You are perfect, whole, and good. You have within you the potential for a life of health, happiness, peace, joy, and wondrous positive impact. Yet..

Have you ever known what you wanted? What you needed to do to make it happen? Maybe even taken some training or gotten some advice about how to do what was needed, and then gotten stopped, stuck or frozen on some unseen obstacle?

It seems to me most of us have had some variation of this experience in pursuit of goals big and small, business and personal, ordinary or life changing. Maybe it’s the career satisfaction we want but can’t grasp, or the connection and empowerment with the important people in our lives that is just out of reach, or the transformative difference we know in our heart of hearts we can make in our world if we could just…

I’ve certainly felt that, and I’ve been in a place like that. So have my clients. And in our experience, the books you read, the classes you take, the advice you get, and even the additional blood sweat and tears you pour into your efforts will gain you little new lasting progress and cost you significant unnecessary effort and pain. Planning, knowledge, and skill are all critical components to expanding your human potential, and it is coaching that will uncage that potential opening up the freedom for you to achieve your best results and experience the life you want.

Coaching is a partnership between the client and coach in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize their personal and professional potential. Unlike the many other types of support we receive in life and business (training, mentoring, managing, consulting), I as your coach answer very few of your questions, never give you advice, and absolutely NEVER tell you what to do. Rather, we engage rigorously in the inquiry of what it is you are after. Then, once we are crystal clear on that, engage even more deeply on what it is that gets in your way (both real and perceived). And in each conversation we conclude with you identifying and committing fully to new actions to overcome those obstacles. At the top of the next conversation we review the wins and learnings from those commitments to action and continue our exploration and journey from there.

As simple as it seems, these extraordinary conversations will transform your life and your results. You just have to be all in. Being all in means sharing things with me you may never have said out loud before. It means learning to hold yourself accountable to your word and action in new ways that feel uncomfortable. It means being committed to being cause in the matter of your life and world. All that can feel scary, it’s a lot of trust to ask for. So, to make such an extraordinary space possible I promise you:

• Our conversations are absolutely confidential. I will share nothing you share with me with anyone else unless I believe you are at risk of harm, another person is at risk of harm, or I am compelled by a court of law.
• I am not interested in judging you negatively under any circumstances. There is nothing you can share with me that would have me hold you as anything less than perfect, whole, and good. I believe our greatest growth often comes from our greatest missteps and to be human is to make missteps. You are safe here.
• I will not allow our coaching relationship to become what I call a “weird friendship” where you pay me to talk session after session with no transformation or aim in mind. Our relationship will run under an agreement with a specified goal or set of goals, and when those are accomplished will be completed powerfully.
• As a coach, I am bound by the ICF code of ethics to know the bounds of my expertise and discipline. Should a need or context arise where additional support is needed, I will refer you to the appropriate venue to receive it. I am playing for you to have the life you want full of boundless joy, and sometimes that takes a team.

Explaining coaching is like describing my grandma’s Chocolate Coke Cake to you. I can talk you through the ingredients, share the secret recipe of Coke to confectioner’s sugar for the icing, and even tell you how my cheeks still tingle remembering the sweet tang of the first bite. And yet, you can have no idea how it tastes until you taste it yourself.

If you’re thinking “I want that!” click the “email” button and let’s have a conversation.

If you’re thinking “Maybe” or some part of what you’ve read resonated with you, click that button and let’s have a conversation to get you off the fence one way or the other. All it will cost you is a little time, you will get value from the conversation, and I won’t accept a decision to proceed or not until after the second call anyway.

Finally, if you are reading this line and thinking “no way, not for me” I get that. I’ve even been there. I encourage you to click the button and let’s have a couple calls anyway. Sometimes the thing that is getting in our way is also the thing that says no to what might help.