What is Coaching?

Coaching provides clients a refuge from work/life to confidentially assess and evaluate thoughts or feelings about themselves, others, issues, challenges, and opportunities. It offers a collaborative and solutions-focused process for change, development, growth and goal attainment while empowering personal transformation, including new ways of thinking, acting and interacting.

My approach utilizes a person-centered, non-directive, and inquiry-based coaching methodology. Therefore, even when coaching individuals, executives, professionals, business owners. or leaders on subject matters in which I have considerable experience and knowledge, I am not interacting with the client as an expert to direct their efforts or drive their decisions. My experience and knowledge enhance my understanding of the client, their situation or issue, and what they are, or are not communicating (below the surface). My role as a coach is to employ incisive questions, reflections, and observations to guide the client in self-directed reflection, discovery, learning, and problem-solving. I both support and challenge the client towards a purposeful, solutions-focused path to create sustainable growth or change with self-determined accountability.

Coaching is a partnership between the Coach and the Client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the Client to maximize personal and professional potential. It is designed to facilitate the creation/development of personal, professional or business goals and to develop and carry out a strategy/plan for achieving those goals. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. — International Coaching Federation