connected Coaching

As a coach I partner with clients to help them achieve their full leadership potential as they grow and develop within their roles.  And I work with those who are considering career transitions of their own and wonder “what’s next?” or “how do I take this next step?”  Though my coaching focuses on clients’ relationship to their work, I take a whole-life perspective on each client.  I believe we must appreciate the complex interactions of different life components such as work, family and community in order to address clients’ needs at work.

My approach rests on a foundation of respect for the client as a peer, for their resourcefulness and their innate ability to know and improve themselves.  In coaching we focus on forming goals, identifying obstacles, and taking steps which empower you and yield long-lasting development.  My job is to help you see your situation from different perspectives, to challenge your beliefs and stories about yourself and the world, and to help you break down complicated and confusing situations into actionable steps.  I know what good leadership entails and will challenge you when necessary to help you achieve that standard. 

Over the course of my career, I got pretty good at all the relevant performance indicators for my jobs, and yet that good performance isn’t what propelled my success or distinguished me from many other talented, hard working people.  In financial services those performance indicators relate to ROI, efficiency gains, customer satisfaction scores, employee experience, program design and delivery, market share, profit, and so on. In your work, they might be similar, or different, but the lesson is the same.  I learned, sometimes the hard way, and sometimes over the course of many lessons, that my success could only occur through the power of connections: with customers, co-workers, bosses, employees and myself. Without these connections, everything becomes brittle.  Off-course plans cannot be corrected, careers stagnate, teams and partnerships fall apart. If we focus on performance to the detriment of connection, the performance inevitably falters too.  

This realization drives my interest in coaching and our work to unlock your potential through connection.