the disconnect in your relationship. Push past conflict by building a bridge instead.
Hello, I am Dr. Lisa M. Webb (“Dr. Lisa”), the author of The Executive Marriage Solution: Translating Boardroom Success into Bedroom Bliss. I am an entrepreneur, President and CEO of Body & Mind Consulting (www.bodymindtn.com), a multidisciplinary concierge wellness practice.
Over the last 25 years as an organizational development consultant and business professional (MBA in International Business) and 18 years in clinical practice (Doctorate, Clinical Psychologist) I have had the good fortune to work with CEOs and their leadership teams within technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare and not-for-profit sectors. I owe my success as a trusted advisor with industry thought leaders to my ability to speak “business” with a “human” perspective.
Solution focused, strategic coaching makes working with me extremely productive.The application of success metrics and corporate strategy with evidence based techniques leads to my clients acquiringnew ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving— thereby leading to lasting positive change.
For a confidential consultation contact my assistant at clientrelations@bodymindtn.com . I look forward to learning more about your situation and if EMS can assist in translating your professional success to a new approach to realize a more blissful life with those important to you.
Dr. Lisa has an uncanny ability to mirror what is occurring within my work and personal life and then articulate what’s actually occurring. This insight, from both a business and personal standpoint, provided awareness that was invaluable. I recommend her without hesitation.
C.J., President, Biotechnology startup
Her relationship advising allowed me to take the knowledge that led me to be a successful entrepreneur and capitalize on this success at home to be a better husband and father. I am pleased to say that we have ceased talking about marriage dissolution and begun a strategy for our future.
Paul M, Chief Nursing Officer
Dr. Lisa asks the right questions that lead me and my partner to very solid decisions. She has helped us to focus and prioritize. Through this we have been better able to look at problems in different ways and therefore find meaningful sustainable solutions. I am a better leader and wife today because of the relationship advising I received from her.
E.K., CEO, Healthcare Company
Dr. Lisa does not make decisions for you--- she works with you to develop ways to deal with situations using your own background and knowledge. I have come to regard her as an absolutely trustworthy business advisor that is not afraid to say the “hard things” that may initially cause discomfort, then lead to significant insight for change.
T.J., Chief Operations Officer, Fortune 500 Telecommunications Company
She helped guide me to surround myself with people who were supportive of my marriage and business success and to decrease the energy I was spending on tasks and relationships that drained the lifeblood from both. The increased balance and prioritization has shifted my home life from a place of avoidance to one of refuge now that my wife and I are in alignment with our goals now and for the future. Thank you!
J.P., CFO Manufacturing Company
The higher I have risen within my organizationthe more I have felt isolated and needed an outside perspective and encouragement. I am grateful for finding her and feel her insights to be invaluable for the significant relationships in my personal and professional life.
T.T., SVP Technology Support Team
Professionally my career was in an upward trajectory while my personal life was on a downturn. Dr. Lisa’s business sense, relationship insight and balanced ability to call me and my partner out of each of our respective parts in the downturn of our relationship was profound. You do not have to choose between success at work or at home—but managing both takes work and navigation. Dr. Lisa provides the roadmap you have to do the work. We are in a much more solid place in our relationship thanks to Dr. Lisa’s insights.
T.B., CFO, Major Metropolitan Hospital
Working with Dr. Lisa was the best decision I’ve made in my marriage and in my career. Her knowledge of the corporate world was instrumental in helping me to manage both increased pressures of my new VP position while continuing to nurture my family life.She has been a vital resource to me and I look forward to our continuing relationship.
J.M., VP of Sales
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