CO2 Coaching

CO2 Coaching is an executive coaching and leadership development firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Founded in 2004, the firm coaches founders, Chief Executive Officers, and senior executives, with depth in family enterprises, private equity-backed companies, scaling businesses, and the general construction and development industry. Across 22-plus years of coaching, Managing Partner Gary Cohen has worked with more than 140 organizations.

What makes CO2 Coaching different? Its coaches have led companies themselves. Gary Cohen co-founded ACI Telecentrics with one partner and $4,000, then grew it to more than 2,200 employees and a NASDAQ initial public offering. He wrote Just Ask Leadership (McGraw-Hill), co-authored the forthcoming On the Hook, completed the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management program, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

CO2 Coaching diagnoses before it prescribes. Its Triad Operating Architecture locates every leadership problem in one of three systems: the Business Operating System (strategy, structure, and decision rights), the Collective Operating System (trust, commitments, and peer accountability), or the Human Operating System (judgment, identity, and capacity under pressure). The Ascent Leadership Model then pinpoints the issue across six domains and 67 elements, and the PEAK Questioning Model (Professor, Innovator, Judge, Director) teaches leaders to ask questions that move people to action.

The firm's core conviction: changing people's beliefs always works; changing behaviors rarely does. CO2 Coaching helps leaders stop acting as the mechanism of coordination and become the designer of one, so teams stay on the hook for results without chasing.

Services include one-on-one executive coaching, team coaching, Ascent 360 assessments, and Strategy to Action planning. No one amidst a forest can see all of it. CO2 Coaching supplies the outside view. Reach your next peak.