Executive and Leadership Coaching

Personal and career growth is hard work and sometimes we need expert guidance. It’s more than hard. Sometimes if feels downright impossible.

Enter OptaExec Executive Coaching Solutions. Executive coaching solutions for aspiring executives. We are experts in one thing – growing you and your teams to maximum potential.  Wherever you’re stuck, we can help.

You are trying to develop your team, manage your business and have a personal life. All the while there is that nagging feeling that this isn’t what you signed up for or that there is more to life than what you are experiencing. Somehow the clarity and confidence to make decisions isn’t so clear to you. And somehow it seems like your best is no longer good enough.

Welcome to life as a busy business executive or business owner.

If only you could get more clarity around what it is you want to do in 5 years, or 1 year or even next month

If only you could build a high performing team and develop your high potential talent — the ones who are motivated to work hard for the money you’re paying them.

If only you could get beyond that nagging feeling – you know the one. Will I get that promotion, will I receive the raise I think I deserve or will I improve my job prospects or how do I become a better leader.

Well… you can!
It’s time. Contact us or download our free report: What to look for in Executive Coaching.

Building a more cohesive team, developing yourself or your high potential talent?

We first help you and your teams develop a strategic plan and then not only help align everyone to the key goals of your business, we make certain you have the right players on the bus and we coach them to their fullest potential. We offer full business and executive coaching packages to get your business moving in the right direction and a la carte solutions depending on the needs of your business.

Want to get that promotion, new job or find fulfillment right where you are?

We have a tailored to you senior executive coaching program that starts with truly understanding your values and vision for life. We agree on very specific and measurable goals and offer a wide range of tools for the coaching relationship. We coach the whole person looking at fulfillment, balance and the everyday issues that are causing you to be stuck where you are and help you get to where you want to be.

Are your sales and operations processes holding your team back?

We have tailored programs and best in class experience at getting your teams back on track and understanding constraints in your business. We help you deliver the financial and process results you and your customers are looking for.

Want to finally go out and start that business of your dreams?

We can offer professional help and guidance to generate immediate sales, create competition-crushing marketing, develop compelling offers and map out your entire sales process so you know exactly what to do and when.

Skeptical?

Yeah, I get it.

With thousands of people offering business coaching and consulting on their “proprietary” ideas at ridiculous rates, I’m not surprised that you can’t be bothered. In fact, I’m surprised that you’re still reading…

What does the average business coach, consultant, or trainer really know about running a business of their own, much less one like yours?

I couldn’t agree more. Good business success coaching is hard to come by.

Most of it is nothing but repackaged and regurgitated common sense you can find on the business bookshelves at Barnes and Noble.

But not so with OptaExec Coaching

OptaExec & OptaProfit

Experienced executives and experienced entrepreneurs serving executives and entrepreneurs. Need executive coaching for growth? Call now for your FREE Consultation. No pie-in-the-sky. No generic ideas. No hard sell. Just straight-forward analysis of your team-building skills and executive coaching needs.

 

Our Founder and CEO

Don Vanpool is a seasoned executive and coach recognized for building systems, teams and growth platforms over the past 20+ years. He has started 3 businesses, worked as a GE Executive, in Private Equity and served in the U.S. military.

He is currently the CEO of OptaExec an executive coaching firm and OptaProfit a business coaching company focused on executives looking to make the transition to entrepreneurial life. Don has coached and developed 100s of executives in corporate America while delivering business results in industries as diverse as medical device manufacturing, banking/financial services and digital education.

He served as a military officer in the 82nd Airborne Division and has an MBA from the University of Chicago. He recently built a 6 figure coaching business while maintaining his “day” job. Master Black Belt certified by the General Electric Company where he certified and trained over 500 people delivering profitability improvements of $50mm in areas such as sales process, new product introductions, pricing and supply chain operations.

Key Career Highlights

  • As part of a Private Equity strategy championed cross functional teams in operating companies to define delivery of service and built consensus on roadmaps resulting in $20mm in revenue and EBITDA.


  • Created frameworks and approach improving working capital. Coached teams in developing strategy to achieve $160MM in cash generation in preparation for an IPO.
  • Developed the strategy and approach to supply chain operations for a $20BN healthcare device business resulting in a $300MM improvement in revenue conversion, a 60% improvement in on-time delivery, and a 20% improvement in working capital
  • Led a major sales originations process redesign for GE Capital resulting in $25mm in profitability improvements
  • Created lean six sigma programs in GE and a regional bank resulting in a 50% improvement in service delivery and $30mm in profitability improvement
  • He also led U.S. paratroopers in combat arms training maneuvers as part of a quick-reaction paratrooper division.

Our Founder and CEO

Don Vanpool is a seasoned executive and coach recognized for building systems, teams and growth platforms over the past 20+ years. He has started 3 businesses, worked as a GE Executive, in Private Equity and served in the U.S. military.

He is currently the CEO of OptaExec an executive coaching firm and OptaProfit a business coaching company focused on executives looking to make the transition to entrepreneurial life. Don has coached and developed 100s of executives in corporate America while delivering business results in industries as diverse as medical device manufacturing, banking/financial services and digital education.

He served as a military officer in the 82nd Airborne Division and has an MBA from the University of Chicago. He recently built a 6 figure coaching business while maintaining his “day” job. Master Black Belt certified by the General Electric Company where he certified and trained over 500 people delivering profitability improvements of $50mm in areas such as sales process, new product introductions, pricing and supply chain operations.

Key Career Highlights

  • As part of a Private Equity strategy championed cross functional teams in operating companies to define delivery of service and built consensus on roadmaps resulting in $20mm in revenue and EBITDA.


  • Created frameworks and approach improving working capital. Coached teams in developing strategy to achieve $160MM in cash generation in preparation for an IPO.
  • Developed the strategy and approach to supply chain operations for a $20BN healthcare device business resulting in a $300MM improvement in revenue conversion, a 60% improvement in on-time delivery, and a 20% improvement in working capital
  • Led a major sales originations process redesign for GE Capital resulting in $25mm in profitability improvements
  • Created lean six sigma programs in GE and a regional bank resulting in a 50% improvement in service delivery and $30mm in profitability improvement
  • He also led U.S. paratroopers in combat arms training maneuvers as part of a quick-reaction paratrooper division.

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