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Margaret Brake, Quantuvos Co-Founder and Chief Coaching Officer: “Together, let’s nurture the extraordinary in your organization”

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Quantuvos' solutions are designed to help the clients develop the clients’ talent and solve the clients’ toughest leadership challenges. The team is in the business of enhancing skills and changing behaviors.  The goal is to deliver a relevant, powerful coaching experience.  The vision is to bring a high-quality coaching experience to professionals at any career level. The team serves individuals and organizations to make coaching accessible to all.  The Watering Seeds™ initiative supports underrepresented communities so that everyone, regardless of their starting point, can choose to be their best. The team respects everyone and make sure they feel it.​ The team believes the value the clients give comes back to the clients. Just as the team help the clients be the clients’ best, the team strive to be the best, too. The team is human and brings the whole selves to every relationship. The team spends time getting to know the clients’ organization so that the clients’ coaching program meets the clients’ unique needs, goals and desired results. The team helps the clients identify the right participants for the program, whether the clients are conducting a small pilot or implementing coaching on a broad scale. The team provides tools to help the clients communicate the program to internal stakeholders and to ensure participants are prepared to start their coaching.

The coaches are educated on the nuances of the clients’ organization so that they have the proper context before working with the clients’ employees. The team gathers data throughout the process and report aggregated coaching themes to help the clients identify systemic issues in the clients’ company. The team meets with the clients regularly to discuss progress towards goals and program improvement to continue to enhance the coaching experience.

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Individual Coaching: Empowered leaders are effective leaders. They set the pace, creating a ripple effect of productivity throughout the team. A confident leader encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, fostering an environment where innovation thrives. Effective leaders inspire loyalty. When leaders are equipped to support and motivate their teams, retention rates improve. Coaching helps leaders to develop better interpersonal skills and a deeper understanding of their team's needs and aspirations. These results in employees feeling valued, heard, and understood, leading to heightened satisfaction and engagement. Leadership coaching instills a mindset of continuous learning and self-improvement. This attitude cascades throughout the organization, fostering a culture where employees are encouraged to grow. A leader's behavior sets the tone for the entire organization. By investing in their personal growth, the positive changes ripple throughout the company, creating a more cohesive, motivated, and positive work environment. Ultimately, all these benefits translate into tangible business results including improved profitability, increased market share, and sustainable growth.

Group Coaching: Group coaching breaks down silos and encourages open dialogue, leading to improved interdepartmental communication, understanding of roles, and a cohesive organizational culture. Employees feel valued and understood through coaching. This fosters job satisfaction, enhances commitment, and reduces turnover, ensuring the organization retains its top talent. Group coaching identifies and addresses inefficiencies. Teams learn strategies for better collaboration, time management, and prioritization, leading to optimized performance and increased output. Diverse perspectives shared in group sessions can illuminate blind spots, providing leaders with comprehensive insights and facilitating more informed holistic decisions.

Team Effectiveness Coaching: Team effectiveness coaching optimizes collaboration, streamlining processes and boosting productivity, leading to better results in shorter time frames. Coaching fosters open dialogue, helping team members understand, respect, and leverage each other's strengths, reducing misunderstandings and conflicts. Teams that undergo effectiveness coaching often feel more valued and connected, leading to higher motivation, job satisfaction, and retention rates. Coaching surfaces latent leadership potential within teams, allowing members to step up, take initiative, and drive change. Through effectiveness coaching, teams learn to embrace change, adjust to new challenges, and recover from setbacks with greater agility and confidence. Team effectiveness coaching creates an environment where diverse voices are heard and valued. It encourages awareness and understanding of individual differences, cultivates an inclusive culture, and strengthens the sense of belonging.

Meet the leader behind the success of Quantuvos

Margaret Brake, Co-Founder and Chief Coaching Officer

As an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator with more than twenty years in leadership and organizational development, Margaret has worked with hundreds of mid-level to senior leaders focusing on high-performing teams, communication and influence, executive presence, leadership effectiveness, and managing change. She has held leadership positions across a wide range of industries including financial services, hospitality, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and non-profit. In these roles, she designed enterprise-wide talent management processes and consulted with business unit leaders to drive growth and organizational change. As a leadership development expert, Margaret has designed award-winning programs that utilize blended learning approaches. Several of these were featured in Investor’s Business Daily and have been implemented widely throughout F100 companies, earning the HR.com LEAD awards for “Best Team Development Program” and “Best Executive Coaching Program.” Her extensive client list includes companies such as Delta Air Lines, Hilton Hotels Corporation, McKesson, Home Depot, and the Centers for Disease Control, Chick-fil-A, UPS, ING, Novelis and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Margaret holds an M.B.A. in Management and an M.S. in Counseling from Georgia State University as well as a B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, from the University of Florida. In addition, she has served as a career coach to the Executive M.B.A. students at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. With her husband and three children, Margaret resides in Atlanta and serves on the board of Summerhill Community Ministries, a non-profit organization serving inner-city youth of Atlanta. 

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