Coaching
My Approach
Is Coaching Right For You?
As a leader or emerging leader, you may be looking for training, mentoring, advice, spiritual guidance, or even therapy. Coaching is different. I will provide you with a series of purposeful conversations about your workplace performance challenges, so that together, we can address your high-leverage behaviors that might be impeding your success.
What’s My Role as Your Coach?
It’s to “light the way,” to hold up the mirror – for you to look at and inside yourself -- and to work with you, as a leader or emerging leader, to become an even better version of yourself. As a coach, I’m committed to listening to you, without judgment, and to creating and holding a space for you to reframe how you think about things and especially yourself.
What’s Your Role as the Client?
Your role as a client is to commit to working on maximizing your professional and personal potential; to search for what matters to you and what you stand for; to figure out from where you derive vitality.
Who Are Your Clients?
I coach leaders and emerging leaders – people who have been promoted to more of a leadership role – in the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors. I like the diversity of coaching in varied sectors, and the diversity of my clients in terms of age, gender, race, and life-experiences. Let’s face it…managing people is hard, and leadership is even harder.
How Does the Coaching Process Work?
The process requires that I maintain strict confidentiality with everything we discuss. I am also committed to building trust, which is key to impactful coaching. I use tools and methodologies, ranging from strengths assessments, values clarification, self-observation, goal identification, visioning, brainstorming, action plan development, skills development, and self-examination of clients’ perspectives and modes of operation.
What Kinds of Things Do People Work On?
The coaching plan will be designed jointly by you and me. The agenda is always your agenda, never mine. Coaching sessions, typically twice a month for an hour in duration, focus on issues in your business life and – to the extent relevant – your personal life. You might decide you want to improve your leadership and/or organizational skills, communication, time management, stress management, conflict resolution, work/life balance, among other goals.
How Will I Know If This Is Right For Me?
My coaching packages are flexible, often entailing 5 to 10 sessions with the possibility of extending or ending, depending on your needs and preferences. Initially, I would want to meet with you in person for a no-cost, no-obligation session so we can get to know one another; thereafter I would use the remote platform, Zoom, for my sessions unless you prefer to meet in person.
Will You Ever Give Me Advice?
Once we’ve gotten under the issue and what might be holding you back from taking action, I may provide concrete advice in an intentional way, based on my decades of managing and leading people.
How Will I Know I’m Moving Forward?
The arc of coaching starts with “setting the agreement.” So in the first session we will work together to identify your issues and goals, and then return to these goals throughout the engagement to provide continuity. We will work together towards your gaining new awareness or insights, since you can change your behavior once you have some understanding of the patterns and the impact your behavior has on you and on others.
Coaching is all about “action forward.” So in each session, we will develop an action plan and how you will hold yourself accountable to implement the plan. I will follow up with you at the next session to see how your action plan worked. This is likely to provide continuity and to give you a sense that you’re making progress.
What Else Do You Provide to Your Clients?
My clients often ask for -- or I offer -- short, impactful readings on leadership or specific workplace performance issues which I will send you via e-mail.
Clients Tell Me They Feel…
… more confident in their role as leader or as a new manager
… better equipped to make decisions that are more thoughtful
… less anxious about delegating
… clearer about their workplace performance challenges and more accepting of themselves
Coaching Clients
2eCommunications
American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)
America’s Promise Alliance
Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
Bipartisan Policy Center
Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Center for Economic Development
Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)
Council of the District of Columbia
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
Friendship Place
HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health
I-Med, Santiago, Chile
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington
Mathematical Association of America
National Institutes of Health
Stepping Stones Shelter
Sunflower Bakery
ULLICO – Union Labor Life Insurance Co.
Urban Investment Partners (UIP)
Client Testimonials
“During my sessions with June, I gained more confidence in myself and my abilities as a leader. Her coaching provided me with insights that I will take with me throughout my career.”
“June was tremendously helpful in pursuit of my ‘dream job’! She helped me focus upon what was important to me at this stage in my career, she provided valuable input on my resume and other marketing materials and she provided exceptionally important input on my interviewing skills. Perhaps most importantly, June assured me that finding the perfect position often takes time and urged me to continue my search and not give up hope. She was right —- the right opportunity came my way and I’m very grateful for her support and guidance!!”
“June’s deceptively simple, probing questions helped me step aside from emotions and view situations with a professional detachment. By identifying specific goals, she helped me develop the steps to get there. Her guidance was crucial in helping me develop career and personal goals to maximize opportunities.”
“Thank you so much for the empowering coaching experience you provided me. I am so excited for my next chapter and grateful for the ways our work together prepared me for it.”
“June is a patient coach, great listener, and awesome prober who enabled me to come up with resolutions and to be calm in doing that. I also learned that I needed to consider myself as a “customer” in my mind in order to prioritize my own needs. I will continue to do this moving forward.”
“When I assumed my board president role about a year ago, I spoke with June about leadership coaching. She really helped tether me and provide a space for me get my arms around the challenge ahead. June has been an invaluable resource, helping me to clarify, prioritize and activate my vision.”
“June’s invaluable professional perspective, counsel, and encouragement enabled me to identify and focus on priorities, and to excel in my career. I cannot express gratitude commensurate with the gains I have achieved.”
“Coaching provided a ‘sounding board’ for challenging situations I didn’t always handle effectively. By the end of our engagement, I found myself stepping back to listen more, actually asking for clarification or possible solutions rather than jumping to conclusions and charging ahead to fix the situation.”
“I had the pleasure of working with June when I was reevaluating my role at my current place of employment and needed help in exerting myself as a member of the leadership team. The thing I enjoyed most about working with June was that together we came up with an action plan – my “homework” — and she held me accountable to accomplish what I wanted to achieve and what tools I would need to do so. I felt supported and was glad to be able to work with someone who has so much experience. She was just what I needed at that time in my career in order to feel fulfilled. I highly recommend June!”