Meet Coach Michael Krumpak | Executive Career Coach & Consultant

We had the good fortune of connecting with Coach Michael Krumpak and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Coach Michael, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
I have been in learning and development, focusing mostly on leadership development for over thirty years. I had the privilege and opportunity to work with thousands of people. Executive Coaching, as a profession, has only been around for about 25 years. Many people are unclear about what exactly is executive coaching. I’ve always helped friends and my colleagues secure better jobs. By that, I mean, to get more personal satisfaction in not only their current role, but to prepare for bigger roles that really tap into their potential to do more, and to be more fulfilled, and have a greater impact. While I’ve been in the corporate and government business world for many years, I wanted to help leaders and followers on a larger scale; outside of just one company. I have always wanted my own business. When I was 18 I started my own telemarketing company, where we sold dramatized Bible stories to nursing homes. I don’t think many people really know that about me. I did it for one summer and even hired two employees to work with me. But, when it was time to go back to college in the Fall, I had to stop the business. But I always had a driving entrepreneurial spirit within. All this to say, I really enjoy helping people become their better best. And my executive coaching business, it provides me an opportunity to personally create strong relationships and partnerships with my clients, to ultimately help them to accomplish more than they can by themselves, as well as helping them to accelerate the time it takes to achieve and oftentimes exceed their goals.

What should our readers know about your business?

Who is Coach Krumpak? Coach Michael Krumpak is the Founder and President of L4 Learning Solutions, a unique boutique Executive Coaching, and Leadership Cultivation Firm. What’s unique about me? EVERYTHING I do is 100% customized to the client. For coaching, your entire journey is created based on your goals, challenges, beliefs, and the stories you tell yourself today…leaning into the story you want to be known for in the future.

Gone are the days of sitting in a large class where all the training received is what the company or the training program wants to achieve, not you the individual client. I offer a portfolio of questions and deeper assessments to identify your towering strengths, bring to the surface hidden strengths, and uncover blind spots. From there, each person is unique. My coaching targets what is most important for the client, and then we journey together. We create solid and achievable goals, milestones, and other measures of success. Throughout this journey, and based on individual client needs, I can share proven tools and methodologies to help each unique and individual client.

Coaching is not Consulting.

What is the Difference Between Executive Coaching and Consulting, and Which is Best?
Let us begin to clarify coaching. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) describes coaching as partnering in a creative, thought-provoking, and inspirational way that maximizes your personal and professional potential. They go on to say that coaching unlocks previously untapped sources of leadership, imagination, and productivity. (ICF, 2021)

There are key differences between Consulting and Executive Coaching.
Coaching is different from consulting. Coaching is not consulting and the two professional practices should not be combined in the purest construct of coaching. This was my greatest misperception, myth, former belief, and approach. While consulting for years, my former approach was to blend consulting with coaching.

With Executive Coaching, the individual leader is driving, and the coach is the partner and navigator. I am in the passenger’s seat to help enable and navigate; my clients are always in the driver’s seat. With executive coaching, the individual leader or client is driving, and the coach is the partner and navigator.

Refined Executive Coaching Today
Experienced coaches know how to ask customized questions. Questions unique to each individual and each situation. This helps motivate them to create their own solutions so individuals feel empowered to move forward in their life and business. It is a highly collaborative process and one of the biggest differentiators of skilled coaches.

Coaching is a one-on-one, highly customized, very personal, private, and confidential partnership.
The role of a consultant is to provide professional advice. And who could not benefit from some good advice these days? Consultants are typically experts in a specific domain, and with that, they can provide guidance and support to make things happen. Consulting is typically focused on short-term problem-solving. Coaching. While it can yield some quick results, is focused more on the individual’s long-term journey of changing behavior. There are times and places for consultants, and they provide tremendous value. However, executive coaching, for me, is more transformational and sustainable. It is a one-on-one highly customized, very personal, private, and confidential partnership. This gives the leader dedicated time and space to explore, discover, create insights, and journey to their new reality.

Executive coaching is most appropriate and critical for leaders seeking fundamental behavior changes, either stopping potentially derailing behaviors and/or picking up the best actions to be more successful. The result is getting more out of life, personally and professionally, and feeling good about feeling good.

Coaching yields powerful results: Tangible and Intangible
The top two results achieved through executive coaching are higher levels of personal satisfaction and higher productivity – both personally and professionally. (M.C. Anderson, MetrixGlobal)

Tangible Results are increased productivity, higher levels of employee performance, revenue, sales growth, employee retention and engagement, and decreases in costs and employee and customer turnover.
Intangible Results are increased confidence, improved communication, and stronger relationships with peers, direct reports, senior leaders, and key stakeholders.

All of these results benefit your career, your organization, and satisfy your personal commitment to being a more balanced individual. Greater personal satisfaction can be life-changing personally and professionally, and your peers will notice the change–how can you not embrace self-improvement and “Become Your Better Best?”

Coach Krumpak offers one-on-one Executive Coaching either face-to-face or via video conference. He uses International Coaching Federation (ICF) Executive Coaching Methodologies, his Master’s experience in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and over three decades of leadership development experiences to customize your leadership cultivation experiences. Coach Krumpak offers customized learning solutions to help individual leaders or groups of leaders and organizations to “Become Their Better Best.”

Coach Krumpak is the Father of “Leadership Cultivation” (TM).

Reach out to Coach Krumpak at L4 Learning Solutions to discover how you can partner with Coach Michael Krumpak to “Become Your Better Best.”

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If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I live in South Florida. But when I’m in Atlanta, I LOVE the World of Coca-Cola. I’m a huge Coke fan. I collect Coke items. I even have a bathroom that has a Coke shower curtain, Coke towels, an antique Coke radio, bathmat, trashcan, and soap organizer. I love the World of Coke…all the history, all the old photographs, and memorable commercials. My goal is to get a vintage Coke Machine with the pull-out bottles. So when I’m in Atlanta, I always visit the World of Coke. My favorite part is tasting all the drinks from all over the world. Good times!

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I want to acknowledge someone from a long time ago. My first job was at a call center company called InfoCision Management Corporation, in Akron, Ohio. Her name was Carol J. Byrd. She was a senior executive. I remember going to her when I was 18, and said I wanted to help develop the call center agents around me. I worked in direct marketing sales at the time. She initially said to me, “You’re too good on the phone. Go back and keep making your record sales.” A few weeks later, the trainer had an emergency. I had six newly hired call center agents waiting on their first day for a full week of training. She said to me, “Michael, go train them how to be as good as you.” I had NEVER trained anyone before. Because of her and the nudge she gave me, I figured it out, and developed an entire training program that was scaled to other departments. I gave up my full music scholarship and went into business. In over thirty years, I’ve never looked back. But this was the shining moment where I was pushed out of my comfort zone, got what I asked for, and ended up not only developing employees at InfoCision, but many talented employees all over the world. Thanks, Ms. Byrd. My career in developing employee talent all started because of you!

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