Steve Harbaugh

Prior to joining Southwestern Consulting I spent 20+ years as an entrepreneur, business owner, and co-owner of three successful businesses, as well as running an independent manufacturer’s representative agency serving 15 midwestern states.

Additionally, I travelled the United States and Canada doing coaching, training, and team development workshops, seminars, and keynote presentations for corporations, trade associations, and Christian conferences.

Having worked for 40 years in sales, sales leadership, and business ownership roles, and in consulting, coaching, and human performance development with hundreds of people, I would say that I draw from all of the experiences, challenges, obstacles, and mistakes along the way.

I also am able to provide a unique set of perspectives and insights here at Southwestern: I am a Senior Pastor of a Christian church and have extensive training and experience in Pastoral Biblical Counseling and Christian life coaching. This option is appreciated by clients who want the addition of a Christian pastoral worldview to their coaching experience.

• Dealer of the Year, WSIA
• President’s Awards
• Top Customer Satisfaction Awards, CSI
• Top 10 and Top 20 Worldwide in Sales (multiple years)
• Top Sales Region Awards (multiple years)

I believe the goal of coaching is to meet clients where they’re at, walk with them as a partner, help them identify their growth goals (personal, professional, metrics, income, etc.), and teach clients to live into the person and professional that they want to be.

Exceptional coaching believes big and helps clients think big and do big. It helps clients see and overcome blind spots, self-limiting beliefs, perspective issues, and incomplete or self-sabotaging self-dialogue, headspace, habits, time allocation, and focus.

Excellent coaching helps clients level up in their personal lives, professional lives, performance, leadership, and best of all, to live lives of intentionality, joy, enthusiasm, and significance. That is what I help clients work towards: living their lives to the full, however they define “success.”

I would say my secret sauce is deeply caring and listening. That may be my pastor’s heart showing; to meet people where they are and dig deeper into their situations, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and perspectives. I love helping the client identify patterns and solutions, and developing strategies to grow and win.

Coaches and coaching have been transformational in my life, beginning in youth baseball, basketball, and football. Those coaches had a tremendous impact on my life’s trajectory, including how I have worked with others over the last forty years.

The most meaningful moments I have experienced as a coach come when a client has a breakthrough, whether in attitude, thought, leadership, goal achievement, or in overcoming a problem in their life and/or business. We celebrate together, not just the goal completion, but the growth in the person. That brings me great joy and satisfaction, seeing my clients level up their life.