Executive & Life Coaching
The ability to make life decisions that lead to increasing effectiveness and gratification is an acquired skill. We can improve our capacity to build a life that reflects our needs, values and convictions, to build upon and add to the skills we use in the living of our lives. We can become more authentically ‘who we are’ and more powerfully effective in all we do.
For more than 25 years I have worked with individuals and executives to look beyond what have become the often automatic reactive responses to the events in their lives, to become more effective professionals and individuals, to identify the needs and intentions they have on a deeper level that must be met in order to make increasingly effective and satisfying decisions.
I serve as a coach on this journey. My clients and I participate in a dynamic collaborative process that invites them to understand themselves more fully. And from increased understanding, they recognize that they hold within them the ability to take actions, to develop skills and abilities, and make decisions about how to more fully be who they are.
As a coach, I strategize and collaborate with them as they implement and modify this new strategy, this new way of ‘being’ in the world with more confidence, generosity towards themselves and others, and with an increased awareness of their own personal integrity.
Training
I provide skill-training seminars in the areas of negotiations, leadership development, collaborative problem solving, consensus and team building, mediation, and critical communication.
Curriculum and courses have been developed for the private and non-profit sectors, and presented at colleges and universities throughout the United States, Canada and Argentina. I have been affiliated with the faculties at the University of Washington Law School, Seattle, Washington, Golden Gate University and the University of Phoenix in San Francisco, California.
Mediation
As a lawyer and a psychologist, I became curious about why people choose one type of behavior over another when conflict is present. There are times when instinctive behavior serves us well, and others where our reactive response is not productive, where it would in fact decrease the possibility for productive problem solving.
There are two important objectives to consider when addressing conflict: 1) the value of having our needs met, obtaining a solution that will work for us; 2) the value of our relationship with the party(ies) involved. An assessment of these two factors should thoughtfully determine the strategy and behavior we use to address problem solving and, once again, our instinctive response may not be the most effective.
As a mediator I facilitate a communication/problem solving process where the parties can maximize the opportunity to achieve their respective objectives, where the needs and interests of each party are considered and valued, within a process that honors and respects the humanity and dignity of each party.