Coaching is a positive, forward looking, action and results-oriented process that drives towards healthy growth and transformational change.

Adults change when the behaviors they learn lead to a gratifying sense of mastery and self-esteem. Learning skills for collaboration, team building, and leadership at increasing levels organizational complexity is inherently motivating to executives who truly want to self-actualize.

Change occurs most effectively in the context of an ongoing professional relationship with an appropriate coach who believes in the person. My commitment to the person's growth must align with the person's own commitment to grow and change.

Change requires trust. Being secure in the coaching relationship allows the person to explore conflicts among competing goals rather than being stuck or enacting the ambivalence or conflict.

I rely a holistic psychological model as explained in Looks Good on Paper?. This model is my basis for understanding how individuals develop and relate to others in business organizations. I view personality as a complex, and more or less integrated structural whole. 

Central to my model is a construct called active coping, a psychological attribute that gives rise to the ability to respond creatively and resourcefully to unexpected, novel, and challenging conditions. My coaching strives strive to foster even more active coping in already capable clients.

Though a person's developmental history shapes who the person is today, coaching focuses on who the person can become. I build on a sophisticated understanding of who the person is today and use that knowledge to design a path to positive change and self-actualization.