Executive Coaching, leadership coaching, and life coaching have some common elements:

• we work holistically with you as an individual, bringing new awareness, accountability, compassion, and a growth mindset;

• we co-create new ways of being and moving in the world so you gain experiential understanding and new wisdom, and start to embody the change you want to see; and

• we explore mind (analytical), heart (emotional) and body (gut/intuitive) intelligence centers, as all three are necessary for strong leadership and a thriving life.

Below are some of the distinctions between the three:

Executive Coaching focuses specifically on supporting senior leaders and executives in organizations to enhance their performance, develop critical leadership capabilities, and achieve business outcomes. This type of coaching typically addresses topics like navigating organizational challenges, improving strategic decision-making, enhancing executive presence, strengthening communication, and other business-related themes, though we also might explore employee well-being and work-life balance. Often, we will also spend time working on the ‘inner game’ of clients to help them show up a powerful, compassionate, authentic, centered, inspirational leaders to their peers and their team. Executive coaching often involves stakeholder alignment and may incorporate feedback from supervisors, peers, and/or direct reports. The primary goal is improving leadership effectiveness and sustainability to drive organizational results.

Leadership Coaching emphasizes the leader's personal development journey and applies more broadly to leaders at various levels within an organization, not just senior leaders. It focuses on developing core leadership competencies like team management, communication, delegation, conflict resolution, and change management. Leadership coaching helps individuals grow into new leadership roles, refine their leadership style, or overcome specific leadership challenges, regardless of what level they are at.

Life Coaching addresses the whole person and their complete life experience rather than focusing primarily on professional roles. Life coaching helps clients clarify personal values and goals, overcome limiting beliefs, improve relationships, achieve better work-life integration, and make meaningful life transitions. While career development may be a component, life coaching encompasses all aspects of a person's life including wellbeing, purpose, relationships, and personal fulfillment.

As your coach, I draw on elements from all three approaches depending on your specific needs. For executives and leaders, I blend professional development with personal growth since the two are deeply interconnected. My philosophy is that effective leadership stems from personal authenticity, self-awareness, and alignment between your values and actions across all areas of life. Some clients come to me outside of the work context with a focus more on their personal life or vision for the future, which is where life coaching comes into play.

I work with corporate and nonprofit clients across all industries, including technology, consumer goods, financial services, international development, education, health care, poverty alleviation, and philanthropy.

I am fortunate to work with a truly global clientele, with individuals & teams from the US, Canada, UK, continental Europe, West and East Africa, and Pakistan. Having traveled to over 80 countries on 7 continents and worked with colleagues in 15+ countries, I have an appreciation and an ability to understand the unique cultures my clients come from and how that shapes the coaching work. Contrary to common belief, coaching can be more effective when we do not have the same industry expertise as our client. While industry expertise can be valuable, I've found that effective coaching often benefits from an outsider's perspective. This approach keeps me in genuine curiosity about your challenges and supports truly co-created solutions, ensuring our work focuses on developing your own insights and capabilities rather than simply providing advice.

Over the years, I have learned that the most effective leaders aren't necessarily those with the best strategies or the best technical skillset, but those who know themselves deeply, who can slow down and respond to the moment, and who genuinely care about others. This personal observation is backed by compelling research.

Tim Spiker's study in "The Only Leaders Worth Following" found that 77% of leadership effectiveness stems from who you are as a person rather than what you do as a leader. This finding is supported by Daniel Goleman's research with nearly 200 large, global companies, which showed that nearly 90% of the differences between star performers and average ones in senior leadership positions could be attributed to emotional intelligence rather than cognitive abilities. The Leadership Circle Profile, having assessed nearly 500,000 leaders, has statistically proven the high correlation between leadership effectiveness and 18 creative leadership competencies centered on self-awareness, authenticity, relating to others, systems awareness, and achieving.

The leaders I work with often find their biggest breakthroughs come not from new frameworks but from understanding the unconscious patterns that have been limiting their effectiveness. This inner work creates the foundation for leadership that doesn't just achieve results but inspires others and sustains itself over time.

I customize my coaching engagements to meet my clients where they are at, so I don’t have a rigid model you have to fit into.

Typically, executive and leadership coaching engagements last for 6-12 months with sessions every 2-3 weeks. This duration supports creating sustainable change across several key themes. However, at times, I will do a shorter package of 2-4 months of coaching to focus on a particular issue or theme.

Some clients will continue their coaching for additional months or even years to support them in their ongoing development.

Clients often start by filing out a simple pre-session form the day beforehand, where they reflect on successes and challenges since we last met and what they want to work on. This helps both client and coach come to the session with a sense of the desired outcome and informs me of some potential areas we might explore.

Clients usually start the session with an overall update and then decide where they want to spend the time together. Occasionally, we will unearth several potential threads and the client chooses which has the most energy. Sometimes, however, the issue is pressing and immediate and we will dive right in.

Once we have agreed on what the topic and desired outcome of the session will be, the coach offers questions to help deepen the client’s insights and perspectives, or offers distinctions deigned to illuminate new ways of seeing/approaching the issue. We slow things down and work with what is emerging – new insights, emotions that arise, or tease out new possibilities that are emerging.

Once we've agreed on the session topic and desired outcome, I offer questions to deepen the client’s insights and perspectives, or provide frameworks to illuminate new approaches. We slow things down and work with what emerges—new insights, emotions, or possibilities.

Depending on the issue, I may incorporate various approaches sourced from the business and coaching worlds:

• Assessment and Framework Tools: Sometimes I'll introduce frameworks like polarity mapping or draw on Enneagram insights to help you gain new perspectives on the challenge you're facing.

• Leadership Resources and Research: I might share and discuss resources on topics like navigating challenging conversations, creating psychological safety, or core leadership competencies to see what insights they bring to your specific situation.

• Emotional and Intuitive Intelligence: Other times, we'll explore your emotional or intuitive intelligence around an issue, tapping into the wisdom of your heart and body alongside your analytical mind.

• Experiential Activities: We might engage in role-playing scenarios to practice new approaches, or I may guide you through activities like meditation or centering to support new awareness and insights.

• Emotional Processing: Occasionally, significant emotions come up—often tied to past experiences—and we gently work with them, allowing them to soften and provide new insights on the issue at hand.

The client always has the power to adjust or shift the questioning or activity to fit their needs. Towards the end of the session, we spend time reflecting on key takeaways, action items, and any additional resources or follow-up support that would be helpful between sessions.

I customize my fee structure based on your specific needs and goals. After an initial consultation to understand what type and duration of coaching would best support you, I create personalized coaching packages. We then discuss options to ensure the structure and investment work for both of us.

While I am no longer able to offer a sliding scale, I do consider individuals’ backgrounds and financial constraints when constructing a coaching package and welcome follow-up conversations to create a structure and fee that we both feel good about.

Success in coaching is both tangible and intangible. I work with clients to establish clear, observable outcomes at the start of our engagement that are tied to developing new skills and competencies, and we regularly check in on progress and adjust as necessary.

Tangible metrics might include promotions, improved team performance, reduced turnover, or specific behavioral changes noted by colleagues. However, many of the most valuable outcomes are qualitative—greater self-awareness, improved ability to navigate complexity, enhanced communication skills, and feeling more grounded, confident, decisive, balanced, etc. For Executive Coaching, we often incorporate 360° feedback at the beginning of a coaching engagement and a 3-way conversation with the client’s supervisor at the beginning, middle, and end of our engagement to agree on measurable outcomes, assess progress, and discuss the impact of the coaching.

Ultimately, the most powerful gauge of success is your increased capacity to face future challenges with clarity, presence, and wisdom long after our coaching concludes.

My coaching spans a wide range of leadership challenges and themes, meeting you exactly where you are on your journey. Common topics include:

• Developing authentic executive presence and stronger communication skills

• Making strategic decisions with confidence and inclusivity

• Building resilience and managing energy & stress in demanding environments

• Strengthening emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness

• Leading through organizational change and uncertainty

• Navigating challenging conversations (including delegation, accountability, performance management, layoffs, etc.) and healthy conflict resolution

• Overcoming internal barriers (imposter syndrome, inner critic, perfectionist, and other self-limiting beliefs)

• Balancing competing demands through effective delegation and boundary setting

• Enhancing your ability to influence and persuade across all levels

• Cultivating a coaching mindset to develop high-performing teams

• Giving and receiving constructive feedback effectively

• Clarifying purpose, values, and vision for you and your team/organization

Often the presenting issue is just the doorway to deeper, more transformative work that touches multiple aspects of your leadership and life.

My work spans a wide range of life themes, depending on what a client is coming in with. Common areas include:

• Career transitions - finding a new career path, changing industries, or navigating promotion into leadership roles

• Major life transitions - navigating divorce, parenthood, loss of loved ones, or other significant life shifts

• Life purpose and meaning - clarifying your personal values and aligning your life choices with what truly matters to you

• Relationship enhancement - improving communication patterns, setting healthy boundaries, and deepening connections with family, friends, and colleagues

• Work-life integration - managing competing demands and creating sustainable rhythms that honor both professional ambitions and personal wellbeing

• Personal confidence and self-worth - overcoming imposter syndrome, quieting self-criticism, and working through other limiting beliefs that keep you feeling stuck

• Health and wellness - establishing sustainable habits, managing stress, and prioritizing self-care without guilt

• Spiritual exploration - deepening your connection to purpose, meaning, and practices that nourish your soul

• Goal achievement - creating clear intentions and developing the internal resources to follow through consistently

My integral coaching approach recognizes that everything is connected—your professional and personal life influence each other constantly. While clients often begin with a specific challenge, our work typically expands to develop greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and new practices to support you in navigating life with new skills and greater capacity.