Coaching to help you get unstuck, feeling confident, and moving forward with clarity.
If you’re looking to figure out how to work more effectively, build your skills, or make a big career move, let’s chat.
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What coaching is
Coaching is one-on-one work with a trained professional who’s there to help you make progress on your unique goals. It includes focused sessions where you talk through your current challenges, open questions, and ideas, and where I reflect back what I’m hearing, ask you insightful questions, and share tools or frameworks.
My style of coaching
There are many styles of coaching, from performance coaching to business coaching. I consider myself to be a leadership and developmental coach, which means I work with leaders on leadership skills, but also with people at different stages of their career who are trying to figure out what they want to do next or become more capable in a particular area.
“Elle’s unique talent is helping you cut through the noise that obscures what’s really important. She asks just the right questions to allow you to think creatively about solutions without getting lost in the overwhelm.”
— Brendan DeWolf, Netflix
How it works
Step 1: Meet and greet
Schedule an intro call. During this call, you can share why you’re considering working with a coach now and ask me any questions on your mind.
I’ll also share more background about my approach and how I structure coaching engagements.
If it feels like a mutual fit, I’ll send you an overview doc with options, pricing, and more details.
Step 2: Getting to know you
Regardless of which package you choose, we’ll kick things off with an intake session, where I ask you questions about your work history and life experience.
This helps me get to know you as a person so I can customize my approach and the tools I bring in.
During this session, we’ll also work with something you’re currently dealing with so you leave feeling more calm and clear.
Step 3: Off to the races
We’ll kick off a regular cadence of sessions, typically about every two weeks.
In the first regular session, I’ll share a development plan and a reflection guide (more info on these below).
We’ll continue to meet throughout the duration of our engagement, and between sessions I’ll send you reflections to think about, practices to try, or resources you can use.
Step 4: Continue or depart (for now)
After we conclude our initial engagement, many people choose to extend our work and continue meeting on a regular cadence.
Some will choose to pause for now and know they’re always able to come back when they have something else they’re wanting to work on.
Either way, we’ll have a wrap-up conversation in our final session to help you feel good about moving forward on your own.
Additional tools
It’s important to me that a coaching engagement feels like a supportive scaffold as opposed to just a series of meetings. Below are some of the tools I bring in to make the process more robust and successful.
Reflection guide
INCLUDED
Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what you want to talk about in a coaching session. At the beginning of our engagement, I’ll share an editable reflection guide you can use anytime to narrow in on your topics for our overall work together, or for a single session.
Development plan
INCLUDED
It’s helpful to have a specific purpose for engaging in coaching and outcomes you’re working toward. After our intake session, I’ll write a purpose statement and 1-3 outcomes (depending on the length of our engagement) that we’ll use to determine our focus.
Personality profile
OPTIONAL ADD-ON
You can choose to add an assessment to help you understand yourself better. I’m certified in Birkman, which is a profile and report that helps you understand how you typically show up at work, what you need and expect of others, and how you respond to stress.
360 review
OPTIONAL ADD-ON
If you manage a team at work, a 360 review is a great way to get a sense of how others experience working with you. I’m certified in The Leadership Circle, which is a robust assessment and report to show you how you see yourself and how others see you across several leadership dimensions.
What I believe
It’s critical to work with a certified coach.
There are many people out there who will gladly take your money and “coach” you. Often these people want to give you advice because it makes them feel good. Coaching is an incredible responsibility — you’re working with someone who’s confiding in you and looking for help. I don’t take that lightly.
Balancing practical and emotional elements is the best way to make progress.
I love practical stuff. I’m a former project manager and I get great satisfaction from checking things off a to-do list. I want anything I invest in personally to have real-world, practical application. I also know that unless we figure out what’s really going on beneath the surface, we’re likely to only make surface-level change.
Work mostly happens through relationships.
Process and structure is great, and organizations that don’t focus on how things run tend to be chaotic. Even with the best structure, though, you’re way more likely to influence others and be successful if you build strong relationships with the people you work with. I like to help my clients build relational intelligence in addition to cognitive and emotional intelligence.
Common questions
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I love working with people who are curious and motivated. I find coaching works best when you’re desiring something different, don’t know quite how to get there, but are willing to put in the work to try things and figure it out.
I don’t care about your industry, age, or where you live! I’ve worked with people from all walks of life from all around the world.
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Mentors can be incredible resources and relationships throughout your career. A great mentor is someone who’s been where you are, or knows your role or industry well, and can advise and guide you along the way. Mentors don’t typically go through specific training to become mentors, but their expertise comes from having done similar work to what you’re doing for a long time.
A coach doesn’t have to understand your role or industry well — in fact, it’s often beneficial to have a coach who doesn’t come from your world, because they can ask you questions you might not think to ask yourself. Coaches (ideally) also go through rigorous training to learn how to be a responsible and skilled coach.
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Therapy is a critical resource for anyone who’s looking for support with their mental health, and pairing coaching with therapy is often a great way to build self-awareness and skills to help you throughout your life. Therapists are trained clinicians who can help you understand how you’re feeling, build healthy habits, and access more targeted support for mental health conditions.
Coaching is not therapy, but it can sometimes feel like a similar process.
In my coaching work, I bring my expertise on adult development (how adults learn and grow) as well as organizational development (how companies run) to help you make sense of what you’re experiencing, specifically within a work context.
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My initial training was through an intensive one-year Professional Coaching Certification course from New Ventures West, one of the most well-established and reputable coaching programs in the world.
I’ve continued to deepen my education through additional trainings and certifications. You can learn more about these on my about page.
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I typically offer 3-month (6 sessions + 1 intake session) and 6-month (12 sessions + 1 intake session) coaching packages to new clients. I also offer a monthly retainer model for people who are looking for deeper, more consistent support. Returning clients can book one-off sessions as well.
I offer more accessible pricing to people who are paying out of pocket versus those who are working with me through their company. Reach out to me to learn more.
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Each session is one hour long, and most people find meeting about once every two weeks is ideal.
You’ll want to spend a few minutes before and after each session reflecting on what you want to focus on, and what you want to try afterward.
Expect to also spend about 15-30 minutes per week looking through resources I send you, working on reflection guides, or trying something we discussed in the real world.