What is Coaching?

Coaching helps provide clarity in both your personal and your professional life. Using time-tested tools such as values and perspectives work, you will find out what motivates and drives you. You’ll discover what makes you tick!

Coaching is not consulting or therapy – coaches do not tell you what to do or simply listen. It’s an equal relationship between coach and client with the focus centering on the client’s agenda.

Now is the time to take your life to the next level and bid farewell to self-imposed limits. Together we will set a plan in motion for you that keeps you on track and accountable. Through a process of powerful questions and listening, you will both define and discover your vision for success.

Self-Talk

What is Self-Talk?

Understanding and utilizing Self-Talk is fundamental to my coaching method. Self-Talk is our internal dialogue, our thoughts. It is those thoughts, positive or negative, that end up shaping our lives and results in the decisions we make, both personally and professionally.

A key ingredient to having a successful life, no matter what your definition of success, is Positive Self-Talk. It is the determining factor for how we choose to live our lives.

We live our lives based on our thoughts. We make decisions and judgments based on our thoughts. Do you want to be influenced by positive or negative Self-Talk? When you become truly aware of the thousands of thoughts you have each day, you can begin to have the outcome you desire.

Areas of Coaching

Areas of Coaching Offered

Individual, team, or group coaching offered.
Clients are given the tools so they can learn to navigate what life throws at them.
Like the saying goes..."Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for a lifetime"

1
  • Business / Executive / Leadership Coaching

    • Executive & Business Coaching can help you achieve the results and goals you set and more! Improve your overall business and management skills. Whether you are starting a new company, moving vertically or horizontally in an organization, or transitioning to another profession, lead with confidence! Rejuvenate your professional life with a personalized plan developed just for you and your business.

    Leadership is at any level. Stretch beyond any self-imposed limits and unleash your unlimited growth potential. Review your management skills inventory from strategic planning to project completion. As a leader, evaluate methods for establishing direction and promoting stability and order.

  • Life Coaching

    • Are you satisfied with your life’s direction? Are you where you want to be? Do you have a plan for getting there? Live the life you want to live and enjoy the process and the journey! Susan will provide you with a customized, individualized plan.

    In Susan’s approach to life coaching, she works to establish a powerful, dynamic relationship with her clients. However, rather than lead or problem solve, Susan initiates a dialog in which she actively listens, seeking to empower. As a coach, Susan’s method is to provide support that enhances the client’s skills and creatively achieves extraordinary results.

    • Life and Career Transitions
    • Retirement
    • Relationships
    • Separation & Divorce
    • Health and Fitness
    • Family and Friends
    • Financial
    • Spirituality
    • Life Planning
    • Career
    • Personal Growth
    • Creativity
    • Fun and Recreation
    • Empty Nest
  • Self-Talk and Resilience

    • Self-talk and Resilience are at the foundation of Susan’s coaching. She believes that what we say to ourselves is one of the most important understandings in life. After all, what we think is what happens out there. What we say to ourselves affects us personally and professionally. Learn how to lead a more productive life using Susan’s strategies.

    Life is full of ups and downs that can produce stressful events or circumstances. What is important is how you manage the stress. Are situations or other people depleting your energy or energizing you? Susan teaches resilience techniques that help you bounce back and thrive.

  • Life and Career Transition – What’s Next?

    • One thing we can count on is change and transition. Most of us are wired to resist change. Our self-talk gets louder and faster during change. Coaching is a process that helps ease change and transition, and Susan’s guides you through any life or career transition.

  • Coaching / Mentoring Coaches

    • Combining Susan’s knowledge and experience, she has coached and mentored many colleagues, and served on the ICF and ICF Metro DC in many different capacities.

  • Career Coaching

    • Whether you are starting a new company, moving vertically or horizontally in an organization, or transitioning to another profession, lead with confidence! Rejuvenate your professional life with a personalized plan developed just for you and your business.

    Susan helps clients with interviewing skills and techniques, networking, elevator speeches, presentation skills, and the strategies to present confidently. She is a committed partner you can brainstorm ideas with, and look at different perspectives where you look at the pros and cons of each.

  • Relationship Coaching

    • Susan works with any type of relationship and provides strategies for keeping relationships healthy. Clients include professional (business partners and departments) and personal relationships (marriage/partnerships and family).

  • Health and Wellness

    • Supporting and helping to develop a persons overall strengths and abilities. Giving you the motivation and tools needed to achieve your physical and emotional health goals so that you can make better choices to lead a healthier lifestyle. Learn how to deal with and productively shift the fight, fight or freeze response that occurs when we’re stressed.

    Below are stress-reducing practices or modalities that Susan teaches clients so they can practice themselves. In addition, Susan believes that exercise, sleep, and good nutrition are vital to good physical and mental health.

    Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Tapping

    A technique for improving your life on many levels: physically, mentally, and emotionally. It helps calm the nervous system to restore the balance of energy in the body.

    Breathing

    Different exercises and techniques that effectively calm your mind and body.

    Meditation

    Calming and healing physical, emotional, and mental stress to experiencing higher levels of consciousness and achieving self-realization.

  • Work / Life Integration

    • Susan guides people to integrating their personal and business lives using strategies and techniques so they can have more balance in their life.

Assessments & Training

Assessments & Training

One of the ways we might get started is the Wheel of life assessment. As a starting point for creating balance, happiness and success in your life, the Wheel of Life is the perfect tool to begin your journey. Using this tool, you will be able to reflect and gain some insight into the balance of your life and how satisfied you are in life’s different areas. Following on from this self-reflection, we can then further delve into why your wheel of life looks the way it does, what you would like your wheel of life to look like, and further into how to make this happen through the power of Self-Talk.

Studies show a happier and positive work environment keeps employees engaged and wanting to do their best.

Learn more about your personality type and strengths and how to successfully communicate with other personality types…interactive experiences for you and your team to build healthy interpersonal relationships. Contact me directly to learn more

Contact Susan