PRISM Coaching Model (MCC Level Questions) for C-Suite

A Master Coach’s Reflective Questioning Guide for Transformational Executive Coaching

🔴 P – PREPARE

“Leadership begins with inner alignment.”MCC focus: Establishing presence, evoking awareness, accessing inner compass.

What internal state do you need to access to lead at your highest level today?
Who do you need to be — not just what do you need to do — for this moment in leadership?
What belief or mindset are you ready to evolve?
What part of your leadership story are you outgrowing?
If you were fully grounded in purpose, what would shift in your current leadership dilemma?

🎯 Use these to deepen vertical development (identity, values, meaning-making).

“Honor the human behind the role.”MCC focus: Valuing lived experience, emotional intelligence, and systemic awareness.

🎯 These questions open space for emotional integration, shadow work, and authentic power.

“Sustainable action arises from conscious alignment.”MCC focus: Translating insight into wise action, choice, and meaningful shifts.

What decision, if made from clarity (not fear), would move the whole system forward?
What’s one courageous action that would realign you with your true north?
What does this moment require from you — not just as a CEO, but as a conscious leader?
What pattern of leadership behavior do you sense repeating here?
What tension are you willing to hold — rather than resolve — to serve long-term vision?

🎯 Enables generative thinking and wise systemic action, not just tactical fixes.

“Reflection gives voice to wisdom.”MCC focus: Supporting the client to express, integrate, and own their evolving insights.

What’s becoming clear to you that wasn’t visible before?
What message does your leadership need to communicate — not just say?
What’s your learning edge as a leader in this system?
What is your team/system mirroring back to you about your own evolution?
What new truth are you now ready to articulate — first to yourself, then to others?

🎯 Facilitates ownership of narrative, relational depth, and broader systems awareness.

“Transformation lasts when it becomes lived wisdom.”MCC focus: Supporting embodied change, internal accountability, and legacy thinking.

What rhythm or practice will keep you aligned with this new awareness?
What does legacy look like for you — not as something you leave behind, but something you live now?
What needs to shift in how you hold power, trust, and time?
How will you know you're leading from the version of you that the future needs?
What will you protect, nurture, and evolve — even when no one’s watching?

🎯 These enable leadership maturity, long-view thinking, and self-renewal.

"If you could name the shift that happened for you today in one sentence, what would it be?"

Optional follow-up: “And how will you honor that shift in your next act of leadership?”

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