coaching
I believe careers should be meaningful, challenging, and engaging. We spend most of our adult lives at work, so ideally, the work we do should allow us to use our strengths, grow and make a contribution to the world.
Like many important dimensions of our lives, careers are not linear. At times, we need to forge a brand new path or strategize around how to change our mindset, uplevel our skills, or improve our current situation. During these transition periods, partnering with a coach who can provide clarity, support and accountability can be invaluable.
Working Together
Coaching supports professionals at critical points in their careers. Whether you’re looking for a thought partner, are feeling stuck, or need to sharpen your skills, coaching provides a space to reflect and make productive decisions. Coaching helps clients harness their strengths and overcome stumbling blocks in order to build fulfilling and successful careers.
executive & leadership coaching
All leaders inevitably confront challenging times when prioritizing their own growth and development is essential for impact. Executive and leadership coaching engagements help you to:
Strengthen leadership skills
Make mindset shifts
Transition into a more senior leadership role
Manage direct reports more effectively
Resolve work-life balance challenges
Enhance communication skills
Improve time management habits
Elevate executive presence
Expand self-awareness and interpersonal skills
Identify short and long-term career priorities
Begin or grow entrepreneurial ventures or small businesses
Create a roadmap to actualize career aspirations
Increase your confidence
Transform culture
career coaching
There are times when you are in transition — whether that means pursuing a new role or making a pivot. Coaching can propel you towards your next chapter professionally. Career coaching engagements help you to:
Explore a new career path
Clarify what you want in your next role
Articulate your strengths and your transferrable skills
Define your value proposition
Utilize your network to generate opportunities
Prepare for interviews
Negotiate for salary and for flexible work arrangements
Incorporate better work-life balance
Grow your confidence
Refine professional tools, such as resume, cover letters, or LinkedIn profile
parental leave coaching
Companies and non-profit organizations have a unique opportunity to create stronger workplace cultures long before national policy brings about widespread change. Today, forward-thinking companies can not only create competitive parental leave policies, they can also support employees through individual or group coaching. This investment in people retains talent and improves gender diversity at the same time.
Replacing an employee typically costs at least twice their annual salary in HR expenses and lost productivity, not to mention the decline in institutional memory. Losing those in leadership roles increases the cost not only financially, but can be disruptive for teams and negative for morale. Putting processes in place to support parents yields bottom-line effects for companies.
Ultimately, what’s good for parents is what’s good for business.
Retaining Talent
We typically compartmentalize our professional selves and our personal selves. Yet events in one area of our lives often affect the others. Integrating these two identities makes parents better prepared both at work and at home.
Individual and Group Coaching
Coaching engagements with parents can include:
Preparing for parental leave
Transitioning back to work after parental leave
Aligning expectations for new parents and their managers
Identifying important values
Understanding how to put values into practice
Managing ongoing responsibilities at work and at home
Transforming a vision into an action plan
Coaching helps parents envision work-life integration and put it into practice. Juggling two challenging jobs is manageable with support and proper planning.
Beginning the Process
We will start with a 30-minute complimentary Zoom consultation to identify what you hope to gain from coaching, outline the stages of the coaching process, and assess whether we’re a good fit as client and coach. Our work together can be short-term or may last longer than a year, depending on your needs and what you'd like to achieve. In our first session we'll articulate clearly defined, measurable goals, to ensure that we use each meeting to move forward towards your long-term goals.
Please contact me by e-mail or phone and we can schedule our initial conversation.
Approach
Working with clients, I have a dual focus—understanding how an individual’s history, passion, strengths and skills has framed their career choices, and developing a clear action plan to help move them towards their new goals.
The scope of our work is unique to each individual. We’ll focus on big picture issues like work-life balance, career changes, and becoming a stronger leader, or specific skills like developing the strategies and tools to conduct an effective job search or manage people more effectively. Together we’ll envision new possibilities and transform these ideas into achievable action steps by honing in on the details. Ultimately, we’ll combine self-reflection with new perspectives to allow you to embark on a path that’s more meaningful, practical, and fulfilling.
“Sasha’s insights, guidance, advice, and support were invaluable to me in my job search. Over a series of meetings, we covered a variety of critical points, including résumé layout and content, cover letters, my web presence, how to position myself in the marketplace, procrastination and other barriers, leveraging LinkedIn, mock interviewing, interview prep, interview attire, and an initial intake meeting that provided many keen insights about my skills and interests. Even though Sasha wasn’t familiar with my particular field, she asked me lots of probing questions, she was able to steer our conversations to relevant general materials, and she pointed me towards ways to supplement our work with targeted information and resources in my field. She kept detailed notes each time, allowing me to focus on the meeting, and providing us with a recurring to do list to follow. Just 5 weeks after finishing all my materials, I was offered a great job with an excellent salary! To top it off, Sasha is so friendly and so much fun to work with. She helped nudge me when I needed it, but was never judgmental. I felt like I was getting expert advice from a very insightful and trusted old friend. I can’t recommend her highly enough!”
