Who you should choose as your coach depends on who you are and what you want. Professionals for whom my services are appropriate and with whom I work with very successfully share the following characteristics:

• Take responsibility for their own development and want to solve their own problems
• Are capable of empathy and behave with integrity
• Define their own success by the success of their clients and colleagues
• Understand that relationships are valuable assets in business
• Can sustain a commitment in the face of setbacks
• Want to be helped and supported in their efforts but know that their success hinges on their own initiative and persistence
• Are willing to try new approaches and behaviors

As a coach, I am comfortable exploring business topics as well as personal development topics in order to improve an executive's performance. Psychology is what I know and the lever I use most, but I also understand business and private equity quite well.

With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and an MBA in Strategy and Finance, for the past 20 years I have brought that training to bear in working almost exclusively with private equity professionals and portfolio company executives. 

Though the style I use depends on the person and goals, I encourage clients to figure out goals and ways of reaching them. I look at the client as a whole person and strive to foster a greater sense of purpose and more satisfaction with life and work.