We live in a time of great opportunities and tremendous challenges. This fast-paced world demands from us an enormous amount of focus and self-awareness, coupled with a good dose of vision and hope. To thrive in this environment, we must look inside and look beyond. More than ever, in both our personal and professional interactions, it is crucial for us to take the time to develop our perception, to be more mindful of our true values and to create a very clear direction to where we really want to go. Business as usual will not do.
Clear Vision • Sound Strategies • Sustainable Actions
And here is exactly where Coaching can help! Coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires individuals to maximize their personal and professional potential. It is a partnership that puts the client at the center of the conversation, believing that every client is creative, resourceful and whole. The coach is the expert in the creating the structure for the coaching conversation, the one who holds the container for the client to discover, to investigate and to select their best way forward. The client is the one sitting on the driver seat, taking charge of their own decisions and choosing what works best for them. Based on this principle, my role as a coach is to:
- Encourage client self-discovery
- Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve
- Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
- Hold the client responsible and accountable
For an individual, this process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on their personal and professional life, while developing their leadership skills and unlocking their potential. For an organization, it creates the opportunity for the teams to be more productive, solve problems, and better interact with each other.
Benefits
Clients report coaching positively impacts their careers, organizations and personal lives.
- Generates clarity of purpose, goals and objectives
- Fosters a better alignment of vision, values, passions, strengths and career
- Allows for independent insight, guidance and feedback to support development
- Offers ongoing support on how to stay focused, organized and on track with your goals
- Discovers tools to become more effective and productive
- Achieves better personal and professional life balance
- Develops an improved sense of living in better alignment with who they were meant to be
expectations
In the coaching partnership…
The coach:
The individual:
The coach:
- Provides objective assessment and observations that foster the individual's self-awareness and group interaction
- Listens closely to fully understand the client's circumstances
- Acts as a sounding board in the exploration of new possibilities and the implementation of thoughtful planning and decision making
- Champions opportunities and potential, encouraging challenges in tune with personal strengths and aspirations
- Fosters shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives
- Challenges blind spots to illuminate new possibilities and support the creation of alternative scenarios
- Maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession's code of ethics.
The individual:
- Creates a coaching agenda based on present goals
- Practices self-assessment and observations to enhance awareness of self and others
- Envisions success
- Assumes full responsibility for decisions and actions
- Utilizes the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives
- Takes courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations
- Engages big-picture thinking and problem-solving skills
- Takes the tools, concepts and principles provided by the coach and engages in effective forward actions
BIO
Creating the space for discovery, focus, connection and growth.
I am a leadership and executive coach with the primary focus of empowering leaders on how to incorporate the coach approach to their leadership style. The coaching mindset can be transformative to teams, organizations, and communities at large. It is by listening, asking questions, and truly honoring each individual that we are able to optimize engagement, purpose, innovation, and ultimately productivity and growth.
To support this process, I have invested in my own personal and professional development, becoming now a Master Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a faculty member at Coach U and Coaching Out of the Box. I am also an official certification assessor for the ICF and a registered mentor coach, supporting coaches to further polish their coaching skills, to successfully build and maintain their coaching practices and to prepare for their certification with the ICF.
Other tools I am licensed to use as part of my practice are the Coaching Clinic®, the Personal Communication Style Inventory (PCSI)® as well as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®.
A strong focus of my work is on identifying, developing and celebrating the potential and resourcefulness of each person embracing their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, personality type and/or professional standing. I am particularly mindful of giving my clients the space and the structure that enables them to refine their voice and to establish a solid place at the table.
Outside my coaching practice, I am a musician with a master’s degree in Music from the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. I am also a photographer, a meditator in the Vipassana tradition, and an opera lover. I am passionate about traveling, ethnic food, and everything diversity. I am originally from Brazil and living in the USA since 1992. My home now is in sunny St. Petersburg, FL.
And here a few other things about me:
To support this process, I have invested in my own personal and professional development, becoming now a Master Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a faculty member at Coach U and Coaching Out of the Box. I am also an official certification assessor for the ICF and a registered mentor coach, supporting coaches to further polish their coaching skills, to successfully build and maintain their coaching practices and to prepare for their certification with the ICF.
Other tools I am licensed to use as part of my practice are the Coaching Clinic®, the Personal Communication Style Inventory (PCSI)® as well as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®.
A strong focus of my work is on identifying, developing and celebrating the potential and resourcefulness of each person embracing their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, personality type and/or professional standing. I am particularly mindful of giving my clients the space and the structure that enables them to refine their voice and to establish a solid place at the table.
Outside my coaching practice, I am a musician with a master’s degree in Music from the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. I am also a photographer, a meditator in the Vipassana tradition, and an opera lover. I am passionate about traveling, ethnic food, and everything diversity. I am originally from Brazil and living in the USA since 1992. My home now is in sunny St. Petersburg, FL.
And here a few other things about me:
- MCC | Master Certified Coach
- Coaching Clinic Licensed Facilitator
- Member of the ICF assessors community
- PCC Markers trained by ICF
- Coach U Certified Graduate
- Certified Myers-Briggs® Practitioner
- Coach at Convergence (former CPR)
- Certified Health Coach
- Member of Pi Kappa Lambda Society
- Master's Degree in Music from Westminster Choir College - Princeton, NJ
- Graduate of the New York Institute of Photography
- Trained Graphic and Web Designer
- Avid meditator (Vipassana Tradition)
- Former yogi (I’ll come back to it...)
- Passionate about traveling, ethnic food and the beach
- Opera lover – especially Wagner and beyond...
- Brazilian/American living in the USA since 1992
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