"With the coaching help I received from Walks Beside Coaching, I realized that my courage & commitment in nurse leadership had dimmed. They put me back in touch with the absolute, fundamental values of the reasons I became a nurse in the first place. I become conscious that my contribution has a larger impact than just the floors of this center. It wasn't easy. Looking at what you've come to accept today is tough. With their coaching guidance, I regained my inner strength to provide a healing presence for the' at-risk'first time mother or the COPD patient without any family to help them when they return home. Just the word, thanks, is not enough."
Director, Community Health, Education, & Wellness

"As a Director in the public sector, I was particularly impressed with your workshops. It provided great insight on prioritizing needs, the coordination of action steps for goal achievement; and, how to leave the legacy language behind that was damaging inter-departmental trust. Your workshops should be required for workers and supervisors at all levels."
Director Project Management, Los Angeles County

"One of the ‘take aways’ from the Walks Beside programs is the importance of executives giving themselves time for development. It is not often that we give ourselves permission for reflection and challenging those assessments that may not serve us well at this point in our professional and personal lives. This group helped me and my staff realizes that coaching is not selfishness or weakness; but, a vital part of the job.

Through coaching sessions, I have gained practical tools that have enabled me to create a longer term vision within my organization, and the resolve to reach it. My team and I learned how to identify and change many of the common speech patterns we use today; but, are mostly misunderstood. Coaching provided positive support to create a trusting atmosphere that allowed us to feel safe enough to venture into uncharted territory.

Having worked with the coaches from Walks Beside, I'm seeing some promising changes in confidence and self-assuredness in my actions and decisions - enabling me and my direct managers to move forward in business more creatively than before. Through this transformation, they have guided and supported all of us as advisors and architectural consultants to walk together into the future without the blueprints of the past.

Through coaching, we as managers are better, more effective goal setters --goals that naturally pull us with heart toward our collective success. We have renewed partnership and commitment between us as a ‘resident oriented’ organization."

Executive Director -The Alhambra Retirement Community and Lutheran Health Facility

"Being coached has helped me to gain perspective in the work I am doing, and has allowed me the time to re-focus in my personal and professional life. The experience has freed me to concentrate on making positive contributions in my job rather than becoming entangled in occasional mistakes and short-comings. I have been reminded to view mistakes as learning opportunities, not as failures. I have accepted my short-comings as challenges to further develop my character."

Auxiliary Operations Manager, Front Porch Communities

"One of the lasting gifts from the Walks Beside programs is the importance of giving ourselves time for expansion. It is not often that we give ourselves consent for reflection and challenging those assessments that may not serve us well at this point in our professional and personal lives. My coach helped me realize that coaching is not the admission of weakness; but, a vital part of my future development."

Director Product Marketing, Network Innovations

On behalf of DOVIA-LA’s membership and board I would like to express a heartfelt thank you for your presence and presentation at out March 18th meeting. Your expertise was presented in such a proficient and entertaining manner. It was easy to see that this topic of communication with difficult people hit a cord with everyone! I’m sure we returned to our respective workplaces not only with a deeper understanding of personalities, but with some practical applications in resolving challenging interpersonal dynamics.

Looking forward to your presenting future life coaching seminars that will develop our capabilities of working with others, both volunteer and paid staff.

Sincerely,
DOVIA-LA Secretary.

You are a gift from God! I was very moved by your insight and delivery to my mother and me. I realized how she and I both have decisions to make together and independently to maintain balance. You were able to ‘tap’ that self-sustaining quality that lies dormant at times in each of each of us. Thanks so much.

Real Estate Coordinator,

Totally Conscious Day. The exercise we had about being aware of everything is absolutely AWESOME.

I have tried this every day this week and I cannot believe what I was missing. How blind I was to my world, even the physical surroundings that I had overlooked for so long. I don’t spend a lot of time looking at myself in the mirror but I am enjoying a beautiful Potato Tree a neighbor down the street has. I stopped and commented on the blooms and ask when they put the tree in….I was embarrassed to find out it was over a year ago.

I challenged my class to do this and write down everything they have been missing. What an experience.

We get so wrapped up in our thoughts, our duties, our world that we miss the important part---living and enjoying it.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Karen Ransom, Instructor, San Joaquin County Office of Education