Meet Your Coach
At the age of sixty-five my father was forced to resign from his job due to poor health. What the doctors and my father didn’t know at the time was how important having a job was to him. His job was his identity and his purpose. His job was his reason for getting up every morning. It provided most of what he felt he had left in life. Two years after he was forced to retire due to bad health my father passed away. We see the same alarming reality among retirees. Within five years of retiring, the average retiree passes away.
From my father’s life I learned many things. Among them was the value and purpose that work has in our life. Not only is the job a means to earn a living, but, more importantly, it is regarded by many as a mean of establishing a sense of Self. It defines “Who” we are.
Since the average person spends two-thirds of their waking life at their worksite, it only seems sensible that one’s chosen career path be closely connected to one’s sense of fulfillment. The career path should foster a healthy sense of Self and support who you are. For example, if you value integrity but you work in an environment that pits worker against worker or allows the end to justify the means, then that decision creates a kind of conflict that is experienced emotionally, spiritually, and physically. The more common name for this conflict is “stress”.
During the course of my career, I’ve resigned my position at a prestigious university once and was laid off twice from two industry positions including a Fortune 500 company. I know what being “let go” feels like and what it does to your sense of Self. It’s not a gender-thing either. Women experience the same sense of frustration, aimlessness, anger and despair that men do when they become jobless. It was these series of events and this awareness that affirmed my conviction of the connection between how we define our self and our career path.
My coaching philosophy is very simple: treat each client with dignity, caring and respect and honor their choices and decisions. In the coaching relationship, it is the client’s needs, not mine, that are important.
It is my role to lend my years of training and experience to the client in a way that supports and encourages personal and professional growth. Together, we co-create a relationship that embraces integrity and honesty.
My clients are given my undivided attention as well as access to my resources.
I have a sincere desire to provide support to those who have an interest in having a satisfying connection between their career path, their values and their preferred lifestyle. Life is too short to spend in either a bad relationship or an unfulfilling career. Too often, people settle for what they feel they can get rather than working towards what they deserve. I want to help.