For CEOs and senior executives who lead with faith and values

Executive Coaching for Leaders Who Carry the Weight of the Room

The one room where your strategy, your numbers, and your prayers sit at the same table. Make hard decisions with clarity and peace, and lead without burning out.

Make your next big decision in days, not months.
Walk into the board meeting clear and ready.
Go home with energy left for your family.

Book a Free Clarity Call Meet Grace

Free. Thirty minutes. No pressure.

ICF Professional Certified Coach · More than 10,000 hours developing leaders · Twenty-five years with CEOs

"Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings."

Proverbs 22:29

Does this sound like you?

Every big decision lands on your desk.

You have no one safe to think out loud with.

You pray about big decisions, but you still make them alone.

You want your faith and your work to line up.

Your team brings you problems, not solutions.

You are tired, and you cannot let it show.

You don't lack drive or talent. You lack a room. At the top, honest feedback stops. Small blind spots grow into costly ones, and you carry them alone.

It's not your fault

Somewhere you were taught to carry it alone.

You were told that leaders keep their doubts to themselves. That faith belongs at home, not at work. That asking for counsel looks weak. That advice is costing you. Scripture says the opposite.

"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."

Proverbs 15:22

Why leaders choose Grace

Excellence in business. Faith in the room.

Most coaches leave faith at the door. I don't. I have served as a marketplace minister since 2000, and I have coached leaders since 2008. We work on your strategy, your team, and your numbers. And if you want to, we pray about the decisions that keep you up at night. Strong faith or simply curious, you are welcome.

They say mastery takes 10,000 hours. Grace passed that mark years ago.

10,000+

Hours coaching and developing leaders

Years working with CEOs and senior leaders

2008

Coaching executives since

150+

Assessment coaching sessions at a single college

Client Testimonials

Hear from Grace's Clients

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Real results

Names are kept private. The results are real.

25% savings

She asked for 20%. We found 25%.

The owner of a school food company needed to cut costs by twenty percent. I sat with her team, asked five questions, and studied the numbers. We found a better deal on a major supplier contract. The savings came to twenty-five percent, and the company doubled the number of schools it serves.

Best job of his career

The leader in the hospital bed

A senior executive faced a health crisis and a career change at the same time. He was scared, and he could not see a way forward. We worked through both, one step at a time. He told me he had never had an experience like it. He went on to land the best job of his career.

Three promotions

Promoted in eight months

She was a new leader at a large hospital system. It was the middle of the pandemic, and she was afraid to speak up. We built her plan step by step. Eight months later, her new boss made an exception to company policy to promote her early. She has been promoted twice more since then.

Front desk to executive suite

From blame to ownership

She felt blamed every time the office copier broke. I showed her the real problem was not the copier. It was the missing maintenance plan. She learned to own the problems in her lane and solve them before they grew. Today she supports the top executives of a large organization.

Who Is Grace Carleton

A peer who understands the loneliness of the summit.

Leadership Expert

More than 10,000 hours coaching and developing leaders over twenty-five years. Executive coaching since 2008.

Confidential Advisor

A safe place to test your ideas before they reach your board.

Enterprise Partner

Coaching tied to what matters most: your board, your next leaders, and your numbers.

Credentialed Coach

ICF-PCC and iPEC ACTP certified. Also certified by Korn Ferry in KF360, Learning Agility, and the Inclusive Leader.

Grace has dyslexia. It taught her to plan every step and see what others miss. Read her story.

Where Grace has led, coached, and trained

IBM · Texas Instruments · Xerox · J. C. Penney · Sun Microsystems · NTTA · Korn Ferry · Cedar Valley College · Dallas ISD

What I believe

Most people want to be their best. They just need someone to show them how.

I have believed this for my whole career. When people feel safe, they grow. That is why I create what I call sacred spaces: rooms where leaders are both supported and challenged. And I coach the whole person. The most successful leaders I know have lives that line up: professional, personal, and spiritual.

Grace Carleton

How it works

The Sacred Space Method

Four steps. Simple, private, and built around you.

Clarity call

Thirty minutes, free. Tell me what is not working.

See the pattern

A short assessment, plus the skill I built to overcome dyslexia: spotting the pattern others miss. You see how you lead, how you react under pressure, and what keeps tripping you up.

Counsel at the table

Meet monthly, one-on-one or in the CEO Forum. Bring real decisions. Leave with a plan.

Commit in writing

Every session ends with what you will start, what you will stop, and how you will measure it. We review it every month.

Why it works: most coaching stops at advice. This method ends every month with a written commitment and someone who checks.

The Flagship Offer

The CEO Forum

A private room of CEOs who carry the same weight and share your values. Bring your hardest decisions. Get honest advice from peers and one-on-one coaching from Grace.

The first forum begins in January 2027. Twelve founding seats.

Your 2027 decisions are being made this quarter. Make them with counsel.

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Choose your path

Three ways to work with Grace.

The CEO Forum

A private peer group for CEOs. Monthly sessions, two retreats a year, and one-on-one coaching. By invitation.

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