Executive & Professional Development Coaching
Positive change needs a catalyst. Coaching facilitates personal and professional change by helping you make deliberate strides towards your goals and intentions.
Beginning the Coaching Process
As with any interpersonal engagement, the first step in coaching is to ensure we are well-suited to work together as a coach and client.
We start the process with a non-binding, exploratory conversation, in order to better get to know each other and set the tone for our rapport. You have the opportunity to discuss your challenges, issues of interest, and any questions or concerns. I share my approach to the topics you raise, my style of working and a suggested structure for our coaching engagement.
The decision to move forward with a formal coaching relationship must be entirely mutual, grounded in a sense of reciprocal respect and confidence established during our initial confidential conversation.
Common Topics of Exploration
The corporate world is always throwing us new challenges, no matter how long we’ve been navigating it.
Up to now, you may have had a smooth career and lots of success. But new challenges in your job demand that you step up to new responsibilities. Talking to someone who can reflect your ideas back to you and support a growth perspective can significantly ease this stress. With newfound clarity, you will be able to design new strategies for handling difficult issues with your team and superiors.
Personal and professional improvement is a broad topic, and therefore opens the door to countless avenues of discovery. You will get to decide how to dig in to pinpoint which skills to cultivate — tangible or more abstract — and practice tasks that help you improve. Whether you focus on leading by example, improving communication, encouraging collaboration, facilitating a fertile environment for ideas, or something else entirely, you will experience “mirror view” conversations that will help overcome your challenges.
Get beyond present limitations to discover what is truly motivating and satisfying.
You may be feeling incredibly restricted in your position, blocked in your creative thinking, or both. Getting through major environmental or internal obstacles can feel daunting, even impossible. Sometimes, this involves disengaging from a toxic setting, modifying damaging self-talk, or entirely overhauling previous decisions.
Transforming your circumstances and rethinking yourself involves “removing the stones from your shoes,” as we say in Spanish, which is essential to improve your quality of life. Through attentive listening and powerful questioning, you will find the space to start becoming the person you want to be.
Take steps in a new professional direction with confidence and clarity.
When the realization hits, it often hits hard. If you’ve been longing to transition into a new career path, company, or industry, you may already be in the midst of a deep search for a new work life and life balance.
Whether you have a strong sense of your intended new direction or are facing a lot of uncertainty, we work together to design your transition and the mindset that will accompany it. We reflect on how to achieve your initial goal, as well as how to work toward the secondary goal when the time is right. I act as a constant support as you execute your new goals and reach milestones.
The corporate world is always throwing us new challenges, no matter how long we’ve been navigating it.
Up to now, you may have had a smooth career and lots of success. But new challenges in your job demand that you step up to new responsibilities. Talking to someone who can reflect your ideas back to you and support a growth perspective can significantly ease this stress. With newfound clarity, you will be able to design new strategies for handling difficult issues with your team and superiors.
Personal and professional improvement is a broad topic, and therefore opens the door to countless avenues of discovery. You will get to decide how to dig in to pinpoint which skills to cultivate — tangible or more abstract — and practice tasks that help you improve. Whether you focus on leading by example, improving communication, encouraging collaboration, facilitating a fertile environment for ideas, or something else entirely, you will experience “mirror view” conversations that will help overcome your challenges.
Get beyond present limitations to discover what is truly motivating and satisfying.
You may be feeling incredibly restricted in your position, blocked in your creative thinking, or both. Getting through major environmental or internal obstacles can feel daunting, even impossible. Sometimes, this involves disengaging from a toxic setting, modifying damaging self-talk, or entirely overhauling previous decisions.
Transforming your circumstances and rethinking yourself involves “removing the stones from your shoes,” as we say in Spanish, which is essential to improve your quality of life. Through attentive listening and powerful questioning, you will find the space to start becoming the person you want to be.
Take steps in a new professional direction with confidence and clarity.
When the realization hits, it often hits hard. If you’ve been longing to transition into a new career path, company, or industry, you may already be in the midst of a deep search for a new work life and life balance.
Whether you have a strong sense of your intended new direction or are facing a lot of uncertainty, we work together to design your transition and the mindset that will accompany it. We reflect on how to achieve your initial goal, as well as how to work toward the secondary goal when the time is right. I act as a constant support as you execute your new goals and reach milestones.
Nicolas gets directly to the heart of the problem and insists on digging into it with a systematized approach. His questioning helped me come to deep realizations and make crucial commitments to myself.
Nicolas was already experienced in my industry and was familiar with the struggles of my profession, which felt like it affirmed my personal experience from the start. Nicolas was like a mirror on the other side of my career struggles, as if he had gone through them himself and could help me see what my current view didn’t allow. In these fast-paced times, when there don’t seem to be many spaces for reflection available, I was surprised that I didn’t find this process to feel bizarre or difficult. The only leap was finding the courage to take the necessary actions once I had externalized my problem and recognized the solution.
I always feel super comfortable with Nicolas, as he is always sincere and responsible and measured in everything he says. Importantly, he is super respectful and thoughtful about asking for permission. He says what he thinks and never fails to address something he says he will at the next meeting. I really appreciate that he is never pushy, as this has helped me reflect more deeply.
