REALIZE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL
I help clients navigate change for the better.
I am passionate about helping individuals and teams lead confidently in order to bring meaningful changes in their lives and work.
I bring 18 years of leadership development and social sector experience, currently as a lead coach and facilitator for Disruption Advisors, a leadership development firm that specializes in activating smart growth leaders, teams, and organizations. I’m also a coach and facilitator for Frearless Guides, where I support individuals and teams in high growth companies develop their leadership bench through a combination of training and coaching.
Prior to 2020, I served as the director of community investment for Social Venture Partners (SVP) Seattle. As the director, I led all aspects of grantmaking strategy development, consulted with over 45 local nonprofits on their capacity building strategies, and advised hundreds individual philanthropists. Before relocating to Seattle, I worked for El Pomar Foundation in Colorado.
In my current coaching and facilitation practice, I specialize in helping leaders realize their full potential while navigating complexity and change. Helping leaders to accelerate their own personal leadership development is my passion. I also work with organizations to sharpen their strategy, navigate transition, and build alignment.
I am a nimble facilitator, community builder, and coach that thrives on helping individuals and organizations create lasting impact.
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With over 17 years of leadership experience, I provide my clients coaching, consulting, and facilitation services that deliver impact.
Services
Coaching, Consulting, and Facilitation are distinct disciplines. Through my complementary suite of services, I bring the right tools to the job.
My Approach to Coaching
Coaching is based on a partnership of equals. I know you are resourceful. My role is to help you tap into your resourcefulness through thought-provoking questions, challenges and support.
While we will briefly review how you got here and identify what has worked (and not worked) in the past, our objective is to become clear about where you are today, the future you want to craft, and how to address the obstacles in the way. Through increased self-awareness, you will be able to tackle your most urgent matters – developing strategies to harness your energy and resources that will help you move forward with clarity of purpose and authenticity towards your work and life goals.
The formalization of a development action plan is key to facilitating the results that you want to achieve, and ensures that we stay on task and on track throughout our engagement.
Most coaching engagements consist of three to nine months of interaction, depending on the desired outcomes. Typically, we'll meet every week or two in person or via Zoom, as agreed upon in our coaching contract.
All information exchanged between us during the individual sessions will be considered confidential and private and will not be disclosed to anyone unless required by law. You may choose to share information arising from these sessions with anyone you chose.
The Hudson Coaching Methodology
As a Hudson Certified Coach, I work with their world-class methodology, designed to create lasting change. A key part of this methodology focuses on the inner work — developing a deep level of awareness of your habits, beliefs and behaviors so you can break through the obstacles inhibiting your overall effectiveness. We then work together to identify and define your behavioral goals that will lead to sustainable, positive change.
Although our work will primarily focus on your professional objectives, throughout a coaching engagement we'll look at your whole life to ensure that the positive change impacts your entire world for the better
Testimonials
"Mike was a coach, mentor, teacher and partner to me in his role at SVP leading Community Investment efforts across the equity-based portfolio of grants, skills-based volunteering, and capacity building efforts.
Mike's impact can not be understated - 100s of partners and organizations in the Puget Sound community have had sustained advancement in their personal and organizational missions due to Mike's leadership."
Bob Woods
PWC
“Working with Mike provided the structure and support I needed during a job transition that felt very scary at times.
He calmly and sincerely asked the right questions to really push my thinking. And he offered kind accountability that helped me make progress through the transition.
I landed in a better place and feel more prepared for the challenges ahead thanks to his coaching and support.”
COO
Nonprofit
“Working with Mike as my coach has made me a better leader and person.
Mike’s coaching approach is accessible and grounded in my needs. Whether it’s sharing helpful resources, facilitating strategic alignment, or identifying areas for growth, Mike finds the right method for the moment.
I’m grateful for the impact he has had on me and my team.”
Jordan Watts, Esq.
Director of Design
Fearless Tech
“Mike has an expert ability to first acknowledge my top-of-mind issues and then artfully tease out the roots of a problem.
From there, Mike’s deep inventory of knowledge equipped me to dig deeper by studying and reflecting on evidence and leadership-based resources for long-term success.
I am a better professional because of Mike’s coaching.”
"Mike was approachable, encouraging, and focused on helping our team achieve our leadership session goals.
His ability to connect on a personal level with our team resulting in more open, honest, and productive conversations. He is a “magician” for the way he took our somewhat disorganized goals and created an organized, task oriented, and output-producing agenda for our team.
We can’t thank Mike enough for his time and efforts, and can’t wait to use him for our next strategy session!
"Mike cares deeply about other people, and that is evident in his work and in how he interacts with a team.
Mike ask good questions, listens carefully, remembers details about people, and approached our work from a place of empathy and humanity.
With clients, Mike brings a human centered approach to the work and comes from a place of empathy as we think about strategy. "
Marybeth
Programming Officer at a Foundation
Erin,
Chief Legal & People Officer
Senior Consulting Client
