Bailey VaezFractional COO · Leadership Facilitator
Book a Call

Here's howwe can work together.

All good work starts the same way: we pause, we diagnose, and we make sure we're solving the right problem before we build anything.

Whether it's a team, an organization, or a specific practice, like your strategic planning process, an outside lens helps you diagnose faster. I come in, interview key people, map what's actually happening, and give you a shared diagnosis and a roadmap you can act on.

  • Leadership and key stakeholder interviews
  • Current state review across operations, leadership, and team health, or a specific practice like planning or operating cadence
  • Top friction points: identified, named, and prioritized
  • 30 to 90-day action roadmap
Organizations

You're growing but everything still runs through you, or you're simply short on senior partnership and execution. I join your leadership team as a strategic partner and operator: setting priorities, building the rhythms that keep execution moving, leading critical projects, and creating the conditions where your team can own the work, so you can lead instead of holding it all together. Engagements can also take the shape of a defined special project rather than an ongoing partnership, depending on what you actually need. This is the alternative to hiring a full-time operations or HR executive partner before you're ready.

  • Priority-setting, resourcing, and organizational friction review
  • Monthly leadership facilitation and planning support
  • Critical initiative leadership (strategic planning, performance management, AI integration)
  • Manager or executive coaching

I facilitate the planning process with your leadership team, clarifying direction, aligning on priorities, and building the operating cadence that makes strategy stick week after week. The problem is rarely the plan itself. It's that the rhythms, accountability, and decision structures to execute it aren't there yet.

  • Strategic planning session facilitation or priority reset
  • Off-site design and facilitation
  • Operating cadence design (planning cycles, decision forums, review rhythms)
  • OKR/EOS or other frameworks, including training, coaching, and implementation

AI adoption isn't a technology problem, it's a human one. I work with founders and executive teams from strategy through rollout: helping you decide what an AI strategy for your organization actually looks like, building the roadmap to get there, and leading the human side of the rollout so it strengthens how people work rather than destabilizing it.

  • AI strategy session with founders and the executive team: where AI fits your priorities, what's worth piloting first
  • Workflow discovery and a roadmap for automation and AI-assisted opportunities
  • AI readiness assessment and stakeholder resistance mapping
  • Manager enablement
  • Training design and rollout support
Teams & Leaders

Your leadership team is stuck, inexperienced, or quietly losing trust. Sometimes the team needs a reset. Sometimes it needs a level-up. This is a facilitated engagement designed around your team, your context, and what actually needs to move.

  • Leadership alignment sessions
  • Team reset and trust rebuild facilitation

I design and deliver leadership development for your managers and rising leaders: practical frameworks for decision-making, resource planning, feedback, prioritization, and goal-setting, drawn from the same material I teach in graduate-level programs, adapted to your organization's actual context. For leaders who need more dedicated support, this also includes one-on-one coaching arranged through their organization: a thinking partner who understands your organizational context and has been there before.

  • Leadership development sessions
  • Manager Practice Labs: applied, scenario-based skill-building
  • Custom curriculum, adapted to your organization's context
  • One-on-one leadership coaching for leaders who need more dedicated support, grounded in adaptive leadership, mindfulness, and somatic coaching practices
Individuals

One-on-one coaching for executives and leaders interested in investing in their own growth directly. Navigating a growth moment, a pivot, a hard season, or a change you didn't choose. We work on where you want to go with someone who understands both the system and human sides of what you're facing.

  • Regular one-on-one coaching sessions (virtual)
  • Grounded in adaptive leadership, mindfulness, and somatic coaching practices
  • Optional: 8 weeks of private, scientifically validated Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program
Here's what my clients say

Our team was carrying longstanding and unresolved tensions, along with entrenched patterns of behaviour and unproductive team dynamics that had become increasingly difficult to address from within. Bailey brought a rare combination of strategic insight, emotional intelligence, and skilled facilitation that helped us examine issues that had felt stuck for months. She created the conditions for honest dialogue and gave us the opportunity to examine both our individual and collective responsibilities for the dynamics we were experiencing. Through that process, we developed a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. What impressed me most was her ability to operate simultaneously at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Whether coaching, facilitating, or helping us understand the systems underlying our challenges, she brought the same care, rigor, and presence. I would recommend her without hesitation to any leader facing significant organizational or challenging team dynamics.

Janet Webber·Senior Director, Dialogue and Engagement Unit, Simon Fraser University
Not sure yet?

Not sure which of these fits?

Most people aren't sure when they first reach out, and that's fine. Engagements usually start with one honest conversation.

Book a Call or email hello@baileyvaez.com