My mission as a coach is to partner with individuals in building fulfilling purpose-driven careers, businesses, and lives. Through a generative inquiry process, we work together to maximize your personal and professional potential. We look at how you can be more effective, be more efficient, and truly embody your values through your work. Whatever your professional goals, we will work together as a team to make them a reality.

To Schedule a Coaching Session

What is Professional Coaching?

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking, inquiry-based process. For me, coaching is a conversational process that allows individuals to work with a coach to (a) thoughtfully explore professional questions, areas of interest, and sticky issues and (b) create clarity of direction and momentum for change.

Through conversation and questioning, coaching provides an opportunity to reflect, learn, and make conscious decisions about what to do. The coaching process does not present a standard approach or a set of best practices, as if the coach were an expert with all the answers. (It’s a different approach than, say, working with a consultant who are often thought of as experts! Coaching is not about a client just taking the advice of an expert.) Instead it creates a space for you to solve your own problems and come up with your own solutions that align with your specific professional context and personal values. Coaching is about the client and the coach co-creating a pathway forward together.

A coach can be meaningful partner in exploring your professional life. A good coaching relationship can…

• Create a supportive environment to go beyond just surface level self-reflection.

• Provide a space for individuals to give voice feelings and thoughts that are seldom voiced and gain perspective

• Can improve awareness of an individual’s blind spots.

• Identify and build on an individual’s internal resources and strengths.

• Create a place for exploring different approaches and scenarios.

• Make you feel less lonely by providing support, empathy, and encouragement.

• Create a partnership of accountability and build confidence in making bold moves.

• Use small goals/accomplishments to, over time, create momentum for larger, even bolder moves.

• Exercise an individual’s muscles of self-reliance and self-reflection with a goal of healthy self-management, instead of building a dependence on an outside expert.

How Does it Work?

• We schedule a free 30-minute informational meeting to get to know one another and see if there’s interest in continuing with coaching sessions.

• For each coaching session, you bring in a topic to discuss, maybe a challenge or an obstacle with which you’ve been struggling.

• Coaching sessions last for 45-60 minutes and end with action steps to address this challenge or obstacle.

• Fees for a coach of my level are typically $150-$250 per session and sold in a set of 5 sessions.

  • Fees can be discussed in the introductory meeting.

  • I take personal financial circumstances into account.

  • Fees must be paid prior to coaching sessions.

I Believe that…

• People have great potential to contribute to a professional/workplace environment. I believe in having a growth mindset, that an individual’s talents can be fostered and developed through focused learning.

• The coaching process creates a stronger sense of who an individual is and how you want to show up as a leader in your work.

• Development includes the whole person: thoughts and feelings, head and heart. So, as a coach, I will lead conversations that examine and address the whole person.

• A safe space is essential for honesty and is difficult to find for many professionals. My role as a coach is to create a welcoming and supportive space—indeed, a brave space—for professional conversations, a space that truly values trust and intimacy.

• Coaching is not for everyone and not every coach will work well with every person. Prospective coaching relationships begins with a free introductory meeting where we can begin to get to know each other and build rapport. An individual can then choose to continue or take another path; there’s no fine print and no strings attached.

• People learn best when development is driven from within. Therefore, the goals and direction of coaching should come from the needs of the individual. As a coach, I will remain flexible with, supportive of, and curious about the individual and not prescriptive.

• Leadership can come from any part of an organization and organizational health depends on strong leadership in all positions; it is not restricted to traditional positions of seniority or authority. I enjoy work with people of all ages and experience levels and not just with executives.

• Coaches don’t need subject-matter expertise to still work well with a client. However, I am acutely aware of resource disparities and economic injustice within our systems and know that arts organizations and other nonprofits—who may do great work—often do not invest a lot of resources to professional development of its staff members. While I work with individuals from all sectors, I also strongly believe in providing support to people in the arts and nonprofit sector and have a pay-what-you-can pricing structure for these individuals.