Watts Collaborative

The Power of Peer-to-Peer Collaboration in the Ever-Evolving Workforce

Re-Imagine How You Lead

Connect and Share with Peers

Challenge, Grow, and Learn

“The benefits of small-group coaching come from powerful learning interactions among leaders who aren’t on the same team but are roughly equal in experience and position. By bringing people together who have no formal accountability to or interactions with each other, you can create deep learnings that wouldn’t be available otherwise.”
- Brenda Steinberg and Michael D. Watkins, “The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching” (Harvard Business Review, April 2021)

“The Rising Leaders group was so impactful to my personal growth. To work with 3 other peers and a fearless leader, I felt supported, safe to be vulnerable and expansive to stretch beyond my perceived limitations. I am forever grateful for this experience and how it has refined my vision and defined my values. As a result I made a career change and move into a position that aligns with my why. Thank you!”

— Jonathan Purcell (President, JP Tech Consulting, LLC / Former Uber)

Rising Leaders

Peer-to-Peer Coaching and Collaboration

Many leaders experience challenges in getting direct and honest feedback at work. This can lead to uncertainty, an aversion to taking risks, and a lack of confidence.
Our work together will enable you to:
- Master the art of the “saturated pause.”
- Allocate your time and resources to your most important priorities.
- Discover how to engage in productive conversations that promote shared understanding and drive action.
- Identify the habits that best serve your leadership skills, and cultivate new skills to make you a more effective leader.
- Navigate ambiguity and change even in the most chaotic environments with greater equanimity.
- Embody inclusive, sincere and intentional leadership.
As one of four Rising Leader participants in the cohort, you will receive 20 hours of leadership training and coaching tailored to your development goals, which can immediately be applied to your leadership practice.
- Each cohort is structured to align you with peers who share the same leadership challenges, organizational structures, and similar business sectors.
- Group coaching sessions with your peers, lasting 8 months.
- Each cohort is provided with a private What’s App channel for communication and networking… during the cohort and beyond.
- Additional 1:1 sessions are available at a reduced rate.
- The Rising Leaders Program is an 8-month cohort. We can also offer you a monthly payment package to provide you with increased flexibility.
- Let’s schedule a complimentary, 30-minute consultation to discuss your specific needs.

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Testimonials

“Nan has been an instrumental figure in my entrepreneurial journey, coaching me from the nascent stage of an idea to successfully raising almost $1 million in fundraising, with users spanning the globe. Her guidance has been pivotal in ensuring that I remain mission-focused, reminding me to adhere to the vision I have for the world. Her insights have helped me navigate challenging conversations, the inevitable lows of fundraising, and the constant rollercoaster that is startup life. I am profoundly grateful for Nan's unwavering support, wisdom, and the gentle yet firm push she gives me to explore beyond my limits.”
Carley Lake Co-Founder/CEO at Lucky Sweater, Early Uber
“Nan helped me discover my authentic leadership style, successfully transition from an individual contributor to a team leader, and reframe leadership mind traps. Nan approaches coaching with a holistic, human-centered approach and challenges you in a supportive way that gets results.”

Lauren Culbertson Greico Global Strategist, Corporate Executive Public Affairs Expert
“Shortly after becoming a 1st line leader, I started working with Nan and it is as one of the best life decisions I have made. Nan's council has been invaluable as I navigated through my growth as a leader - She provides me space to reconcile and reflect on my strengths, areas for growth but most of all guided me towards the mindset required to become a better person. Thank you Nan for your guidance and mentorship!”

Moon Choe Director, Salesforce
“I worked with Nan over the course of a year, both through a leadership coaching program at work and then on my own as I found her support so helpful. Nan helped me better define my purpose, one that fits me both personally and professionally, and then to identify my core values that ladder back to that purpose. Nan is fantastic at gently calling out or pressing when there's clearly more discovery to do and her coaching has helped me make some pretty major developments at work. I would highly recommend working with her for coaching and am thankful for her partnership.”
Jenn Cox Lange
Founder, At the Core Coaching Former Director, Mars
“I've had the pleasure working with Nan over the last 5 years as my leadership coach. I was fortunate to start working with Nan as a second line leader while at Salesforce. During this time Nan helped develop my leadership skills around coaching through curiosity. Since then, Nan's helped me develop the skills required to be a senior leader.”
Brendan Burke Senior VP of Sales, Quickbase
“Nan is an extremely authentic, curious, wise and easy going person. All of these qualities make her a great coach. I had the pleasure of being coached by her while I was at a unique place in my professional life a few years ago. She helped me navigate my inner world and tune into what I really wanted to do and how I wanted to get it. She is very open minded and believes in continuous learning and investing in her growth. This makes her a great influence for anyone wanting the same for themselves.”
Ananya Sabharwal Global HR Head, Unilever Food Solutions
“Far beyond career planning and leadership development, Nan’s engagement approach centers around discovering what’s truly important and helping you make a specific, realistic plan to achieve it, in harmony with your broader life. She genuinely cares and takes the time get to know each client.”
Josh Weiss Vice President - Guest Digital Products IHG Hotels and Resorts
“I met Nan when I was fresh into a new, transitional leadership role. The time we spent together has been absolutely critical to identifying and applying consistent values to a fast-moving and unpredictable situation. When I look on my calendar and see my next check in with Nan I am always excited about the progress I know we will make together. I have met with a few executive coaches in the past, but Nan is the first one I have stuck with. I would be happy to share more with anyone who is interested.”
Matt Ruderman
Chief Legal Counsel, Definitive Healthcare
“Nan activated a new skill within me to step outside my professional self. She gave me no answers, but rather guided me to figure out where to look within. As a result, I led myself to a personal overlook where I could objectively see the deep pathways of my personal journey that led me to my professional competence. Each day, that reflective self-aware me is ready to see the challenges for what they are. I now have a personal map to reach an amazing destination. Nan got me there.”
Matt Ruffing Senior Director Delivery Assurance, Ceridian
“Nan was instrumental in my mindset shift as a leader in a large company and provided me with many tools and skills to self-reflect and improve my ability to lead people and tackle complex problems. Nan is unique in that her guidance is tailored and highly personal and her ability to root out growth opportunities makes her an effective coach.”
Stacy Ross VP of Operations, BP Pulse
"If you want authentic growth, if you want innovative and cutting edge, if you desire to expand and elevate, if you are ready to invest in yourself and your people, you have found the right person to help you and your organization achieve your leadership vision and goals in this new world.”

Tracey Breeden
Founder, Speaker, Coach, Advisor, Author, Activist, Podcast Host, Safety & Inclusion Expert, Fast Company Queer 50, ex-Uber

8,700+ Hours Coached

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Over 700 Leaders Developed

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40+ Corporate Programs

CHIEF

Nan Watts, PCC Founder / CEO Watts Collaborative

Our unprecedented times call for people to lead wholeheartedly, creating strong systems that support well being and inclusivity while redefining what great performance looks like.

For nearly two decades, I've refined my talent as a catalyst for growth. My professional calling is coaching, where I bring insight, skill, compassion, humor, and wisdom to the table, along with a unique gift for distilling your words, thoughts, and emotions into the core truth of who you are. My work extends beyond coaching to guiding, partnering with and advising with leaders who are committed to challenging themselves to expand, heal, evolve, and thrive.

I am committed to doing this work myself, by applying the same principles I use in coaching, to find openings for greater internal exploration and growth.

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Our Services

Coaching Leaders 1:1

For Executives and Senior Leaders Who Are Being Pulled by a Vision of Something Greater
Rising Leaders Program

Group & Team Facilitation for Rising Leaders Seeking to Grow, Learn, and Share with Peers
Corporate Partnerships

Improving Leaders’ Capacities for the Multi-Generational Workforce

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Inside-Out Leadership Development

Expand Your Toolbox and Apply These Learnings to Real Life Scenarios

Distill and crystallize your core values and ‘why’. They are essential components of your personal navigation system.
Master the art of the Saturated Pause, tune out the external noise, ignite the wisdom you hold within, deepen your self-awareness and become more expansive with great capacity and vitality.
Understand your triggers, your habitual response to those triggers so that you can move nimbly between a reactive state to a more resourced and resilient state.
Experience psychological safety tenabling you to create environments where people can thrive, innovate and perform at their best.
Generative conversations are the heartbeat of meaningful interaction. At their core these conversations are not merely an exchange of information but rather a dynamic process that has the potential to generate new insights, perspectives and possibilities.
In order to achieve this it is imperative that we understand our underlying beliefs about feedback, conflict, and what really fosters trust, shared understanding, alignment and action.
Inclusivity and allyship are the cornerstones of building diverse and equitable communities where every individual feels valued, respected and empowered to thrive.
They serve as powerful catalysts for promoting compassion, understanding among individuals, a team, and within your organization.
Better understand your own inherent biases without shame and become a more inclusive leader and better ally for others on your team and in your organization.
Leading people requires taking time to understand what is needed in the moment. How do you know? When is it time to coach vs advise or direct. What is your preferred style of leading? Is it effective? How to flex your style to meet the other person where they are.