What are typical problems that executive coaches help to solve?

For an entrepreneur with a small service business, I helped her with a strategy to negotiate a new contract with one of her clients. For a consumer products company, I helped them resolve a conflict between their sales director and one of their top reps. For a residential construction firm, I helped them rewrite job descriptions to stop conflicts between two senior staff members. For a manufacturing firm, I helped them plan how to address performance issues with their CFO. For a medical practice, I helped them keep a senior staff member who was in frequent conflict with a new hire. As you can see from these examples, these are all discrete problems that are more easily resolved by using an outside expert than spending a lot of time trying to resolve them from within.