Leadership Coaching
Helping Leaders Navigate Complexity, Uncertainty, and Change
Experience counts when you need a professional coach who works with executives, teams, and organizations.
Now more than ever, as AI increasingly automates tasks and technology evolves, the qualities that distinguish exceptional leaders are distinctly human: sound judgment, trusted relationships, clear communication, self-awareness, adaptability, social intelligence, and the ability to guide and support others through uncertainty.
Together, these qualities define environments where power is exercised responsibly, people are treated with respect, and purpose guides decisions.
Services that Are Theory-Informed.
Experience Tested
Rather than pulling a leadership program off the shelf or applying a standardized label to the people he works with, Dennis Morris takes a customized approach to every individual, team, and project. He combines proven principles with practical insights to help clients address their most important professional and personal challenges and opportunities.
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Dennis J. Morris
MSW, Accredited Master Executive Coach
Dennis, the founder and owner of the Institute of Respect, is an Accredited Master Executive Coach through APECS, a designation that reflects a high standard of experience and practice. He holds a Master of Social Work and spent many years as a psychotherapist – followed by years as the VP of Clinical Programs on the executive leadership team for a large behavioral health organization – before moving fully into business leadership coaching.
His practice offers executive coaching, team coaching, executive transition coaching, and change leadership coaching for senior leaders and organizations. Clients often engage him as a coach when the skills and experience that helped them rise are not enough to succeed at their next level of leadership.
A Free Assessment:
How Do You Respond?
When major changes happen in your organization, how do you respond to others’ emotional reactions?
Your answer significantly impacts your effectiveness as you lead your team, department, or company through change.
A key part of Dennis’s change leadership coaching is delving into this. He uses a proprietary tool he created – the ELC-5 Emotional Life of Change Assessment Survey – to help leaders understand and improve as indicated.
“Dennis’s coaching was critical in causing me to think more strategically, focusing on building trust and respect with my colleagues and clients. As a result, I became engaged with my employees and other management, resulting in a cohesive team with synergies and effectiveness.”
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CEO
A Unique Perspective on
Leading Through Change
Dennis is the author of the book Story Catchers: Leading Through the Emotional Life of Change, which reflects the perspective he brings into his coaching work.
It draws on more than three decades of experience working with senior leaders and organizations.
At its core is a simple idea: the success of change depends on how well leaders understand and work with the human response to it.