Hello and Welcome!
I am promoting the two kinds of work that I do: I am a Communications Consultant and a Personal Life + Entrepreneur Empowerment Coach. I have been working in some form of communication throughout my professional life. I began as a teacher of deaf two-year olds and moved to the expanded world of ad agencies, higher educational institutions and non-profit organizations.
I am a clear thinker, team player and want to help you work efficiently to meet your objectives in these challenging times. My interpersonal skills, life coach training and years working in public affairs make me a strong agent on your behalf whether you need a communications plan, project + event management or coaching. I partner with clients to get their message or their truest selves out in the world to do the good work that needs to be done. And — get this – my wish is that it is done with ease and joy.
Here is why you may hire me:
STAFF COACHING: How well does your staff work as a team? How are time and project management going? Are you in need of role clarification? Most significantly — are you all keeping your collective eyes on the prize — the organization’s mission.
Some organizational leaders care about the mental and physical health of their employees, knowing that a balanced and cared-for employee benefits the entire organization. For those lucky folks, I can come into the organization and present a series of Self-Care Workshops and/or schedule half-hour coaching sessions. To learn more about my coaching, I invite you to learn why I became a life coach.
PERSONAL LIFE COACHING: Coaching is a series of one-on-one conversations between you and a trained personal life coach. Together, we examine opportunities, or obstacles, in your life, strategizing around single issues or lifestyle choices. Read more for some details!
With your coach, you set a series of goals and design strategies to meet–or exceed!–them.
COMMUNICATION CONSULTING: I offer project management for non-profit (and for profit!) organizations. Hire me as a relief to your overworked staff members, well-intentioned board members and inconsistent interns. Organizations often need specific, targeted amounts of communication, public relations or objective analysis to push through a project, create an event or attain an objective. You may have recently cut your staff resulting in fewer people struggling to maintain high institutional goals. With years of experience in special events, public relations, project management and communications, I offer experience and expertise for projects large and small. Read more about the communications piece of my work.
As a communication professional I partner with you to move messages forward. As a life coach we work together to attain increased ease. My clients include non-profit organizations, marketing groups, emerging entrepreneurs and people out of balance with their desires or values.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please consider contacting me even if your thoughts are a bit unformed. That’s part of the process!
I am so pleased to announce a new coaching concept that has emerged from my specific experiences working with and in non-profit organizations. HiTouch Productivity maximizes human energy efficiency in the workplace. Using the concepts of high touch, human interaction and interpersonal communication, combined with self-care and just trying to get through the day, we explore ways of keeping our eyes on the prize to do the good work that needs to be done.
Consider this:
- How do we increase productivity by decreasing personal toll?
- Whose specific skills are NOT being used wisely?
- Problems/Stuck/Satisfaction Level impacts (human) energy efficiency
- Stress (whats your word for it?) = system fatigue
- Productivity and action = positive energy use
- What good will you be doing today + how will you do it?
There are various ways of working together and most include a discounted individual coaching session for participants.
Contact me to further explore how this may benefit your organization.
Nice emails waiting for me this morning! One client got the interview we hoped for and the other really is working hard to get herself organized.
Job searcher — we worked on her cover letter and resume. She is totally qualified for the job lead I sent her and ran with it. Together we slowed her down, edited her fabulous letter and re-structured her resume. She got the call, had the first interview on the phone and we will see if she made the cut. Keep your fingers crossed — she is a good match for it.
Person-struggling-with-organization – this person has a job that without a doubt should be done by 2 people. So it goes, she is one person and has to make it work. Together we have helped her delegate, hire project managers to keep her on sched, and more. Knowing that she needs to catch up on many things while she moves forward on others, we helped define an optimum work sched for overflow. She is making headway, clearing physical and virtual things out. What’s the danger with her: she gets over-psyched and then burns out. As I said to her in my email — “Rock on but rock steady.” We are looking for sustainable energy.
Almost 9 years have passed since my breast cancer diagnosis. I am so grateful – almost in a hushed way. I cannot believe two things: that so much time has passed and the number of women who are diagnosed daily. I coach women in the throes of treatment and offer a workshop called When Treatment Ends, but I think I may be in need of some coaching myself.
Nine years later — where do I put my breast cancer experience? It never defined me but has it been subsumed into my regular life? Was that the goal anyway? Do I need to become more pink about it all?
Yes, you will differentiate yourself from other candidates through your accomplishments, education, prior work experience but you really will single yourself out if you are curious throughout the process. I mean that when you write your cover letter
, spend time on your potential employer’s website — see what is ahead for them. Is it a big event, campaign, membership drive they are working on? Can you find it in your heart to wish them success even before they hire you? I am not talking about kiss-ass stuff. I am talking about understanding what their WORK is about and what they need to accomplish before their day ends.
By asking, wondering, mentioning you are already initiating the partnership. I think that everyone is trying to get through the day — even those on the other side of the interview table!
As I work in Candor & Ease, here are two things I just gotta put on the table before we begin our conversation:
- These are tough times – enough said.
- It can be done. You can and will find a job that leads to growth in finances and personal satisfaction.
As we work together, each session is divided into the following aspects of career and job issues:
Visioning
Practical Skills
Action
To start, here are some questions to ponder as we vision your job together:
- What do you look like-literally what do you wear to work?
- What does your work space/office look like?
- Describe the smoothest day possible.
- Describe a difficult day.
- Do you supervise people?
- Are you part of a team?
- Do you have boss? A board of directors?
- What is the objective of the work you do?
- What is the direct result of your work?
- Does this position exist?
- Could anyone do the work or do you bring your own skill set to it?
- Is it full time, part time- unusual hours?
- How is the pay? Enough? Not enough?
- How much money will satisfy your needs?
- Is there a public piece to this position?
- Do you work at home – do you want to work at home?
- Are you interesting in working smart and hard or is it something that must be done
- What is singularly you about your job skills?
Yep, I know that satisfaction and pride are strongest when they come from within, but I still want a couple of gold stars today. For two weeks straight I exercised on my own — M-T-W-TH-F – no group, no class, no boot camp, no online motivation. It was all me, pushing me. I have even begun turning my walks into runs. I may even hit ebay for a box of old-fashioned gold stars. This is a case where the life coach coached herself. I’ll keep it going.
I have a wish for you. It is the same one I hold for my coaching clients, friends and loved ones. I wish you a life of ease.
It sounds naïve doesn’t it? We all know that life is not easy.
But here is the ease I am talking about. It is living a life that is in accord with your natural rhythms, values and desires. I see it as an energy-thing. As you create a life of ease you are free-er to do the big work in the world. How do you lead your day? What personal systems do you have in place? What time you get to sleep? How do you manage time? These things can either flow or trip you up.
I am not talking about a life of ease equaling a life of irresponsibility. I am actually working toward taking more responsibility in attending to our daily lives. Is this a paradox? Maybe so. No one said attaining a life of ease was going to be easy…
What if a journalist called you because she heard that you were an expert on a topic she was researching? Here’s your moment – would you know what to say? Can you articulate your core messages? Do you have anecdotes that easily communicate your mission? Are stats part of your story and can you access them? Are there folks who can talk to your successes?
Believe it or not, journalists need you as much as you need them. Think of the hundreds (thousands!) of stories conveyed in all the media 24/7. When someone comes knocking, be ready. How do you know they’ll come knocking? Subscribe to my Media Matchup.
