FAQs

  • Coaching is a collaborative, goal-oriented process that supports individuals in unlocking their potential, enhancing self-awareness, and achieving personal or professional growth. A coach partners with a client to facilitate learning, deepen insights, and promote meaningful action through powerful questioning, active listening, and reflection.

    Coaching is widely used in leadership development, career growth, personal transformation, and performance improvement. Unlike mentoring or consulting, coaching does not provide direct advice but instead empowers clients to find their own answers.

    Coaching is not therapy or consulting. Coaching is focused more on the future vs. the past and coaching is about a discovery process and unlocking options for yourself, not gaining the coach’s answers and advice.

    • If you’ve noticed that you don’t have the same energy and enthusiasm you once had in life, career, social settings, etc.

    • If you’re committed, willing to spend time asking questions of self and reflecting on answers, and are open/ready to do something different, coaching may be a great process for you

    • If you’re ready to make a change in mindset, thinking, behaving, acting

  • My coaching philosophy revolves around leading from behind.  You (the client) set the agenda and goals and I (the coach) help to create a safe and open environment to help guide the process

    As part of the coaching process you can expect:

    • Being asked questions to clarify goals & expectations

    • Getting to the heart of what/how you think/feel/believe

    • Listening for patterns/themes in answers 

    • Respectful challenge and questioning

    • Gleaning info from various Leadership or Personal Assessments (as needed or if helpful) or gathering feedback/data from others

    • Support/encourage by walking alongside

  • We will work together on desired outcomes but typically:

    • You are responsible for your own success or failure of the coaching process, as well as, the actions you take as a result of coaching

    • I will work with you to provide new/more clear way of thinking and tools/techniques to support change

    • A plan to move forward (how and what)

    • You will dictate how often you want to meet, however, most clients like to meet once a month for roughly 2 hours or twice a month for 60-75 minutes

    • Some clients like to meet every five to six weeks. We can meet as often as you’d like.

    • Most clients like to meet in person when location allows. When that’s the case, we can meet anywhere within the Twin Cities that’s convenient for the client (library, coffee shops, restaurants, reserved meeting space)

    • Virtual sessions (via Zoom) are always an option, too. 

    • Identifying Leadership Style

    • Strengthening self-confidence

    • Developing executive presence 

    • Strengthening communication skills (clear speaking, active listening, assertiveness, empathy)

    • Preparing for and succeeding in having difficult/courageous conversations

    • Focusing on time management and work/life balance issues

    • Successfully navigating office politics and relationships

    • Strategic decision making

    • Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and self-awareness

    • Leading and motivating a team

    • Change management and innovation

    • Identifying personal values and beliefs

    • Identifying self-passions, purpose and meaning

    • Learning from prior lessons - Visioning/Dreaming of the future

    • Unlocking and integrating potential

    • Identifying personal values and beliefs

    • Identifying self-passions, purpose and meaning

    • Identifying strengths/skills and areas that are likely to be motivating, engaging, and rewarding 

    • Identifying what careers, work activities, education programs, and leisure activities might I find satisfaction in and be well suited for

    • Discovering how to maintain balance between work and leisure activities

    • Using interests in shaping or deciding a focus for the future

    • You, the client, and I, the coach, will agree to billing and payment arrangements within the formal coaching agreement, however, most clients pay on a monthly or quarterly basis

    • Should client’s engagement be arranged through their employer, coach will write billing and payment criteria within official proposal and contract