A Coach is someone who…

• Hears what’s behind your words
• Clears obstacles on your path
• Kindles your creativity
• Holds you to your commitments
• Listens without judgment
• Tells you the truth
• Is completely in your corner

Coaches help their clients discover, reveal, and apply their own unique combination of strengths and skills to go beyond what they think is possible. The client produces the results, or not, and it is the client who deals with the any accompanying consequences, either way. The coach’s stance is one of independence, providing input designed to enhance the quality of the client’s performance. Completion is a celebration of the client’s achievement. Coaching is a discipline that requires freshness, innovation and relentless correction according to outcomes. What’s "true" is what works. It is neither dogma nor a collection of techniques.

Coaching is NOT therapy. The creative and resourceful coaching client does not need to be "fixed". Coach and client form a partnership to identify, clarify, and facilitate the client’s personal and/or business goals and aspirations. The coach provides support, structure, and focus; the client provides honesty, willingness, and effort.

Coaching is different than mentoring, teaching or consulting. Mentors and teachers are experts, whose job is to pass along their knowledge and experience, to get you to know what they know. Consultants are hired to apply their expertise to produce results, usually without having the clients learn how.

Coaching is, for me, the perfect synthesis of my work and life experience, training in business and psychology, and personal strengths. I particularly enjoy the relationships I build with my clients, the humor and regard we share, and the perspectives and challenges each engagement brings.

I worked in corporate America for over 20 years with AT&T, Citibank, Exxon, Deloitte & Touche, and Pacific Bell, I have been a programmer, systems designer, trainer, bank officer, tax accountant, auditor, director and executive. I have lived and worked in Cleveland, New York City, San Francisco, and Albuquerque, experienced burnout, celebrated breakthrough successes, worn golden handcuffs, rolled with the punches of change, re-engineered my department, reinvented myself, and moved on when it was time.