Executive Coaching in Ann Arbor, Michigan
One-on-one executive coaching in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the people whose decisions everyone else lives with. Ellis Franks is an authorized licensee of the John Maxwell Team, an Ironman, an ultrarunner, and spent nearly 30 years as a Military Training Instructor developing leaders under real pressure. Coaching runs from Ann Arbor, Michigan, on site or remote.
What Executives Bring To The First Session
- The promotion that changed the job. Excellent at the work, now responsible for people doing the work.
- A team that will not tell you the truth. Information stops one level below you and you find out late.
- Decision fatigue. Too many calls, none of them small, no one to think out loud with.
- A leader you inherited who is not performing — and a cost to acting and a cost to waiting.
- Growth outrunning the structure. What worked at thirty people is breaking at three hundred.
- The whole-person bill coming due. Career on track, everything else quietly not.
These are solvable. That is the entire point of coaching, and it is why executives across Ann Arbor, Michigan keep the engagement going long after the presenting problem is gone.
Ann Arbor, Michigan anchors its regional market inside a state of 83 counties. Teams travel in from across the surrounding Michigan counties, and we work on site throughout the metro and in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Kalamazoo. Sessions run in Ann Arbor, Michigan or at your own location, whichever keeps more of your people in the room.
How It Runs
A standing one-on-one cadence, confidential, built on the John Maxwell leadership framework and on Reject Mediocrity's own performance work — body, mind and spirit developed together, because a leader who is falling apart privately does not lead well publicly. Sessions happen in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by video, or both.


Executive coaching pairs naturally with team development: the leader changes, then the team gets the chance to change with them. Many Ann Arbor, Michigan engagements run both.
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REJECT MEDIOCRITY PHILOSOPHY
Build strong daily habits while taking massive actions towards objectives that challenge you daily in pursuit of goals that others fear while maintaining a play to win mindset and developing the whole person of body-mind-spirit.