Justin Self
Executive Coach
Justin is an executive coach whose passion is helping high-performing, purpose-driven teams make faster, better decisions. He does this by working alongside leaders to build exceptionally cohesive and aligned teams, radically improve their meetings, and solve the deep-rooted challenges holding their organizations back.
He spent the first five years of his career in an exceptionally fast-paced Fortune 300 sales organization where success required learning how to solve problems and improve systems for small and medium-sized businesses. This experience gave him an exceptional understanding of the pressures and challenges inside a large corporate environment, while teaching him what mattered (and didn’t) to leaders of 75-100 small companies each year.
Eventually, however, a voice that had long been calling him to explore the social sector became too loud to ignore. He jumped to the opposite professional extreme and joined a seven-employee nonprofit that turned at-risk youth into published authors. With a year, he was appointed interim executive director. In that role, he helped the organization not only survive the very turbulent experience of navigating its first leadership transition, but also convert it into three consecutive years of 30% year-over-year growth while strengthening outcomes for the youth they served.
Through these two vastly different roles, he learned that no matter the context, solving people challenges and priority misalignment is almost always the biggest available lever for change. He saw firsthand that when you can get people across different parts of an organization rowing in the same direction and working cohesively together, exceptional results follow.
In 2020, he joined Continuity Consulting, splitting his time between consulting with leaders and scaling a multimillion-dollar statewide program that the State Governor’s office has held up as a model for its work with underserved youth. Along with more than a decade of his own leadership experience, Justin brings extensive training and credentials from Patrick Lencioni’s acclaimed suite of organizational health tools, including The Advantage and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In 2020, he was a founding member of the Table Group’s Consultants and Practitioners Alliance, training under Lencioni directly. Soon after, he was selected as one of 10 Master Facilitators in North America to help train the trainers on the Table Group’s Working Genius Model, which he continues to do today.
He shows up to each and every client with the core belief that every leader and team has untapped potential, and coaching is the path to unlocking it.