about coaching

Coaching is a partnership designed to create breakthrough results in your professional and personal life. The coaching alliance supports the achievement of extraordinary results through enhancing self awareness, inspiring consistent action toward your goals, and expanding your leadership capacity. All of this contributes not only to increased performance, but, importantly, to more fulfillment in your life.

Much as you hire a trainer to help achieve fitness goals, you hire a coach to achieve personal and professional goals.

Coaching isn’t a magic bullet that works overnight. Instead, it is a process of discovery that starts with a commitment to create real change, and the results unfold over the course of several months. I work with my clients to clarify goals, sharpen skills and look at many aspects of life and work from a new perspective. My goal is that my clients emerge with new insights, skills, and inspiration for their lives, as well as effective strategies for sustaining their own future expansion.

How the Process Works

The most critical foundation for productive coaching is clarifying goals and values. While this may seem simple – maybe even obvious – this process is actually quite illuminating. The reality of our lives today is that many of us either have put little real thought into our goals and values or have been so busy “living our lives” that we’re not consciously aware when we’re out of synch with them. We simply get too busy to notice. Coaching provides a dedicated time, space and structure for allowing goals and values to come back into focus.

Once we clarify your goals and values, the coaching focuses on creating a clear action plan for achieving those goals and living in concert with one’s values. Implementing the action plan is where the rubber hits the road, and the coaching during this phase tackles the real-time issues that arise which can stall you in making real change. My role here is to ask questions, challenge you, provoke discussion, provide insights and deepen your learning – all the time keeping you in forward action toward your goals.

My coaching is done primarily by phone, thereby expanding relationship beyond geographic boundaries. That said, a blend of in-person and phone may be possible depending on the specifics of an assignment.