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Life

Feelings, Emotions and Moods: How to Say What You are Experiencing

Aware or not, most people experience a wide range of emotions during an average day. And, these experiences are highly…
Leadership

What is an Executive Coach?

During some point in your career, there may be an opportunity to consider hiring an executive coach. Whether you seek…
Leadership

Lead Your Team to Success: Ask The Right Questions

When Joel, a senior VP of sales, first began his executive coaching engagement with me, he was perplexed. His team had…
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Crisis Management

Negotiating Life’s Transitions

Change is an inevitable part of life, and we deal with transitions every day. Some are in the background and become…
Leadership, Team Coaching

How to Deal with a Toxic Coworker 

It can take only one toxic employee to destroy a hard-earned, positive company culture. Leaders who don’t address the issue…
Career, Leadership

What to Look for in the Ideal Employee 

Just like most businesses, the hiring landscape has greatly changed over the past year. Interviews are now conducted virtually, ending…
Accountability, Leadership

A Leader’s Accountability Starts with Self 

People dread talking about accountability. Leaders may claim to implement accountability in their organizations, but often fall short in execution and…
Crisis Management

Shed your Armor in Crisis Communication 

Gone are the days of water cooler breaks, lunches with colleagues and team happy hours, at least for now. Those…
Team Coaching

Transform your Team to High Performing with the Birkman Method 

There’s nothing like the feeling of working with a team of individuals who are in sync as they have each other’s back,…
Career, Life

How To Achieve Peak Productivity In Your Home Office

Our homes are now our offices, and that’s likely to last long after the pandemic is over. The percentage of…
Crisis Management

How to Embrace Innovation during the Pandemic 

We are at the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve seen industries like hospitality and tourism decline, businesses having to…
Team Coaching

The Power of Team Coaching

Today’s teams in the workplace look a lot different than they did a year ago. Most of us are working…
Career

How To Extinguish Gaslighting In The Workplace

We’ve heard the term “gaslighting” a lot over the past year, mostly in politics. We’ve seen candidates claim unconditional truth…
Career, Entrepreneur

The Pandemic is Encouraging Entrepreneurship

The pandemic has disrupted businesses across industries. Over 22 million people lost their jobs last spring and while over half…
Career, Life

Achieving Work-Life Balance While Working Remotely 

Millions of Americans have transitioned from working in an office to their homes during COVID-19, and it will continue that…
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We are a Chicago- and Atlanta-based coaching and consulting company passionate about facilitating individual, team and organizational change. We apply cutting-edge, theoretical and practical coaching approaches to help individuals, teams and organizations bring about significant personal and professional transformation.

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