In today's complex, high-stakes environment, leaders need more than advice - they need a trusted confidant, a sounding board, and a thought partner who brings both insight and candor. Our one-on-one coaching engagements are designed to help executives and managers gain clarity, elevate performance, and lead with greater intention. 

Here's what we focus on:

1. Confidential Clarity - Safely explore your biggest challenges, unspoken concerns, and boldest goals - with a coach who understands the weight of leadership. 

2. Customized Accountability - Define success in your own terms and establish meaningful measures that ensure follow-through and progress.  

3. Strategic Self-Awareness - Reflect on patterns of past success and current behavior to enhance decision making and leadership presence. 

4. Future Focused Growth - Navigate complex dynamics, shifting priorities, and constant change with greater agility and confidence. 

5. Addressing Blind Spots -Rather than ignore areas of struggle, we identify practical strategies to work around, through, or beyond them. 

This isn't about fixing what's broken - it's about unlocking your full leadership potential in a fast-paced world. When you're ready to elevate your impact, we're ready to partner with you. 

Dr. Rachel Monteverdi is the driving force behind Next Level Next Step. Her top strengths include  Achiever, Maximizer, Strategic, Learner, Input, Positivity, Connectedness, Includer - which she brings to life in every engagement. 

With more than 25 years of experience across the corporate, government, nonprofit, and  higher education sectors, Rachel is known for her ability to empower people and drive meaningful results. Whether coaching executives or facilitating large scale organizational initiatives, her mission remains the same: To help individuals and teams unlock their potential, build on their existing talent, and achieve exceptional performance.

 Your people matter. Your metrics matter. You matter. 

Research confirms what we've seen firsthand: When you understand what makes your team thrive, you can lead them to remarkable outcomes. 

Let's begin that journey  - together. 

Our first priority is to meet with you and your team to identify current strengths, knowledge gaps, and performance opportunities. What's worked well? Where do you want to go? What will it take to get there? Together, we explore these questions with candor and curiosity to build a roadmap for meaningful, lasting impact. 

We combine your goals with our proven tools to unlock human potential and elevate team performance. Our sessions are interactive, results-driven, and thoughtfully designed to align with your success metrics. 

At Next Level Next Step, we believe in transformational development that truly catapults human potential.

Our experienced facilitation and instructional design team -based in the US - brings deep expertise from Fortune 500 companies, higher ed, and public service. We specialize in strengths discovery, habit transformation, and leadership development, and high performing teams. 

Our goal? To boost engagement, close performance gaps, and help individuals and teams reach sustained, superior outcomes. And because lasting change requires collaboration, we work shoulder to shoulder with our clients - never in silos. Want to explore how we work? Take a look at our 'Under the Hood' for specific details.

Gallup's CliftonStrengths - Increasing Productivity & Profitability

Instead of focusing on what's wrong with people, what would happen if we focused on what's right?  This is the question Dr. Don Clifton asked himself in college more than 40 years ago. What was the result of his work? ​CliftonStrengths - Gallup's transformational tool that helps people discover strengths, strengths-based cultures and how to aim their natural talents to near perfect performance.

Gallup research shows that thriving teams who intentionally use their CliftonStrengths:

Achieve more on a daily basis

Are 6x more engaged in their jobs

Are 6x as likely to do what they do best every day

Have more positive than negative interactions with coworkers

Are substantially more productive in their roles

Treat customers better

Have more positive, creative and innovative moments

Are able to manage potential weaknesses

Are 3x happier and healthier overall

The bottom line: Business performance of thriving teams net a 30% higher profitability, a 40% higher product/service quality, 41% less employee turnover, and are 3X less likely to feel stressed. Gallup research has found that leaders and teams that intentionally develop talents unleash a growth mindset thereby boosting performance, improving resilience and collaboration. Regular or habitual ALIGNMENT conversations build strong teams, leverage diversity of thought, and develop trust and appreciation for one another. Our sessions are designed to take your team to the next level by working on strengths every day for at least 90 days until it becomes more of a habit. Coaching is included.   ; )

Once we have developed our strengths and engaged our team, will we be up for the next challenge?  The Leadership Challenge

More than 35 years ago, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner began rigorously researching the subject of leadership. They found when people are at their personal best as leaders there are five key behaviors that stand out. Since then, The Leadership Challenge® has been known as the original research-based leadership development framework. With millions of respondents from across the globe, there is considerable empirical support for The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and The Leadership Challenge®.

 It is both simple and complex, revealing layers of depth for dedicated practitioners of leadership. The Leadership Challenge® continues to be extensively practiced and highly regarded across the world.  This workshop experience is approximately 24 hours in length and includes coaching and work in between sessions.