I'm Jeff Bettinger. I've spent years in the C-suite, coaching successors and developing the leaders Fortune 500 companies run on next. Now I do that work for high-potential leaders like you.
One is free and opens in November. The other is the deepest work I do. Both are built for leaders who are close to the top job and serious about being ready for it.
A free group for leaders pursuing a C-suite role. Practical tools from my coaching work, a monthly group coaching call, and a community of peers making the same climb. Doors open in November.
BEST FOR
Leaders who want to work on their own readiness now, with real resources instead of recycled advice.
You're capable, you're close, and something is still in the way. We name it, build the plan to address it, and hold you accountable to that plan. Sessions every other week, Hogan assessment insights, straight feedback, and access to me between sessions by text or email.
BEST FOR
High-potential leaders in or one level below the C-suite who are coachable and ready to hear the hard truth.
You don't summit alone. The leaders who make it to the C-suite had people in their corner who had already been there. This group puts those people, and that preparation, within reach.
Worksheets, guides, and resources built from my coaching work with executives and their successors. The same materials my clients use, given away.
Bring the situation you're actually navigating: the stalled promotion, the board exposure, the gap you can't name. We work on it together, live.
A community of high-potential leaders pursuing the top job. People who get what you're carrying, because they're carrying it too.
You'll hear from me personally before doors open in November.
Want or need to talk sooner? Grab 15 minutes with me.
Most successors don't need more ambition. They need someone who has sat in the seat to tell them the truth about what's actually in the way.
I spent 13 years as a school teacher before I ever worked in HR. That's where I learned that people rarely lack ability. They lack clarity about what's holding them back.
From there I built a career in executive roles across private equity, publicly traded, and SMB companies, leading HR, legal, and strategy, and coaching CEOs and their leadership teams. I've sat in the succession conversations where names get weighed. I know what puts a leader on that list, and what quietly keeps one off it.
Six Summit Advisors is how I put that experience to work for the leaders coming up next. I use Hogan assessments and other psychometric tools to get past the fog fast, and I have a habit of connecting dots quickly so you can stop circling the problem and start moving.
When I need to think clearly, I go to Yellowstone. The best leadership lessons I know came from that landscape, and you'll hear a few of them if we work together.
I run leadership offsites in the Yellowstone ecosystem, in open programs and for corporate teams. The landscape does half the teaching.
Every engagement connects to one or more of these six summits. For successors, the climb usually starts at Terrain.
Know the ground you're standing on. Honest self-inventory before you lead outward.
Know where you're headed. Leadership that's intentional, not reactive.
You don't summit alone. When the wolves came back to Yellowstone, they changed the rivers. Great leaders build other leaders.
The higher you go, the further you see. Influence across the whole enterprise.
Every leader gets a storm. Resilience through transitions and hard seasons.
What was the climb actually for? The legacy you leave in people.
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