ABOUT
My grandma always told me to “leave people better than they were before they knew you.”
Little did I know this would actually become my life’s mission, and something that permeates all of my day-to-day interactions with anyone I happen to meet.
And as a corporate coach and consultant, it has been the core of what I do. I don’t want people trudging along through life on auto-pilot, and especially not through their careers. I want leaders, teams, and individual employees to be better for knowing me, for having me work with them, and for inviting me into their teams and companies. I want you to know that I don’t take your trust lightly.
Ultimately, I want to make my corner of the world the absolute best it can be. The most confident, successful, driven, prosperous and profitable it can be. I love what I do because it allows me to create positive, sustainable and impactful shifts in the leadership and teams in businesses across the country.
And that’s exactly what I hope to do for you—right along your side.
MY MISSIONTo shatter false perceptions in the workforce so individuals, teams, and companies can reach their fullest potential.
My Story
At my core, I’m a small town girl from South Dakota. I was very fortunate to have been raised by a remarkably smart and strong single mom who taught me that I could do anything and be anything. That I was more capable than even I knew. She taught me to fight for what I wanted, to work hard, and to never stop chasing my dreams.
After pursuing a marketing degree in college, I met my amazing husband, moved to Minnesota together, and have been raising our four boys for the last 18 years. I made the intentional choice of being a stay-at-home mom. Being with the boys everyday is something we were blessed enough to make happen and I will never regret a single second I spent with them.
However, during this time a big challenge showed up for me. When our youngest started kindergarten, I was asked countless times by friends and family if I was going to get a “real job.” This question would always make me cringe. What they didn’t realize was that I still had a “real job”—I was still a totally devoted, committed mother. This is when I discovered how many assumptions people tend to make about stay-at-home moms (for example, that we’re not smart or capable, that we don’t go to college, or that we happen to be wealthy.) I started to feel like people were trying to put me in a box, and the self-doubt started creeping in.
This is when I felt a fire within me grow that I didn’t even know I had. I remembered what my mother instilled in me—“Dream bigger than you ever intended to be.”
I became determined to shatter these assumptions and prove them all wrong. I didn’t want to let the boxes people tried to put me in to limit my growth. But most of all, I wanted to prove to myself what kind of growth was even possible for my life. I started volunteering with women who were working to get themselves and their families out of poverty. To this day, it is one of the most rewarding things I do. As a mentor, I realized that I love helping people not only see what they are able to accomplish, but also have those accomplishments impact and change their lives in positive, successful ways.
After I had been mentoring for a little more than a year, a family member (who happened to be a corporate coach) suggested that I look into getting certified in the coaching field myself. As I started following the next steps to get my coaching certification through iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching), everything fell into place so easily and effortlessly. That’s when I was convinced that I was following my calling going into coaching.
In less than a year, I landed paying clients and had started my own business. In less than two years, I was leading workshops, leadership development classes, and serving as the keynote speaker for large companies, while maintaining a steady flow of one-on-one clients. I couldn’t be more proud of all that I have accomplished to help others create real and lasting change in their life and business.
HOW I CAN HELPI’m here to serve as a catalyst of impactful change to help lead you to your optimal growth. What matters most to me is helping people grow into more than they ever thought they could be.
WHAT I BELIEVE
I work with executive leaders like you to help cultivate growth potential in your teams by shattering false perceptions so you and your company can reach your fullest potential. My goal is to give you both practical and personalized solutions.
MY CORE BELIEFSSMALL SHIFTS CAN LEAD TO BIG GROWTH.
I believe people are much closer to the changes they want than they think. They just need the space and opportunity to get there. You don't need to make drastic changes to see real growth in your life—sometimes it just takes a small step to create a slight mindset/behavioral change. This is what leads to truly influential, lasting change.
LET GO SO YOU CAN GROW.
To hit higher levels of management, you need to be able to identify pre-conceived ideas that hold you back in order to move forward. In other words, you need to let go so you can grow.
EVERYTHING YOU DECIDE IS YOUR CHOICE ALONE.
I want to instill in my clients that no matter what, you get to make the call. As long as you're aligned with your values, whatever choice you take won’t make or break you. Choices simply exist to help you grow.
A TITLE WITHOUT PASSION IS JUST THAT—A TITLE.
On the executive level, I want to make sure you are passionate about what you do rather than check off a list for simply getting the title. As a leader, you are not just leading people professionally—you are impacting them on a personal level too. I’ll help you take a step back and think about why you want that title in the first place to help light a fire within you and better inspire your team to its fullest potential.
A TEAM MUST FOCUS ON EVERY INDIVIDUAL'S STRENGTHS FIRST.
I take a holistic approach to coaching by focusing on how to shift leadership teams. The key is honing in on each individual's strengths. I have seen time and time again how collectively harnessing the strengths of each individual will unleash profitability for the company overall. My holistic approach to coaching means that everybody wins.
WHAT I STAND FORMy Values
Engagement to me is all about connection. It means having a genuine, dynamic, and personalized relationship with my clients and their teams. Engagement also involves being fully open and present. I believe everybody can learn just as much from their peers as from the tools I present to them.
There is nothing more gratifying to me than seeing my clients grow, reach their goals, and ultimately make changes/shifts that put them on a path to becoming the very best versions of themselves, getting to understand each other as a team, and creating a whole unit to improve the company overall.
Authenticity is about being fully aware of the choices you have, being intentional with your action steps, and being connected to the things that matter to most to you as the driving force behind your work. At the end of the day, it’s about being real with yourself and others.
Which brings me to you
What I’m really here to do is help you, your teams, and your companies be the absolute best they can be. I care deeply about helping executive leaders create leadership teams with the ability to recognize not only the needs, but also the growth potential of your team members and employees.
Because once you can see the growth potential, then you can work to maximize it. In effect, you will create a work culture where everyone is treated as a person, rather than just an employee. And then you’ll see how both your people and your company profit on an everyday basis.
I know that the confidence, respect, and appreciation you feel for your rockstar team members is exactly what you want those team members to have for their leadership teams. You want to wake up everyday knowing that clear communication, open dialogue, and understanding of expectations has become second nature within the company.
It is my goal to make sure that you feel 100% confident that the investment you make in corporate coaching not only strengthens your teams on an individual level, but also professionally as a whole unit. Most of all, the benefits of coaching will not only be felt on the individual level—they will maximize the profits of the entire organization.
Imagine the ripple effect we could create together.
REAL RESULTSWhat my clients say
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