Live Your Authentic Everything.

Executive Coach & Founder (PCC, NCC)

Coaching wasn't the plan. I built a career in tech, leading global teams, scaling go-to-market organizations, doing the work that gets you promoted and keeps you busy enough not to ask too many questions.

Then my marriage ended and I ran out of ways to avoid the questions. I started working with a coach. I thought it would be a professional development thing, pick up some tools, get sharper. But CliftonStrengths showed me how I actually operate, not the version I'd been performing. And ontological coaching made me look at patterns I didn't know I was running, in how I talked to myself, how I reacted, what I assumed was just "how things are."

I started using what I was learning with my teams. Strengths conversations, mostly. A few leaders at first, then it spread across the go-to-market org. I got my Gallup certification. Coaching became part of how we ran the business.

Over time the thing I cared about most stopped fitting inside my job. I had to figure out whether to find another senior role or go do the work on my own. Deliberative is my top CliftonStrength, so this wasn't a quick decision. Months, years maybe, and lots of conversations. The whole time I kept bumping into the same question, was I staying because the work was right, or because the paycheck was safe? Once I was honest about the answer, the decision made itself.

That's Brightway Coaching!

I coach executives, founders, and senior professionals, usually people in the middle of something. New role. Reorganization. A pivot they're not sure about. Sometimes just a feeling that what got them here isn't going to get them there. We slow down, look at what's actually happening, and they start making intentional decisions with calrity and tust.