Bridging Lives
Coaching for Leadership and Collaborative Excellence

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What could your life be like if you were to realize your full potential as a leader?

To find out, you must be ready to engage in new conversations that
open new possibilities for yourself and with others.

Are you ready?

Connect to the Source of Your Success

"Spirit of Collaboration"
original watercolor by Beata C. Lewis

Coaching is a targeted, individualized developmental activity aimed at achieving focused results, generating long-term excellent performance, and optimizing well-being. This is accomplished through inquiry, conversation and practices that build skills and competencies and that enhance self-awareness and reflection capabilities.

I work with high-performing individuals and groups to catalyze and facilitate intentional transformation. Attention to skills may be necessary but is insufficient for generating excellence. These competent, functioning leaders are at a crossroads. They want something more or something else and are ready to take steps to have that.

Women and men are exploring new ways to unleash and direct human potential and aliveness - how to lead - for their careers, their business ventures, and lives. In the context of our coaching, they are finding ways to lead their way from a more embodied, resilient, healthy and powerfully integrated sense of Self.

Executive Coaching and Change Consulting Services:

Leadership Coaching (1:1 and Groups)
Change Consulting for Collaborative Excellence
Conflict Reconciliation and Mediation

Professional Development Seminars:

Leading from Center
Meeting the Challenge
Trust in Leadership
emBODY-INg Conflict Transformation

 

Masterful, Wise Leadership

Photo of a labyrinth in San Francisco, CA, looking towards the Bay, Marin Headlands, and Golden Gate Bridge. The labyrinth is an ancient symbol about the journey to restore wholeness and balance. It represents a journey to our own center and back again out into the world..

 

The journey of masterful, wise leadership is as much an internally-oriented journey as an externally-oriented one. It is a journey that deepens self-awareness as well as your openness, curiosity and presence. You cultivate a greater capacity to translate awareness, knowledge, insight and vision into meaningful narratives that generate purposeful, creative and coordinated action.

 

 

 

 

Lead by Who You Are and What You Embody

Leading - as a way of being, not just focused on status conferred by a role or title - is a function of relationship with yourself and others. In the context of coaching for leadership and collaborative excellence, embodiment is essential to how knowledge, trust and power are communicated and applied in human interaction.

Executive Coaching addresses individual change or transformation; Change Consulting facilitates intentional organizational change. All change is ultimately driven by meaning. People open and reach to change when they decide that the change is meaningful to who they are and how they want to live.

You create your conscious reality and meaning through thought and language, in conversation. Whatever vision you seek to realize and direction you choose for fulfilling your vision, you will be in constant conversation with yourself and others to generate and coordinate meaningful, purposeful action.

Moreover, you are a whole person when you lead. While at times it may feel like you're valued solely for what you know or do, that's far from the whole picture. You are what you practice.

What practices and stories empower you to thrive and to fulfill what you understand to be a larger purpose for your life?

 

What Needs Your Attention?

As a leader you can choose practices for connection and interaction that produce commitment, clarity, creative energy, and passion for a shared future. These practices let you take advantage of opportunities; they help you avert or recover from breakdowns. Your presence, conversations and actions move you and others into coordinated action with courage, compassion, wisdom and integrity. Focus your attention on that which generates and directs your authentic power to create and to transform yourself and your situation.

Focus your attention on that which generates and directs your authentic power to transform yourself and your situation. For example, how do you and others experience your capacity to:

  • Cultivate the best in yourself and others;
  • Listen (open, present, and connected to what matters), be curious about others, and learn;
  • Perceive, assess and coordinate with others to take risks and benefit in the face of uncertainty;
  • Interact as your wisest, most creative Self - least defensive and most resourceful;
  • Anticipate, engage with and recover from resistance, set-backs, and conflict with courage, integrity, and grace;
  • Clarify needs and work with "living" agreements to create satisfaction for yourself and others;
  • Articulate, prioritize and strategize to fulfill a complex array of commitments;
  • Dream and feel the pulse of your heart's desire to create what is life-enhancing;
  • Create a rich life where you and others thrive and succeed.
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For more information, please contact:

Beata C. Lewis, JD, MSC
Executive Coach & Change Consultant


Bridging Lives
P.O. Box 3146
Sausalito, CA 94966

T: 415-332-8338
E: Beata@BridgingLives.com

Coaching for Leadership and Collaborative Excellence
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