is your work reality living up to your leadership vision?

executives are the limit of what their team
and their organization can do

If you are a senior leader, responsible for the present and future of your team, you are the limit to what they can accomplish.

Maybe you can see beyond where you are, but the potential feels just out of reach.

Maybe you’re new to leadership and are inspired by what great leadership can do but don’t know how to get there.

Maybe you’re constructively dissatisfied with your impact. The untapped potential is nagging at you, and you’re ready to uncover the unique value only you can create.

Maybe you’re burnt out and the latest LinkedIn post or HBR article isn’t doing the trick anymore. You see your team and your organization spiraling down the same path you’re on, and you need to change course, yesterday.

By becoming the leader only you can be, you unlock your leadership, your team, and your business:

  • Your leadership is more durable and consistent, coming from an aligned and authentic place.

  • You foster expansive spaces by modeling and encouraging others to show up from aligned and authentic spaces.

  • Your team channels puts their newfound energy to generative effort, now able to access open and innovative thinking that serves your customer and your business.

I’m Rachel Nelms, an executive coach and leadership and organizational development consultant. I’m passionate about helping executives lead from an aligned, wise place. I’m passionate about building and scaling durable leadership that shows up in their teams as a generative and expansive culture.

I’ve built my point of view through 15 years of leading and developing business leaders as an executive and coach and designing and optimizing talent systems in hypergrowth tech, big tech, and not-for-profit organizations, including Mailchimp, Intuit, and Emory University. Now, I’m excited to lead my own practice and share my expertise with inspiring clients like you.

At formations consulting, we partner with constructively dissatisfied executives to uncover and expand their unique leadership potential, cultivate purpose, and drive results for those they serve. From this aligned place, our clients enhance their ability to navigate complexity with authenticity and impact, ignite their transformative vision, and tap into their team's full innovative potential.

Whether you’re looking for 1:1 partnership, a bespoke program for a small, defined team, or a scaled program to serve all of your managers or executives, together, we’ll equip you and your leaders to thrive and inspire strategic and sustainable impact.

are you ready to expand the possibilities for yourself and your organization?

why work with formations consulting?

Executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational investments enable you to answer these questions with clarity and confidence. At formations consulting, we see coaching as an intentional and deep investment* in business and not-for-profit leaders. We help you steward high-impact, high-innovating, and stakeholder-centric organizations with endurance and wisdom. 

We partner with you as you embrace your full potential and craft a future for your organization that is durable, generative, and expansive. With a bias to data and a grounding in systemic thinking and a human-centered approach, we will help you lead from a place of:

  • Clarity and strategic vision

  • Alignment and impact

  • Purpose and resilience

uncover yourself as a leader to
uncover your
organization’s potential

*According to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) executive coaching clients report an average ROI of 788% and Harvard Business Review (HBR) reports at least 44% improvement in the productivity for executive coaching clients. Read more here

What would it look like if a leader truly understood and embraced their authentic self? Could they do what they can uniquely do and be who they uniquely are and expanded decisions about experimentation and execution deeper in their organization so others could do the same? Could both the leader and their teams have generated and innovated from a more sustainable place?

What might durable leadership look like?