Engage, Shift, and Thrive LLC provides coaching and consulting services that support learning-driven adults and organizations to thrive by engaging the power of curiosity, passion, diversity, connection, and humor.
A key emphasis of our work is supporting students and professionals with ADHD to work. with (rather than against) their unique minds and strengths as they navigate life and work. We also partner with organizations seeking to better understand ADHD in the workplace and community life.
Coaching
Consulting
At its core, coaching is a learning process that supports clients to generate insights, design strategies, and take actions that produce results in their lives, relationships, careers, and organizations.
Coaches are the experts that clients partner with to facilitate this process. In other words - coaching is not just a process, its a relationship. Coaches work with clients to:
Clients impacted by ADHD often find traditional models and strategies do not work from them and benefit from working with coaches who can offer an ADHD lens, allowing coaches to help clients
How is coaching distinct from coaching and consulting?
Coaching is based in positive psychology. Clients - whether or not they are impacted by ADHD - are seen as the ultimate experts on their lives, teams, or organizations. They are viewed as having the answers to their own questions and challenges and the power to make their visions, dreams, and goals become reality. Coaches facilitate a learning process supporting the client to define and achieve their goals. They ask questions, offer feedback, and may (with the client's permission) share ideas, information, tools, and resources - but the client is responsible for results. Coaching has a specific scope, tied to an agenda set by the client. It is future and results-oriented. The past may be discussed and feelings may be explored - but always in service to the client's goals.
In contrast, therapy is based on an analytical, medical model. Therapists work with patients to diagnose and alleviate symptoms or reduce areas of significant dysfunction. The scope is typically broader and more focused on analyzing past and present events and emotions to gain insights. It is not uncommon for clients to work with a therapist (as a patient) and a coach (as a client) in the same time frame.
Consultants are hired for their expertise in a given area. There can be extensive (or very limited) collaboration with clients, but ultimately the consultant is seen as responsible for providing solutions to the client's problems.
We are dedicated to helping clients - both individuals and teams - achieve goals, overcome obstacles, and live and work in ways that better align with who they are, what they value, and what they really want.
Although clearly very different, there are some remarkable similarities in what individuals and organizations need to thrive, including:
We believe strength-based approaches that build from the client's understanding and expertise on their own lives and/or contexts are key to success. Our goal is to serve as a full partner with you - providing a safe space to explore what's working well, what's not, and why - and move from there to make things better. You will find we are pragmatic, empathetic, and 100% on your side through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Tailored approaches are especially crucial for individuals with ADHD seeking to achieve their goals as well as for teams seeking to maximize the success of their colleagues with ADHD. Sometimes a tiny shift in the way things are done can produce outsized results! But it can take increased awareness of what ADHD is and how it manifests differently across individuals, environments, and situations to figure out what those shifts should be - as well as openness to some trial and error. We encourage "rapid prototyping," or small, practical experiments as a key pathway to success.
I hold a Certificate in Life and Leadership Coaching from the Academy of Creative Coaching. I am currently enrolled in a rigorous coach training program with the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) and pursuing professional coaching credentials with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Professional Association for ADHD coaches (PAAC).
As a woman diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I know first hand what it's like to navigate the world feeling "different" and often "less than," as well as the enormous impact that new insights, language, and strategies can have on relationships and quality of life, both at work and at home.
I have over 10 years’ professional experience (and more as a volunteer) working with domestic and international nonprofit organizations focused in the areas of community and intercultural relations, advocacy, international development, and philanthropy. Professional strengths include strategy, program design, curriculum development, relationship building, team building, project management, and facilitation. My most recent professional experience (outside of work with coaching clients) was partnering with Water Savvy Solutions, a small consulting firm, to co-design and co-facilitate a series of diversity and inclusion workshops the City of Toledo’s Public Utilities Department. Earlier roles include serving as a Program Partner with the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation in Southfield, Michigan; and as Senior Program Manager with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in Washington DC.
Degrees and certificates
Current student - ADHD Coaching (ADD Coaching Academy)
Certificate - Enneagram Intensive Core program (The Narrative Enneagram)
Certificate - Life and Leadership Coach (Academy of Creative Coaching)
Certificate – Managing people through change (RIPA International)
M.A. Coexistence and Conflict (Brandeis University)
B.A. - Human Development & Social Relations (Kalamazoo College)
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