EVIDENCED-BASED COACHING
& CONSULTING
In our post-pandemic, VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, it’s mission-critical to nurture and tend the factors that influence wellbeing, and performance.
Whether your challenge is around workflow processes, effective teaming, leadership, change management or psychological safety, you need more than insight; you need experiential learning to rewire powerful routines that stick.
Research shows that evidence-based coaching and consulting can significantly improve performance, life and job satisfaction, meaning, engagement, as well as employee retention and stakeholder value.
As a psychologist, executive leadership and team coach organizational consultant, mediator and trainer, Dr. West uses evidence-based interventions grounded in contextual behavioral science to resource clients at the individual, team and group level to create cultures of wellbeing and performance. She has over 20 years of experience working with leaders, teams and organizations to enact change at multiple levels.
Executive & Leadership Coaching
People need to be more agile than ever to meet the demands of their roles int he workplace. This is true whether you’re simply leading yourself or you’re already in a role leading others. Coaching can help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Through assessment, consultation and thought partnership, I help leaders develop the skills that empower everyone to meet the demands of high performance at every level.
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Team Coaching
Effective teaming is essential for maintaining productive relationships and getting results. Clients often needs support contributing and collaborating effectively to meet their targeted goals. Common areas of focus include: identifying blind spots, facilitating strategic conversations, expanding creativity, creating more workable processes, resolving long-standing conflicts, giving and receiving feedback and increasing psychological safety.
Leadership, Manager & Team Assessment
Clients need a clear baseline for performance in order to target change that will help them get where they want to go. That includes valid and reliable feedback targeted to your specific goals. A combination of self-report, 360-feedback, structured individual and collateral interviews and surveys can provide the data to create a clear direction for you and your team. Assessments may include the Leadership Circle Profile- or surveys specifically targeted to your needs.
Consulting
Consulting differs from coaching in that it involves directive advice or counsel. Sometimes companies need expert advice from a seasoned professional about anything from hiring practices to change management to strategic expansion. Having 20+ years experience working with companies in a wide range of business sectors, environments and scenarios I have a broad vantage point from which to support my clients.
Organizational Training
Evolving together also means learning together, whether you need help improving your culture, sprinting through a project or high impact learning experiences to increase performance. Customized for your specific needs, trainings range from Emotional Fitness, the Art of Feedback, Wellbeing at Work, Effective Teaming and more- whatever helps you and your company create the context for the best possible results.
Keynote Speaking
You want Inspirational keynotes that have impact and provide evidence-based and immensely practical–offering leaders at all levels a set of actionable takeaways they can implement immediately. Keynotes can be customized for your organization. Past speaking engagements have included Becoming Emotionally Fit, Effective Leadership starts with Self-Leadership, Psychologically Safe Teams are Psychologically Flexible Teams.
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Results Coaching
Maybe nothing is ‘wrong,’ but you want to know what else is possible— to optimize your wellbeing and performance as much as possible.
When you’re trying to reach a specific goal, you may benefit from a powerful thought partner skilled in helping you resource yourself through accountability, perspective taking and direct expert feedback and/or creating high performance routines. Individual coaching can help you understand the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and clarify what is needed to get them there.
Common individual coaching goals range from values clarification, increased self-awareness. behavior change, motivation, emotional intelligence, resilience, and problem solving.
Relationship Coaching
Relationships can be the most challenging and rewarding investments we make in life.
Since there is no one-size-fits-all guide to relationships, many people discover well into adulthood that something isn’t working very well, or they wish they navigated relationships more skillfully. To improve interpersonal patterns, it often just takes increased self-awareness and practice to improve the quality of relationships, whether it’s a friendship, a life partnership or work relationships.
Common relationships goals range from effective communication, conflict resolution, values clarification and problem solving. Depending on your needs and goals, relationship coaching can be in an individual or group format.
Individual Assessment
What you don’t know that you don’t know always stops you from being able to stretch for what’s possible. As a psychologist I am uniquely trained and capable of using and developing metrics that will help you understand any blind spots, trouble spots, or to hone in on areas for improvement.
Regular feedback is the stuff high performing indivdiuals, teams and companies and made of. Without gathering information, you won’t be able to target efforts to optimize your
Through a combination of self-report, structured interview and collateral reports or feedback can provide the added information you need to move more clearly and effectively toward your coaching goals.
