I am a Life and Career Coach, Trainer and Facilitator with over twenty years combined experience in coaching, training and development, marketing communications and advertising/design.
My expertise includes: coaching, mentoring, instructional design, marketing communications development, resume consultation, curriculum management, writing and creative problem solving.
My VALUE PROPOSITION answers the question:
Why should I hire you as my coach?
What I do for my clients:
As your coach I am your "tour guide" on your journey to help you explore and identify your vision of what you really want and need to have a fulfilling life. I am your "mirror" who reflects back to you what you say and what is not being said, so you can see barriers that might keep you from moving forward. I am your supporter to help you stay true to your values and commitments, make purposeful choices, and take strategic action to get the results you want.
What differentiates me as a coach:
I bring fresh, out-of-box perspectives to help you view your challenges differently. I provide creative strategies, tools, inquiries and activities to help you explore your whole life so you can integrate all aspects of what matters most as you strive to reach your goals. If you have a career focus, the tools I provide help you re-define your key strengths, values and needs, and identify your differentiators, so you can match what you love to do and excel at to opportunities where you can share your gifts effectively with the world.
How my creative problem-solving experience in my careers helps my clients solve problems and achieve their goals:
I bring my experience as a seeker and learner whose career path evolved from my quest to be more fulfilled in what I was doing. In each career choice I made, I researched new career opportunities, assessed my strengths and successes, learned new skills and differentiated my value to find challenging and satisfying careers.
My
clients benefit from my years of experience motivating job seekers in
my creative job skills workshops; they learn how they can differentiate
themselves from the competition by showing employers how they solve problems on the job.
I also guide employed professionals to re-define their key strengths and problem-solving expertise and show their value to their employers, whether they’re changing careers, moving to another position within their organization, or maximizing their value and visibility in their current position.
I know my guidance and
support is successful when my clients learn new skills and strategies,
enhance their self-awareness, discover what fulfills them, make purposeful choices, and enthusiastically achieve their goals.
I work most effectively with people who are:
- READY to explore what they really want, need and value
- OPEN to all possibilities they discover for themselves
- FOCUSED on their commitment to have a fulfilling life
- EXCITED about taking action to achieve their goals
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My professional coach training is from the Coach Training Institute and New Ventures West.
I am a member of the International Coaching Federation, Silicon Valley Coach
Federation, and Toastmasters International.
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TESTIMONIALS:
"When I first hired Cheryl, I was at a crossroads in my life with no idea which road to take and I felt I wasn't getting the most out of my life. Her thought-provoking questions and step-by-step approach to the coaching process help guide me through each step to get clarity on what's really important to me; she guides me down my path to find my own answers and I'm often surprised at the insights I've gleaned about myself from our sessions. Her career search strategies are leading edge and relevant in today's world. She guided me through the process of writing an amazing resume after years of not having one. I would highly recommend her life and career coaching services to anyone who wants more out of life but doesn't know where to start."
—Mary Harrington, Silicon Valley Marketing Project Manager
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"The "Stand Out! Show Your Value to Your Employer" workshop that Cheryl presented to our Hitachi Women's Interest Network, (HIWIN), was fun, creative, relevant and very well-received. We brainstormed strategies and shared ideas. She provided useful and thought-provoking self-assessment exercises and tools to help us rethink ways to show our value more effectively in our organization. Thanks to Cheryl for her energy, humor and expertise! I would highly recommend her to present any of her workshops at your organization."
—Lorraine Wong Myers, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
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"The value of Cheryl’s job-search/career workshops to our clients is immeasurable. The fact that her workshops not only inspire clients to discover who they really are, especially in terms of identifying employable skill sets, but also incorporate owning your skills—and more importantly, believing in them—is awesome. I sincerely appreciate her expertise, creativity and knowledge here at the center - and I can honestly say that our clients' employment opportunities increase substantially once they take into account her teachings."
—Tyrell Thompson, Former Employment Counselor, Santa Clara County Employment Connection
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