EXPAND YOUR AWARENESS. EVOLVE YOUR LEADERSHIP. EMPOWER YOUR APPROACH. ELEVATE YOUR IMPACT.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING

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for high-performing young professionals who are navigating a challenge or simply want to enhance their effectiveness

Does any of this resonate?

✓ I’m in a transition of roles at work and need some help navigating it.

✓ I’m about to lead a team for the first time and want to make sure I’m prepared.

✓ I’m not sure I’m on the right career/life trajectory. I want to define what I want and need so I can go get it.

✓ My working style isn’t benefitting me anymore, and I’d like to figure out what shifts I need to make and how.

✓ I’m stuck in a pattern of taking on too much and don’t know how to break out of it.

✓ My work/life balance needs to change, but I don’t know how to make that happen.

✓ I’m struggling with my confidence, and it’s impacting my performance.

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You’re in the right place.

Coaching can help identify challenges and goals, clarify patterns that are keeping you stuck, build awareness and insights, and design and implement plans for change.

how to get started

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Let’s chat about what’s prompting you to reach out, how you’d like to work together, and what you’d like to take away.

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CLIENT INSIGHTS

“I’m so grateful for the opportunity to work with Abbie this past year. As someone fairly new to people management, I found her guidance invaluable in building my self-awareness, confidence, and a clear action plan for supporting my team. Through her thoughtful questions and practical approach, Abbie has helped me not only prioritize my workload more effectively but also grow as a leader within my organization. What I value most is the way she empowers you to discover your own solutions and make confident decisions when facing challenges. I highly recommend working with Abbie—she is truly passionate about her work and deeply committed to the people she supports.

 

- Caroline, Director, Nonprofit

THE COACHING PROCESS

  • 01 / UNDERSTANDING

    Coaching is an opportunity to pause, deepen your self-awareness, and start making choices with intention. For people new to coaching, it’s critical to understand that coaching is not mentoring, advising, or therapy. Good coaches will not tell you what to do - they will ask provocative questions that help you determine this for yourself. Through awareness and goal-setting, coaching will anchor you in the present and the future, unlike therapy which tends to focus on the past.

  • 02 / FOUNDATION

    Coaching engagements start with the building of strong foundations - for our relationship and your goals. Coaching won’t be effective if there isn’t trust, safety, communication, and a deep understanding of what the relationship is. We take time to get to know one another and build a space in which you can be honest, reflective, and open to new perspectives.

  • 03 / AWARENESS

    Across a coaching engagement and within each session, I ask thought-provoking questions, offer observations, and reflect back things you’ve said. Through this process, you will build breadth and depth of understanding of yourself - how you think, act, and feel, and why you do. This expansion of self-awareness creates opportunities for you to change.

  • 04 / ACTION

    Coaching is grounded in action. At the end of each coaching session, we take time for you to build a meaningful action plan - what you want to accomplish, observations you want to make, or experiments you want to try, all based on the self-awareness you worked to build. We explore obstacles you may face, what you’ll do when they arise, and what accountability measures you’d like to put in place.

  • 05 / ITERATION

    Over the course of a coaching engagement, we’ll cycle through awareness and action many times and often across various contexts. You will learn about yourself through the work you do outside of our coaching sessions, and you’ll bring that awareness back to our work together. You can think of a coaching engagement as a spiral staircase - each session is one rotation of the stairs that elevates your growth, and the whole engagement is the culmination of several rotations that elevate you to the next level.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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01 | COACHING SESSIONS

The anchor of the engagement, coaching sessions are the platform to identify and clarify goals, expand and deepen understanding, and design and implement action plans.

02 | SURVEYS

Launch, Midpoint, and Impact Surveys are issued to help build and bolster the foundation of your engagement. They will also help you clarify your challenges, goals, strengths, and obstacles, and monitor learnings and progress.

03 | 360 feedback surveys

360 Feedback Surveys gather input on your strengths and growth areas from a variety of sources, all of whom interact with you in different capacities.

04 | session recap emails

After each session, team members will receive recap emails to help track discussions, learnings, goals, and accountabilities.

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HEY, I’M ABBIE.

I’ve been working with high-performing individuals across a variety of contexts for over 15 years. I was your quintessential oldest-sibling-people-pleasing-growth-oriented-move-a-million-miles-an-hour-hyper-achiever. And then I realized I was addicted to chaos and needed to slow down. I became a certified coach, and now I work with young professionals to help them navigate challenges, enhance their performance, and make sustainable change. My work supports a variety of professional and personal growth, including confidence, presence, and leadership skills throughout several stages of life, from the transition into the workforce to leading a team for the first time.

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FAQs

  • Coaching is a process and relationship that is motivated by change, grounded in action, and driven by exploration. Coaches ask thought-provoking questions that help you build awareness, perspective, and understanding, and then work with you to design a plan of action rooted in the insights you gain. Goal-setting and goal-pursuit are critical parts of coaching, both because they help you move through a challenge and because they help illuminate other important growth areas along the way.

  • My work supports a variety of both professional and personal growth for individuals and teams, including confidence, presence, and leadership skills throughout several stages of life, from the transition into the workforce to leading a team for the first time. A client may want to work through a leadership challenge, build conflict resolution skills with a peer, or discuss parenting strategies. I’m here for it all.

  • Everyone has different criteria for what they want in a coach, but it’s important to note that a good coach for you is one with whom you connect. Trust and safety are critical in a coaching relationship, so you should feel like you can have honest conversations and like your coach will both support you and push you throughout the process.

    It’s also important to note that a good coach may not necessarily have a background similar to yours - that’s okay. This isn’t critical for building perspective or expanding thinking. If you sense it is important to you, you may think about getting a mentor or advisor instead.

  • I typically coach young professionals - individuals and teams - in high-intensity corporate careers, from the internship phase (sophomore summer) through the first few years of leading a team for the first time. If you don’t fit this profile, it doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t be a good coach for you - the methodology I was trained in is applicable to many demographics. Reach out anyway, and if I’m not the best fit, I can help find someone who is.

  • Coaching engagements can be structured in a variety of ways - number of sessions, number of months, or total duration. I tend to offer 6- and 10-session packages with 2- and 4-session extensions but can adjust to whatever my client needs.

  • I meet with clients at any cadence from twice a week to once a month. The frequency of meetings depends on the client’s needs and the duration of the engagement, and it’s always a balance of maintaining momentum while allowing time for the practical work that happens outside our sessions to be done. Sessions last between one and two hours, with team sessions tending toward being two hours. Clients may have sessions of varying frequencies and durations within their engagement.