Background:  I’ve spent my entire career in “the corporate world.”  I was at a Fortune 500 company for a number of years and I’m now at a Global 500 / Fortune 100 company.  My vocation as a coach is a culmination of leaning into kairos moments.  I’ve been a software developer, an agile project manager and scrum master, followed by a brief junket into management and then I became an agile coach.  When attended my first agile coach bootcamp, I experienced the magic of real professional coaching.  Afterward, my world began to shift. Then my interactions with the people around me shifted, and I began to create significantly greater results than I had ever expected or believed was possible.  Soon after, I expanded into professional coaching and have continued to learn and practice with a variety of approaches and focuses:  systemic, integral, integral unfolding, and most recently career coaching.

Combining disciplines (Agile and Professional Coaching):  My work with individual clients is essentially extension of my full-time role; the setting is just a little different because often my clients and I don’t work at the same company.  As an Enterprise Agile Coach, my job is to make working lives better, often in the midst of “corporate ickiness.”  I work daily with both groups and individuals.  When I work with groups, I begin by understanding holistic and systemic patterns.  I then coach, facilitate, or simply offer ideas using a variety of methods and techniques (often agile-based) to create improved personal interactions, process efficiency, and overall better outcomes resulting in just a little more “magic” happening in day-to-day (work) lives.  I also work daily with individuals in a wide range of leadership roles:  managers, directors, executives and influential individual contributors.  I use both professional and agile coaching approaches, to support them achieving their desired outcomes.  We begin via exploration into personal motivation and desires.  Then, we work together to create insights and turn those insights into action, resulting in better, more magical, outcomes.

My offer to potential clients:  I work with a limited number of individual coaching clients, bringing my expertise in professional (integral) coaching together with agile coaching.  I create bespoke experiences to evoke insight and transformation extending beyond initial circumstances that bring clients to coaching.  This transformation expands into their lives and often into the lives of others around them.

Why I love what I do:  I love people.  I used to try to hide this aspect of myself (ok, sometimes I still try to hide it) from others, and occasionally even from myself because interacting with people can be difficult, challenging, and even unsafe at times.  But, I came to realize that the magic I’ve experienced in work and life shows up most often when I’m truly connected with people.  Coaching is one of my favorite ways to connect because my own experiences with coaching have created so much magic in my own life.  I offer to share that magic… because I love people (no matter how hard I try to hide it).