What the world needs. Right. Bleeping. Now.

If you’re human, the last few years have required you to confront, welp, everything. All at once. From every angle. Debating everything from personal safety in your daily life to what is important.

We are, each one of us, changed.?

Our lives have shifted exponentially.?

We are in a completely new relationship with the world.?

And we all have the same choice in front of us that we have always had. But this time? This time, it feels... different.

“How do I want to show up?”

In the most brutal moments – and, Goodness, there have been plenty – whether discreetly or overtly, one throughline has been evident: human survival requires the proliferation of light, love, levity, and reform. And, as citizens of this world, incumbent upon all of us is seeking those qualities in ourselves, and in our lives, as prerequisites to amplifying them in our world. Humanity depends on it.

Today, I share news of a new quest: CiTiZEN+SEEKER Coaching . Fully stocked with more than 20 years of coaching in my professional roles, a meaningful and dramatic transformation in my personal life, and an acute awareness of this urgent and global need for conductors of forward movement and progressive energy, I enrolled in Co-Active Professional Coach Training, widely recognized as the most rigorous professional coach training and certification program in the industry from the largest and most established professional coach training organization in the world, Co-Active Training Institute (CTI).

In the present moment, that question -- "How do I want to show up?" -- might provoke a feeling of overwhelm, or "languishing," that Adam Grant asserts might be the dominant emotion of our time. Feeling stuck in a loop. Navigating tidal waves of change and challenge, unable to find your flow.

As burnout and stress reach record highs and mental health service waiting lists stretch ever longer while resources dwindle thereto, I confronted the question myself and concluded that co-active coaching can help. In its simplest form, “Co-Active” means “being in action together.” Coaching allows people – individuals and teams alike – the opportunity to reflect, gain self-awareness, learn and connect the lessons to purposeful ideals, and take action on what is important.?The world needs more coaching and support to move each one of us forward toward life in a better world.

CiTiZEN+SEEKER is my commitment to making space for this vital work and supporting clients in their growth to yield…

• Agency - Name and claim that we are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.
• Authenticity - Show up, drive truth and equanimity, and live meaningfully.
• Cultivation - Build resilience through gratitude, joy, the strengths we already possess, and forgiveness for our fallibility.
• Play – Afford connection and innovation through curiosity, reflection, and iteration in consequence-free spaces.
• Progress – Drive humanism in our relationships with ourselves, our lives, and our world, from our inner monologues to our workplaces to our public policies.

Progress is possible. Join me on a mission to see with new eyes and move the world. Will you be a conductor of light, love, levity, and reform?

At the trailhead of this adventure, you can help by sharing the news of it: I am accepting new coaching clients, a requirement of my certification. I offer evening and weekend availability, self-service scheduling, and a virtual office to meet you wherever you are in your day, in your life, or in the world.

If we are to live meaningfully on this Earth, we ought to take better care of her while we are here. Putting my money where my mouth is, I will contribute 1% of all proceeds automatically toward removing CO? from the atmosphere to help address the urgency of climate change and the risk it poses to human health, infrastructure, the stability of food and water resources, and the biodiversity of the planet’s ecosystems.?

Special thanks to each and every one of you who adds positive energy to my life: to my parents whose warmth, care, and servant leadership afford me lifelong inspiration; to my tweenager who has been my greatest teacher; and to my family, friends, clients, colleagues, thought partners, classmates, and instructors who enrich my life with every interaction.?

To those of you who listened to my musings, kicked the tires with me, and consulted on the fruition of this dream to be of service, I am wholly grateful for your encouragement and feedback to sharpen up to this point; I invite your continued advice, trust, and verve – you make the world a better place.

And to you, dear reader, if you are still with me, you have earned a key to the city; come as you are and look to the horizon with me. Welcome to CiTiZEN+SEEKER.