1:1 Executive Coaching
For CEOs, founders, and operators navigating growth, succession, or moments when the old playbook stops working. Clarify your vision, sharpen your mindset, and execute a strategy you can actually run.
EXECUTIVE & BUSINESS COACHING
Executive coaching, leadership training, and keynotes for founders and CEOs who refuse to plateau. Ryan Coley — Novus Global coach, LCSW, and multi-unit franchise owner.
10+
Years Coaching Leaders
MEET RYAN
Ryan Coley is an executive coach with Novus Global who works with leaders, founders, and operators. He's built and led real businesses as a multi-unit franchise owner, has coached since 2015, and founded Sherpa Group to help young people and families through major life transitions. His background pairs hard-won operational experience with professional coaching credentials.
Ryan works with CEOs, founders, and high-level leaders navigating growth, succession, and transitions — or moments when the strategies that got them here stop working. He helps clients build a clear vision, identify the limiting mindsets holding them back, and design scalable strategies they can actually execute. His style is direct, action-oriented, and deeply relational: he pushes hard on the next right move while never losing sight of the human behind the title.
“The highest-performing leaders are the ones who lead themselves first.”
Client Testimonials
Ryan does incredible work. He helped me clarify a vision I'd been afraid to name, shift the mindset that was holding me back, and build a strategy I could actually execute.
While many coaches focus solely on metrics and systems, the heart of every successful business is the people who run it. Ryan's coaching is direct, honest, and highly relational.
The strongest businesses are built by unified leadership teams. Ryan's business coaching helps you navigate interpersonal dynamics, resolve conflicts constructively, and create alignment among your key decision-makers.
Ryan coaches individuals and teams to communicate with clarity, honesty, and respect. His business consulting approach builds a culture where difficult conversations lead to breakthroughs instead of dysfunction.
Disagreements are inevitable in business. Ryan's leadership coaching teaches you to address conflict productively, turning potential team fractures into opportunities for growth and stronger relationships.
A healthy company culture doesn't happen by accident. Through Ryan's business coaching, you'll create predictable structures, clear values, and team alignment that translate directly to business performance.
Ryan's coaching mirrors his clinical work — direct, honest, and uniquely grounded. He helps you overcome obstacles while staying true to your values and building something meaningful.
What Ryan Offers
For CEOs, founders, and operators navigating growth, succession, or moments when the old playbook stops working. Clarify your vision, sharpen your mindset, and execute a strategy you can actually run.
Align your leadership team, build a culture of candor, and turn conflict into breakthroughs. Direct, honest, highly relational work that moves the people who move the business.
High-energy talks on high performance and the human side of leadership — for conferences, offsites, and leadership teams ready to get honest about what's holding them back.
WHO RYAN WORKS WITH
Ryan coaches founders, CEOs, and multi-unit operators across wildly different industries — proof that the principles of leadership travel.
The Approach
Clarify the vision you've been afraid to name — for yourself, your team, and your business.
Identify and shift the limiting mindsets and patterns quietly capping your performance.
Design a scalable, executable strategy — and the accountability to actually run it.
The Difference
As a multi-unit franchise owner, Ryan understands leading teams, managing operations, and growing businesses firsthand. His business consulting comes from lived experience, not just theory.
Systems and strategies matter, but lasting success comes from strong relationships, clear communication, and healthy team dynamics. Ryan's leadership coaching addresses the human side others overlook.
Ryan draws on his clinical training and nearly two decades of helping people change ingrained patterns and build healthier relationships — making his business coaching uniquely effective.
Meet Ryan however works best for you — on-site at your business, in person at our Wake Forest and Raleigh offices, or in virtual sessions from anywhere in the world.
Keynotes & Workshops
Why the hard conversations stay unsaid — and how to build a culture where candor drives breakthroughs instead of dysfunction.
Self-leadership as the engine of team performance: how managing your own mindset comes before managing anyone else.
Building a business that runs without you — and becoming the kind of leader who can finally let it.
Whether you're scaling a company, leading a team, or booking a keynote — let's talk about what's next. In-person in Wake Forest & Raleigh, or virtually anywhere.
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