SheChanges: Coaching Testimonials

Testimonials

"If given the opportunity, I will talk enthusiastically and extensively about my time life coaching with Lael. In the interest of efficiency, however, I need only reference Mary Poppins, to encapsulate my experience. Like the famed nanny, Lael gets to the heart of the matter, stays on task, AND has a great deal of fun while doing so. I showed up for each session wondering what she would pull out of her seemingly infinite carpet bag of tricks. Prior to working with her, thinking about making any life changes felt like soul searching drudgery. I was delighted to see that the process could be approached with a light hearted spirit, a healthy dose of humor, and gusts of happiness and possibility. To this day, I find myself regularly utilizing the various tools she shared from that bottomless carpet bag,while enjoying a proverbial "spoonful of sugar" alongside it!"

"In the flurry of daily work, it's often difficult to step back. Lael's coaching pushes me to take that step back and focus on long-term objectives. Her coaching style is direct and supportive, using questions to pull out the real from the perceived. She effortlessly weaves in techniques to make me see my work from different perspectives and gain more clarity on my job and goals. Thanks to Lael, I have become a more confident leader and manager while maintaining healthy time for life outside of work."

"I came to Lael when I was at a crossroads in my life...somewhere between what I thought I should be doing versus what I really wanted to be doing. The decisions I needed to make seemed too dauting for me to consider and I knew I needed some help. Lael was an unbiased presence for me which was invaluable: from our first session I felt like somebody finally understood me and wasn't questioning my judgement. Her conversations and assignments challenged me to learn to listen to my inner voice, and to use that inner voice to quiet the fears that were holding me back from taking a giant leap. Once I took that leap I was able to find the peace and happiness with myself that had been missing for a long time. I will always be grateful to have worked with Lael and I will not hesitate to call her again if the need arises."

"Lael gets me. She is a fierce and non-judgmental listener. Within the first few sessions she helped me to find clarity in my goals and really understand what I wanted to achieve and set a realistic plan to get there. I always look forward to our sessions and at the end of each feel a mixture of peace and energy that fuels me to get my work done."

"Lael is gifted with an ability to quickly gather a depth and breadth of professional and personal information with ease. She quickly untangles this "ball of yarn" into strands of truth. In just a few sessions, I was able to focus on personal growth areas with very basic, easy to apply steps. Lael is naturally curious and intuitive and adeptly uses tools such as inquiries, symbols and persistance to get to the core issues. I highly recommend Lael to guide and coach you in your journey toward personal and professional growth."

"Lael has a rare combination of skills that I have never seen so fully developed in one person.She gets people to look inside themselves. She takes complicated life problems and simplifies them with an uncanny ability to empathize and synthesize. She leads her clients to new realizations and greater self-awareness. She can bring insight, enthusiasm, and positive change to anyone's life. Working with her is a gift."

"Lael has the very unique combination of hard business expertise combined with deep understanding of the human condition, and how a person can and should thrive. She also has deeply powerful intuition that is grounded by an abundance of practical ideas. She 'gets' people, how they work, and how they can blossom. She also cuts straight to the core of an issue and encourages and challenges you to rise to the occasion and meet your highest goals. Her insight and ideas kept me motivated, empowered and very clear-headed so I was able to take myself, my career and my life to the next level. I recommend her highly and hope to work with her again!"

"I was introduced to Lael when I first transitioned into my role as director with a new organization. Through her guidance, I was able to assimilate my work life and personal life into a mold that will allow me grow and to succeed in my work at levels that I thought I could not attain. I would recommend her guidance to anyone who really is interested in taking the next step in personal and professional success.".

"In the few months that I worked with Lael, I was able to move past obstacles that had kept me stymied for years. The combination of Lael's genuine enthusiasm for the vision I held for myself and the compassionate way she held me accountable to myself brought me farther down my path than I imagined possible. Through working with Lael, I moved more solidly into the center of my own life. Lael's sensitive coaching provided a hand to hold when the path got scary and dark, a cheer when I felt discouraged and overwhelmed, and a shining beacon of the promises and possibilities my life holds. Lael guided me toward a recognition of my truest, ever-changing self, and she provided me with priceless touchstones and mantras to return to should I ever lose my way. I am deeply grateful for her services."

"Lael's coaching was an experience that challenged me to support myself by exposing strengths I could not identify on my own but was able to unearth through my time with her. Lael's counsel creates a space that is safe and full of trust allowing me to be vulnerable enough to see the other side of my pain and struggle."

I feel blessed to have welcomed Lael into my life during a time of transition when I felt very lost and unable to find my way.  The tools we created through our exercises allow me to maintain a path in my life without anxiety and sadness.

"I believe signing-up for coaching is making a commitment to yourself, and your deeper desires.   There is something about Lael as a person that makes this commitment to yourself seem entirely possible; that the world seems bigger than it has appeared before and that Lael can see you in this new place and space before you can completely put words to it yourself.  Working with Lael is an opportunity to engage sight, sound, words, visions, metaphors, mantras, energy, practical and magical everyday goals into a package that MOVES you. She has made my coaching experience creative, productive, and thoughtful."

"Lael is the perfect mix of enthusiasm, authenticity and audacity.   I was starting a new writing project and was very stuck about how to begin. Lael helped me to think differently about my approach and to understand how my traditional strategies were holding me back. She used a myriad of different techniques, visualizations and insightful questions to help me to look at the project from different angles and really was able to spark my creativity to take the work to the next level. The combination of weekly coaching sessions and email check-ins really are really keeping me on track. I find her both inspiring and just plain fun to work with."

"As a newly promoted corporate leader I came to Lael with a myriad of objectives in mind. Well aware that my focus areas were extremely aggressive and seemingly unattainable in a mere 3 month coaching contract period, I decided to move ahead on full steam with the constant support and guidance of Lael. Not knowing what to expect of each coaching session and weeks that followed, I was constantly energized, motivated, encouraged, tested and challenged throughout the process. I was amazed at how Lael was able to identify the barriers that I had naturally set up to protect myself over the years, which once upon a time served me well but now were hindering my growth and potential. Lael’s incredible talent at gently and sometimes comically motivating a person into “getting out of their own way” has proven to be a recipe for success in my relationship with her. Not only have we addressed all of the aggressive focus areas that we originally set out to do, we have also addressed additional topics/issues that I came across in day to day work and life experiences. All of which have established a fundamental shift in my thinking and being, both in business and in life in general. I confessed to Lael that though I have been successful in my estimation up until now, I have never been as truly happy as I am now, after my experience working with her. I never imagined how powerful a balance of work and home could be in all aspects of how one lives. Lael pointed me in the right direction and today, a mere three months later, I feel stronger, more confident, my outlook is positive, I am thinking strategically and innovatively and am just plain happy. I would emphatically recommend SheChanges expert coaching service to any corporate or business leader who is willing to really look at themselves and believe in “what could be” because with Lael there are no boundaries."

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