Life and Career Coaching

Hi!  Welcome to my website, and welcome to a stage in your life where you are ready and willing to get more out of life.  We service many individuals looking to create a better life for themselves, but I will only be a super match as a coach with some of you.  If you read over my description, and the descriptions of some of our featured coaches, it should help you decide who might be the best coach for you, and with whom to proceed with a free introductory session.

I primarily work with executives and managers (often in IT), entrepreneurs (including artists), business owners and those in the early stages of career change.  I also work with those establishing life coaching or similar businesses.  My ideal client can be anyone willing to think and do things differently to get different results.

I have had wide ranging career experience in science, health care and software engineering.  I also have been a student of personal development and the Life Coaching process for years.  I left my successful corporate career to live in harmony with my own inner values, and to help others achieve the success and happiness that we all deserve.   I believe that we can all contribute the most to our family, our community and our planet when we are doing work that we love and living a happy and personally fulfilling life.  Despite what society, or even experience, might tell you...this is not hard!  It is easy when you remove obstacles, release worry and fear, change limiting beliefs, discover your deepest values and develop an inspiring vision for your life.

If you have achieved a certain level of success in your life, but have a nagging feeling (or strong knowing!) that there can be more, I may be the right coach for you. 

If, like many, your career/business success is a major focus of yours, we can work on one or more of several things:

• How to best contribute your talents to your current workplace or business.

• How you can best achieve success (and just what is success to you, anyway?)

• What careers would truly be the most fulfilling for you.  When you do work that you love, it no longer feels like "work"...and the money naturally flows!   (Sound too good to be true?  Willing to give the idea a chance?)

• Once you know the direction you want to go...How to effect the desired changes in your life.

• How to achieve greater financial success.

• Working easier, not working harder, but getting better results.

This is all tied in to your personal success.  You probably already know what you "should" be doing.  Why aren't you doing it?  Overwork, stress, tolerations, and ignoring your own values and intuition drains your energy, saps your creativity and prevents you from enjoying the easy flow of a successful life.  One of our first objectives will be to eliminate the draining influences from your life.

Who do I Coach?  Here are some of the types of clients I have:

• Top Executives, managers

• Entrepreneurs, business owners

• Entrepreneurs at heart, choosing what business to start

• Professionals

• Artists

• Those in the early stages of career change

• People that have achieved some success, but are now stuck

• Those starting Life Coaching or similar businesses

Here are some of the issues my clients come to me with:

• I am successful, but not fulfilled, and I need to find out why

• I am successful, but way too stressed out

• I feel like my career is faltering

• I am having trouble with work/life balance

• I want my business to be more successful

• I am wondering what other careers I might enjoy

• I am "stuck" creatively or professionally

• I feel like I am not making the most of my life

• I want to move my professional or personal life to the next level

My ideal clients have the following in common:

• In many ways, they are quite successful

• They are open to new ways of thinking and doing things

• They want to be happier and more fulfilled

• They often have "NT" in the middle of their four letter personality type, a.k.a. "The Rationals", or "NF", "The Idealists"

• They see the value of personal development

I would describe my life coaching as logical, supportive, action-oriented, intuitive and insightful.  You should be ready to learn a lot about yourself in addition to getting results in your life.

What qualifies me to coach you?

• I am successfully living my dreams, running my own business, with plenty of free time for family and creative pursuits

• I have been a student of human development since a young age and have been involved in the coaching profession for years, even as I pursued my traditional careers

• I have a had a very busy, highly-ranked coaching business for over four years

• I have a knack for recognizing the underlying principles behind human behavior, creation, and performance

• I will tell it exactly as I see it

• I will encourage and/or challenge you to determine your own most important goals and values and live up to them

• I will help you discover, for yourself, the intrinsic and extrinsic value of happiness

• I will help you develop your own sources of motivation

• I will ask the questions you never thought to ask, in your life and in your business

• I truly care about your success

• My clients get results

I encourage you to proceed with a free session with me (see below) to discover for yourself what coaching with me can offer you.

Need a better understanding of what coaching is?  Read this:  What is Coaching? (opens in new window).

Some Personal Info (feel free to skip if you want!):

I am the INTP personality type.

I am married to my wonderful husband Brian, who is the career counselor for this site.  He is American and I am Canadian...We have lived in both the U.S. and Canada, and recently moved to the beautiful Coldwater/Moonstone area, outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (but I have clients from everywhere, since all of my coaching is done by phone - I call you, or will provide a toll-free number, so don't worry about long distance charges!). 

I recently was featured as the guest of the week on www.EmpoweringMessages.com!  You can hear my empowering message, The Power of Choice here:  www.empoweringmessages.com .  See some of my media appearances here.

What types of results have my clients had?

• A medium size business owner has expanded his business by 30% in one year, while reducing his stress level and drastically reducing his time spent at work.  Update:  He has now completely turned over the operations of the business to a general manager, and is pursuing more fulfilling activities, while still making more money than ever.

• An executive has greater personal fulfillment, and changed positions to one that allows for more learning and work-life balance.  Update:  He is now writing a book!

• A professional is discovering that worry and anxiety about the future can be replaced with optimism and joy, and he gets better results in his life that way.

In general, my clients tend to be happier, much less stressed, more aware, more willing to fulfill their own desires, mastering interpersonal boundaries, more fulfilled in their relationships or ending negative ones, learning what will be a truly fulfilling career direction, making more money, taking inspired action, and experiencing inspired results!  They are also surprised at how *easy* life can be when your actions are truly aligned with your core understanding of who you are and what you value.

Please take a moment to read what some of my clients have to say:

I am confident in you and what you can achieve.  Let's work together to make it happen.  Not next year, or next month, but now!

"When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far
exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually."

--R. Buckminster Fuller

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Here's how it works:

The coaching usually works by having three telephone calls per month, plus unlimited emails and short interim calls as needed.  I call you, so that there are no long distance charges for you to worry about. 

I offer two levels of service:

Focused: Three 30 minute calls per month, $300 USD/month.

Enhanced: Three 45 minute calls per month, $420 USD/month.

All Coaching with Michele Includes:

• MBTI Step II career, workstyle and personality assessment

• Strong Interest Inventory career and interests assessment

• Three scheduled coaching calls

• Unlimited email coaching

• Free short interim calls for urgent situations

Fees are payable by Visa/MasterCard or PayPal.  There is no commitment beyond one month, but you should probably expect the coaching to last at least three months (although many have been with me for much longer, because they love the results they are getting!)  If you've been with me for at least one month, we may make alternate call frequency arrangements based on your needs.

Ready to find out if coaching with me is the right thing for you?  I'll offer you a free introductory coaching session.  Contact me at michele@mylifecoach.com, and let me know a little bit about you, your time zone, scheduling preferences and phone number, and I will get back to you with some suggested appointment times for our free session.