About Clay Conner · Clay Conner Coaching

Clay Conner · Boise, Idaho

The work

You can feel the gap between who you are and how you lead. I help you close it.

The leaders who find their way here are already moving — smart, capable, doing the work. Something keeps getting in the way — something they can't see, or can't seem to close. Some aren't blocked — they're not sure where they're headed anymore.

Most have been carrying it alone. The people who depend on them need them to have it together. The right question, at the right moment, gets somewhere they couldn't reach on their own.

I'm sixty years old, still flying, still working on myself. I haven't arrived — I've been through enough to know that's not how this goes. The gap between knowing and leading shows up in my life the same way it shows up in theirs. Hard to see, hard to sit with, hard to keep working on. Figuring it out alone hasn't worked for me. Conversations have.

Background

Where this comes from.

Thirty-Five Years Leading and Building

A decade at 5 Degrees North co-developing solutions with organizations like BASF, Johnson & Johnson, and Eastman Chemical — work that produced over $300 million in measurable results. Then thirteen years as SVP inside a health tech company called SmartStory. I know what it takes to operate at that level. I know what it costs when something inside starts working against you.

Leading People, Long Before the Title

I was doing this work before I called it coaching. The clients were engineers — people who didn't take claims on faith. What moved them wasn't a system — it was the right question, in a room where they felt safe enough to answer honestly. They came up with more than they thought they could, faster than they thought they could, because the answer was theirs.

Private Pilot

I fly because I love it, and I keep working to get better at it. Flying gave me language for things I already knew about leadership — the gap between knowing what to do and doing it under pressure, the voice in your head that gets loud when it should get quiet, the moment when trying harder stops being the answer.

I love that first call. Something always comes up that surprises us both.

If you're a leader thinking about it,
that's enough reason to reach out.

The call is free. The conversation is honest. You'll know by the end of it.

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Thirty-five years watching leaders who couldn't close the gap. Including myself.

You can feel the gap between who you are and how you lead. I help you close it.

Where this comes from.

If you're a leader thinking about it,that's enough reason to reach out.

If you're a leader thinking about it,
that's enough reason to reach out.