Everyone has the potential to live an effective, rewarding life – unfortunately few of us have had plenty of support in developing the necessary self-leadership skills. We take as many wrong turns as we do right turns; we discover late, or never, how to operate for optimal performance.

As your coach, I am your driving instructor (not your chauffeur). As my client, you are in the driver’s seat: you decide where you want to go and how fast. I help you develop competencies to operate your vehicle for optimal performance and navigate life’s traffic, roadblocks, and terrain. I also help you determine your most fitting destinations, if you are unsure and the best route to get there. Through our collaboration, you become an independent, effective, constantly improving driver of your own life. You are better equipped to get where you want to go, to have fulfillment in life and relationships, and to navigate detours along the way.

What is coaching?

Professional coaching is all about you. Coaching is a professional service and a collaborative partnership that helps clients attain fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients become more self-aware, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life. Coaching is a success tool that adds measurable value. Clients hire a coach to accelerate their development or transformation.

A coach differs from friend, therapist, trainer or consultant. As a professional trusted to work with you on the most important aspects of your life and/or business, a coach offers:
- objective perspective, focused on you
- focus on present and future behaviours and outcomes (not the past)
- honest, constructive, confidential feedback
- guidance to discover your own decisions rather than giving solutions/prescriptions
- consistent, ongoing relationship to help implement new skills, changes and goals through practice
- proven programs and processes to help you toward your goals

I specialize in working with clients committed to mastering leadership and communication competencies, and to achieving greater effectiveness, results and satisfaction in profession and life.

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Who are my clients?

Corporations, who wish to:
- help organizations/teams work together more effectively
- work with managers/leaders with specific development needs
- develop hi-potential employees
- grow managers into leaders
- support executive development

Individuals, who wish to:
- discover and pursue their life purpose, values or goals
- align and accelerate careers
- develop specific competencies in communication or leadership
- create transformation or manage transition

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How does coaching work?

Each client is a complex, unique individual; the coaching relationship, process and outcomes are necessarily as unique. I draw from a number of the many models in the coaching process in response to client need.

Coaching, on the surface, looks simply like a series of conversations. Through language (coaching conversations) and practice, coaching works to shift the client’s structure of interpretation - how one interprets one’s circumstances - and thus her or his behaviours. It is, after all, how we interpret our circumstances, not the circumstances themselves, which determine our sense of fulfillment and quality of life and our resultant actions/behaviours.

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Why does coaching work?

Coaching works better than traditional training for several reasons:
- Synergy between the coach and client creates momentum
- Better defined goals support a client to move toward those goals faster and with less effort
- The clients develop new competencies which translate into more success and a balanced life
- Coaching relationships follow through with practice until clients have mastered new competencies

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Why is the coaching industry growing?

- More people are understanding that they have choice. They are tired of doing what they think they "should" do and are ready do what they "want" to do.
- More people are deciding to go for it. They are creating the time and resources to invest in themselves in this kind of growth as they see the long term benefits.
- More of our society is looking for deeper meaning in our lives and work. Companies are looking for innovative ways of growing themselves from the inside out, starting with themselves and their employees.

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What commitment is required of coaching clients?

The most important prerequisites to coaching are an openness to being coached and a commitment to personal/professional development. Clients entering a coaching relationship should expect to commit:

1. Time: Programs and coaching goals are as individual as the client, as such, work outside of the scheduled coaching sessions varies. Clients may expect to spend a half to full day equivalent at the program outset, followed by approximately 1 – 3 hours per week including sessions and supplementary work. Programs may last 6 – 12 sessions (weeks) or more.
   
   
2. Effort: My coaching clients have goals ranging from specific competency development to whole life transformation. All change takes effort and, as a rule, the more effort applied, the greater the results. Internal change is, for some people, the most difficult to make. As a coach, I am not a task master; however I am your partner in success – my effort matches yours. I think this doubles your chances and speed toward success.
   
   
3. Cost: Paying for an emerging professional service like coaching is a new idea for many. My clients are leaders, individuals and organizations who see value in accelerating their own/team’s lives, competencies and careers. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of coaching clients have found coaching to be a sound, result-oriented investment. Private coaching programs normally range from $300 - $1000 per month.

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