New role. New expectations.
Are you ready to lead with confidence from day one?
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Feeling the pressure to prove yourself fast?
Win trust. Earn credibility. Lead with presence.
Let’s turn overwhelm into momentum and make your first 90 days and beyond count
WATCH NOWYou’ve worked hard to land this role and now the clock is ticking
In your first 90 days, every meeting, every conversation shapes how others see you. It’s about building trust, earning credibility and delivering early wins that matter and positioning yourself to lead with influence across teams, senior stakeholders and at board level in the months to come.
Themes Covered
When starting a new role, your main goal is to make a great first impression, prove your value quickly, and fit into the culture and team. These skills and coaching will help you to do just that
Stakeholder Alliances
Making a first impression and building trust with your key stakeholders is crucial in the first 90 days. Learn how to map your priority influencers, get to know them as people and lead with empathy.
Goal Setting
By prioritizing and detailing a plan of action, we break down your goals for the first year wihtout you getting overhelmed. We will set a reasonable pace of delivering on your goals that helps you gain buy-in.
Imposter Syndrome
Feel like everyone else has it all figured out? The first months in a new role can stir up
ALL the doubts.
Together, we’ll turn that inner critic down - and your leadership voice UP.
How Ensure Success helps you lead with impact from day one
A 12-session focused coaching program to help you build trust, earn credibility and deliver early wins in your first 90 days and lay the foundation for long-term leadership impact
Ebru Ilhan
ESG Senior Manager
Amazon
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Shannon Houde
Executive Leadership and Career Transition Coach
About Shannon
Your coach, mentor and career partner
Shannon Houde has spent two decades mentoring, coaching and training more than 1,700 change leaders and CSOs in the impact sector across 25+ countries and over 5,000 hours of one-to-one support.
She founded Walk of Life, the first-of-its kind international career advisory business focused solely on corporate sustainability and ESG, more than 15 years ago.
As an ICF-certified executive coach accredited in the Leadership Circle Profile™, Shannon was selected as a meta coach for the Goleman Emotional Intelligence certification program. She is a published author of the book "Good Work" and has been a GreenBiz columnist for more than 10 years.
Her coaching is underpinned by 30 years in recruitment and 10 years as a sustainability consultant and in-house practitioner within Fortune 500 companies, management consultancies and recruitment agencies including Adobe, Barclays, BlackRock, Deloitte and WWF as well as...
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Explore how our coaching supports your first 90 days and positions you for lasting leadership influence over your first year. Led by our certified ICF and Emotional Intelligence coach
Leadership Circle Profile™
Imagine holding up a mirror to see the leader within you.
The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) is an innovative breakthrough in 360° profiling. It is the first comprehensive 360° leadership assessment tool to combine core leadership competencies with inner developmental traits, offering a holistic view of your effectiveness as a leader. It integrates:
Creative Competencies – Effective behaviors like fostering relationships, achieving results, and strategic thinking.
Reactive Tendencies – Internal barriers like control, compliance, and protective actions that may limit potential.
With intuitive visuals and a research-backed framework, LCP aligns with your goals to drive growth and performance.
Ready to transform as a leader from the inside out?
As a certified ICF-PCC executive coach since 2017 and an accredited Leadership Circle Profile coach, Shannon was selected as a Meta Coach to teach Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Coach Certification course. She is also certified in Harrison Assessments, The GameChanger Index and Korn Ferry's ESCI 360. PCC credential holders are trained, experienced coaches with a commitment to high ethical standards.Â
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