• Pachydermos adds value when:

    • You’re ready to advance relationships with existing customers
    • Your team needs more discipline in operations
    • Your organization struggles with pipeline consistency and results
    • You crave a thought partner who will effectively and constructively challenge you
  • "Only 8% of leaders are good at aligning strategy and execution—and those 8% see staggeringly stronger financial returns." - Harvard Business Review

    Executive Coaching

    Helping leadership teams get unstuck, aligned, and moving—led by someone who’s been in the seat and done the work.

    Sometimes executives can’t "read the label from inside the jar.” You need a fresh perspective built on relevant experience.

     

    This service gives you access to a trusted thought and accountability partner with the real-world practicality, business acumen, and empathy to facilitate your success through relatable experiences, tools, and network connections.

     

    What It Is: Value every time we meet, helping you align strategy and execution.

     

    What It’s Not: Personality tests or templatized meetings that feel like going through the motions.

     

    If this resonates—we need to talk.

  • WHY PACHYDERMOS?

    We don’t just talk about theories we’ve studied.

    We’ve actually done the work. We’ve driven progress in customer success, operations, professional services, and sales teams.

    We’ve been in your shoes.

    With 30 years of progressing responsibility for P&Ls as high as $50M in companies small and large, public and private—we have the perspective to understand your situation.

    We don’t divide—we align.

    We’ve been in many difficult situations over the years and have the communication skills coupled with execution grit to get people aligned on what matters.

    We value:

    • Empathy
    • Accountability
    • Trustworthiness
    • Leading by example
    • Teaching over telling
    • Facing conflict directly, with grace

    Do our values align?

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  • Who we work with

    We coach executive teams and individual leaders at mission-based organizations—nonprofits, purpose-driven businesses, education systems, and more—who are ready to grow, lead with intention, and stop spinning their wheels.

  • OUR APPROACH

    1

    Real-World Relevance

    Coaching from experience—not theory.

    At Pachydermos, your coach has actually done the work. With decades of executive leadership experience, we bring hard-won insight to complex situations. Whether you’re navigating a strategic shift, rebuilding trust, or aligning a team, we offer perspective rooted in lived experience—not hypotheticals.

    ✔️ No fluff.
    ✔️ No templates.
    ✔️ Just coaching that makes sense because it comes from someone who’s been there.

    2

    Clarity That Drives Action

    We help you get unstuck—and aligned.

    Most leadership teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort. They suffer from misalignment, unclear priorities, and messaging that doesn’t stick. We coach toward clarity: of purpose, of direction, of voice. From strategic narrative to day-to-day leadership behaviors, we help connect the dots so the entire organization moves forward together.

    3

    Challenge That Builds Capacity

    We don’t coddle. We coach.

    Our clients don’t show up for comfort—they show up for change. We ask uncomfortable questions, challenge stagnant thinking, and guide leaders to joyfully seek conflict, no longer avoiding conversations that need to be had. Because challenge isn’t conflict—it’s commitment to doing better. Over time, this builds stronger leaders, healthier teams, and cultures that can actually deliver on the mission.

  • WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US

    "We had a process, a CRM, and criteria already developed. And we were driving relationships to a point, but they kept getting stuck. Bob brought pithy insight to the table that helped us think about the underlying needs of partners in ways that were immediately relatable. And the fact that he held no internal bias, helped us apply his simple logical framework to build collective understanding and make the work easier.

    For sure, the organization has to want to change, we own that, but he's a talented coach."

     

    —Deb Everhart, Credential Engine

  • Photo of Bob Stoneking with quote: "There can be no resolution in the absence of conflict."

    About Bob Stoneking

    Experience shared with incredible partners over thirty years helps Bob drive change faster than most. He’s held management, consultant, and advisor positions in public and private sector settings. Central to his success is Bob’s ability to focus cross-functional teams on the underlying needs of each other.

    Bob is a servant leader that builds comfortable conditions for conflict resolution. As a result, he helps organizations get to the bottom of problems and define improvement strategies. He propagates success-oriented behavior by helping teams understand how what they do matters. Bob easily employs management techniques that create trust.

    If your organization has great talent—but needs help connecting that talent to strategy while optimizing execution—we need to talk.

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