In its most basic definition, executive coaching is a professional relationship between a trained coach and a client who work together to improve or develop the client’s leadership, ability to manage, professional performance and personal development.
Executive coaching is different than consulting or training. Instead of providing generic solutions, executive coaching supports you as you develop your own style and navigate your own path to success.
Executive coaching is for anyone who is in a job or a career that requires self-leadership or the leadership of others. It is for anyone who wants to up level their effectiveness or fulfillment at work. It’s for managers, CEOs, attorneys, leaders in non-profits, business owners who want to manage their teams better, foundation presidents, team leaders and executives at every level.
There are a few distinguishing characteristics that make executive coaching so effective for leaders of all kinds and that characterize my work.
I’ll partner with you to create whatever it is you want in your life and business.
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I started coaching with Jen at a time that I needed to learn to live life radically different. My health was suffering, as well as my ability to be effective in all aspects of my life. Radically different includes putting myself first, letting go of thoughts and ideas that are holding me back, and being present in all aspects of my life. Jen’s ability to help me navigate the path to finding out what was holding me back made it possible for me to move on from a CEO position at a large company to starting and thriving in my own consulting business. I now contribute in life the way I truly want to. Jen, thank you so much for investing time and energy into helping me live life radically different. You have a special way of helping to unlock the ideas or past experiences that are holding people back and changing them up!
Jen is an incredible coach. Her coaching enabled me to identify and attain a top leadership position with the EPA. She has also facilitated new directions in my recreational endeavors, which strengthened valued relationships. Jen opened the door for my colleagues and I to find a way to balance and attain a variety of organizational and strategic goals. In my new leadership position at EPA Headquarters, I continue to seek her guidance in developing, communicating and implementing vision and direction for my team. Jen’s coaching creates clarity and structure for all types of visioning that results in a clear path forward. If you work with Jen, be prepared to attain your goals, both personal and professional! I identified and swiftly attained three life- changing goals during the first year I worked with her. She is now helping me create vision, form a strategic plan and engage my group to enhance environmental protection efforts by my office.
Before coaching with Jen, I had been struggling to find a meaningful challenge in my career. Jen uses a systematic, energetic approach that REALLY works. She's a tough-love coach and she does not back down from hard conversations. She helped me discover that I had shut myself off to so many possibilities, simply because I didn't want to face the fact that I was in the wrong role at work and didn't know how to get out. Smash cut to two years later. I'm in a new role experiencing the kind of authentic success I hadn't thought possible. I've made huge athletic strides. I'm fitter and stronger now, at 40, than I was ten years ago. Most importantly, I am happier, healthier and more productive in my work than I have ever been. Executive coaching with Jen has been the best investment I have ever made in myself!
I was a hard sell. I had done "life coaching" before, as well as therapy and professional coaching, and generally always ended up stuck. I did not understand what Jen would offer that was different. But she suggested we start with a two-session series on core values and goal setting, and I began to understand how our conversations - and my own self-discovery - could become the foundation for much more. During subsequent sessions, she met me where I was at that day. If I needed to talk personal, we'd work through that. If I wanted to talk professional, that was the agenda. She has the wildly unique ability to toggle with ease between the personal and the professional. I have only made such progress professionally by understanding how my personal history impacts my professional life. She has always found a way to identify the core issue at the root of my anxiety or “stuckness” and guide me through it. I now spend much more time in a happy, joyful place. I'm able to look ahead and develop a clear path both for identifying my goals and achieving them. Love this woman!
Working with Jen over the past three years has been instrumental in both my personal and professional success. Her keen eye and clear feedback has been invaluable in my professional role as a project manager for a multinational tech company. She has assisted me in evolving my career and navigating some very challenging circumstances. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Coaching with Jen has been a game changer for me. It has helped me to advance my career and enjoy my personal life. Jen has given me the ability to enjoy and embrace my life in a way I have not been able to previously. When I started working with her, I was an anxious mess with so many life changes happening that I was not able to manage or fully embrace. While working with Jen, I went from always anxious to now, living more in the moment and enjoying my life. My career has flourished and my personal relationships have improved. I have learned to embrace each moment and appreciate the relationships around me. Coaching has positively impacted my marriage as well – my husband and I have moved into a stronger place as partners due to our work with Jen. She is just so good! She gets to the heart of things quickly and speaks from a place of understanding. I always come away with so many practical tools and I have moved away from living in a place of constant anxiety and worry. I now feel empowered and present in my life!
My coaching with Jen has helped to bring focus to my short and long term goals and put in place definitive action plans towards achieving them. When I first started working with Jen I was feeling a bit scattered and stuck. I had worked with Jen in her workshops and talked to a number of people that had used her as a coach so decided to give coaching a try. It has helped me look at the relationships I have and realize where I was setting unrealistic expectations and figure out how I needed to handle those relationships. Jen is honest and forthright and doesn't let you get away with not being honest with yourself! I come away from each session with Jen feeling energized for the work I need to do and peace of mind for having a plan in place to move forward.