Ready to make those edits?

Sometimes the self-help book, the pd conference, the latest training, the seat in the classroom, or that personal willpower just isn’t enough to help you make the long-term, sustainable changes you’d like to make. One-on-one professional development coaching will help you gain the clarity, confidence, and courage to make the edits you’ve been quietly yearning to make in your professional or academic career.

My Coaching Services

  • Career Development Coaching

    Any career is an evolutionary process that involves change and transitions. Navigating that evolution intentionally requires heightened insight. Whether you’re transitioning from college to professional life, desiring to level up, launching an entirely new endeavor, or seeking clarity on what’s next, coaching can help you anticipate and navigate the self-doubt, uncertainty, and overwhelm inherent in any life-phase or professional transition.

  • Communication Coaching

    Whether you want to improve your writing or presentation skills, cultivate the art of giving feedback, amplify your contribution, assert your boundaries, or learn to de-escalate conflicts, communication coaching can help you improve your written or verbal communication skills so that you can create confident, engaging dialogue or prose that honors both the speaker and the listener or the writer and the reader.

  • Instructional Coaching

    The demands of teaching require a mastery of so many diverse skills. Teachers, coaching provides space for you to reflect on and improve your craft, identify ways to cultivate your own emotional resilience, and explore paths to create better work-life balance. Working with a coach can equip you to create the personal equanimity, innovative mindset, and mental stamina that will boost your enthusiasm and optimize your influence.

  • Neurodiversity Coaching

    Neurodivergence is more acknowledged and appreciated in the workplace and the classroom than ever before. If you’re a neurodivergent individual, coaching can help you manage the cognitive, emotional, and social demands these additional opportunities and responsibilities often usher in. Working with a coach can equip you with the tools to deepen your self and social awareness, grow your organizational and prioritization skills, and optimize your contribution while also fostering your own well-being.

  • Leadership Coaching

    When given an opportunity to step up, you want to be able to do more than avoid emulating negative leadership examples. Learning to be an effective leader involves deepening your self-awareness in order to develop and hone a personal leadership style that leverages your strengths and inspires others. Coaching can help you build the emotional intelligence, personal confidence, positive communication skills, and decisive courage that will equip you to become someone who embodies servant leadership and empowers others.

  • Academic Coaching

    Your career journey starts in the classroom. The skills you amass in your academic experience will help jumpstart your career. Whether you’re a high school or college student, drawing upon the support of a coach can help you maintain consistent motivation, boost your self-confidence, and learn to manage competing priorities. Student life requires your listening, communication, and executive function skills to keep pace with the fast-paced acquisition of new course content. Working with a coach can help you skillfully synthesize it all.

The Coaching Process

  • Coaching is an opportunity for you to create self-directed, supported change in your skills and in your story. As your coach, I am a curious, open-minded thought partner who is committed to creating a safe space for you to experience equal measures of support and challenge that will equip you to acquire transformative insights. I strive to help my clients think with more depth, greater clarity, and less distortion by using probing questions, guided conversation, and research-based tools.

  • Our partnership is co-constructive. Together, we will work on clarity, planning, and action. Our initial work will be to clarify your goals. Goal clarity can happen through skillful conversation, but may also include assessments and other evaluative exercises. Once you’ve determined your goals, we will map out a strategic plan together that may incorporate new habits, systems, and certainly courage. We will work to create actionable steps, anticipate and address what might get in the way, and celebrate new wins, big and small.

    As your thought partner, I am bound by a code of confidentiality and a duty to care issued by the International Coaching Federation called the ICF Code of Ethics.

  • I’m currently meeting virtually with clients. Typically, this provides optimal levels of convenience, comfort, and equitable accessibility. If your goals require that I observe you at work or in action, such as in the case of teachers or small business owners, we will discuss ways to accommodate this request.

    Together, we will decide the number of sessions we need in order to allow you the right mix of support, challenge, and accountability to transform your insights into actionable change. A tailor-made plan is one of the beauties of coaching.

  • I believe in fair and equitable access to coaching. In the event my standard rate proves cost-prohibitive for you, please feel free to discuss any restrictions you are currently experiencing. And remember—your discovery session is always complimentary. It costs you nothing to see if we are a fit!

What my clients are saying . . .

  • “I knew I could come to you with concerns or doubts about my performance and my work without being judged. I felt supported, heard, and valued as a human being. I felt safe.”

    -coaching client

  • “You’re a person who valued my fears and my strengths and that always made me feel empowered and capable to do good things.”

    -coaching client

  • “You're very good at taking a set of emotional statements and finding a throughline to something useful and practical.”

    -coaching client

  • “You helped me discover everything I asked for - 1) how to learn more about the type of work that best fits my skills, experience, and personality, 2) how to write an elevator pitch, and 3) how to write an effective resume!”

    -coaching client

  • “I observed firsthand how my daughter’s confidence in critical thinking and communication grew after each session with you.”

    -mom of coaching client

  • “We created actionable steps at the end of each session that made me accountable for moving forward each week.”

    —coaching client

  • “I was missing a lot of strategies for handling executive dysfunction and maintaining boundaries effectively, and you were very helpful in building some!”

    -coaching client

  • “Your active listening attitude and disposition made the communication easy and your practice of restating my points and concerns allowed for assurance and confidence.”

    -coaching client

  • “Your way of doing things during the sessions always gave me a sense of calmness and clarity on how to proceed.”

    -coaching client

  • “I use a lot more time-blocking and am much more comfortable organizing my time now. I have a very different relationship to time than I used to, and the new relationship is less stressful and more productive.”

    -coaching client

  • “My daughter learned to ask for help and let herself be vulnerable in the eyes of other adults. From you, she understood that it is okay to advocate for herself and to fail in order to get up, improve, and move forward.”

    -mom of coaching client

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

— M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author