EXECUTIVE + TRANSITION COACHING
Your role changed.
The stakes changed.
What does this moment require from you?
I work beside executives and leadership teams when the role, business, or work is asking something different of them.
We work through the real decisions, relationships, behaviors, and leadership moments that determine whether they can meet what is now required.
Leadership transitions are rarely just role transitions.
What is this role asking of you now that it did not require before?
Where does the business need you to spend your leadership attention differently?
What decisions or relationships now require a different version of your leadership?
What are others experiencing from your leadership that you may not see?
What needs to change in how you lead for the work around you to move differently?
Where coaching can be
most useful.
A NEW EXECUTIVE ROLE
When scope, visibility, relationships, and decisions change faster than the leader has had time to adapt.
A SIGNIFICANT LEADERSHIP TRANSITION
Promotion, succession, reorganization, merger, new CEO, new board expectations, or a material change in business responsibility.
A MOMENT OF REINVENTION
When the next stage of leadership requires different behaviors, choices, or ways of creating impact.
GREATER ENTERPRISE RESPONSIBILITY
Moving beyond functional expertise into broader business leadership, influence, and stewardship.
LEADERSHIP TEAM COACHING
When the team needs to make, hold, and carry decisions differently for the business to move.
A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK
When technology, work, and expectations are changing what leadership must do differently.
What leadership asks at this level
Your strengths still matter.
How they need to show up may change.
At higher levels, decisions carry broader consequences, information is less complete, and leadership increasingly happens through others.
The work is not simply knowing more. It is understanding what the role and business now require, seeing your impact on the people and system around you, and adapting how you lead accordingly.
You do not need to have the next version of yourself figured out.
If the role, expectations, or business context have changed, we can start with what the moment is asking of you and where leadership feels hardest right now.
The first conversation is to understand what this moment requires.
Perspective shaped from inside and alongside the work.
28 YEARS BUILDING
EXPERTISE
Across complex organizations, industries and business contexts.
MULTIPLE
SEATS
Executive. Practitioner. Consultant. Advisor. Coach. Client.
WHAT THAT
BRINGS
An understanding of the person, the role, the team, the organization, and the business consequence of how leadership shows up.
INSIDE + ALONGSIDE
Led people. Advised leaders. Built systems. Navigated complexity.
How I can work with you
Executive Coaching
Ongoing thought partnership around leadership effectiveness, live decisions, stakeholder dynamics, behavior, and enterprise impact.
Executive Transition + new role Coaching
Focused support before, during, and after a significant leadership transition, including role clarity, stakeholder strategy, early decisions, and 30/60/90-day priorities.
Leadership Team Coaching
Focused work on real business decisions, accountability, challenge, trust, team operating patterns, and how the team works together.
executive advisory + Coaching
For leaders who need both coaching and experienced executive perspective as consequential decisions and organizational conditions evolve.
Additional coaching services
Transition Coaching + Inflection-Point Work
Concentrated work for a specific decision, transition, relationship or leadership moment.
What served you before may still be a strength.
It may just need to show up differently now.
About Pure Momentum + Kerry
ABOUT PURE MOMENTUM
Pure Momentum asks different questions before accepting the obvious explanation. We help leaders close the gap between what the business now requires and how leadership, people, technology, and organizational systems are actually working together to deliver it.
ABOUT KERRY
Kerry Hearns-Smith is an organizational psychologist, executive advisor, coach, and former enterprise executive with 25+ years of experience across complex organizations.
She brings a human and organizational lens to leadership, helping executives understand how their decisions and behavior travel through the organization and what the role, team, and business now require from them.
The role may change. The purpose does not.
Leadership has to keep becoming capable
of what the work now requires.
When the need sits somewhere else
Pure Momentum
When the source of the gap is still unclear.
Start with a clearer understanding of what is actually shaping
the situation before deciding what needs to change.
Enterprise Capability
When the work is clear, but the organization needs leadership or capability to make it real.
Bring experienced leadership or specialized capability directly into the work.
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