You're doing the work.
Something's still not working.
Maybe it's your leadership team. Maybe it's you. Probably both.
We work with executive teams and senior leaders to build the trust, accountability, and honest conversations that turn good leadership into real performance.
"Andy Hite with Scaling Minds has done truly outstanding work with me personally in my role as CEO, as well as with our broader C-Suite leadership team at Children's Home. His ability to challenge, clarify, and elevate leadership thinking — while staying grounded in real-world organizational dynamics — has been incredibly impactful for our organization."
I ran a theater for 15 years before I ever coached an executive.
That's not a quirky backstory, it's the reason the work actually works. As Artistic Director at The Marriott Theatre for 15 years, I wasn't performing. I was responsible for the people who were. You learn to read a room the way most people read a spreadsheet. You learn that talented people don't automatically become a great ensemble, that trust isn't a soft skill but the infrastructure everything else runs on, and that the conversation nobody wants to have is almost always the one that changes everything. Most executive coaches come from business. I came from a world where you couldn't hide behind a slide deck. It's why a CEO like Scurry Miller at Children's Home trusted me with his entire C-Suite, and why their team operates differently now.
I brought all of that into executive team coaching because I kept watching leadership teams make the same mistake: investing in strategy while ignoring the fact that the people at the top couldn't be honest with each other. I work with CEOs and their teams to fix that, and I work with individual leaders who are ready to stop performing confidence and find out what's possible when the people around them finally trust what they say.
See How It Works →This work isn't for everyone.
It's for leaders who already know something needs to change. We partner with executive teams and senior leaders at privately held businesses and nonprofits, typically between 20 and 500 employees, in healthcare, professional services, tech, construction, and nonprofits serving children. We keep our client roster intentionally small because this work requires real attention, not a revolving door of engagements where nobody remembers your name.
How we work with leaders and their teams.
Executive Team Coaching
Most leadership teams are a collection of strong individuals who happen to report to the same person, and that's the whole problem. We work with the CEO and their team together through The Six Shifts™ to rebuild how they trust each other, fight productively, share ownership of outcomes, and make decisions that actually stick. This is the engagement that changes the trajectory of a company, not because we bring some magic framework, but because we force the conversations that should have happened two years ago.
Learn more →1:1 Executive Coaching
Some leaders have a growth edge they can feel but can't quite name, the thing that keeps showing up in every hard conversation, every personnel decision, every moment where the stakes get real. We work one-on-one with senior leaders to surface those patterns, challenge them directly, and build new ways of operating that show up in actual business results. This isn't therapy, and it isn't cheerleading. It's structured, honest partnership with someone who will tell you what your team won't.
Learn more →Speaking & Facilitation
Every keynote and offsite we run is built from scratch for your team, your context, and the specific challenge you're trying to solve. We don't recycle slide decks or deliver generic leadership content that could apply to any room. If you're bringing your leadership team together, we'll make sure they leave with something that actually shifts how they think and work, not just a good feeling that fades by Monday.
Learn more →"With Andy's help, I managed to transform my business from a state of no profit to achieving a net profit of over 20%. This remarkable turnaround can be attributed to the work we did together, addressing and overcoming the obstacles that were holding me back."
"While I saw tangible business results such as revenue growth and increased profitability, the even bigger takeaway was the transformation I saw in myself to show up in a different capacity, both as a leader and in my personal life."
Most leaders focus on managing the people below them. We believe the real leverage is the team at the top.
The team you're on is more important than the team you lead.
If your leadership team is ready to operate differently, let's talk about what that looks like.
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