What We Work On

I work with high-achieving executives to help them navigate life's biggest challenges: expansive questions about purpose, belonging, and why the patterns of our life seem to perpetuate in our leadership approach and identity despite years of intentional personal development.​

Together, our work helps self-reflective leaders move toward a more meaningful and purpose-driven life in relation to their work, translating to a clearer, deeper, and more intentional form of leadership impact.

Our work is about understanding the behaviors that have built, served, and even protected you—how they've helped you get where you are today, while also shining a light on how they might be costing you in your further growth and impact goals.​

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What Does This Mean, In Practical Terms?

You might have noticed that every time you're in a certain context, things start to devolve or become less clear for you.

For example:

• Dealing with certain colleagues makes you shrink, dominate, avoid, or become a carefully crafted version of yourself that doesn't feel like you.

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• Certain problems keep you up at night while running solutions over and over—only making the picture more complex and less clear.

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• Decisions are slow and painful or quick and impulsive. You find yourself in analysis paralysis or pushed to find a solution that others advocate for, but feels off in your gut. 

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• You find yourself avoiding conflict when it comes to certain direct reports, but having a thriving partnership with others.

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• You've been told you're too in the weeds or can be controlling, when what you wanted was to support your team's autonomy and make room for their contributions.

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• As founder or CEO, your passion and energy have depleted over the years. You struggle to find yourself and your own sense of purpose in the work and organization you built and/or lead. You're pulled in a million directions, navigating immense challenges and conflicting priorities, while holding it all together for the team.

These behaviors are fueled by habits and stuck patterns—sources of rigidity that have invisibly built up over time, usually based on dynamics that formed in your earliest team interactions: your family. They served a very important purpose in formative interactions—the problem now is that your brain doesn't know when they're helpful and when they're not.

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What's worse, your colleagues bring their own dynamics to work too—and those can often trigger ours without awareness.​

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How Does Coaching Help?

We work together to make your unique stuck patterns visible, better understanding when and why they show up, and how they're trying to serve or protect you.

Then, we challenge whether that intended function is still relevant and useful. We explore alternatives—different ways of showing up that serve your larger goals and values.​

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How Does This Relate to Work I've Done in Therapy or Leadership Development Programs?

You're probably highly self-aware, having made serious strides in therapy and/or leadership development programs. For many, the missing piece has to do with how this inner awareness translates to our outer impact.

Insights from our personal life do not always clearly or obviously translate to our work lives. Our drive and success have both fueled us and cast a shadow over our awareness. When we start to feel that repeat dynamics at work are bigger than us and feel beyond our control despite our best awareness and efforts, this may be a sign that the translation is missing.

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As high-performing executives, many feel the weight of their leadership responsibility to be isolating and potentially overwhelming. A coaching partnership lifts the weight of self-directed improvement, and accelerates insight and visible impact.​
 

Can This Work Really Get Me to the Other Side of Deeply Entrenched Patterns? 

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Yes. So long as we're a good match, you will absolutely get where you seek to be if you fully embrace and stay with the process, including making space and time.

If the work were as easy as learning or applying a new framework, you'd have done it by now. This is personalized work, meeting you where you are and where you seek to go.

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Rather than apply quick fixes that provide temporary relief, over time our work will expand how you make decisions, engage with teams, and relate to your work—fundamentally growing how you lead and how you show up for yourself and others. The work takes time, readiness, and depth, but the result is real and sustainable change.​

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What Can I Expect as an Outcome?

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You will live—and lead—from the version of yourself that felt just out of reach when you began. You'll fundamentally understand what was going on, who you want to be instead, and the best approaches for you to take in challenging situations.

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The process won't always feel easy, but you'll come out of it with renewed energy, clearer purpose, and deeper impact on your organization, people, mission, and self.

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Clients describe our work as transformational—often life-changing. 

You'll gain a deeply trusted and knowledgable sounding board and thought partner who truly cares about you and your desired outcomes—who's invested and willing to help you see the version of yourself you want to be, and the gaps and paths to getting there.

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The result is increased clarity, stronger and more intentional leadership, richer and more effective partnerships, and business outcomes that feel aligned with what you've been seeking, but have had a lifetime of difficulty understanding.

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