Coaching & Assessment Practice Leader
Craig Stanton, an Executive Leadership Coach and Senior Consultant with Innolect, has been coaching leaders since 2010. He works with emerging to C-suite leaders who are actively seeking to expand their capacity to manage complex roles and pursue outcomes in new areas. He supports high potential leaders who have assumed new positions, in transition, actively seeking a new role, and who seek support to meet the demands of their current situation.
Informed by decades of experience supporting individuals at all organization levels from, Craig’s practice is informed by vertical developmental theory, and typically includes partnering with clients to see their own situation more clearly and identifying behaviors that accelerate or detract from personal their effectiveness. His coaching approach is a blend of unusual honesty and curiosity, warmth, deep listening, powerful questioning, and non-judgmental connection. He has worked with leaders across the U.S. and Europe, and most recently in South Korea. His clients include government, corporate, not-profit, board and higher education executives.
Craig is one of an elite group of certified coaches worldwide to have earned the ICF’s highest certification as a Master Certified Coach (MCC). Currently serving as the Director of Assessment and Co-Director of Curriculum for the Georgetown University Executive Leadership Coaching program and a previous faculty member at Rutgers and American University Coaching Certificate programs. Craig is certified in numerous assessment tools, including the Hogan Suite, Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0, subject-object interview, Emotional Quotient Inventory 360, Myers- Briggs, the Maturity Assessment Profile (MAP), and the Leadership Circle.
As a Senior Executive with 21+ years of public service in Federal Government, he has served in a mission-critical executive leadership roles supporting six different U.S. Secretaries of Education. He holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and an MA in Renaissance Studies from the University of Virginia. He has completed post-graduate work through George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being and the Federal Executive Institute. He has studied with Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger and Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter in the field of vertical development and is certified to debrief the Maturity Assessment Profile (MAP) assessment and conduct and debrief subject/object client-based interviews.
Craig has been actively involved in public education for over 20 years, and his wife has served as a public-school teacher for 24 years. He is deeply interested in the question of what it looks like for each of us to become the most complete and authentic version of ourselves possible, and his children would say that his personal motto is “being yourself in the world is an act of revolution.”
