In this 4-month coaching program, we’ll dive deeper into both your personal and professional growth or the change you are considering. Focused on leading self before all else, together, we’ll explore your unique strengths, uncover blind spots, and develop strategies to achieve the goals we set at the beginning. This package allows more time for reflection, learning, and reinforcement of the skills you’ll need to create lasting change.

You’ll come to each session with focus, and leave with actionable steps or an inquiry to guide your ongoing development and accountability.


Coaching with Laura

 

I bring 7+ years of leadership coaching to my practice. After spending nearly a decade working at McKinsey & Co. both with clients in the Organization Practice, and internally as a facilitator and coach, I specialize in promoting transformational change in people, by helping leaders gain greater awareness and clarity from which to lead. My philosophy is that my clients are inherently creative, resourceful, and whole. Through coaching, I will help you reach greater clarity on what is important or what is next and I will boldly challenge and support you as you take big steps towards a future you find utterly thrilling. I am committed to you seeing results. I typically support people in the context of their work lives (and I mean that broadly, be it in a corner office, in a classroom, or as a leader of a household).

 

 

Coaching is when an individual works with a trained coach in a supportive relationship to embark on a process of self-discovery and self-awareness. Working together, the coach helps the individual identify strengths, blind spots, and to refine the formal goals stated at the start of coaching. Together, the coach and coachee practice and build the skills and behaviors required to make progress toward those goals. 

 

No one needs coaching. But for those who want it, it can be life changing. It is powerful to have someone who believes in you, who doesn’t believe the negative stories you tell yourself, and who holds you accountable to a bigger vision. Coaching can nurture rapid growth and help catalyze sustainable change. But it’s hard work — for both the coach and the individual. Coaching is an investment that keeps on giving. It delivers value in the moment and continues to return benefits over a career and lifetime, impacting not only the coachee but also those in their spheres of influence.

 

 

 

Intake - Before we begin, you can opt to fill in an intake questionnaire to get you thinking about what you want to focus on in coaching and what you want to walk away with. Though optional, please consider spending some time with this. If you aren’t into writing, might I suggest recording them using voice-to-text!

 

Discovery session – Our first session will be what I call a “discovery session” which will be a bit different from our ongoing sessions together. It will be more robust, including some information sharing around the coaching techniques I may use in our work together, defining norms for our relationship, setting up your goals for your coaching program, and beginning to identify your core values and strengths. All sessions are confidential as per the ICF Code of Ethics. If you participate in a promotional free first session, then our foundation session will likely take place over two sessions, including our first paid session.

 

Ongoing sessions - Most clients choose to meet with me on a bi-weekly basis for a predetermined number of sessions defined in their package. You will set overarching goals for coaching, then come to each session with a topic you want to focus on, which is related to your broader goals, and you will leave with homework -- either an inquiry (question to marinate on outside of the sessions) or next steps to hold you accountable and support you in your process of growth and learning.

 

It’s helpful to come to a session prepared with a specific topic to explore, but if you’re not sure where to start that’s ok! There are plenty of activities we can do to get the creativity flowing. A topic can be anything from role satisfaction broadly, to how to interact with a certain person, to how to get a new job, to how to handle the balance of personal life + parenthood + work. More ideas are on the services page of my website, although if you’re coming to coaching, you probably have something in mind.

 

Consulting & Advising - As relevant to you, I may also share education, resources, and expertise of tools that I have developed in my career. As always, take what you love and leave the rest. I occasionally take off my “coach hat” and put on my “advice hat” and share my guidance, though it totally is up to you to do with that what you feel is best. 

For some clients, their needs go beyond coaching, and include broader org consulting or learning & development support for their company or their team. As an Industrial / Organizational Psychologist and org expert I am happy to explore with you other ways to support you outside of our 1:1 coaching package. To share a couple of examples on consulting and L&D services I have recently provided to my clients: I have redesigned an interview process, written a competency model, and designed and led org-wide trainings on how to give and receive feedback. Let's discuss as and when this feels relevant to you!

 

 

The cadence of a coaching relationship is something we will agree on together. Typically, clients meet with me once every other week. Some prefer once a week to keep the momentum, while in some cases, meeting once a month is helpful to allow time to implement change or work on a task. 

 

 

We can set a regular time to meet, or you can schedule as you go. For many clients, it is nice to set a consistent time, in which case I will schedule a recurring appointment and send it to you directly. Most sessions are held virtually over Zoom (Teams is also an option). I am happy to meet local clients (Atlanta-based) in person, or to travel for occasional sessions for a fee. This will be discussed and agreed upon together.