All of us, at many times in our lives, experience professional speedbumps. They can be opportunities for growing and learning. Having a coach to talk with, someone who listens carefully, can be extremely valuable.

This is my strength, joining motivated people on their professional journey. Together we can discover exciting possibilities and honor the loss or grief inherent in change. I believe that our work together through the professional opportunities can provide you with more clarity and peacefulness.

I have been working with people in their professional development fo many years, as a chaplain, an educator and executive. My coaching practice has grown out of those relational experiences.

Coaching with me would be a creative partnership. I want to work with folks who have identified an area of opportunity and hope for potential growth in the midst of change and transformation. Together we will identify the desired outcomes.

You will be a successful client as you identify the resources around you, remember your truest vision for yourself and work within your strengths to come to clarity.

I am a deeply spiritual person who recognizes that spirituality comes in so many forms. If integrating spirituality- as you name it- is helpful to you, this can become a great source of clarity as well.

“Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what goes right with people, the positive aspects of human nature and what we are when we are at our best.” (Robert Biswas-Diener)

I believe that successful professionals build on our strengths as people and in our communities. Professional challenges can be hard. If you are coming to coaching in a transition, it is because you have discovered that you need another perspective- otherwise you would just carry on. Joining together, discovering your strengths and resources, enriching those aspects of your life, will make the time of professional stretching easier and more fulfilling.

Positive psychology is a theory which helps to reframe and build on strengths. People I have worked with have told me that they didn’t even know there were so many possible strengths. You can discover this too.

I am inspired by finding the things that are going right with us. So many times, we focus on the negative- either as judgment of ourselves or by not utilizing our best gifts.

Being positive doesn’t mean we won’t address the hurts, pains, fears and anxieties we all carry. I believe that these feelings we might tend to think of as negative, have great wisdom for us. They teach us about who we are and what we most desire. I once asked a client what their anxiety could teach them and it was an eye opening experience. It is from that place of vulnerability and longing that I can join you as a coach. We can build on your strengths to listen and integrate your wisdom into your clarity of purpose and goals. You can discover what you want, what the best outcome is for you in the midst of change.

I think we can discover together what is going right for you, what you want to be when you are at your best.

This will be a true partnership. I will provide a space so that you can explore the many aspects of professional development. including clarifying professional goals and identity, increasing knowledge of and practice with professional strengths, discussion of professional experiences for learning and skill development and increasing knowledge about one’s personal history that supports professional practice. We will think together about your personal best in areas of your professional and personal life. Each session will focus on setting an agenda, working together on potential outcomes, asking powerful questions so that you can come to new understandings and setting accountability so plans can be evaluated. You will identify how you want to grow and learn. I will support you to do that.

I have developed a four part Professional Development Model. It includes:

Clarity

Meaning

Gratitude

Strategy. TM

Let’s look at what this means:

1). Clarifying the professional development opportunity. What is ending and what are the possibilities for what is next?

2). Exploring how you understand the opportunity? What is the meaning? How does this fit into your vision for your life? What is the strength you bring to this challenge?

3). Identifying gratitude in the midst of professional practice Could this hold promise and a new vision for you?

4). Discovering a strategy that will make this the best process possible. What will closure look like? What is a possible plan for action? What will success look like? What strengths will you utilize and enhance?