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Imagine waking up in the morning feeling even more excited about your work.

You are applying your unique skills and talents. You are learning, growing and fulfilled with the recognition and rewards that come your way. Most importantly, you are happy, healthy and proud of the contribution you are making to the world.

And yes, you are being recognized and paid what you are worth!

My job is help you realize this dream.

Your Dream Meets Reality

When you first stepped into the workforce (or started your business), you were probably just like me, bright-eyed and optimistic and what was possible. Perhaps, also like me, you achieved success early on.

However, your dream hit reality as you fell into the muck and mire that can go along with more responsibility, big projects, demands of work and home, and the feeling of needing to figure everything out on your own.

You cringe every time you think about another week packed with meetings, or the seemingly insurmountable task of finding your ideal job or next customer. You hate the fact that the life you dream about has moved to the edge of your horizons, and sits hopelessly out of reach.

Yet, you are committed to making a difference in the world.

The trouble is, you aren’t sure how to take your next step, or if you are, you have lost the inner fire to make it happen.

We Have A Problem…

Before I share the solution, let’s talk about the elephant in the room.

There are a bunch of lies society tells us about what it takes to be successful.

Let me point out a few:

• Lie: working harder is the only way to get ahead.
• Lie: progress is linear.
• Lie: there is such a thing as being “too late” to try something new.
• Lie: a great career comes at the expense of a happy life.
• Lie: there exists a secret 7-step path to success and happiness.

I could fill this entire page with lies that get people stuck and keep them there.

Unfortunately, it gets worse.

The coaching industry is awash with people who think they can throw up a website, charge ridiculously high fees and automatically get transformational results for their clients. The truth is that it takes a ton of experience, self-awareness, empathy, and training to develop an eye for knowing how to coach people towards dramatic results.

The very best coaches have “walked their talk.” They have experienced deep insight and transformation in their own careers and lives that allow them to coach others in doing the same.

My Story

I spent 14 years leading product and business teams at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. My life and career were great, eventually being promoted to Director-level roles. (If curious, learn more about my background on LinkedIn).

However, somewhere along the way, I knew I needed to pursue a different path.

My work with transformational coaches helped me see the blind spot I had been avoiding. I realized that I needed to step aside from the “corporate ladder” and pursue a new career that was directly in line with my values, interests, and skills.

The path was uncertain and scary. My friends and family called me crazy. I was leaving a job with a hefty salary and a significant amount of unvested stock to chase what seemed like a dream. After going on a sabbatical, and spending over a year backpacking the world, I came to realize my mission. I also found the courage to pursue it!

As a transformational coach, I work with High Performers, Entrepreneurs and Executives (mostly in the tech industry). I’ve coached high performers and job seekers that work at some of the most prestigious technology companies on the planet, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Qualcomm, Expedia and several noteworthy startups and consulting firms.

I help my clients:

• Find and land their ideal job
• Make the leap from good to great in their work
• Tap into their true potential as a leader
• Achieve bigger results with less effort and time
• Rekindle their interest and passion for their work
• Grow their teams, as they grow themselves
• Grow their business by working smarter, not harder

How I Coach

More signal. Less noise.

That, in a nutshell, is what my coaching is designed to create.

When we listen to the depth of our inner wisdom, and stand clear from mental chatter: problems dissolve, solutions become obvious and productivity, creativity, leadership (and whatever else you are looking for) show up.

You might be wondering – How?

Most coaching and self-help programs and books operate on a surface level. They help you build new goals and habits or detail specific strategies and tactics for “managing” aspects of your career, business and life. These methods might work for some, but often fail to work over the long term.

Why?

The reason failure is so prevalent is that the changes recommended by conventional coaching and self-help methods operate at a superficial level of our being.

To improve our success, we must flip the problem around and work at the foundation of our understanding first. Then, we can apply tools and techniques (as needed, if at all!) and they will have entirely new levels of power and relevance.

Example: Let’s suppose there is an issue with your computer. You can troubleshoot the “Applications” on your computer (e.g. like Microsoft Office) all day long, but if the problem is really with your Operating System (e.g. Microsoft Windows) or the BIOS (what’s baked into the chipset your computer uses) you will not solve the problem by fixing the Application. You just get frustrated and stuck.

You must go deeper to the root of the problem.

This deepest work is what I focus on on.

It’s called coaching from the “Inside-Out.”

Inside-Out Coaching

Feeling anxious before those board meetings? Stuck wrestling with a big decision? Lacking confidence in leading your team? Overwhelmed by your to-dos and never-ending meetings? Confused about the next step in your career?

What if I told you that 100% of your experience of the world is created by your thinking, not by your environment. The people or situations in your life have nothing to do with it. It’s 100% an inside job!

Take a moment and really let this insight sink in.

It turns out that higher performance, effortless success, leadership, confidence, creativity, productivity, decision making skill and anything else you might want out of coaching become much more likely when we live our lives firmly rooted in this Inside-Out understanding.

When you can see the truth behind how your model of the world is generated, everything changes. You realize that you live in the feeling of your thinking, not what is actually happening in your environment!

With this understanding, inevitably, you pay less attention to the mindless chatter of the voice in your head and more attention to your inner wisdom and insights.

More signal. Less noise.

What happens next is nothing less than astonishing. The signal that is within each and every one of us, shines through. We get out of our own way and allow fuller capacities to come to the fore.

I’ll describe it the way it was explained to me by one of my teachers, Michael Neill.

Performance (P) = Capacity (C) – Interference (N)

P = How you show up in the world. How you be, do and create.
C = Your innate, limitless capacity as a human being.
N = Thoughts and chatter (noise) inside your head, that you think is real.

In our coaching work together, we will explore this deep understanding of your human potential. We will use it to create more calm in your life. We will clear the way for your innate wisdom to shine through.

Then, we will apply any additional techniques and tools that are relevant to further support your growth. For example: getting a new job, setting goals, building new habits, exploring leadership strategies, becoming a better manager, etc.

Though, if you are like me, you will realize that most of those skills (and tools and frameworks) you thought you needed aren’t so critical after all.A few words on a page can never fully explain how coaching can help. If you are serious about hiring a coach, and are intrigued by this approach, apply for a complimentary coaching call.

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