Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.

"Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has." –International Coach Federation

Who Benefits From Partnering With a Coach?

• Executives in the Corporate and Nonprofit Sector
• Human Resource Directors and Department Heads
• Entrepreneurs
• Realtors®, Brokers, and other Real Estate Professionals
• Small Business Owners and Solopreneurs
• Managers and Emerging Organizational Leaders
• Educators: Deans, Higher Education and Student Leadership Directors, Principals, Superintendents, Counselors, Advisors, and Teachers
• Creatives
• Coaches, Trainers, and other Leadership Professionals
• Recent Graduates/Millennials

Why is Alexia the Coach for Me?

What would happen if you stopped asking “What do I want to do?” and focused on “Who do I want to be?”

Only 3 to 5 percent of job seekers find employment through online job sites. How will you create a vision for your career and identify and attract opportunities that enable you to live your passion?

How can your team or organization be healthy, successful, and achieve balance between short and long term thinking?

As a certified coach, I have the privilege of asking emerging and evolving leaders these kinds of questions each day. Grounded in the learning philosophy of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educational theorists of the 20th century, I follow a co-intentional, client-centered coaching practice. I work with my clients to uncover their particular values, strengths, feelings, ways of working, and aspirations, and use these as a starting point for the coaching relationship. I believe that my role is to work in partnership with clients. I do not give answers. Through phone and e-mail sessions, assessments, questionnaires, and reflection questions, I guide and empower my clients to find their own creative answers to engineer the success that they desire and deserve.

A good coach is someone with whom you have a rapport and who knows how to negotiate between supporting a client and pushing him or her beyond real and self-imposed limitations. While no coach can be a good match for every client, there are some factors that effective coaches possess, perhaps most importantly:

• The desire and ability to listen to what a client is saying (and not saying!)
• Keen communication skills
• Creative approaches to problem solving
• Contagious curiosity
• The ability to help a client set specific short and long-term goals and create actable and measurable objectives to achieve them
• The questioning skills necessary to challenge clients to make their own lasting discoveries

With an interdisciplinary professional and educational background in coaching, leadership development, public speaking, facilitation, theatre for social change, women’s studies, and social entrepreneurship, Alexia has honed these important coaching skills.

Benefits from coaching are immeasurable and far-reaching, including but not limited to: Developing a clear mission, vision, and strategy for a new or developing busines Staying professionally and personally resilient in a fragile economy Transitioning from college into a career Strategizing a promotion or career change Setting and upholding professional and personal boundaries Building self-confidence Dynamizing presentation and public speaking skills Igniting creativity Minimizing suffering and increasing work-life balance and psychological wealth

How Do You Work With Organizations?

As a coach specializing in values-driven leadership and millennials, I partner with many of my clients to:

• Identify their strengths and gain insight into obtaining peak performance from employees throughout an organization
• Use effective communication to define and articulate expectations, set talent up to succeed, and prevent and repair employee conflict
• Develop and retain top talent by ensuring employees are engaged in the mission, vision, and values of the organization/institution
• Respond to the unique needs of female, minority, and millennial leaders
• Build and sustain motivated, results-driven teams
• Assist employees who are not a fit with an organization in moving on
• Embrace diversity and pluralism as core values
• Prepare for and train new organizational leaders
• Understand and manage generational issues
• Adapt to and embrace change
• Identify a niche, define and attract ideal clients, and anticipate opportunities in the marketplace
• Cultivate a media presence
• Promote an organizational culture that values and cultivates work-life balance

Regardless of an individual, team, or organization’s reasons for choosing to partner with a coach, I promise my clients my attention, expertise, commitment, compassion, flexibility, and confidentiality.

How Does Coaching Work?

To enable a client and me to discover if we are a good fit, we set an initial 15-minute FREE telephone SUCCESS STRATEGY SESSION.

Future coaching sessions last for 45-minutes and enable clients to awaken to their purpose, identify opportunities, set goals and corresponding action steps, and troubleshoot anticipated and unforeseen roadblocks as they arise. Clients also have access to unlimited coaching e-mails to help them stay focused on weekly objectives and will receive an answer to any question or concern within 48-hours.

How Much Does Coaching Cost?

Clients can select from a range of coaching packages, starting at $125/session for individuals, $200/session for small businesses, and $300/hour for organizations. (Scholarship opportunities are available for recent graduates, nonprofit leaders, and the economically challenged.) To schedule your SUCCESS STRATEGY SESSION and begin closing the gap from where you are to where you aspire to be, please Contact Us.