Built on Executive Experience. Grounded in Evidence.

Leadership coaching often relies on intuition or generic advice. At h3 Strategies, we take a different approach. We believe the best development happens at the intersection of real-world executive experience and evidence-based methodologies.

We aren’t career consultants who have only viewed business from the outside. We are former executives, business owners, and educators who have navigated the same high-stakes challenges you face today. We know what it means to manage a P&L, report to a Board, and lead teams through complex change.

Executive Peer-to-Peer Partnership

Most leaders don’t need another lecture; they need a confidential sounding board who understands their context. As a husband-and-wife team with nearly 50 years of combined experience, we bring a “whole-system” perspective to your growth:

• The Executive Perspective: We have held senior leadership roles in complex organizations, giving us the empathy and insight to support Directors and VPs.
• The Entrepreneurial Perspective: Having founded and scaled three successful companies together, we understand the agility required to drive growth.
• The Credentialed Perspective: We back our experience with elite training. With advanced degrees (JD, MS) and executive coaching certifications from Rice University and The International Coaching Federation (ICF-PCC), we bring both intellectual rigor and proven methodology to every conversation.

Data-Driven. Behavioral. Measurable.

We reject “fluff.” Our coaching and consulting engagements are rooted in evidence-based methodologies and validated assessments (including EQ-i 2.0 and DiSC).

We don’t guess at your development needs. We use behavioral data to identify specific blind spots and strengths, creating a roadmap that moves you from conceptual understanding to measurable behavioral change.

Led by Bill Handy & Shelli Holland-Handy