I’ve been a stage performer. Worked in business and marketing communications. Supported executives as their right hand. Led marketing as a director. Started a business. Co-founded an organization. Worked on books as an editor, thought partner, ghostwriter, co-author, and author.
Different fields, different titles.
But underneath it all, always the same work: helping someone else get their thinking, story, or message clear enough to act on.
For me, coaching is not a pivot.
It’s who I am.
My coaching comes from the same place as my writing.
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Coaching is where getting to clarity finally became the job itself, instead of the by-product of something else.
I didn’t set out to become a coach. But every role along the way asked something similar of me: see what’s actually going on, name it plainly, help someone move from confusion to a next step they can trust. I spent decades listening for people’s perspectives, their intentions and meanings, their unique voices and stories. Eventually, I realized clarity was my contribution.
I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Jim Selman, the American consultant who introduced coaching to the business world back in the 1980s. In his presence and with his guidance, I mastered the transformational distinctions of ontological coaching and an ontological coach’s “way of being”. I earned an ICF coaching certification through the Co-Active Training Institute.
I conducted research into what makes coaching work and published my findings in a book. I wrote two books with Jim Selman about living clearly in an unpredictable, real-time world. I ghostwrote business books for CEOs and, most recently, a book for leaders that takes an ontological approach to leading in the age of AI. I edited two transformational story-based leadership books, and I’m about to publish another book to transform our culture’s narrative about aging with Dr. Marc Cooper.
My life is proof that you don’t have to know where you’re headed when you start coaching. You just have to trust the process enough to find out for yourself.