Leadership is a journey.
Don’t ride it alone!
Cadence Leadership Group was created for leaders and teams who are navigating growth, transition, complexity, or change. Through coaching, facilitation, and practical leadership development, Cadence Leadership Group helps clients slow down enough to gain clarity, build the discipline to endure the grind, and develop the confidence to excel when it is time to sprint.
About Jim Costey, Founder and Lead Coach
Practical leadership experience. Purpose-driven coaching. Trusted facilitation.
Jim Costey founded Cadence Leadership Group to help leaders and teams build clarity, confidence, and sustainable leadership rhythm. His work is grounded in a simple belief: leadership is not a single event or title. It is a journey shaped by self-awareness, disciplined action, meaningful relationships, and the ability to keep moving through both the grind and the sprint. Jim brings more than 30 years of leadership experience across military service, federal executive leadership, consulting, coaching, and facilitation. As a retired United States Air Force Colonel and former federal Senior Executive, he has led people, teams, and organizations through complex missions, organizational change, and moments of significant transition. His primary areas of focus include executive coaching, emerging leader development, team effectiveness, DiSC-based communication, career transition, leadership presence, and facilitated strategy conversations. In his spare time, Jim is an amateur endurance cyclist.
A coach shaped by service and transition
Jim understands that leadership growth often happens during periods of change. Throughout his career, he has helped leaders navigate uncertainty, translate experience into action, and build confidence in their ability to lead well in new environments.
That perspective is especially important in his work with executives, emerging leaders, nonprofit teams, small businesses, and transitioning professionals. Whether a client is stepping into a larger leadership role, strengthening a team, preparing for a career transition, or working through a complex organizational challenge, Jim creates space for reflection, clarity, accountability, and forward movement.
Facilitation and team development
In addition to individual coaching, Jim facilitates leadership and team development experiences that help groups communicate more effectively, build trust, clarify expectations, and strengthen accountability.
As a certified DiSC facilitator and Human Behavior Consultant, Jim helps teams develop a shared language for understanding behavioral styles, communication preferences, sources of friction, and opportunities for stronger collaboration. His facilitation style is structured, practical, and focused on helping teams leave with clearer agreements and usable next steps.
Why Cadence Leadership Group
The name Cadence reflects the rhythm required for sustained leadership. Some seasons require endurance. Some require recovery. Some require the courage to sprint. Effective leaders learn to recognize the terrain, adjust their pace, and keep themselves and their teams moving with purpose.
Cadence Leadership Group exists to help leaders and teams:
Embrace the journey
Endure the grind
Excel in the sprints
Through coaching, facilitation, and leadership development, Cadence Leadership Group helps clients build the clarity, confidence, and rhythm needed to achieve meaningful and sustained success.
Coaching philosophy
Jim’s coaching is direct, thoughtful, and client-centered. He helps clients slow down long enough to see what matters, identify the patterns influencing their decisions, and take practical steps toward the outcomes they want to achieve.
His approach blends coaching presence with lived leadership experience. He does not believe leaders need generic advice or one-size-fits-all answers. They need the right questions, a trusted thinking partner, and a disciplined process that helps them find their own cadence.
Credentials
Jim’s background includes:
ICF ACC certified coach
Certified DiSC administrator and facilitator
Certified facilitator
Human Behavior Consultant
Retired United States Air Force Colonel
Former federal Senior Executive
Extensive experience in human capital, organizational design, change management, leadership development, and team effectiveness
Start with a conversation
The best coaching and facilitation relationships begin with clarity. If you are navigating change, strengthening a team, stepping into a new leadership role, or preparing for what comes next, Cadence Leadership Group can help you identify where you are, what matters most, and how to move forward with purpose.
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