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Letter to Prospective Clients
Dear prospective client,
It’s an honor to coach someone. I appreciate your interest, and offer this brief description of my approach to help you decide if coaching is right for you.
I have coached leaders for most of my career. My Presence-Based Coaching approach is unique in the field, and integrates a wide range of traditions and methodologies into a robust development model. I have been certified New Ventures West, and am a Master Somatic Coach with the prestigious Strozzi Institute, as well as being certified by the International Coach Federation. Two influential books, The Mindful Coach, and Presence-Based Coaching outline my own coaching model and have been widely praised by leaders in the field.
Presence-Based Coaching uses concrete, real-world challenges and commitments as catalysts to develop specific new leadership competencies and capacities. You will build your leadership presence, resilience, and aliveness along the way. Through actions, practices, and exercises designed specifically for you, you will engage your world as a resourceful learner, and choose effective and purposeful responses that further your capacity to deliver on bold commitments.
Many coaches focus solely on goal achievement, leaving clients dependent on the coach for motivation and structure. Presence-Based Coaching seeks to develop the whole person. We bring attention to your development as a whole leader, including cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, creative, and spiritual domains.
The process begins with an assessment. I come to understand you and your relationship to your commitments. Through a questionnaire and conversations we jointly define specific observable, competency-based outcomes for our work together. (A variety of other approaches including interviews, 360 reviews, and other instrumentation can be included if desired.) Outcomes can address a wide range of professional topics such as creating purposeful work, balancing conflicting demands and priorities, navigating political challenges, empowering others, and other specific leadership issues. Career and life changes, relationship challenges, and finding greater joy and fulfillment are also frequent coaching topics.
Once we agree on outcomes, I design a development program, unique to you, that includes self-observation exercises, practices and readings that require new ways of seeing and new actions in the world. We commit to this program for a fixed period of time, generally six to twelve months. Of course, real issues and problems serve as practice opportunities. We meet regularly by phone or in person to review what you’re learning and to refine the program.
In addition to the specific outcomes of your coaching program, you will learn to become increasingly self-generative. This means being able to respond with presence and creativity to challenging situations, as well as taking charge of your life-long development. At the end of our work together, we’ll plan how you can continue your development on your own.
Our work will generally include:
If this sounds like the right coaching approach for you, I invite you to call or email with your questions. Thank you!
It’s an honor to coach someone. I appreciate your interest, and offer this brief description of my approach to help you decide if coaching is right for you.
I have coached leaders for most of my career. My Presence-Based Coaching approach is unique in the field, and integrates a wide range of traditions and methodologies into a robust development model. I have been certified New Ventures West, and am a Master Somatic Coach with the prestigious Strozzi Institute, as well as being certified by the International Coach Federation. Two influential books, The Mindful Coach, and Presence-Based Coaching outline my own coaching model and have been widely praised by leaders in the field.
Presence-Based Coaching uses concrete, real-world challenges and commitments as catalysts to develop specific new leadership competencies and capacities. You will build your leadership presence, resilience, and aliveness along the way. Through actions, practices, and exercises designed specifically for you, you will engage your world as a resourceful learner, and choose effective and purposeful responses that further your capacity to deliver on bold commitments.
Many coaches focus solely on goal achievement, leaving clients dependent on the coach for motivation and structure. Presence-Based Coaching seeks to develop the whole person. We bring attention to your development as a whole leader, including cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, creative, and spiritual domains.
The process begins with an assessment. I come to understand you and your relationship to your commitments. Through a questionnaire and conversations we jointly define specific observable, competency-based outcomes for our work together. (A variety of other approaches including interviews, 360 reviews, and other instrumentation can be included if desired.) Outcomes can address a wide range of professional topics such as creating purposeful work, balancing conflicting demands and priorities, navigating political challenges, empowering others, and other specific leadership issues. Career and life changes, relationship challenges, and finding greater joy and fulfillment are also frequent coaching topics.
Once we agree on outcomes, I design a development program, unique to you, that includes self-observation exercises, practices and readings that require new ways of seeing and new actions in the world. We commit to this program for a fixed period of time, generally six to twelve months. Of course, real issues and problems serve as practice opportunities. We meet regularly by phone or in person to review what you’re learning and to refine the program.
In addition to the specific outcomes of your coaching program, you will learn to become increasingly self-generative. This means being able to respond with presence and creativity to challenging situations, as well as taking charge of your life-long development. At the end of our work together, we’ll plan how you can continue your development on your own.
Our work will generally include:
- Initial conversations and assessment.
- Development of coaching outcomes.
- A unique program of self-observation, exercises, reading, and practices.
- Robust, on-going conversation in the form of weekly or bi-weekly conversations, with practically unlimited additional support by phone and email as requested by you.
- A password-protected website to organize session notes, messages, resource files, action items and practices.
- Mid- and end of program assessments against program outcomes .
- A plan for your on-going growth and development after the conclusion of coaching.
If this sounds like the right coaching approach for you, I invite you to call or email with your questions. Thank you!
