I didn't come to Coaching through a career pivot.
I came to it because I spent decades looking for something I couldn't find, and when I finally found it, I understood immediately that most of the people I'd ever worked alongside were looking for the same thing.
In my late teens and early twenties I was struggling and it affected my entire life. I eventually rebuilt myself but still had underlining stress take over my day to day life. I spent most of my life searching for the calm, clear, practical ways to regulate myself and eventually found positive psychology in 2020.
The discovery was metacognition: the ability to observe your own thoughts and regulate your response rather than being run by them. The key to the lock I had been looking for my whole life. And when the internal noise settled, something I hadn't expected happened: everything shifted.
I completed a three-certificate training program in Applied Positive Psychology, Coaching, and Group Team Coaching and Consulting, and began practicing in 2021. I started working with individuals and organizations, and I noticed the same problems holding back companies, but more importantly, holding people back.
I went back to the research and found engagement declining, stress and burnout increasing as AI is accelerating at a rapid pace. The numbers were staggering. Disengaged teams costing companies up to trillions globally.
And here's what I know to be true: one person shifts, and it moves outward. To their team, their culture, their results, and back home to their sleep, their health, their relationships. That's not a soft outcome. That's the whole point. Culture doesn't change from the top down. It compounds, person by person, from the inside out.
That's the architecture. That's the work.
