Bridging Lives

Partnering with You to Thrive!
Take a moment to imagine yourself thriving. What would that feel like and how would you know that you are thriving? What might be different in how you experience yourself as a leader - in your profession and your life? What does thriving mean to you?	Thriving happens in all aspects of your being.
		You are a whole person - an integrated Self of being, knowing, feeling, and doing. While at times you may feel you are valued solely for what you know or do, that is far from the whole picture.
	What practices and stories empower you to thrive? How do you consciously use practices and stories to fulfill a larger purpose in your life?
To me, "thriving" has a quality of peaceful exuberance and vibrant aliveness to it. It connotes sufficiency, if not abundance. It happens after "sustainable" is achieved. You stretch for more of what you really want and start having it.
You know where the gaps are and their cost to your professional success, growth and satisfaction. What if you could wake up into a life in which you thrive?

Wise, Masterful 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.

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 for communicating knowledge, trust and power and applying them consciously in human interaction.

The journey of masterful, wise leadership is as much an internally-oriented journey as it is 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, masterful, coordinated and creative action.

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 and overcome challenges. Your presence, conversations and actions move you and others into coordinated action with courage, compassion, wisdom and integrity

What Needs Your Attention?

Focus your attention on that which generates and directs your authentic power to create and to transform yourself and your situation.

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 partnership with a qualified, trusted coach, these leaders are finding ways to lead their way anew. Bridging lives, they lead with a more embodied, joyful, resilient, healthy and powerfully integrated sense of Self.

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.
[See WSJ: Staying in the Game With Help on the Sidelines, 9/1/09]

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.

Imagine the array of benefits from enhancing 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

Take the Next Step
Contact me to explore what might be next for you.
I offer a 30-minutes initial consultation, by phone or in person, free of charge. Each coaching/consulting engagement is set up to meet your individual and/or group needs.	Coaching Leadership Life Transition Specific Focus (e.g. Presence for Presentation, Negotiation, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Intuition, Trust, etc.) Consulting - for groups of 2 or more Collaborative Challenges Strategic Change Professional Development Seminars Speaking Engagements
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. Is this you?
Imagine the array of benefits from enhancing 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