
Radical Ignition Coaching
“What you ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.”
Charlotte Bronté
Radical Ignition Coaching
Unlock the full potential of your leaders.
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, effective leadership is essential. Our executive coaching program offers a transformative opportunity for leaders to strengthen their skills, broaden their perspectives, and realize their untapped potential.
Through personalized guidance and feedback, executive coaching helps leaders overcome obstacles, think strategically, communicate more effectively, and cultivate a growth mindset.
The result? Confident leaders who drive innovation, foster a positive culture, and achieve sustainable success for your organization. Invest in executive coaching and experience the remarkable impact it can have on your leaders and your business.
Executive Coaching Methodology
Our goal-focused methodology helps to identify any impediments to the progress of your leaders. We utilize 360 degree feedback process for actionable insights that will increase leadership capability and self-awareness. Through deep exploration, we help leaders to identify obstacles, build awareness, and build new behaviors.
Our process is goal and metric-based, and we want leaders to see evidence of change, which will impact your organization and team.
Our coaches partner with you in three primary areas:
- Understand the needs of your business
- Develop new leadership capabilities and behaviors
- Improve team dynamics and communication
Whether a first-time leader or a seasoned executive, our coaches can help leaders achieve their goals.
Stakeholder feedback is a powerful way to provide the coachee or team meaningful and actionable feedback to increase leadership capability, discover blind spots, self-awareness, and interpersonal effectiveness. We collect stakeholder feedback in a number of different ways including using assessment tools and stakeholder interviews. Our coaches are certified in dozes of assessment tools.
We use The Leadership Circle Profile® for 360 Degree Feedback. The Leadership Circle Profile measures eighteen Leadership Competencies and are tied to business performance. These competencies have been well researched and shown to be the most critical behaviors and skill sets for leaders.
Team Coaching and Alignment
Elevate your team to new heights with our specialized Team Coaching program. As the collective driving force behind your organization’s success, it is crucial for your team to operate at their highest potential. Our tailored coaching approach focuses on enhancing collaboration, communication, and alignment within the team, enabling them to achieve exceptional results together. Through facilitated discussions, skill-building exercises, and targeted interventions, our expert coaches guide your executive team in addressing challenges, strengthening their relationships, and fostering a shared vision. With executive team coaching, you can cultivate a high-performing, cohesive leadership team that drives strategic initiatives, navigates complex dynamics, and leads your organization to sustained growth and success. Invest in the power of executive team coaching and witness the transformative impact it can have on your team’s effectiveness and organizational outcomes.
We can help your team reach your highest potential through a tailored team coaching approach that focuses on:
- Enhancing collaboration, communication, and alignment within the team.
- Identifying critical challenges, strengthening relationships and fostering a shared vision.
- Cultivating a high-performing, cohesive leadership team that drives strategic initiatives, navigates complex dynamics, and leads your organization to sustained growth and success.
Team Coaching Methodology
Our coaches follow David Clutterbuck’s Methodology of Team Coaching. Our program is focused on team dynamics as the building blocks of the system within the organization. By improving relationships within the system, the overall performance and effectiveness can be enhanced, ultimately leading to a more productive, inclusive and engaged culture where people feel they can belong.
Based on the assessment and the team’s goals, we design interventions that focus on improving relationships, processes, and business outcomes. Areas addressed may include team purpose, role clarity, communications, building leadership capability, decision making, conflict and trust.
Through an assessment, we understand the team’s current dynamics, strengths, limitations, and opportunities for growth. This assessment may involve interviews, observations, and data gathering. Assessment recommendation options: PERILL, Leadership Circle Profile® and Collective Leadership Assessment®, Thomas PPA Teams, MBTI, 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Assessment, Thomas Killman, Positive Intelligence.
Meet the Coaching Team
Drawing from their extensive experience spanning decades, Kristal Roberts and Melanie Vargas have partnered with numerous organizations across the globe, from startups to Fortune 50. As dedicated coaches and seasoned consultants, they have collaborated with leaders across diverse industries and at every tier of leadership. Because they work as co-coaches, they utilize their combined expertise to empower clients to achieve their highest potential. Their program harnesses the power of team dynamics as the cornerstone of organizational success. By fostering stronger relationships within the system, they significantly boost overall performance and effectiveness. This holistic enhancement cultivates a more productive and deeply engaged environment, driving sustainable success.

Melanie did an excellent job of helping to identify and fix those blind spots that many of us have. She used stakeholder interviews and an EQ assessment to pinpoint short- and long-term opportunities for growth.
Coaching with Melanie has been transformative. I’ve gained clarity about my strengths, learned to give myself grace, and embraced deeper work around empathy and vulnerability. Her empathy and ability to bring the heat are masterful, and I am deeply grateful for her authentic presence in every session.
Paula Radloff | VP of HR

Grateful for my coach, Melanie Vargas. Over the past six months, her guidance has been game-changing – bringing me clarity on my goals, confidence in my career path, and tools to manage challenges with resilience.
Melanie, thank you for helping me take Blum to the next level.
Coaching with Melanie gave me clarity and confidence at a pivotal point in my career. I now have a clear plan for what’s next, new tools to manage challenges, and a stronger outlook on what’s possible.
Sung Hae Kim | Chief People Officer | Kueski

Melanie delivers. She has genuinely invested herself in my business and my team, asked the hard questions, provided constructive coaching, and challenged our assumptions.