Behavior
What are people doing? What beliefs and assumptions may be influencing those choices?
IS THIS YOU?
Too much depends on you.
Too little moves forward.
Leadership coaching and advisory for people, teams, and organizations.
Decisions keep coming back to you. Team commitments slip. Important work stalls—even when people are working hard.
JTS Coaching helps professionals, teams, and organizations understand what's sustaining the pattern—and choose a practical next step.
For high-potential professionals, emerging leaders, and experienced executives.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation. No obligation.
START WITH YOUR REALITY
The challenge you see isn't always the challenge you need to solve.
Sometimes the most useful first step isn't finding an answer. It's asking a better question.
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FROM CHALLENGE TO PERSPECTIVE TO ACTION
What got you here may well be the thing now holding you back.
The strengths that have underpinned your success can have quite different effects as your responsibilities evolve.
How strengths can become constraints
Being dependable can leave you with too much on your plate. Holding to very high standards can make it difficult to share ownership. Being able to move quickly can in fact leave people waiting for you to tell them what to do.
Coaching creates the space to look at those patterns, to work out what is serving you, what may be constraining you and what you'd like to do differently.
As part of a paid coaching engagement I'll produce a written leadership analysis based on our initial conversation, your professional context and your answers to 15 specific questions.
We'll go through it together, question the assumptions, see what sticks, and work out a useful focus for our work.
The value is far more than just a document. It's the opportunity to look at a familiar problem in a different light and to see options which you may not have previously considered.
Our first 30-minute conversation is free. The bespoke questions and the leadership analysis are all part of the paid coaching.
Our approach: behavior, dynamics, and systems
LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE
Understand what's really getting in the way.
A delegation challenge may involve beliefs about responsibility. A team conflict may reveal unclear decision authority. Slow execution may reflect structural constraints.
JTS Coaching connects business experience, behavioral science, organizational psychology, and systems thinking to identify where practical change can begin.
Dynamics
How do relationships, expectations, and incentives reinforce the current pattern?
Systems
What organizational conditions enable or constrain effective performance?
Understanding is useful when it changes what you do next.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Start with what needs to change.
You want greater influence, clearer judgment, or more room to lead.
Leadership & Executive Coaching
From high-potential individual contributors and emerging leaders to C-suite executives: a confidential space to examine challenges, strengthen effectiveness, and navigate professional growth.
What we might explore
Influence without formal authority, delegation, leadership transitions, decision-making, and the assumptions shaping your work. We begin with your situation and agree on a useful focus together.
How our work begins
You don't need a perfectly defined problem. We start with your experience and work from there to get a clearer picture.
COMPLIMENTARY CONVERSATION
Start with your reality
In a free 30-minute chat, we talk about your role, what you're going through, and what you'd like to see changed. You can ask me any questions about my approach, and we can work through whether it makes sense for you.
PAID COACHING ENGAGEMENT
Explore more deeply
If we go ahead and start a paid coaching engagement, then I develop 15 questions for you. They're based on our conversation, your LinkedIn profile, and your company's website and are designed to probe your experience in a professional and organizational context.
You return your responses at least 24 hours prior to our next session so that I have sufficient time to go over them in detail.
See the patterns together
I prepare a written leadership analysis that explores:
- Key work style and leadership themes: how they help you and where they may hold you back.
- Observations and underlying patterns.
- Potential limiting beliefs.
- Potential coaching targets.
- Strengths to preserve and build on.
- Introspective questions for greater clarity.
The analysis offers observations and possibilities for us to review together. Your view is absolutely critical in this process. We're looking at what we think is right, what we think needs challenging and what we think warrants further attention.
Turn insight into practice
That conversation is key to shaping the coaching arc. We agree on what's important, try different approaches in the real world, and then look at what we've learned.
The aim is to link a clearer sense of self and of your context with more considered choices about how you lead.
Our first 30-minute conversation is free. The bespoke questions and the leadership analysis are all part of the paid coaching.
Execution stalls across priorities, decisions, or handoffs.
Organizational Advisory & Diagnostics
Focused inquiry into the behavioral, structural, and systemic factors influencing performance. An independent perspective and actionable recommendations, with a defined scope.
What an engagement could involve
Clarifying an execution problem, examining decision authority or cross-functional handoffs, and identifying constraints. We agree on the inquiry, evidence needed, and useful recommendations before beginning.
Your team needs shared practice in ownership, accountability, or collaboration.
Leadership Groups & Workshops
Structured, facilitated experiences for people to examine shared challenges, question assumptions, build practical capabilities, and learn from one another.
What we might work on
Accountability conversations, team decision-making, collaboration, and leadership practice. Group format and focus are shaped around the participants and the outcomes that matter.
Jonathan T. Senger (JTS) Founder, JTS Coaching
THE PERSON BEHIND THE PERSPECTIVE
Experience changes how you see the problem.
I'm Jonathan T. Senger (JTS).
I've spent more than 25 years working across technology businesses, from founding three startups to executive leadership in publicly traded companies. My experience spans sales, consulting, operations, customer support, and organizational leadership.
Today, I combine that business perspective with my work as a certified executive and leadership coach and organizational advisor. Since earning my professional coaching certification through Lumia in 2018, I've completed more than 7,000 hours of coaching with professionals from individual contributors to C-suite executives.
Leadership rarely exists in isolation. People, behavior, business realities, and organizational systems all shape what happens next.
Executive education
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- Berkeley Executive EducationLeading AI Transformation
- Duke Corporate EducationLeveraging Neuroscience for Team Performance and Impact
- Yale School of ManagementLeading Effective Decision-Making
- Wharton Executive EducationSelling Through Customer Centricity and Leading Customer-Centric Growth
- MIT Sloan Executive EducationLeading Operational Excellence
- IMDDriving Digital Transformation
- The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessLeading with Data and Analytics
More about my background & approach
My training in behavioral therapy informs my coaching: how I listen, question assumptions, and understand patterns. My approach combines practical business experience with thoughtful inquiry into behavior, relationships, and the conditions surrounding a challenge.
A CONVERSATION, WHEN YOU'RE READY
A different perspective can change what happens next.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation to explore your challenge and whether working together makes sense. No obligation.
Bring a leadership, team, or organizational challenge. We can discuss coaching, a focused workshop, or Organizational Advisory & Diagnostics.
The bespoke questions and leadership analysis are part of paid coaching, separate from this complimentary conversation.
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