William and Kathy Murray are the principals behind Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching. Bill and Kathy form a dynamic coaching team, synergistically enriching each other’s competence and results. Bill is a Harvard MBA business person with a strong background in organizational psychology, while Kathy is a psychotherapist with a strong background in business. Kathy assists Bill in understanding client issues more deeply and creating strategies to help them meet their goals. Together, they are a dynamic duo. For more on William and Kathy, follow these links:
In addition, Eagle Alliance has highly qualified associate contractors who provide services as needed.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to serve in the deepest sense of the word.
Our goal for companies is to improve profitability and effectiveness by boosting the leadership performance of executives and their teams, through significantly improved relationship management and personal effectiveness.
Our goal for individuals is to improve their quality of work life including better work relationships, greater productivity, enhanced job satisfaction, and integrating spirituality into their work.
We support authentic, effective work relationships, servant leadership, open communication, empowerment, and spirit. Some firms have demonstrated that supporting these values leads to the greatest possible success of the organization of the future.
Clients
We specialize in executive coaching for business owners, executives, leaders, and managers:
- In medium-sized companies
- Located anywhere, receiving our services by telephone and the internet.
Our client list consists mainly of small to medium-sized companies, along with some larger ones including IBM, Ericsson, JC Penney, Westvaco, Freeport MacMoran, Zenger-Miller, and Duke University Medical Center, and self-paying individual leaders.
Testimonials - What People Say About Us
CREATING STRATEGIES FOR BETTER WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Dear Bill,
re: Executive Coaching
Thank you for your support, wisdom and help the past 18 months in my quest to improve my career and pattern for running my life. I really have come to appreciate your ability to listen deeply to my issues and encourage me at the same time. My wife and I were really stimulated and challenged by your classes in Coaching Skills and are already putting our new skills to good use. I would be happy to be a reference for you in the future and would encourage anyone thinking of getting some coaching to give you a try.
Sincerely,
Matt Meinel
mattmeinel@pobox.com
(formerly Managing Director, Information Technology at UBS, a leading global bank)
For the last 2 years, I have been blessed to receive pro bono Executive Coaching from Bill Murray of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching, and I write to recommend Bill’s services to you and/or your company or organization.
Bill is a great source of support in my leadership of Urban Ministries as Executive Director. I have worked with Bill to improve my conflict resolution and facilitation skills. He helps me sort out my priorities and focus on what is most important. As a sounding board, he clarifies my thinking and coaches me to create new strategies for dealing with our 30 staff people.
I most appreciate Bill’s commitment to and expertise with communication. Using the communication model championed by Marshall Rosenberg, Bill facilitates my own growth in being able to identify another’s needs as well as my own and to develop strategies that address both our needs. I am finding this communication model to be extremely valuable for my personal and professional life. In addition to his Executive Coaching, Bill has also trained our Urban Ministries staff in interpersonal skills to improve the effectiveness of their working relationships. Bill also leads team building and conflict resolution programs for other organizations, and offers teleconferencing workshops and coaching for distance learning situations. Bill has over 25 years of experience of coaching and leadership development experience. If you desire to improve your organization and your own leadership abilities, I encourage you to contact Bill Murray at Eagle Alliance at 919-419-9460.
Sincerely,
Lloyd Schmeidler, Executive Director
Urban Ministries of Durham, 410 Liberty St. Durham, NC 27701 919-682-0538 x. 27
IMPROVING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Bill Murray’s telephone training in Emotional Intelligence for leaders has been extremely useful to me. My world, as with anyone else in modern business, requires more and more working in short-lived teams of strangers. The team is only effective when everyone is able to understand what we each really mean. Bill’s EI training has given me useful tools to accelerate getting teams delivering results faster and better.
Graham Boyd, Section Head, Global Packaging Development Brussels, Procter & Gamble
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I found the tele-workshops on emotional intelligence a convenient way to connect with other professionals in a safe and positive environment, to polish skills and learn better ways to get the message across. Once the meetings got into my calendar, I just dialed in and enjoyed. The diversity of participants in the workshop provided a great forum for experimenting with an idea or skill that I could then apply in my work or personal setting. Constructive feedback along with a chance to practice new options has resulted in an improvement in my personal communication skill. I use skills gained in audit situations, to try for a clearer and better focused communication process.
Patti Owen
Manager, Glaxo-Smith-Kline
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It is my privilege to share my experience and steps that I have taken in my work with Bill Murray. I sought his executive coaching assistance in order to develop in the area of emotional intelligence and team building within my staff.
This experience has led to is an emotional shift that impacts my function at core levels. I made emotional and physical progress which is dramatized in the following old and new emotional and physical states. This journey has moved me from:
-Confusion to focus,
-Frustration to control,
-Reactionary behavior to setting the tone,
-Being challenged by ambiguity to playing with it,
-Doubt to visualizing positive expectations,
-Being blocked by fear to walking through it,
-Being resistant to hearing messages that are uncomfortable to me, to greater openness
to perspectives that are different from my own.
-A poor and exhausted physiology to improved health with vitality and energy.
-Personal embarrassment to confidence about myself and contribution.
-Concern about my future to maximizing my outcome
This journey has also been enhanced by one-on-one work with Bill and other formative experiences which have led to emotional and psychological fitness. I further developed my effectiveness by participating in Tele-Workshops with the Bill in a group context and practicing my listening skills.
I affirm Bill’s executive coaching process without reservation and would commend him to anyone seeking to develop their executive skills and emotional intelligence.
Larry D. Pickens, Church denominational executive
UNDERSTANDING OUR CORPORATE CULTURE
I had the tremendous benefit of Bill Murray’s executive coaching for over a year as senior vice president of a subsidiary of SunTrust Bank, the nation’s ninth largest bank. I was introduced to Bill’s thinking on servant leadership at a “Serving From Within” seminar Bill hosted at a retreat center. I was impressed by his blend of management technique and spiritual formation in teaching leadership.
Much of leadership, I have become convinced, is the ability to see clearly. One must see clearly what is happening in the organization and must also be able to foresee what is likely to happen in the organization as a result of current actions. Bill’s coaching was very effective in helping me remove blinders that restricted my vision. We started by broadening the feedback channels from the people who worked with and for me by using various tools that Bill is adept at teaching and using. As we progressed, we began to identify particular personality differences and interpersonal issues that kept me from seeing beyond my own perspective and clouded my vision.
Bill is a master at the Meyers-Briggs personality profiles and other personality typing tools, and I found these to be an extraordinarily rich deposit from which to mine new insights into how I reacted and others reacted based on our personality preferences, and not necessarily in the interest of teamwork or organizational goals. As we continued in the process of wiping the lenses clear, we explored together where as a leader and as a person I had tendencies toward addictions or compulsions, whether to control, or to please others, or to the work itself, that needed to be addressed in order to keep the vision clear.
Bill sometimes teams with his wife Kathy, who is an expert in the field of psychology. In working with Bill and Kathy I came to understand how personal and organizational compulsions can take on addiction-like qualities that need to be understood and transformed into healthy behaviors before there can be healthy leadership.
Finally, Bill’s coaching is thoroughly infused with his deep conviction that there is a God of the universe, that the universe is not hostile and can be trusted, and that part of leadership is entering into the flow of the movement of this beneficent God of the universe. To the extent one desires it, Bill is highly skilled in the areas of discernment and the spiritual disciplines aimed at engaging this aspect of leadership. I unreservedly recommend Bill’s coaching for any leader desiring to reach his or her highest potential and for any organization desiring to be a healthy, positive workplace in which people can flourish and do amazing things.
Sincerely,
Mark Springfield
mspring@bellsouth.net
BEST DECISIONS
Bill Murray acted as my executive coach for a year. He provided business and spiritual advice and support, which was very valuable in a period of tremendous growth and transition in the life of Regency. Bill never told me what to do; he always offered great ideas and approaches to help me make the best decisions and take the best approach in difficult work environments.
I would recommend Bill to anyone seeking a talented professional to assist in development and support of an executive or a management team.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Settles, CPA
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The Regency Housing Group
ASSERTIVENESS
Coaching was an eye-opening experience for me. When I began being coached, I had a very specific goal in mind. I never thought working toward that goal would take me on the journey it did. But the results have been well worth it. I am more confident and assertive about my business decisions, I openly express my opinions in business meetings, and I am now sought after for my counsel and advice on projects. My leadership skills are far better, and the value I add to my organization is being recognized.
The tools Bill and Kathy taught me through coaching, are tools I can use for the rest of my life in both professional and personal endeavors. I recommend coaching to anyone with a desire to jump start professional or personal development.
Patricia Elwell
A Marketing Communications Manager
Houston, Texas
