Professional Coaching for Your Next Chapter
Whether you’re navigating a career transition, stepping into a larger role, or building your coaching practice, we help you gain clarity on your path and develop the capabilities to move forward with confidence.
ICF Professional Certified Coaches (PCC) with 20+ years leadership experience
Serving professionals across Fortune 500, startups, and growth-stage companies
What Coaching Actually Is (And Isn’t)
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The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Coaches honor you as the expert in your own life and work, and believe every client is fundamentally whole, creative, and resourceful.
The coach’s responsibility is to:
- Discover, clarify and align with what you want to achieve
- Encourage your self-discovery
- Elicit your own solutions and strategies
- Hold you responsible and accountable
What coaching isn’t:
- It’s not advice-giving or consulting (we won’t tell you what to do)
- It’s not therapy (we’re focused on your future and goals, not processing your past)
- It’s not mentoring (you’re the expert on your life; we’re experts in human development)
Think of it as having a skilled thought partner who asks the questions you haven’t thought to ask yourself, helps you see blind spots and new possibilities, and supports you in developing the capabilities to achieve your goals.
Our coaching is developmental – we meet you where you are now and help you build toward where you want to be. We bring structure, proven methodologies, and honest feedback. You bring commitment to your own growth.
Our Approach: Partnership, Not Prescription
We believe the best coaching happens in authentic partnership. You’re the expert on your life and career. We bring expertise in human development, leadership presence, and the methodologies that accelerate growth.
Our coaching framework combines:
Developmental Coaching We work developmentally – meeting you where you are and helping you build the capabilities you need for your next chapter. This isn’t about quick fixes; it’s about sustainable growth.
Evidence-Based Methodologies We integrate proven approaches including:
- Presence-based coaching and mindfulness practices
- Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC)
- Mental fitness and resilience building – Positive Intelligence
- ICF core competencies and ethical guidelines
Honest, Direct Feedback We won’t tell you what to do, but we will challenge your assumptions, point out patterns, and offer honest reflections. Growth happens at the edge of your comfort zone.
Structured Yet Flexible Every engagement includes clear goals, regular sessions, and accountability between meetings. But we adapt to what you need as you evolve.
Coaching Methodologies We Blend
The Approaches We Integrate
We don’t subscribe to a single coaching methodology. Instead, we blend proven approaches based on what you need and where you are in your development. Here are the key frameworks that inform our work:
The foundation of ethical, effective coaching
All our work is grounded in the International Coach Federation’s core competencies – the evidence-based standards that define professional coaching excellence.
The ICF competencies include:
- Establishing and maintaining agreements
- Cultivating trust and safety
- Maintaining presence
- Active listening
- Evoking awareness
- Facilitating client growth
- Demonstrating ethical practice and embodying a coaching mindset
When we use it: Always. These competencies are the foundation of every coaching conversation, regardless of which other methodologies we’re blending.
Being fully present to lead with impact
Presence-based coaching focuses on how you show up – your physical, emotional, and energetic presence in the moment. This approach helps you develop greater self-awareness, authentic connection, and the ability to stay grounded under pressure.
What it looks like:
- Developing awareness of your body, breath, and emotional states
- Learning to center yourself in high-stakes situations
- Building authentic presence that others respond to
- Integrating mindfulness practices into leadership
When we use it: With leaders who want to strengthen their executive presence, navigate difficult conversations, or lead with greater authenticity.
Awareness through the body
Somatic coaching recognizes that wisdom lives not just in your mind, but in your body. We work with sensation, movement, and embodied awareness to unlock insights that purely cognitive approaches might miss.
What it looks like:
- Noticing physical sensations and what they’re telling you
- Using breath and body awareness to regulate stress
- Practicing grounding techniques for high-pressure moments
- Developing intuitive decision-making skills
When we use it: With clients experiencing stress, burnout, or who feel disconnected from their intuition and authentic self.
Mindfulness is our ability to notice and shift our attention, observe and interrupt our habit nature, and create space to allow more awareness, which allows more choice.
Strengthening your mental muscles and quiet the mind-chatter
Based on Shirzad Chamine’s research with hundreds of CEOs and elite athletes, Positive Intelligence helps you identify and quiet your internal saboteurs while strengthening the “sage” perspective that enables peak performance.
What it looks like:
- Identifying your dominant saboteur patterns (Judge, Controller, Avoider, etc.)
- Building mental fitness through daily micro-practices
- Shifting from saboteur-driven to sage-driven responses
- Developing sustainable resilience and well-being
When we use it: With high-performers who are their own worst critics, leaders facing burnout, or anyone wanting to build sustainable mental fitness.
Leading through complexity and uncertainty
Drawing from decades of experience in agile transformation, we help leaders develop the capabilities needed to lead adaptive, responsive organizations. This isn’t about Scrum mechanics – it’s about developing an agile mindset.
What it looks like:
- Building comfort with ambiguity and emergence
- Developing systems thinking capabilities
- Leading through influence rather than control
- Creating psychological safety and learning cultures
- Balancing discipline with adaptability
When we use it: With leaders in fast-changing environments, those leading transformation initiatives, or anyone stepping into roles that require navigating complexity.
The system is the client
ORSC (Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching) works with the relationship system itself – your team, your partnership, your family – as the client. This approach reveals patterns and dynamics that aren’t visible when coaching individuals alone.
What it looks like:
- Working with teams and partnerships as living systems
- Uncovering hidden dynamics and unspoken agreements
- Facilitating alignment and creative collaboration
- Addressing conflict at the system level, not just individual level
When we use it: With leadership teams, business partnerships, and clients navigating complex organizational relationships.
Releasing stress and emotional blocks
Thought Field Therapy is an evidence-based energy psychology technique that helps rapidly reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional distress through precise tapping sequences on specific meridian points.
What it looks like:
- Using meridian tapping to release acute stress and anxiety
- Addressing specific emotional blocks or limiting beliefs
- Quick stress-reduction techniques for high-pressure moments
- Processing difficult emotions without lengthy talk therapy
When we use it: With clients experiencing acute stress, performance anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or when traditional talk-based approaches aren’t moving the needle fast enough.
Who We Work With
Who Thrives in This Work
Our best coaching partnerships happen with people who:
✓ Are self-aware enough to realize they have blind spots – even if they don’t know what they are
✓ Value growth and are willing to invest time, energy, and honest self-reflection
✓ Have healthy egos – confident in their abilities while remaining curious about what else is possible
✓ Want a thought partner – not someone to tell them what to do, but someone to help them think more clearly
✓ Are ready for change – whether that’s a career transition, stepping into bigger leadership, or developing their own coaching practice
We typically work with:
- Mid-career professionals (30+) navigating transitions or role expansions
- Emerging leaders stepping into executive responsibilities
- Experienced leaders seeking greater presence and impact
- Coaches building or advancing their practice (ICF mentor coaching)
If you’re someone who values authentic partnership over guru worship, and you’re ready to do the work – we should talk.
Our Coaching Services
Executive & Leadership Coaching
For professionals ready to step into their next chapter
Whether you’re navigating a career transition, expanding into a larger role, or building the leadership presence you want – we help you gain clarity on your goals and develop the capabilities to get there.
Typical engagements:
- 3-6 month commitments
- Bi-weekly or monthly 1-on-1 sessions
- Between-session accountability and support
- Customized to your goals and development areas
Common focus areas:
- Career transition strategy and planning
- Leadership presence and executive impact
- Managing up, down, and across the organization
- Building influence without formal authority
- Mental fitness and resilience
ICF Mentor Coaching
For coaches pursuing or maintaining ICF credentials
We provide mentor coaching for coaches working toward ACC or PCC credentials, or maintaining their certification through continuing education.
What we offer:
- Individual and group mentor coaching
- Recorded session review and feedback
- Support for specific competency development
- Preparation for credentialing process
- CCE hours for ICF renewal
As an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with extensive coaching experience, we help you refine your practice, deepen your skills, and meet ICF requirements with confidence.
Presence & Capability Development
For leaders wanting to show-up differently
Sometimes the gap isn’t knowledge – it’s presence. How you show up, how you’re perceived, how you navigate complexity and conflict.
We work with leaders who want to:
- Strengthen their executive presence
- Develop greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Navigate difficult conversations with skill
- Lead with authenticity and impact
- Build resilience and mental fitness
Our Approach integrates:
- Scientifically validated Assessments: Wiley (DiSC, Productive Conflict, AgileEQ), 360MIRROR, PQ Saboteur, StrengthsFinder
- Presence-based coaching techniques
- Mindfulness and Somatics practices
- Positive Intelligence and Mental Fitness (PQ)
- Real-time feedback and practice