Credentials

	Certified Integral Coach, New Ventures West
	ACC Credential (Associate Certified Coach), International Coach Federation
	Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP Comprehensive
	Certified Senior Human Resource Professional, Society of Human Resource Management
	Malcolm Baldridge Facilitator, GTE Corporation
	Certified Competent Communicator and Toastmaster Member, Great Lakes Real Orators
	Labyrinth Facilitator, Veriditas

Education

	Intensive one-year Professional Coaching Course
	B.S. degree in Business Management with emphasis in Human Resource Management and Organization Development, University of Colorado-Boulder
	Labyrinth Workshop and Advanced Facilitator Training

My Story

Having grown up with family members who suffered with mental illness, I developed a driving curiosity to understand why we human beings behave as we do.  What is the cause and purpose of our suffering and how do we move forward in spite of it, through it and beyond it into joy.

My interest in coaching developed after experiencing a coaching workshop and subsequent work with a personal coach during the summer of 2003.  Later, I attended a coaching workshop, Coaching to Excellence, with New Ventures West.  This training experience confirmed for me that I was on the right path for fulfilling my life's purpose to serve others.  I formally began coaching in January of 2006 as part of my one-year coach training program.  I completed the program and was awarded certification as an  Integral Coach through New Ventures West in September 2006.  In October 2006, I fulfilled a dream by starting my own professional coaching business.  In October 2008 I earned the Associate Certified Credential with the International Coach Federation.

My previous 20 years of work experience is in the profession of Human Resource service and management for organizations such as Compuware Corporation, MascoTech-Braun, Budget Rent-A-Car and GTE Corporation.  I've managed US 401(k) and Canadian RRSP retirement plans, managed US and Canadian disability and leaves of absence programs and served in the capacity of a generalist involving management consulting, employee relations, union grievance resolution and contract negotiation, health, welfare and retirement benefit administration, stock option and employee stock purchase plan administration, training and development administration, special events coordination, HR database management and payroll.

I've worked in a variety of industries such as banking, staffing, lighting, automotive manufacturing and metal-forming suppliers, car rental, wholesale distribution to convenience stores and computer software & service.  I've worked with all levels of employees within an organization from front-line hourly staff to C-Suite executives, in both union and non-union environments, in four different states (Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Michigan).

I paid for and supported myself through university by working for Connirae & Steve Andreas, founders of NLP Comprehensive (p.k.a. NLP of Colorado) in Boulder, Colorado.  I began as their Nanny and soon shifted into the role of Office Manager as the business grew and developed.  While employed, I was fortunate to receive neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) training in the majority of courses offered by NLP Comprehensive. 

I am very grateful for having all of the experiences I've had in my life, for all of the people I've worked with and known in my life. I am who I am now because of it all; good, bad, better and worse. As one way of giving back, I serve on the Board of the Professional Coaches Association of Michigan (PCAM), as Co-Chair of the Community Outreach Program. 

I strive to continue to show up in every moment and join in this wonderful dance of life.

Be Well, Kathy