After making her name at Ford and Chrysler, Julie Roehm (pronounced raim) was lured to taking a senior vice president position at Wal-Mart in 2006 to liven up the place, only to be ousted 10 months later.

A leadership onboarding coach would have worked with her to keep a low profile and spend her first 100 days listening to build productive relationships within the company. However, that’s not her default behavioral style. “I get overly excited,” she acknowledges. “I wanted to hit the ground running. Go, go, go.”