Ready to Take the Leap?
Coaching can take you from where you are to where you want to be.
Life is a bit like a pond, isn’t it? We dive in, and suddenly find ourselves navigating through its murky waters, just like frogs moving through their watery world. Each leap, each moment, holds its own challenges and transformations.
Think about it: frogs start as tadpoles, exploring the world beneath the surface before emerging as fully formed amphibians. Similarly, we embark on our own journeys, transitioning through different phases of life—whether taking on new roles, facing a challenge (or eight), or embracing life changes. These moments can feel like a leap into the unknown, requiring courage and resilience.
About the Coach
Dive into the realm of personal & professional development coaching, where the journey is not just about discovering the next step in your evolution but creating a safe haven to explore and strategize. That’s the essence of what I offer.
When individuals first cross paths with me, they often find themselves opening up in ways they never have before. Phrases like, “I’ve never shared that with anyone before!” are a common refrain. It’s a phenomenon I’ve grown accustomed to over time. There’s an innate comfort that people feel around me, an immediate trust that seems to spring forth. Perhaps it’s my non-judgmental nature or the breadth of my own experiences that lead them to entrust me with their deepest secrets.
Through sharing these secrets or simply finding the words to articulate their feelings, individuals leave our conversations feeling lighter and more self-aware.
Frequently Asked Questions
What exactly is coaching?
Coaching is a collaborative process where a trained professional works with individuals or teams to set and achieve specific goals. Coaching involves helping clients identify their strengths, values, and aspirations while providing support and accountability to overcome challenges and maximize the client’s potential.
How do I know if coaching is right for me?
Coaching is beneficial for anyone looking to improve their personal or professional life, enhance their performance, or navigate significant life transitions. If you’re feeling stuck, uncertain, or overwhelmed, coaching can provide the clarity, support, and tools you need to move forward. Ultimately, the decision to pursue coaching depends on your readiness to commit to the process and your willingness to actively participate and engage in self-discovery and growth.
How do I know if coaching is right for me?
Professional coaching is ideal for someone with a deep desire to enact change in their own lives. Coaching is for the person who has a knowing that they want life to be different and the drive (even if it’s not fully developed yet) to do something about it. It is for the person who is willing take personal ownership of their circumstances, even when their circumstances are not due to any fault of their own.
Coaching is not for the person who wants to change another person. Coaching is not for someone who wants to know why they behave the way the do; however, coaching can benefit someone who wants to do things differently from here forward. Coaching is not for the person looking for instruction or tutoring on specific topics. It is for the person who knows they have a knowledge gap and wants to develop a plan to bridge that gap.
How long does coaching typically last, and how often do we meet?
The duration and frequency of coaching sessions vary depending on your goals, preferences, and the complexity of the challenges you’re facing. Typically, coaching engagements last anywhere from a few months to a year or more, with sessions scheduled weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
Why won’t you tell me what I should do?
First, let me ask you: Do you want my advice or do you want my support?
I adhere by the International Coaching Federation’s Code of Ethics and demonstrate its Core Competencies in my coaching practice. These sets of standards support the understanding that that every client is whole and is capable of understanding themselves better than someone on the outside.
If you are looking for someone to tell you what to do, you are actually looking for a consultant, maybe even a therapist. You might even find someone who refers to themselves as a “coach” to give you advice in exchange for a fee. I challenge this approach for long-term success because if you are willing to try, I truly believe that our coaching conversations can lead you to your own discoveries, thereby creating more lasting, more deeply rewarding results.
Look at it is like this: Anyone can tell you what to do. It might or might not be good advice. My goal is to teach you how to work through your own challenges. Remember, there will be more challenges after our time together concludes. It is my hope that when those challenges arise, you either coach yourself and use similar strategies that were effective during our time together, or you call on me to be your thinking partner again.
Sometimes we just need that person to remind us that we are capable and to allow us to process situations in a new way. Sometimes being allowed to express what we haven’t had the opportunity to express before is the conduit to clarity and change.
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What qualifications and experience do you have?
I have been in a professional role as a trainer and mentor since 2004. I became twice-certified (life coaching + business coach) through an ICF-accredited coaching program in 2023, which expanded my skillset and taught me a new approach to coaching. This new approach is more empowering and more effective than the consulting approach to “coaching” I have practiced off and on since the late ’90s. In addition to my existing leadership role, I am now a certified internal coach for an independent residential real estate brokerage in the Midwest, US.
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