Communication Coaching for Leaders and Teams
When the conversation matters, direction matters.
Compass Communication Coaching helps leaders communicate with clarity, navigate pressure, and turn difficult moments into better decisions, stronger alignment, and forward movement.
Marshall T. Fields
Executive & Communication Coach
Good communication is not simply saying more.
It is knowing what the moment requires—and choosing a direction that moves people forward.
Ways to Work Together
Support built for consequential moments.
From a focused leadership intervention to reserved, as-needed access, each engagement is designed around the conversations and decisions that affect performance.
Leadership Team Diagnostic
See the communication patterns, decision habits, and unspoken dynamics shaping your leadership team.
- Sponsor and stakeholder alignment meeting
- Confidential interviews with up to six leaders
- Observation of one leadership-team meeting
- Assessment of communication, decision-making, conflict, and team dynamics
- Findings and recommendations report
- 90-minute leadership-team debrief
- Recommended coaching roadmap
$7,500
Project engagement
Leadership Decision & Alignment Sprint
Focused coaching for a major decision, transition, conflict, or breakdown in team alignment.
- Leadership Team Diagnostic
- Three 90-minute team-coaching sessions
- Up to four individual executive-coaching sessions
- Decision and communication alignment tools
- Between-session access for time-sensitive questions
- Final progress review and next-step plan
$15,000
Three-month engagement
Leadership Team Partnership
Ongoing development that helps senior teams reflect, communicate, and decide more effectively under pressure.
- Initial team diagnostic
- Monthly 90-minute team-coaching sessions
- Ten individual executive-coaching sessions
- Two half-day leadership workshops
- Quarterly decision-making and team-dynamics review
- Customized Compass tools and job aids
- Limited between-session advisory access
$30,000
Six-month engagement
Reserved-Access Retainers
Support when you need it—not weeks after the moment has passed.
Give leaders confidential access to an independent communication coach before high-stakes meetings, difficult conversations, and consequential decisions.
Retainers reserve monthly coaching and advisory capacity. They are intentionally not positioned as unlimited access.
Compass On-Call
- Up to five service hours per month
- Priority scheduling
- Three-month minimum commitment
Strategic Leadership Advisory
- Up to ten service hours per month
- Priority scheduling and same-week availability
- Monthly strategy session
- Three-month minimum commitment
Executive Partnership Retainer
- Up to eighteen service hours per month
- Dedicated availability for urgent situations
- Monthly leadership review session
- Quarterly team-dynamics assessment
- Six-month minimum commitment
Proprietary Frameworks
The Compass frameworks.
Each framework is designed to give leaders a practical structure for navigating the moments that matter most.
The Compass Communication Model
A structured approach to high-stakes communication that helps leaders identify what the moment requires, choose a direction, and move people forward with clarity and purpose.
Decision Clarity Framework
A tool for leadership teams navigating complex decisions under pressure—clarifying what is known, what is uncertain, and what the team needs to align on before moving forward.
Team Alignment Map
A diagnostic and planning tool that surfaces the communication patterns, unspoken dynamics, and structural gaps that prevent leadership teams from operating at their best.
Compass Assessment
Compass Culture Stability Assessment
How well is your organization's culture supported by its everyday leadership and communication practices? This brief assessment examines the conditions that influence clarity, trust, accountability, collaboration, emotional sustainability, and organizational stability.
1.Leaders in this organization communicate a clear and consistent direction.
2.When priorities change, leaders explain the reasoning in a timely and transparent way.
3.Information flows reliably across teams and departments.
4.People in this organization receive the information they need to do their work effectively.
About Marshall
Marshall T. Fields
Executive & Communication Coach
Marshall T. Fields is an executive coach and communication strategist who works with leaders and leadership teams navigating high-stakes decisions, difficult conversations, and organizational transitions.
His work is grounded in the belief that communication is not simply a soft skill—it is the mechanism through which strategy becomes action, trust is built or broken, and organizations move forward or stall.
Marshall is the founder of HealthyPractice.org, where he applies the same communication and leadership principles to the people-side challenges of medical and ambulatory care practices.
Corporate communication and leadership development from the founder of HealthyPractice.org.
Client Experiences
What Leaders Are Saying
Compass engagements are built on trust, discretion, and measurable change. Here is what participants share about the experience.
"Marshall has a rare ability to hold space for difficult conversations without judgment. Our leadership team came out of the engagement with language we didn't have before — and we use it every day."
Chief Medical Officer
Regional Health System
"I came in skeptical. I left with a completely different understanding of how I was showing up for my team. The Compass frameworks gave me something concrete to work with."
Practice Administrator
Multi-Specialty Group
"This wasn't a workshop. It was a genuine shift. The work Marshall does is precise, respectful, and lasting."
VP of Operations
Healthcare Network
"We had tried other communication training. Nothing stuck. Compass was different because it started with listening — really listening — to what was actually happening in our organization."
Director of Human Resources
Academic Medical Center
Get in Touch
Start a Conversation
Tell us about your organization, the challenges your leaders or teams are experiencing, and the type of support you are considering. Marshall will review your information and contact you to discuss the best next step.