Personal & Professional Development Coaching

What if you could tailor your own learning to equip you to make the edits you’re quietly yearning to make?

Sometimes the self-help book, the annual conference, the latest workshop, or the required one-size-fits-all training just doesn’t help you make the strides you’d like to make in your own growth and development.

One-on-one professional coaching allows you to work confidentially with someone whose balanced support and challenge provide the context and you provide the ambition, agenda, and goals for your own customized personal or professional development.

Coaching provides an opportunity to work with a thought partner who is committed to being curious about your potential, to helping you gain clarity about your beliefs and capabilities, and to helping you recognize the strengths and inner resources you can draw upon to overcome challenges and maximize your own well-being.

My mission is to be that coach for you.

Client Coaching Focus

  • Educator Goals

    The demands of teaching require a mastery of so many diverse skills. Teachers, coaching provides space for you to reflect on and improve your craft, identify ways to cultivate your own emotional resilience, and explore paths to create better work-life balance. Working with a coach can equip you to create the personal equanimity that will optimize your influence.

  • Communication Goals

    Whether you want to prepare for a job interview, improve your writing skills, amplify your contribution, assert your boundaries, or learn to de-escalate conflicts, communication coaching can help you improve your written or verbal communication skills so that you can create confident, engaging dialogue or prose that honors both the speaker and the listener or the writer and the reader.

  • Leadership Goals

    Leadership coaching can help you identify your leadership style and your impact on others. Learn to lead more than manage, create psychological safety for those you lead, recognize and draw upon the strengths of others, and become more emotionally intelligent. Coaching will empower you to lead from a place of personal authenticity and integrity.

  • Executive Function Goals

    Executive functioning drives our ability to manage our emotional reactivity, get started on dreaded tasks, map out work to meet deadlines, structure our time to focus on key priorities, and so much more. Whether you’re a student or a professional, if you struggle with managing your time, your emotions, or your resources, coaching can help you develop the skills to function more successfully.

  • Career Transition Goals

    Any transition in life involves a phase of feeling lost, unmoored, or adrift. Turning an ending into a new beginning is tough work. Whether you’re transitioning from college to professional life or from one role to another, coaching can help you anticipate and navigate the self-doubt, uncertainty, and overwhelm inherent in any life-phase or professional transition.

  • Small Business Goals

    Managing a small business requires strategic thinking, an innovative mindset, and the interpersonal skills to network extensively and/or hire and develop capable talent. A coach can serve as a useful thought partner as you build and maintain your vision, brainstorm possibilities, manage priorities, and persevere with courage and intention.

The Coaching Process

  • Coaching is an opportunity for you to create self-directed, empowering change in your story. As your coach, I am a curious, open-minded thought partner who is committed to creating a safe space for you to experience equal measures of support and challenge that will equip you to acquire transformative insights. I strive to help my clients think with more depth, greater clarity, and less distortion by using probing questions, guided conversation, and research-based tools.

  • Our partnership is co-constructive. Our initial work will be to clarify your goals. Goal clarity can happen through skillful conversation, but may also include assessments and other evaluative exercises. Once you’ve determined your goals, we will map out a strategic plan together.

    As your thought partner, I am bound by a code of confidentiality and a duty to care issued by the International Coaching Federation called the ICF Code of Ethics.

  • I’m currently meeting virtually with clients. Typically, this provides optimal levels of convenience, comfort, and equitable accessibility. If your goals require that I observe you at work or in action, such as in the case of educators or small business owners, we will discuss ways to accommodate this request.

    Together, we will decide the number of sessions we need in order to allow you the right mix of support, challenge, and accountability to transform your insights into actionable change.

  • I believe in fair and equitable access to personal and professional development. My standard rate is currently $90 per 50-minute session. However, in the event my standard rate proves cost-prohibitive for you, we can discuss implementation of a sliding scale. Please feel free to openly discuss any restrictions you are currently experiencing. And remember—your discovery session is always complimentary.

“I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.”

— Anne Lamott