What do coaches do?

The coaching relationship has a richness and depth unmatched by any other profession.  Who else in your life will champion your best self and love you along the way?  Who else is willing to tell you the hard truth and give you honest feedback when you are getting in...

Almost 30 Years of Coaching: What I Know Now

In 1997, I was deeply unhappy in what appeared to be a perfectly safe and sensible career. I was working as a public-school counselor. I had meaningful qualifications, a respectable position and the security I thought I was supposed to want. But something inside me...

How to Find Authentic and Meaningful Work

Many people reach a point in their working lives when success no longer feels like enough. They may have built a respectable career, developed valuable expertise, and achieved many of the goals they once believed would make them happy. Yet beneath the accomplishments,...

Managing Change in Your Life

The only constant in life is change, how many time have you heard that?  No longer do we live in a predictable society; just look at recent world events from a global perspective and you’ll know this to be true.  So how do we find meaning and feel safe in the midst of...

Coaching is for Dreamers?

I was talking to a very special individual earlier this week who described ‘coaching’ as being for people who had big dreams, (i.e., who are clearly after things that they envision), but can not yet touch.  Many people believe that the path to accomplish...