Keys to Satisfaction Interview Series: Be True!

After 20 years in one field, I was making a transition to an unknown something else.  I had a pretty good idea of what skills I wanted to use and I definitely wanted to find balance between life and work.  Finding Julie was the ace for me.  I am not a fan of diagnostic tools, but I did find the extensive pre-coaching questions and exercises to be eye-opening.  Besides identifying life/work values, it helped me see what was important for me to have in a workplace.  It also served as our baseline.  With every coaching session, I turned another corner.  I gained a confidence I carried with me throughout my search.  Julie's accessibility via email and phone was invaluable.  I've landed where I wanted to be and it is because Julie helped "hold my feet to the fire" so I could stick with less work and more life.  She is a great coach who inspires, motivates and teaches throughout what turned out to be for me a life-changing journey.

Non-profit Professional, Philadelphia PA

"I wasn't very familiar with coaching before I started the process with Julie so I wasn't sure what to expect. Any expectations I had were far surpassed however. As a PhD student writing my thesis far from my home campus, I needed help to develop a realistic workplan and to overcome my feelings of isolation. The support and guidance that I received from Julie was pivotal in helping me to construct a productive at-home work environment. In addition to helping me realize my work objectives, coaching helped me to examine and articulate my core values in life. A heightened awareness of my values was particularly useful when I decided to delay going on the academic job market for one year due to the arrival of our first child. In this way, coaching helped me to break down my workload into doable pieces and to establish a realistic timeline for the project. Coaching helped me to define and realize my goals, connecting my macro-objectives and values to my everyday micro-level tasks."

Graduate Student, Chicago, Illinois, USA

" I hired Julie to be my coach at a time when I had just moved into a brand new position as a second level manager with a major global corporation. I was the youngest person at this level and the only woman. I really felt like I was going to need some support, some guidance, and someone to be on my side. As a direct effect of the coaching from Julie I have delivered results above target and have been rated favorably compared to colleagues with more experience and a longer tenure. Coaching has helped me to convert what would have been vague wishes about the way I want my life to be into reality. As well as getting me further towards what I wanted quicker, it gave me a powerful feeling of taking charge of my life and living it on my terms."

Executive, global technology firm, United Kingdom