FAQs

Co-Active Coaching Institute (CTI) has been called the “gold standard” of coaching by the Institute of Coaching, a Harvard Medical School affiliate that has linked the four cornerstones of the Co-Active Model to evidence-based scientific research. CTI was the first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is home to the seminal text in coach training programs worldwide.

Very simply, Co-Active means “being in action together.” The Co-Active Coaching model asserts that the coach and coachee are equal collaborators in an empowered, co-created alliance designed to meet the coachee’s needs.

The Exploratory Process is a complimentary four-part experience designed to help you clarify what you want from coaching—and ensure I’m the right fit for the journey ahead.

1. Meet Your Coach
I start with a conversation to orient you to coaching and to one another. You’ll share where you are and what’s drawing you to coaching. I’ll explain how coaching works, including confidentiality, session flow, and your preferences and sensitivities. This first meeting helps us gauge chemistry and begin imagining what’s possible.

2. Develop Coaching Outcome Statements
Next, I’ll help you explore what you’d like to shift or strengthen. Together, we’ll identify themes, desired outcomes, and the conditions that support your growth. Between sessions, I’ll draft preliminary outcome statements based on what we uncover.

3. Review Coaching Outcome Statements
In this session, I’ll share your draft outcomes so we can refine them until they clearly reflect your goals and how you’ll measure success. This is also a chance to confirm that our partnership feels aligned and energizing.

4. Discuss Investment
Finally, I’ll walk you through what it means to invest in this work—your time, effort, attention, and financial commitment—and recommend the engagement structure that best supports your goals.

Why I Offer This Process
This process exists so we can build and test the foundation of a coaching relationship before making a commitment. It’s a sandbox for curiosity, honesty, and discovery—for both of us. I want to choose my clients as intentionally as they choose me. That mutual choice creates meaning and accountability on both sides, ensuring I’m as invested in your progress as you are. It also stretches what many people imagine coaching can be: a partnership built on trust, rigor, and possibility.

Human-centered design and design thinking are creative problem-solving methods that help you see challenges—and possibilities—through a fresh lens. While often used by product and experience designers, they’re powerful, approachable tools for anyone who wants to think differently about work, life, or relationships.

These methods start with empathy: understanding the real needs, perspectives, and emotions of the people involved (including you). From there, we challenge assumptions, explore multiple options, and test small, low-risk experiments—what I call “learning in motion.”

I use these tools because they make growth tangible. You’ll strengthen your creativity and neuroplasticity, uncover new insights, and learn through both reflection and playful action. Bring your curiosity, and the rest unfolds from there.

Yes—and that’s exactly the point. People come to coaching for all kinds of reasons, but underneath them all is the desire for discovery, awareness, and choice. Play sparks those things. It opens imagination, creativity, and problem-solving, while fostering emotional well-being and genuine connection—all within a safe, consequence-free space.

In a world that often feels volatile, uncertain, complex, and entirely too serious, play is a radical act of healing. So, yes, I take play seriously. And I’ll invite you to do the same—by giving yourself permission to have a little fun. *wink*

Yes. I help clients design work—and lives—that feel aligned, purposeful, and sustainable. Together, we make clarity in your career choices approachable and actionable. That might mean refining your direction, brushing up on interviewing skills, or mapping the next right move rather than just the next move.

I often recommend a day-and-a-half workshop to jumpstart your progress, followed by biweekly sessions to support momentum and accountability. It’s an engaging, interactive way to see your work life with new eyes, grounded in your whole life—not siloed from it.

Because while I offer career coaching, my approach is always whole-person. Work is just one thread in the tapestry of your life, interwoven with health and wellbeing, money, personal growth, relationships, creativity, and even where you live. When you rebalance one area—like career—you inevitably rebalance the whole.

Schedule a complimentary exploratory session to start designing what’s next.