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What & Who I Coach

Specialty areas

●       Leadership transitions — newly promoted, expanded scope, leading leaders for the first time.

●       Leading through organizational change — restructures, reductions, mergers, technology change.

●       Executive presence and communication — how a leader is read, and by whom.

●       Decision-making under pressure and ambiguity.

●       Team dynamics, trust, and difficult conversations.

●       Identity and authenticity at work — staying yourself in rooms that were not built with you in mind.

Levels I coach

Emerging leaders and senior individual contributors · first-time and frontline managers · mid and senior managers · directors · vice presidents and executives · C-suite.

I coach across all of them. A first-time manager whose team is coming apart needs the hour as much as an executive does, and I do not treat one as the lesser engagement.

The programs I built and ran inside organizations spanned new managers through the Senior Executive Service.

Who I work with best

●       Leaders in institutional transition — exiting or displaced after a reduction or restructure.

●       Leaders carrying teams through change they did not choose.

●       Newly promoted leaders operating above their last proven ground.

●       Leaders from groups the organization was not built around — where my doctoral research sits.

High performers who are capable, respected, and quietly running out of road.

What Changes

●       Clarity — you know what you actually think before the room asks you.

●       Steadiness — decisions that hold when the ground moves under them.

●       Presence — being read the way you intend to be read.

●       Judgment — knowing when to spend your credibility and when to hold it.

●       Capacity — carrying what you have been handed without becoming someone else.

●       Footing — a way forward when the role changes around you.

How I Coach, At a Glance

What I bring

●      Twenty years inside institutions — the Inter-American Development Bank, Fannie Mae, Skanska, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Department of Labor, and USDA.

●       A doctorate from Pepperdine, with published research on culture, group dynamics and whose leadership gets developed.

●   ICF Associate Certified Coach (PCC in progress), certified in brain-based coaching, Hogan 360 and SDI 2.0®.Executive Development Program — leadership development providing coaching to 200 vice presidents and above at Fannie Mae Corporation.

●       Director Development Program — the same, for 700 directors.

●       Senior Executive Service 360 assessment and coaching program at USDA — stood up from scratch.

●       New manager program at the Inter-American Development Bank — facilitated modules.

●       Group coaching for senior leadership teams as Director of Talent & Culture at Skanska.

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