Today’s intensely competitive business environment is challenging, but at the same time full of exciting potential. Shifting circumstances and priorities demand frequent recalibration, and the ability to continuously adapt to change leads to greater resilience and performance success.

I founded Invista to serve the needs of talented business executives, emerging leaders, and entrepreneurs and help them reach their full potential and achieve positive, sustainable success for themselves, their teams, and their organizations. My 25+ years of hands on management experience enables me to offer a depth of industry expertise and perspective to my clients with a focus on improving personal and professional performance.

I take a quantitative, measurable approach to my practice to make certain my clients leverage their full range of strengths and capabilities to open up new doors of opportunity.

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”
— Steve Jobs

Process

S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting
The process begins with a clear definition of goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-focused, and Timebound.
Current Reality
Understanding the obstacles to attaining peak performance is a critical step in the process. Rigorous self-evaluation that includes industry-leading talent assessment tools to gain a deep understanding of challenges and strengths that can help our clients reach their maximum potential.
Insight
Exploration of new ideas and concepts, pursuit of new professional skills, enhanced approaches to learning, and acquisition of knowledge.
Impact
Development and execution of a personal action plan to ensure continued high level performance and success.

Core Values

These values embody my beliefs, spirit, and dedication to the success of my clients.

Urgency
Critical thinking, the ability to quickly analyze information and integrate diverse sources of knowledge in solving problems, is essential to growth and success in today’s knowledge economy.

Commitment
My primary mission is to help my clients discover within themselves the talents and insights they need to create a personal action plan that is both sustainable and leads to long term success.

Honesty
Trust, transparency, and respect are critical ingredients for any meaningful relationship, particularly between a coach and a client.

Learning
Learning is a process for measurable change and growth that informs our worldview, beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors and leads to a happier and more fulfilling life.

Accountability
A willingness and desire to change behavior, learn to make smart choices, and build positive habits is essential to a successful outcome.

FAQ

Who needs a coach?
Everyone needs a coach. Anyone who is looking to make a difference in their lives and those around them, identify and capitalize on their talents and personal strengths, and have the courage and commitment to change their behavior in a positive way.

The value of coaching
Every high level performer, a professional athlete, an actor, an entrepreneur, or senior executive, can gain tremendous benefit from having a coach. A coach is someone who can help you understand how other people perceive you in a nonjudgmental way, and offer a totally unbiased and objective perspective.

What makes a good executive coach?
Someone who can build a strong relationship based on mutual trust. Good coaches know how to balance direct feedback and input by asking questions and seeking clarity of understanding. Achieving that balance is one of the primary strengths of good executive coaching.

What are the important considerations in selecting a coach?
Honesty, transparency, and trust are the most important components in a relationship between a coach and a client. It is essential that the values, beliefs, purpose, and expectations of a coach and a client are aligned.

What are some of the ways that I can expect to benefit from have a good executive
coach?

Measureable results: Achieving clearly defined goals with greater and more efficient productivity, both for the individual and for their organization.
Enhanced learning skills and critical thinking: Gaining an in-depth understanding of your strengths and how to greatly improve your underdeveloped skills.
Collaborative one to one process: A reassuring and supportive environment to talk through issues and gain valuable professional and personal perspective.
Professional support: Guidance for improving and fine tuning specific skills in the critical areas of communication, delegation, conflict management, collaboration, self awareness, and emotional IQ.

Why Invista?
At Invista we use an Evidence Based Coaching methodology, which is explicitly grounded on a broad empirical knowledge base, with a focus on outcomes. We concentrate on the facts, and our mission is to help our clients discover within themselves the talents and insights they need to create a transformative plan of action that is achievable, sustainable, and one that leads to long term growth and success.

Founder

Riley McDonough

Riley McDonough is a highly regarded digital media executive, advisor, investor, and executive coach. He is known throughout the industry as an inspirational leader with a relentless passion for results, and a 25 year track record of driving revenue and leadership success for organizations such as Newsweek, Inc. Magazine, ESPN, WebMD, and Thomson Reuters, through innovative product development, collaboration, and market execution.

At ESPN, he lead his team to 400% revenue growth in less than 4 years, focusing on strategic account development with some of the largest consumer brands in America. At WebMD, he was responsible for launching the Consumer Markets Division which he grew from $0 revenue to over $50M in less than 3 years. And, at Thomson Reuters he lead Global Sales for the Consumer Media Division, posting positive year over year revenue gains while successfully launching “Reuters Audience Select”, the company’s first audience management platform to support programmatic buying and selling of advertising inventory.

Riley believes strongly in the importance of giving back to those individuals and institutions that have helped him succeed over the years. He regularly mentors startup companies on revenue strategy and has made angel investments in the green building, e-commerce, and business service industries. He is currently a board advisor for several early stage digital companies.

He has a passion for all subjects related to performance development, leadership, global environmental sustainability, and the advancement of better health and wellness through innovations in science and technology.

He was a founding board member of the Online Publisher’s Association (OPA), and a board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He served as an adjunct professor at Pace University in the Masters of Publishing program and also lectured on sales and marketing at his alma mater, Iona College, where he is currently a member of the Legal Board of Trustees. Riley also completed an accelerated Executive Coaching program at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

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