More success? . . . On your terms?

I work with executives, managers, and professionals who have already achieved a high degree of success in their lives and who are ready for the next big adventure.My clients tend to be resourceful problem solvers who are super functional when it comes to solving other people’s problems, but what they often don’t know is how to help themselves, how to put their own dreams first, creating a career and a life that is truly satisfying.

Client Scenarios:

Below are some typical client scenarios so that you can see if I regularly help people like you. They are divided into coaching and training scenarios for your convenience, though there is considerable overlap.

Executive Coaching Scenarios:

Big dream, big change. Executives who are working on something extraordinary and would like a sounding board, witness, and change expert as they identify, structure, and achieve their goals. By regularly being held accountable – both for results and implementation of soft skills – these leaders want to go beyond what they would be able to envision and create on their own.

Lack of Balance. Executives who are professionally successful but do not take care of themselves, have little balance in their lives, and cannot see a way to change. At one time the ability to get more accomplished than anyone else was desirable, but at this point in their career and life they are plain tired of pushing, and are probably facing losing something they value like their health, a relationship, or any sense of self beyond the professional persona.

Managing a culture change – particularly towards more innovation. Executives who are experiencing how lonely it is at the top. When you are managing an organizational transition, you need to manage not only your team, but also yourself and your state. Creating a more innovative culture requires a peculiar blend of accountability and creative space and often feels too risky. How great would it be to resolve these challenges with the help of a knowledgeable professional?

Something is not working. High achievers who have been limited by a specific issue that is as bewildering to them as it is beyond their otherwise exceptional solving capability, for example:

• panic attacks,
• phobia,
• sudden onset weight gain,
• inexplicable (and unwelcome) automatic responses to commonplace “triggers”,
• escalation of procrastination behavior,
• overwhelming frustration, anger or rage,
• inability to “just get over” a traumatic experience like a firing, bombed speech, conflict, or…
• just plain feeling stuck

The common experience in any of the above examples is one of being hijacked from a desirable life path. This is particularly difficult for a high achiever to address, as the experience is so far out of what was previously thought to be normal. It therefore can result in misplaced and/or secretly held feelings of shame and impotence where success and achievement were desired.

Leadership Training Scenarios:

Newly Promoted Managers and Emerging Leaders. Today’s fast paced world requires people to continuously hone their communication skills. Learning about your natural style, building flexibility, and practicing core competencies that make existing communication structures – including Agile Development practices – even more effective is the responsible pro-active thing to do when you would like to have fulfilling career.

Need to improve communication skills. Technically or scholastically accomplished professionals who know improving communication skills will pay big career dividends or who may even be struggling with the “people aspect” of their work. Agile developers wanting to enhance an already robust skillset.

Wrong ladder, wrong wall. Mis-employed professionals (or temporarily unemployed) who are experiencing “rut-itis” (technical term for feeling trapped) or who are simply dis-satisfied with their career direction. They know there is more to life, but don’t know how to go about designing a life that is more true to their essential self (especially when they don’t know or have lost touch with who that is for themselves).

Need more tools to help clients create change. Coaches, consultants and trainers who utilize another modality as their primary client interface but would like to add some Neuro-Linguistic Programming to their toolbox to help their clients create desired shifts.

Characteristics of clients who work successfully with me:

High Achievers: you know how to achieve, even though you may currently have run off the road, or been appalled to notice that you climbed the wrong ladder.

Willing to be Vulnerable: all sessions are confidential but if you are routinely marking territory as “off limits” I will not be able to help you.

Response-able: not looking for a quick fix, a silver bullet, or a magic wand, but adults who are willing to work towards a result in small steps. This means being willing to do personal work, sometimes deep and revelatory, and simultaneously implementing small step changes in your daily life.

Open Minded: sometimes really strange and unexpected things come up in this work. You don’t have to believe something is true just to suspend disbelief long enough to see if it works and is useful. I recently prefaced a question to a client with “This question may sound a little weird but…”, the client responded with, “Janet, nothing you could ask me would surprise me anymore, and I know it will all be useful somehow.”

Humor: lightness and shallowness are not the same thing. Sometimes the most effective changes happen when we bring humor and light into deep and dark places. Being able to laugh at yourself helps a lot in this work.

Interest in Self Actualization: it has been said that it is only through change, through embracing and letting go of the past that we are able to grow as spiritual beings. Whatever your personal belief systems are, to get the most out of this work you must have a desire to grow as a person.

Integrity: you maintain high standards and believe in what you do. You would like to make a contribution to the greater good (whatever that means to you) as well as take care of yourself.

Next Step:

If you see yourself above, you may like to know a bit more about what it’s like to work with me. Click here to read a page about my “My Approach“.