Services: Coaching, Consulting & Facilitating

It begins with a conversation...

"Trust is at the heart of what we do. Identifying the best approach requires collaboration, transparency, commitment and communication on our part and yours. How you proceed matters." - George Neighbors, principal of X-Roads Advisory

X-Roads Advisory offers coaching, consulting and facilitating to business, nonprofit and government across these areas of expertise. Check out details below, and find examples of coaching and facilitation packages here.

Each of our services is delivered with a human-centered, client-focused, holistic systems perspective grounded in positive psychology to navigate change, build capacity, evolve culture, develop people & improve operations.

  • Coaching is flexible in terms of sessions (1:1, observations, teams, etc), organic in terms of being responsive to what comes up for you and with you, and structured in terms of accountability and expectations.
    • Packages are available for people navigating change in organizations and careers.
  • Consulting offers custom solutions aligned with your organization's culture, circumstances and capacity.
  • Facilitating is flexible, interactive and focused on your organization’s needs today and tomorrow at meetings, retreats, offsites, discussions, and more.

Check out the highlights of client work.

Coaching

Our coaching practice is delivered with a human-centered, client-focused, holistic systems perspective grounded in positive psychology to navigate change, build capacity, and develop people.

Our award-winning* coaching practice engages people in An IDEA to

  • Increase Awareness
  • Clarify Intentions
  • Explore Decisions
  • Communicate Expectations
  • Take Action

Coaching clients are often focused on

  • Accountability 
  • Career transitions
  • Change & Transitions in Organizations & Leaders
  • Leadership Development (Executives & Emerging) 

Coaching is offered for Teams, Groups & 1-on-1.

X-Roads Advisory provides coaching as an accountability partner and confidential confidant.

Coach George Neighbors brings more than 2 decades of experience coaching leaders (executives & emerging), celebrities, and individuals for leadership, professional & career development across business, government and nonprofits. 

His certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) is in progress.

Check out some of the coaching packages here.

*In the first year of business, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Virginia recognized X-Roads Advisory with a Certificate of Excellence for Emerging Organization Award for supporting change management to build strong and resilient governance in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge by providing professional coaching services to critical nonprofit partners across arts, museums, housing, child protection, animal welfare, disabilities, etc. 

Consulting

Our consulting practice offers bespoke solutions aligned with your organization's culture, growth state & resources.

Having an expert hand to advise, manage a project,  partner with you to deliver, and/or train your team can be invaluable for short or long term projects.

X-Roads Advisory provides a thoughtful, strategic, bespoke & hands-on approach with you to 

  1. identify what's happening
  2. prioritize what to address
  3. explore and discuss possible ideas, and 
  4. advise on solution(s) (offer insights, and potentially develop and/or implement). 

Services range across

  • Change Management
  • Communications
  • Nonprofit Board Development
  • Operations Strategy
  • Organizational Development
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Succession Planning

From one & done projects to interim and fractional executive services, how you proceed matters.

Additional examples at Expertise and Client Highlights.

Facilitating

From planning and facilitating a retreat to developing and delivering professional & workforce development training on leadership, management and nonprofit board development, X-Roads Advisory works with you to develop and deliver sessions that are flexible, bespoke, interactive and focused on your organization’s needs today and tomorrow.

Check out details below and find examples of how to extend the impact of your training with packages here.

Offerings range across 

  • Change Management
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Nonprofit Board Development
  • Professional & Workforce Development
  • Retreats & Offsites
  • Team Building

Courses include Managing Up, Team Work, Managing 101, Leadership 101, Prioritizing, Delegating, Better Board Meetings, Board Recruitment & Retention, Board Development, Networking for Connections: Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Career Transition: Considerations & Consequences, etc.

"George is so much more than an exceptional business leader.

He harnesses the power of his empathic understanding of the human element behind people and processes, and is always able to find a way to re-evaluate, reset and then re-engage everyone for success...

Always patient, seeking active solutions, integrating his incredible sense of humor, George is a multi-dimensional leader who is an asset and compliment to any team lucky enough to have him on their side."
"... his superpower is bringing people together to make the business better. 

George is incredibly thoughtful on how he tackles business or organizational challenges, big or small. 

He can pinpoint areas of strength, as well as important areas of opportunity for any business."

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