Navigate transitions, embrace change,
and build unshakeable resilience.
Develop greater self-awareness to achieve your potential.
Coaching Services
I offer a variety of coaching programs designed to help individuals, groups and teams elevate the performance of their professional and personal endeavors.
Coaching will help you think through life transitions and alternatives, providing perspective that helps you to leverage opportunities and increase your confidence.
Through coaching, you will take stock in your path thus far, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and define goals and success measures. Coaching allows for time to reflect on what is and is not working and build a path forward that enables you to achieve your potential.
Areas of Focus
The bulk of my career was spent leading the finance organization of a high-growth professional services firm, collaborating across the business and shared services teams. Due to a unique background that combines executive decision-making, people development, and finance/operations, I bring an especially beneficial set of experience and skills to coaching clients.
Finance, Operations & Technology
• Executive Strategy & Planning
• Operational Roadmaps & Goals
• People, Process & Technology
• Functional Team Development
Career Development
• Career Transitions
• Female Empowerment
• Work/Life Fulfillment
• Leadership Development
• Career Strategy & Roadmap
Transition Coaching
Lead with your values. Find meaning again.
Through a customized partnership, I collaborate with individuals to identify goals, develop action plans, overcome challenges, and embrace possible opportunities with confidence and resilience. Coaching helps us learn about ourselves and mindfully create the path ahead.
Transition coaching is designed to support individuals as they navigate periods of change or transition in their personal or professional lives. I help clients intentionally redesign their lives and make the most of opportunities that life changes can provide.
Focus Areas
• Career pivots and professional reinvention
• Leadership role transitions
• Retirement planning and post-career fulfillment
• Creating structured action plans for life changes
• Navigating uncertainty with confidence
Leadership Coaching
Drive change. Empower individuals. Achieve impact.
Leadership coaching is a personalized and collaborative process designed to help individuals and teams enhance their leadership skills and achieve their professional goals.
The partnership between a coach and a client is aimed at elevating the performance and effectiveness of individuals in their professional endeavors. I support development of greater self-awareness and ability to work more effectively in leading others within their organization. Through reflective conversations, goal setting, and action planning, leadership coaching aims to empower individuals to lead with clarity, confidence and impact.
Focus Areas
• Enhancing self-confidence
• Effective decision-making
• Career strategy, transitions, and promotions
• Conflict management
• Managing Up
• Navigating workplace dynamics
• Work-life integration
• Burnout, time & stress management
• Managing boundaries
• Effective communication
Team Coaching
Overcome challenges. Enhance collaboration. Deliver achievements.
Change is constant in our ever-evolving world. A trusted coaching partner can help organizations to navigate these transitions, embrace change, and develop the leadership skills necessary to achieve organizational goals.
Team coaching helps groups evolve from simply working together to truly excelling together. Through a tailored combination of assessment, facilitation, and ongoing support, we help teams build stronger connections, improve communication, and achieve remarkable results.
Focus Areas
• Leadership teams seeking greater alignment and impact
• Project teams facing complex challenges or transitions
• Teams experiencing change, conflict or communication breakdowns
• High-performing teams aiming to reach even greater heights
• Newly formed teams looking to establish strong foundations
Key Benefits of Coaching
7x ROI
A global survey reports an average ROI of seven times the cost of employing a coach.
– PriceWaterHouseCoopers and Association Resource Center
72%
Of respondents acknowledged that there is a strong correlation between coaching and increased employee engagement.
– 2023 ICF HCI Defining New Coaching Cultures
43%
Of our day is driven by habits, and we like to stay in our comfort zones. A coach helps you break patterns and embrace growth.
87%
Of survey respondents agreed that executive coaching has a high return on investment (ROI).
– FMI (management consulting and investment banking firm)
Executive coaching clients report:
Accelerated Leadership Transitions:
Leaders report moving into new leadership roles more smoothly and confidently with coaching support, minimizing the learning curve and maximizing impact
Higher Employee Retention & Satisfaction:
Teams led by coached leaders typically experience better satisfaction rates and lower turnover, leading to a more fulfilled workforce.
Elevated Decision-Making:
Leaders develop stronger strategic thinking skills and make clearer decisions after executive coaching that drive organizational success.
Increased Productivity and Efficiency:
Coaching leads to stronger productivity and employee efficiency, creating a workplace where individuals and teams thrive together.
Greater Self-Confidence & Personal Fulfillment:
Leadership coaching clients develop more authentic leadership styles and report increased personal fulfillment.
Improved Team Collaboration:
Coaching helps leaders create more effective team dynamics and break down communication barriers.
In a constantly evolving world, people and organizations often wonder “what’s next?”
Coaching offers personalized support that empowers both individuals and teams to navigate complex career and personal decisions and scenarios.
I help professionals or dynamic teams to align their activities with their values, creating greater impact and satisfaction.
Redefine success outside of external validation
Create a more fulfilling life
Navigate difficult career transitions
Ignite a passion for learning and self-discovery
Make decisions that are aligned with internal values
Prioritize what matters
Identify choices and professional prospects
Build the self-confidence to go after new opportunities
Be open to the vulnerability that is necessary for real change
Client Experiences
Executive Director, Government Agency
“Nicole’s executive leadership coaching has been invaluable to our organization. She coached multiple layers of agency leadership and coaching has been an effective way to allow individuals to explore challenges and strengthen skills within a shared value framework. Her guidance on defining leadership roles—especially in transitioning from emergency decision-making during the pandemic to a more natural flow—has been transformative for our team. Nicole’s ability to create a safe, supportive, and challenging coaching environment has made a lasting impact on our leadership team.”
Product Owner/Manager, Technology Services
“Nicole’s tailored coaching plan was thoughtful, the right balance between structured and open-ended, and left me with tangible reflections and resources that I keep going back to. She is smart, quick, kind, both professional and personal, and truly understanding of complexity. I could not recommend working with her enough — her guidance helped me efficiently navigate and reduce the ambiguity I was facing, while simultaneously opening my mind to an even larger list of possibilities.”
Associate Director, Government Agency
“Nicole has a unique blend of empathy, direction, and broad professional work experience that offered valuable insight and perspective, allowing her to quickly understand my challenges and needs. She provided a safe and supportive environment, where I could express my thoughts and feelings with the utmost confidentiality. Nicole is great listener and offers tools, resources, and guidance that helped elevate my chosen goals. She provided opportunities for us to review my progress as our work advanced, so I could determine if my initial goals were still reflecting my needs. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Nicole, and I highly recommend her to anyone seeking to achieve their fullest potential.”
Business Development Executive, Technology Services
“Working with Nicole has been a game-changer for my career. Her thoughtful coaching, guidance and structured approach helped me refine my purpose, set clear goals, and create a practical plan to achieve them. Thanks to her support and accountability, I’ve achieved significant success and feel confident in my path forward. I’m deeply grateful for her insight, strategy, and commitment to my growth!”
Director, Technology Consulting
“When I started working with Nicole, I was at a career crossroads, feeling disconnected and uncertain about how to align my professional path with my aspirations. Nicole’s coaching helped me rediscover my core interests, explore fulfilling career options, and create a clear, actionable roadmap for my future. Her tailored approach provided the tools and confidence I needed to move forward with purpose. The most impactful outcomes have been aligning my career with my values, gaining clarity on my interests, and adopting a strategic mindset to achieve my goals. Nicole’s coaching has been a catalyst for this transformative journey, and I am deeply grateful for her expertise and support.”
Associate Director, Government Agency
“Nicole has helped me with strategies to work through self-doubt and she has also shared specific tools and exercises to work on when I need them. Nicole is down-to-earth and incredibly approachable. I highly recommend her as a coach whether you are new to your role or wanting to be more effective. Our entire executive team has taken part in professional coaching with Nicole, and I can see the difference. We communicate better. We are more thoughtful with each other, and we can all see the evidence in our effectiveness.”