I am currently seeking certification as a leadership / professional coach via an 8-month program at Brown University, accredited through the International Coaching Federation (anticipated program completion: March 2025).

My goal is to be able to add formal leadership coaching into the “broader toolkit” of my consulting practice to better support leaders of all types in our field in their personal and professional self-reflection and development.

Coaching appeals to me because it is all about building self-awareness and empowering a person to create desired transformations. It is focused on the future vs. the past and is always about the client’s agenda and goals. Different from my role as a consultant, my role as coach is NOT to give advice or solutions, rather, to ask questions of you that bring out the potential and ability that clients inherently have to answer own questions. I offer confidential, guided and structured space to allow clients to better understand their internal beliefs and how they might be affecting their leadership. I then support clients in that discovery and their future commitments.

Interested in the prospect of working together as client and coach?

  1. Email me at: jessica@orchestrateinclusion.com

  2. We’ll work together to find a date and time when you could be available over Zoom for a free, 60-minute introductory session.

  3. If you feel that you are receiving value in the coaching after one session, we can arrange for additional sessions together.

  4. The client’s responsibility for all sessions is to bring a “topic” to the session. The topic is something that you want help with: a goal you want to achieve, a challenge you want to overcome, a place where you are stuck, etc. (examples of some session topics are listed below)

 

What is Coaching?

International Coaching Federation (ICF) definition:
Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaches honor the client as the expert in their life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole.

Professional/leadership coaches do not give advice or offer solutions, rather, we guide the process of helping you solve your own challenges or goals. Below is a listing of objectives for individual coaching sessions over a period of time (not all objectives will be met during a single coaching session):

  1. Hold the client accountable for commitment to action

  2. Build the client’s awareness to make better, conscious choices leading towards achieving their goals

  3. Help individuals to develop their own critical thinking capacity, enabling them to solve problems for themselves and not be dependent on their manager for answers, resulting in faster resolution and greater accountability

  4. Support individuals to execute on ideas they have generated for themselves

  5. Allow individuals to feel seen and heard, building deeper, more authentic conversations about what’s really going on

  6. Create more empowerment, engagement, collaboration and improved performance across an organization

Coaching Topic

A coaching topic is something personal or professional that is current, unresolved and important to the client. It is something that the client is unable to resolve for themself. 

Example topics include but are not limited to:

  • A challenging relationship / interaction that is going on in your work environment that you want to improve or enhance.

  • A difficult conversation that needs to happen

  • Leading change

  • Developing members on your team

  • Innovation

  • Managing transition

  • Managing up

  • Leading more productive meetings

  • Giving presentations

  • Considering retirement

  • Facing a personal challenge/goal