Feel Good. Do Good.

Full Engagement

My clients achieve their goals by making long-term and lasting changes through a comprehensive and integrated approach to life and work. I help them tap into their natural strengths, build emotional competency, and discover new skills to improve their performance.   

And when you're engaged on the basis of your natural strengths, you Feel Good and therefore Do Good.  

If you felt better, more empowered, more energized, how might you play a "bigger game" in the world?

Inspired by The Power of Full Engagement™ and the Making of a Corporate Athlete™, I work with you on these four sources of energy to help you achieve peak performance in all that you do:

• Building physical capacity
• Expanding emotional connection
• Increasing mental focus 
• Finding spiritual alignment

In addition to this proven approach for maximizing your energy, I also use somatic coaching approach that accelerates your results and more fully integrates these four focus areas into a unified state of action. You will also develop a more conscious, embodied state of confidence and presence.

A Model for Change

How do you acheive long-term success and stop the never ending cycle of starting-stopping-restarting-achieving-backsliding - rinse and repeat?  The first step is to help you gain clarity on your goals you and cover your true motivations and purpose for change.  Next I'll help you discover the unique way that your mind learns, prioritizes and moves into action towards anything you desire. To do this, I use an understandable and easy-to-follow model of brain function:  Feel, Think and Do. I use several leading-edge assessments that help provide insight into what makes you uniquely you, helping your discover your talents and strengths.  Finally, throughout this process, I provide coaching and supportive accountability to help you stay on track and develop confidence and mastery.

Feel

The field of neuroscience is exploding; one of the most fascinating and groundbreaking areas of research is on feelings and emotions.  Unlike previous conventional wisdom, we know now that emotions "well up from the brain and body acting together".  While much of the emotional part of our brain is contained in the limbic system,  scientists are finding that emotions are the result of multiple brain and body systems distributed over the whole person. 
 
From a work perspective, this new focus on emotion has helped energize the advancement of emotional intelligence or EQ. EQ is the product of both personal and social competencies, and helps you develop optimal relationships with yourself and others. Being smart with our feelings has tremendous impact on our success.  And unlike IQ, emotional intelligence skills can be learned and improved.   By linking a somatic (body) experience with EQ assessments and training, you'll also have an opportunity to build even greater leadership presence and learn how to advocate more successfully for your goals.

Think

Your success also depends on the development of skills and acquisition of new knowledge. I focus on delivering information you can put into immediate action and which is based on the latest thought leadership in the areas of fitness, nutrition, neuroscience and human performance theory. Topic areas include:  Exercise and Nutrition for Brain Health, Emotional Intelligence, Learning to Trust Your Instincts and Conscious Embodiment.

Do

You can be intellectually-gifted and have a high degree of emotional intelligence, but still not accomplish what you want.  The missing ingredient may be the doing, or action. This directs our energy towards problem-solving and decision-making.
 
The mental faculty of purpose or will is called conation. One of the leaders in conative research, Kathy Kolbe, has shown that people are most productive and satisfied when they are working in their instinctive mode of operation.  It avoids stress and maximizes activities.  
 
I often use an insightful and empowering assessment called the Kolbe A Index. The results help you get clear on your natural abilities and modus operandi or MO for short.  This is distinct from measures of emotion (affective) and thinking (cognitive), and is independent of race, gender, age or other criteria.  
 
Your MO governs your actions, reactions and interactions.  Knowing your unique MO helps give you the freedom to be yourself. Understanding and optimizing your creative instincts is one way that I help my clients to take specific steps, and achieve success with their careers and ultimately love their work.

Coaching and AccountabilityCoaching is both an art and science and when done skillfully, helps you move forward toward success in work and life.  Coaching is not advice, therapy, or counseling.  It is a relationship of equals where accountability for the coaching client moving himself/herself forward lies within themselves and the responsibility for providing insightful and challenging coaching to support that happening, lies with the coach.