My background involves helping people navigate relationships. That includes communication, conflict, boundaries, intimacy, trust, repair, emotional patterns, and the complicated space between two people when they want different things.

Those skills don’t stop being relevant when the relationship is professional, and I have learned this over time, by working with individuals who I integrate or transition to leadership coaching.

Businesses are made up of people, and teams are made up of relationships. Leadership happens amongst those relationships, everyday.

My work gives you a confidential space to slow down, examine what’s actually happening, and decide how you want to respond.

You may need to:

• develop a new skill

• change a pattern

• say something you have been afraid to say

• see the situation differently all together

My work with you is practical and personalized.

You Don’t Have to Figure Out Leadership Alone

You can still be the person everyone else comes to and still need somewhere to put your own questions.

You can still be successful and have blind spots.

You can be a strong leader and still want someone to challenge you.

You can care deeply about your people and still need better boundaries.

You can know what you should do and still need help figuring out how to do it.

That’s what coaching is for.

Let's talk about what’s happening and where you want to go from here.

What we can work on together:

Communication

Say what you mean without over-explaining, avoiding, controlling, or creating unnecessary tension.

Difficult Conversations

The conversation you have been avoiding is often the one that needs to happen…yesterday. We can prepare for it, work through what is making it difficult, and develop a way to approach it that is direct, grounded, and respectful.

Boundaries & Accountability

You can be compassionate without being permissive. You can hold people accountable without becoming punitive. You can say no without creating unnecessary conflict. And you can care about people without taking responsibility for their reactions.

Conflict & Relationship Dynamics

Understand what is actually happening when a relationship at work becomes difficult. We can look at patterns, communication styles, expectations, power dynamics, boundaries, and the behaviors that keep a conflict going.

Delegation & Over-Functioning

Sometimes leadership becomes exhausting because you are doing too much. You solve problems that aren’t yours to solve. You take responsibility for other people’s work. You anticipate everyone’s needs. Maybe you step in before someone else has the opportunity to figure it out. We can work on creating a different relationship with responsibility - one that allows other people to grow while allowing you to lead.

Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness

What happens to you when you’re under pressure? Do you become controlling? Withdraw? Over-explain? People please? Avoid confrontation? Become defensive? Perhaps you take things personally? Your patterns are information, and they may be holding your organization back from its full potential. Once you understand them, we can workshop the steps to change that will allow you to push the barriers to the side so you can create change.

The Human Side of Leadership

Leadership isn’t just a strategy, a performance, productivity, or decision-making. Leadership happens through relationships - with your team, with your clients, with your business partner, with authority.

Perhaps, most importantly, the relationship you have with yourself. What do you believe about your own capabilities? Who is the person behind the screen, or the desk, or in the office out of sight?

I help leaders communicate under pressure, respond to conflict effectively, set and hold boundaries that bring people together, and face communication head on, in a way that drives your organization forward.

There is a relational focus at hand, and I am here to coach you through it.

Who I work with

I work with leaders, entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, managers, and professionals who want to become more effective in the way they lead and relate to others.

You could be:

• stepping into a leadership role for the first time

• managing a growing team

• building or running your own business

• struggling with a particular employee or professional relationship

• preparing for a difficult conversation

• feeling stretched by the emotional demands of leadership

• trying to establish better boundaries

• navigating company or employee conflict

• wanting a confidential place to think through a complicated situation

• wanting to become more intentional in the way you lead

Sometimes, you just want someone outside of your organization to see things that you may not be seeing.