My Model

True North Services
My Coaching Model

I use a solutions-oriented, action-driven, and
self-directed coaching model informed by systems science, psychology, contemporary neuroscience, change principles and adult learning theory.

The model I use has a seven step path to change:

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The coaching journey starts with assessing your current reality and then creating an inspiring vision of where you want to be—the role, result, skill or performance level—your desired outcome.

Then, we articulate the gap that exists between the two and develop specific, measurable, challenging and achievable goals which will serve as the foundation of our journey together. Together, we flesh out a customized, supporting strategy for each.

From there, I establish permission to ask powerful, solution-focused, often-never-asked questions—to help you unpack you’re your thinking and examine it in the light of day. This blinding clarity—a benefit of new thinking—facilitates powerful insights. These insights then provide us with the momentum and the learning needed to fuel the action steps that will move you along your path.

You will be kept in action every week so as to develop new habits—new ways of thinking and behaving—that will create success. It’s the hard-wiring of these new habits that brings about the desired result.

Clearing Paths to Move Forward Powerfully

In a coaching relationship, you wind up working smarter and harder than you would on your own. You show up more often and where you focus your energy is the most effective route to get where you’re going. It’s the fastest way to get from ‘intent’ to ‘impact’.

A coach can also see things to improve your game that you can’t. For example, a coach can ‘see’ your blind spots. A coach can point you towards new assumptions,
frameworks or views that would allow for improvement in your performance, interpersonal competencies, and skill development.

	Habits are the end-game of the coaching process.

In its essence, coaching helps you pause to powerfully reflect, and then sends you back into the same game seeing with new eyes, your thinking changed, resulting in more effective action and different results. It allows you to test your assumptions—old ways of thinking, acting, and feeling—which creates a fertile environment for awareness and insight.

Coaching is the place where transformational change takes place—where deep learning, coupled with an expanded sense of personal power, catalyzes powerfully to clear paths which can now be traveled with clarity of vision and purpose, to achieve what we know to be our highest potential.