Arbor
The ideal coaching client is an aspiring professional who is unsure of their current life direction. Most of my clients are seeking a change of job, career or stage of life, or at least that is the way they generally present themselves.
However, their problems are often more complicated than that. Finding the next job or career usually masks a conflict between vocation and calling. Which one are you working at right now? Which one would you like to be doing? Of course, the choice is never clear. Many of our callings do not make money, and many of our vocations can be soul-draining experiences. How is it possible to resolve that conflict?
Sometimes resolution is as easy as working on communication and management skills to get into that new position. In those cases, I have a lot of experience with helping clients develop new habits and formulate new methods to communicate better and manage their time and people efficiently. For other clients, it goes beyond that: they need to work out their "why". Though I am not a sage or an oracle and cannot tell someone their "why", it is often true that they have something in the way of figuring that out, and I can help them look at that obstacle. We can point it out together and take it from different perspectives to examine it and find out ways to work with it, or even use it as a strength.
I have a 20-year background in business and consulting and own my own successful consulting company in the medical field. I am also an experienced teacher at the graduate level where I teach students how to make it in the world successfully. Coaching is my passion and I am an Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. I have several years of coaching experience on top of my 20+ years in business, 15+ years in teaching. For recreation, I have taught martial arts for 30 years and helped people through their life difficulties using that arena too.
