I’ve just ended a call with a Master of Coaching, Steve Mitten. Along with at least 20 members of the NW Coach Association, I coordinated this call that brought one of the leaders of the coaching industry directly to our organization. I was nervous, anxious, worried, and fearful that it wouldn’t go well. Maybe someone [...]

A few years ago when I decided to become a coach I joined my local professional coaches association. The NW Coaches Association is a local chapter of the ICF, or International Coach Federation. Within just a few months I had joined a group to develop projects and programs and now I serve on the Board of [...]

This weekend I was walking through a neighborhood and saw a lawn sign for a person running for a state representative seat in Oregon. Turns out I was in a musical we wrote together with others years ago. Turn Loose the Voices was a showcase of brilliant, compassionate, politically savvy youth (me included) that ran for [...]