The Process of Coaching
Coaching is a dynamic process. It helps bring about meaningful and useful changes and development, particularly in attitudes and behaviors. These changes that can help you improve how you function in various aspects of your life. Coaching can be serious business, but also often involves humor, high energy and exciting challenges. You come to coaching because something is not working well or you would like something to work even better.

Coaching is not therapy. It is a process that deals with individual and sometimes organizational change. Because of this, it is useful to work with someone who has advanced training in psychology and behavior and who has worked with people from a variety of work settings and industries.

My Approach to Coaching
It is very important that the coach-client relationship is a good match. A coach who is very good for one person may not be good for another. It is my preference to work with clients where there is a good match. Because of this, I try to be very clear about my background, working style, values, ethics and anything else that may be relevant in determining whether the potential client and I are a good match. I encourage you to raise any questions or concerns you may have, not only prior to starting our work, but anytime an issue arises.

I am caring and supportive but not for the faint of heart. While I provide a safe atmosphere to explore new ways of being and doing things, I also encourage clients to look at themselves with bold, honest eyes and to learn to take reasonable, intelligent, yet sometimes strong action to achieve their goals. I challenge them to be and achieve their best visions of themselves.

I have the breadth of experience and the toughness of mind to work with high-powered people.

I have the kindness of heart and generosity of spirit to work with those who are hurting, confused and in a very difficult time in their lives.

I am an effective listener not only in my ability to understand but also to reflect back to my clients what I am hearing in ways that can give them a clearer understanding of themselves and see new ways that they may be.

My Experience
Working with a coach with a wide range of settings can provide useful, even critical perspectives and insights to help the coaching process.

In large organizations, I have provided coaching, consultation, training and psychological services for a variety of companies and organizations (link to Bio) for over twenty-five years. This included working with executives, middle managers and frontline workers in various departments and settings. My work has been in a range of industries including government, high tech, health care, manufacturing, service and professional sports, among others.

As a business owner and a professional I have the experience of running my own business. As founder and president of a training company that at one time had twenty-five full time and more than one hundred part-time employees in six states, I have dealt with personnel, financial, legal, marketing, regulation, and other issues that small business owners face.

Sometimes clients must not only change behavior and attitudes, they must also learn new skills, especially related to communication and working with people.

I have developed and provided training, tutoring and mentoring on such skills as communication, assertiveness, dealing with difficult people, developing teams, coaching skills for managers and supervisors, on-the-job-training skills, dealing with change, crisis management, and understanding organizational and individual styles. I have worked with individuals and groups who must perform their jobs under very stressful, highly visible conditions.