Create your future

creative coaching for established and emerging leaders

questions are a great place to start

Questions that don’t have easy answers, but require time and space to explore?

How do you reach that next place in your life?

How do you relate to your creativity?

Questions that make you excited about where you are going in your life?

How do I choose between the opportunities in front of me?

How do I know which job will be better for my career?

Questions that make you want to explore your creativity?

How am I supposed to inspire others when I am not feeling inspired?

Why did I become management, how can I create again?,

Questions that require you step into the unknown to create your future?

Should I change my career path, where am I headed?

How do I know if this is the right opportunity for me?

something to ponder

What is the difference between coaching, advising and mentoring? Everyone seems to have a slightly different answer and here is mine.

Advising is purely sharing advice. Normally it is focused around a specific question or set of connected complex questions. Being an advisor is incredibly valuable when the question being asked is clear and it can support action.

Mentoring usually happens over longer periods of time, which develops a rapport that allows the mentor to offer direction, suggestion and advice around general situations and the long arc of your career.

Coaching is a relationship that is built to support the coachee in identifying and working on specific goals. The coach’s responsibility is to support the coachee to understand the issues that are getting in their way and work with them towards supporting them to reach their goals.

what I offer

Most executives find ambiguity a challenge. They get paid to know the answers. As a consultant, I live in this space and that has given me a perspective on being able to help others use this moment to be creative and generative.

Bringing the best parts of Advising, Coaching and Mentoring together, we can best serve the questions and goals you have.

This approach adds practical value, combining creative excellence, operational experience and the psychodynamic coaching approach.

This brings my 25 years of design practice, the experience of building IDEO and my deep curiosity around coaching all together in one place. This is the foundation I use to support others on their leadership journeys that are eager to understand and explore their relationship to creativity, how they make decisions and how this plays out in their lives and careers.

 

What coaching methodologies do I use?

Coaching is a very messy and unregulated space at the moment. Experiencing and benefiting from many different forms of training and coaching has informed my approach to coaching. I am interested and practiced in many different coaching methodologies, however the one I chose to study and base my practice on is the systems psychodynamic (great explanation here) approach.

This technique helps us recognize and understand the emotions and signals that we experience millions of times a day. The emotions we experience while interacting with other human beings guide us where to dig deeper. In practicing this methodology you will be able to achieve more opportunities for growth than you ever thought possible.

Ready to unleash your potential?