1-on-1 Coaching
This type of coaching engagement is not for the faint of heart. It’s designed for leaders who are hungry for results and willing to do their work to become more effective leaders, build higher performing teams and create deeper, sustainable impact.
The Journey
Pre-Work
Once we’ve had our Intro call, our journey begins with a 90-minute Discovery session, where we’ll clearly define your goals, map out your areas for growth, and create a high-level roadmap for the work and themes ahead. We will also decide if and when to fold in 360 feedback from your team and collaborators.
Session Work
In each 1-on-1 session (every other week), we’ll explore a specific skill, decision or situation and use a variety of techniques to help uncover what’s going on under the hood. And if you’re willing, you’ll walk away from each session making empowered choices and taking clear actions.
Between Sessions
While the session-work serves to unlock new insights, the lasting impact takes place between sessions, with each inquiry or action you take (or don’t take). We continuously gather feedback and reflect on your results in each session, as well as in our progress check-ins.
My Approach to Coaching
When faced with a challenge, traditional leadership training can offer useful theory and tools (content), which can help improve things for a while. But over time, the impact wears off and we find ourselves pushing the same boulder up a different hill — in the next project, with another team member or in the next job.
Why? Because traditional approaches only address the content — the surface layer symptom rather than the context — the deeper root of the issue, which is often so firmly rooted that it’s hard to see and even harder to change.
Coach the Context
Instead of jumping into problem-solving a situation or pointing to a generic leadership tool, we’ll first get curious about your context (i.e. your mindset, how you are relating to it) in order to uncover the underlying beliefs, behaviors and perspectives that may be holding you back. Once we understand the root cause, I’ll guide you through some powerful, practical techniques to help you shift those deeply rooted perspectives and behaviors.
Coach the Leader
Rather than follow a one-size-fits-all leadership curriculum, I personalize and hand-pick techniques for your unique leadership style and growth stage. My techniques draw from a large body of research in neuroscience, deep traditions and more recent models (e.g. Design Thinking, Positive Psychology, Conscious Leadership, Growth Mindset, Co-Active) but I firmly believe the best tools are the ones that feel right to you and create the results you want. That’s why we’ll study your results and help you fine-tune these tools to make them your own.
Instead of pushing the same boulder uphill, using brute force, are you willing to let go and question your entire perspective?
Are you open to seeing there is no boulder?
“Get Monica on your team. She won’t force a framework into every situation — she meets you exactly where you are and gets to the core of what is actually going on. For founders, where the professional and personal are impossible to separate, having her on your team makes all the difference.”
“Being a founder can be grueling, soul-crushing at times. Monica helped me get clear on my zone of genius and what was holding me back. I made big, tough changes, and now have the energy to lead the company into its next stage.”
“Sessions with Monica are challenging and impactful, akin to working out with a trainer who believes you have great potential. Exercises that might have felt touchy-feely in someone else’s hands were always done purposefully and led to important breakthroughs for me and my team.”
“Monica just blew my mind with the insights she would play back to me — a 6th sense that sees beneath the top-soil layer through to the bedrock of the issue, and helps me see how I want to show up in the world.”
“Hiring Monica is one of the highest-yield investments I’ve made for our company — goal oriented, personalized and measurably impactful. My gains were so substantial we brought her on for our executive team, and one of our investors hired her after seeing the effect from arm’s length.”
“I have worked with several coaches over the years and Monica is in a class by herself. I was astonished how quickly everything started to change. She is structured, but not rigid; efficient but not hurried; compassionate, but not soft.”
“Monica helped me scale at each stage — stepping up as CEO, growing the company, then selling the business, now running several mergers. She gave me the tools to scale my leadership, my team and our culture.”
“Monica’s work product is simply transformative. As a KPI-driven person, I am constantly astounded by the before-and-after outcomes — not just with me and my business, but with every leader I have referred to her. She challenges you and holds you accountable for your work and your results.”
“I was hesitant about coaching at first, but the impact was so immediate that I now view coaching with Monica as essential for me and for my company. She is a rare mix of hard-pressing advisor and thoughtful, supportive growth coach.”
“This has been the best coaching experience of my life. The tactical stuff was always amazing — but that pales in comparison to the value I found from understanding myself more, and finding different stories I could believe about myself.”
“My work with Monica challenged me to be a better co-founder, a better CEO and in many ways a better person. She has a knack for uncovering the things that are holding you back, and in the next moment helping you to see how those same things might be your unrealized superpower.”
“Monica is magic. I always say she’s my secret weapon — she’s helped me lead through a company merger and step toward my zone of genius, letting go of the rest. Her frameworks have spread through my whole leadership team, and her gift keeps on giving, because every person who gets to work with her comes out better.”
“Monica is extraordinarily empathetic and supportive, but she’s also super sharp and not afraid to be direct, challenging or playful. She’s amazing at adapting to whatever is needed in the moment.”
“Monica has worked in some of the most fast-moving, creative and challenging environments out there. This gives her incredible empathy and tactical understanding for folks who are in high octane careers. My time with her set me up to make decisions that materially altered my trajectory for the better.”
