How did you become a coach?
As a counselor in private practice for more than 15 years, I have helped many hundreds of successful professionals find creative solutions to challenging problems in their personal and professional relationships.
As a result, clients were able to “fire me” as a therapist and then were free to move forward into a position of growth and learning, excited about achieving their goals they now felt unstoppable and ready to excel in their career.
I’ve combined my professional training and education in psychology of interpersonal communication and the neuroscience of motivation and change with more than twenty years of experience in management, staff development and training. Now, I have developed a step by step process where leaders learn advanced tools to communicate differently quickly building trust, respect and cooperation.
As your coach, I am held to the highest standards of professionalism and ethics by virtue of holding a license as a counselor. And because I value ongoing professional and personal development, I will complete the Evidence-Based Coaching Graduate Certificate Program at Fielding Graduate University in May 2011 and pursue my ICF (International Coach Federation) Certification as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC).
What made you interested to pursue coaching?
I am absolutely passionate about teaching people how to discover and use their strengths and solve challenging problems making them feel exceptionally successful at what they do. As a counselor, people come in the door to relieve emotional pain and feel good again or to change unproductive behavior.
Coaching clients are already successful and emotionally healthy … they feel good and they want to feel or perform even better. As a coach, I can show people who are motivated toward excellence to make powerful and positive changes and show others how to do so, too. And, like when you throw a rock into a pond, clients always tell me (they are surprised, I am not) that they experience the positive “ripple effects” in their other relationships at work (and at home).
When you’re not coaching clients what else do you enjoy doing?
I enjoy volunteering with the STARS (STeamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports Program), spending time with my family and skiing in Steamboat Springs, CO and and riding my horse at local shows including Western Slope Reining Horse Association, the Rocky Mountain Reining Horse Association and local Open Horse Shows by the Yampa Valley Horse Show Association with my horse, Deuce.
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