Lead better. Live better.
Doing great work and living a great life aren't a trade off.You and your team can learn to stop grinding it out and start getting better results from a place of creativity, calm, and confidence. And you don't have to do it alone.This small boost in your and your team's leadership will have a profound impact in your business and beyond.Want a better, brighter, broader business and life?
The Balance Approach
Being
Present-moment awareness
Innate wisdom & creativity
Meaning & human flourishing
Foundation of trust
Intuition as intelligence
Deep, natural confidence
and
Doing
Business health analysis
12-month strategic roadmap
Senior team alignment & leadership skills
Innovation & performance
Accountability & implementation
35+
Years experience
CEOs
+ senior teams
4
ways to engage
“Without Mike, we would not have gotten here. He provided insight and guidance to take our company further than any of us thought possible.”— Shameiz Hemani, CEO of Greenlight Consulting
The Balance Suite
Senior Team
Consulting
The Diagnostic
Find out exactly what's holding your team and business back -- and build a clear, honest plan to move forward.
Business health analysis
½-day action planning workshop
Prioritized opportunity map
Integration & Implementation
The Build
Turn the plan into momentum. A full year of strategic implementation, accountability, and real-time support.
12-month strategic roadmap
Monthly 90-min sessions
Ad hoc virtual support
Executive
Coaching
The Work
Private 1-on-1 coaching that connects the inner game to the outer one -- and unlocks your flow state as a leader.
60-min virtual sessions
6-month minimum
Being + doing, every session
Extended Peer
Learning
The Circle
Because it's lonely at the top. Membership in a best-fit MacKay CEO Forum group for real world perspective and accountability.
Annual MacKay CEO Forum membership
6 full-day in-person peer sessions
2-day in-person retreat
Underneath the daily firefighting, busyness, and noise, every leader has a wiser, clearer version of themselves waiting to operate. My job is to help you unlock it and evolve your leadership to match what your company needs today.As a business scales, its demands change. Most CEOs and executive teams miss the shift: the strategic steering and leadership habits that brought you here won't get you there. I partner with senior teams to bridge this gap, helping you level up your strategic direction while turning leadership from a weekly grind into a natural flow.By illuminating the hidden human and strategic patterns others miss, I help executives tap into five foundational superpowers: Wisdom, Presence, Abundance, Vitality, and Inspiration.When these capacities are active, work stops feeling like an uphill battle. You gain the clarity, alignment, and strategic stamina required to lead your organization into its next phase of growth.
Let's chat.
You and your company can do great work without the grind. But given everything on your plate, is this right move? If so, how to begin? A 60-minute chat is a great first step. We will explore your goals and key issues, capture the ROI of doing this work, identify where to start, build simple-to-deliver plan, then evaluate: is this the right call now? Select a convenient time here:
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Michael Ehling
strategic leadership advisor
balance coaching & consulting
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Michael Ehling
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balance coaching & consulting
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In your corner,Michael--
Michael Ehling
strategic leadership advisor
balance coaching & consulting
