1-Why is it important to work with an ICF certified coach?

These are the ICF Core Values

Professionalism

We commit to a coaching mindset and professional quality that encompasses responsibility, respect, integrity, competence and excellence.

Collaboration

We commit to develop social connection and community building.

Humanity

We commit to being humane, kind, compassionate and respectful toward others.

Equity

We commit to use a coaching mindset to explore and understand the needs of others so we can practice equitable processes at all times that create equality for all.

2-What’s the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) Assessment Tool?

The ELI is Your New Favorite Assessment (Understand why you are the way you are!) You’ve probably taken personality tests like Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Enneagram, trying to better understand yourself and others. And you’ve probably learned a lot from them! What I have to offer is different (and transformational!) And it all boils down to one word—energy. The Energy Leadership™ Index (ELI) assessment is the proprietary, research-backed attitudinal assessment tool, created by iPEC, that takes something abstract—the way you experience the world—and turns it into a tangible metric.

The ELI is an assessment to awaken your potential and reshape your world.

Your reality is a mirror reflecting your level of awareness—your thoughts, feelings, and emotions about yourself, others, and the world. Some aspects of your awareness or consciousness serve you, while others hold you back from fulfilling your potential. And understandably so (we’re human!) With the research-backed ELI assessment, you’ll experience profound and practical insights you can use to reshape your worldview and transform your life into the ideal one you envision.

Step 1: The assessment

As your Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), I’ll connect you with the simple online assessment which takes about 20 minutes to complete.

Step 2: The debrief

Once the results are in, I’ll guide you through a 1:1 ELI debrief session. During this personalized session, we’ll dive deep into your results and uncover a clear path to awakening your potential—and creating a life in alignment with your work and life goals. Understandably, when you take an assessment or quiz, you want to be able to utilize the results in your life. Imagine having an expert guide you through this new information!

As an iPEC certified ELI-MP, I’ll debrief your personalized assessment results so you can ask all your questions, and I can provide you with valuable insights for how to take what you’ve learned and actually apply it to your relationships, career, and all areas of your life.

What is that life you envision, and what if this is that one step to get you closer to it?

3-What’s the difference between a Coach and a Therapist?

Coaching as defined by the ICF is a partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. A coach facilitates learning and results by creating awareness, designing actions, planning and goal setting and managing progress and accountability.

The main difference between coaching and therapy are the focus and purpose.

Coaching focuses on visioning, success, the present, solutions and moving into the future—in short going from good to great! Therapy focuses on the emotions, problems and exploring the past in order to understand the present. The therapist usually helps the client heal by figuring out “why”.

Coaching purposes include performance improvement, learning or development in some area of life. The coach helps the client move forward by focusing on “how.” Therapy often dives into deep-seated emotional issues to work on personal healing or trauma recovery. Therapists help clients fix problems, develop skills for managing emotions or past issues, overcome issues, and sometimes manage mental illness.

4-Is a Coach the same as a Mentor?

Mentors are a role model who has “been there and done that” and will “show you the ropes” but coaches do not use their personal experiences as a model of success for the client. The client is the expert on their own life. The coach is the expert in the coaching process and helps the client even without first-hand knowledge of what the client has experienced.

5-What’s the difference between a Coach and a Consultant?

Consultants have an agenda and some possible answers and bring that agenda and those answers to the client. Coaches, on the other hand, have no agenda except to help clients get what they want. Although coaches have specializations in certain fields, their true expertise is in the coaching process. The main difference is that consultants promote themselves as experts in certain aspects of life, and coaches accept that clients are the experts and have within them the answer to any situation they may face. However, there will be times when a coach acts like a consultant, offering new ideas from his or her intuition, knowledge, and experience. Unlike the consulting relationship, the coach stays with and “partners” with the client to help implement a plan they both develop. Coaches not only help bring about effective change; they do whatever they can to help clients do what they say they will do.

6-How do I know if I “need” a coach?

Are you feeling stuck, unsure or blocked from getting out of your current stage of life? Have you tried other ways of solving things and keep beating your head against the wall? Then you might be ready to ask for some help.

7-My friend referred me to you. Will we do the same activities and have the same discussions in coaching?

I’m guessing you’re not “exactly” the same as your friend. You have different backgrounds, experiences (good and bad) which influence you. So we might have some similar activities but coaching is not a cookie cutter approach. Some like the highway, others may like taking more time meandering along the back country roads. And both are beautiful journeys. Coaching is a bit like this. You choose your own adventure, I’m here to be your companion along the path to your desired destination

8-Is my information shared in coaching kept confidential?

I follow the International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics. Information shared in our work together remains confidential except in circumstances like where reporting is required, (e.g., illegal activity, if required by law, pursuant to a valid court order or subpoena; imminent or likely risk of danger to self or to others; etc.). Where I reasonably believe one of the above circumstances is applicable, I may need to inform appropriate authorities.