Welcome to Excelsis
Excelsis Performance Strategies is a professional development firm that specializes in assisting individuals in defining, enhancing, and implementing their professional and personal objectives. The heart of our work is to meld clients’ goals and talents into an effective and successful plan of action.
Dr. Phyllis Campagna
Dr. Phyllis Campagna, a Business and Performance Coach, is the owner of Excelsis Performance Strategies. Sometimes referred to as a “professional mentor,” she has built her 35-year practice primarily from client referrals, focusing on integrating her clients’ talents into successful and integral plans of action and achievement.
In 2020, Phyllis completed her Doctor in Professional Studies (Business Coaching) through Middlesex University (United Kingdom) in partnership with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC). In 2008, Phyllis was the first business coach in the United States to earn the prestigious credential of Chartered Business Coach™ (ChBC™) through WABC, a designation she held for fifteen years.
In addition, she is certified in both business and executive coaching through the National Association of Business Coaches and has completed advanced mediation training through The Divorce Mediation Institute. She is a Leadership Illinois Alum (class of 2002) and has served in 22+ other business and civic leadership positions, including Rotary President, Rotary Lieutenant Governor, four years on the CUSD 300 Board of Education, and Volunteer Mentor for Women Unlimited.
Phyllis is currently a happy digital nomad, traveling the country full time, meeting with clients electronically. She and her husband Jerry sold their home in the Chicago metro area and are exploring the beauty and grandeur of the United States – a dream come true! Other hobbies and interests include spending time with their grandchildren, genealogy, dancing, and collecting Christmas movies.
About Excelsis
Excelsis Performance Strategies is a professional development firm that specializes in assisting individuals in defining, enhancing, and implementing their professional and personal objectives. The heart of our work is to meld clients’ goals and talents into an effective and successful plan of action.
Business coaching is the process of engaging in meaningful communication with individuals in businesses, organizations, institutions, or governments, with the goal of promoting success at all levels of the organization by affecting the actions of those individuals.
Business coaching enables the client to understand and enhance his or her role in achieving business success. The business coach helps the client discover how personal characteristics, including a sense of self and personal perspectives, affect personal and business processes and the ability to reach objectives within a business context. Successful coaching helps the client learn how to change or accommodate personal characteristics and how to create personal and business processes that achieve objectives.
Business coaching establishes an atmosphere of trust, respect, safety, challenge, and accountability to motivate both the coach and the client.
In turn, this requires that the business coach conduct an ethical and competent practice, based on appropriate professional experience and business knowledge and an understanding of individual and organizational change.
Business Coaching
WABC Business Coaching Definition
The following definition of our emerging profession is the outcome of many contributions from business coaches and others. The definition is evolving. We welcome your comments, advice, and constructive criticism.
Business coaching is the process of engaging in meaningful communication with individuals in businesses, organizations, institutions, or governments, with the goal of promoting success at all levels of the organization by affecting the actions of those individuals.
Business coaching enables the client to understand and enhance his or her role in achieving business success. The business coach helps the client discover how personal characteristics, including a sense of self and personal perspectives, affect personal and business processes and the ability to reach objectives within a business context. With this method, successful coaching helps the client learn how to change or accommodate personal characteristics and how to create personal and business processes that achieve objectives.
Business coaching establishes an atmosphere of trust, respect, safety, challenge and accountability to motivate both the coach and the client. In turn, this requires that the business coach conduct an ethical and competent practice, based on appropriate professional experience and business knowledge and an understanding of individual and organizational change.
Note: The above definition includes a range of practice (e.g., team and individual coaching) within business coaching. But throughout, there is a clear focus on achieving business objectives. It is this focus that distinguishes business coaching from other types of coaching. Business coaching addresses the client’s development for the purpose of achieving business outcomes rather than achieving personal or career goals.
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Small Business Development
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Executive Development
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Interpersonal Skills
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Professional Organization Assistance