A THOUGHTFUL Approach To Executive Career & Leadership Coaching
Raising the awareness of leaders to effectively lead themselves and others with CLARITY, CONFIDENCE and COMPASSION
Achieve Career (and Life) Fulfillment
It's not just coaching for your career; we take coaching to a personal level. I believe if you can create peace and fulfillment in your career, you can and will create that in many other areas in your life.
Clarity
Clarity is the cornerstone of effective leadership, igniting purpose and driving success. With a clear vision and understanding, leaders can set specific goals, make informed decisions, and communicate with precision. Clarity aligns teams, fosters motivation, and promotes accountability. It provides a framework for measuring performance, offering feedback, and nurturing growth. Importantly, clarity allows leaders to adapt and adjust, navigating challenges while staying focused on their ultimate goals. I encourage you to embrace the transformative power of clarity in leadership to unlock your true potential, inspire your team, and create your vision of excellence.
confidence
Confidence is the driving force behind effective leadership, igniting trust and guiding teams to extraordinary achievements. A confident leader's unwavering self-assurance inspires belief and motivates others to excel. With confidence, leaders make bold decisions and communicate with clarity and conviction, fostering collaboration and open dialogue. It fuels innovation, encouraging teams to embrace challenges and explore new ideas. Confident leaders navigate uncertainties with ease, making decisive choices and inspiring resilience in their teams. I encourage you to embrace the transformative power of confidence in how you lead yourself and others, unlocking your potential to inspire, guide, and lead with unwavering conviction. Unleash the remarkable power and peace that can be created from confidence, as you continue on your journey to excellence.
Compassion
Compassion puts the bow on these "three Cs." It revolutionizes leadership, creating a culture of empathy, support, and growth. Compassionate leaders inspire and uplift their teams, fostering a sense of belonging and trust. With open hearts, they understand and address the needs and challenges of their team members, providing a safe and inclusive space for communication and collaboration. Compassionate leaders also show themselves compassion. They invest in personal and professional growth, nurturing potential and fostering continuous learning. They prioritize well-being, cultivating resilience and creating a positive work environment. I encourage you to embrace the transformative power of compassion in leadership, inspiring, empowering, and fostering growth for yourself, individuals and teams on the path to success.
Florida's #1 Transformational Leadership Coach
Hakim A. Lakhdar, M.A., M.B.A.
First and foremost, I am a deeply connected and loving father (of identical twin boys) and husband. Throughout my life and career and as part of my coaching, I raise the awareness of mid-to-senior professionals to effectively lead themselves and others with
clarity, confidence and compassion!
Whether you’re a new or established business leader/executive/owner looking to level-up your leadership game, at a significant transition point in your life, exploring a new career direction, craving greater work & life harmony or simply preparing to negotiate a promotion or raise, I can help! I coach and counsel mid-to-senior professionals in leadership roles, helping them to identify key strengths and accomplishments, address and resolve any and all limiting beliefs/blockers, all while helping to create a plan (and perhaps more importantly, a mindset) for you to achieve your short and long-term career goals.
I've had the great privilege of living many lives and exploring a number of interesting and challenging paths. From playing music at Florida State across the Southeast and then at Irish Kevin's in Key West for a short stint to working with a couple South Florida talent agents as an actor and stunt/driving professional being featured in several well-known Spanish soap operas. It's always been an adventure and I wouldn't trade a single moment of it because it's brought me right where I'm meant to be.
I now work as an NLP-certified Executive Coach who has been working in the legal profession as a "non-lawyer" for nearly 15 years at such places as the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), Harvard Law School (HLS) and most recently, University of Miami's School of Law. I am also certified in Conversational Hypnosis, T.I.M.E. (time integration for maximum empowerment) Techniques, EFT Tapping as well as Success and Life Coaching. Throughout my career, I have been responsible for managing teams (big and small, domestic and international), always involved in some aspect of coaching, advising, or professional development.
After receiving my master's degree from Indiana University, I worked in Washington, D.C. at the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative, where I supported international recruitment efforts, reviewing thousands of resumes and applications, conducting interviews, on-boarding new staff, and helping to lead intensive orientation sessions for new employees and Pro Bono Legal Specialists preparing to work abroad. Later, as a Program Officer and the Legal Profession Reform Deputy Coordinator, I went on to develop and manage various legal reform programs as well as support and train the local staff in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Following my time in Washington, D.C., I moved to Massachusetts to assume a management role with Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Center on the Legal Profession, Case Development Initiative and Executive Education Program. There, I was responsible for finance and operations, fundraising and development, space management, and major event planning for both the research center and HLS's Executive Education leadership programs. During my time at HLS, my love of coaching blossomed and from that passion, I helped launch and administer a successful staff-development program (Emerging Leaders) while also serving as management chair on a union/non-union staff joint council. It was during this time that I also successfully pursued my M.B.A. in International Management and Marketing from Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
Most recently, prior to taking my practice full-time, I served as the Director of Professional and Intellectual Life Programming at University of Miami School of Law. In this role I was charged with helping to identify, design and promote professional development (i.e., Executive Education) programming and continuing legal education (CLEs) for legal professionals from the U.S. and abroad with added attention to budget management, sponsorship generation, and relationship-building. Additionally, I worked directly with the Vice-Dean of Intellectual Life to promote, market and celebrate faculty scholarship and their other achievements to enhance the reputation and visibility of the Law School. Prior to leaving Miami Law, I took on the additional role of Executive Liaison for Joint Degree and Interdisciplinary Programs, where I helped market the various offerings, guided and advised current and incoming students and fostered strong relationships with partner UM Schools and other institutions connected with Miami Law.
Taking the leap from the traditional "9-5" into business for myself was something that required a lot of reflection, conversation and planning with my partner and...trust...trust that I would create it all for myself, my family, my clients. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't reflect on how happy and blessed I am to be doing the work I truly believe I was meant to do. I look forward to getting a chance to do some of that work together!
What do you say? You ready?
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Available Services
Comprehensive Career & Leadership Coaching
Whether you’re a new or established business leader/executive looking to level-up your leadership game, at a significant transition point in your life, exploring a new career direction, craving greater work & life harmony or simply preparing to negotiate a promotion or raise, I can help!
I coach and counsel professional clients at all phases of their careers by identifying key strengths and accomplishments while assessing your personality type as well as your short and long-term career goals.
Mapping for Success
Depending on your needs, we’ll start with a basic review your work history, education, strengths, accomplishments, problem areas, skills, values, motivations, and goals through career assessment exercises and one-on-one discussion.
Throughout our process, we will thoroughly explore and examine the root cause behind your challenge(s) in order to instill a greater sense of confidence and alleviate any blockers or limiting beliefs that may exist. Creating this new sense of clarity will open up exciting new career possibilities, successes and work-life balance.
Available Programs
- Cohort Coaching for Law Firms
- Access Your Leadership Staff Development
- Faculty-to-Senior Administrator Transition Coaching
- Leveraging Leadership for Senior Managers
- Essentials of Leadership for New Managers
- Transformational Transition Coaching
- Creating Your Career Roadmap
