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During a challenging time when there were major changes happening in our organization and IT, I needed a coach to help me be mindful about my brand and potential blind spots. Her coaching had a significant positive outcome for me with a deeper degree of self-awareness and knowledge of where my value is.

I started coaching because I was having a rough time at work after I had been promoted to SVP. I needed some help to understand how I could make the shift from being a manager to being a leader.

Being senior career-wise doesn’t mean it gets any easier figuring out what to prioritize. Just putting everything into perspective was helpful. I feel a lot lighter and it has given me the time to focus on other, more meaningful things as well.

Jo’s coaching has helped me get overall clarity on how to do my role effectively, providing more courage and the ability to express myself more professionally. I’m in a fast-paced biotech, and initially I felt like I was wearing too many different hats.

I started coaching when I was promoted to the Chief Investment Officer. Our coaching has given me a greater sense of confidence. Not only did I gain a better understanding of my strengths, while improving some of those skills, I also developed an understanding of how to use those strengths to be a better leader.

We’ve grown pretty quickly from 10 people to 20-30.  We needed help navigating decisions on hiring and restructuring. Coaching allowed us to focus on bigger-picture business decisions and delegate the day-to-day managing of all the teams to managers.

Jo’s impact on our team is already being felt and will continue to be felt for a while. We needed our small team to gel as fast as possible so they could transition into a mature team quickly during our reorganization.

One of my challenges was being a perfectionist. It was hard to delegate and relinquish some control to my direct reports, resulting in a significant impact on my bandwidth. Working with Jo, I’ve gotten much more comfortable at identifying opportunities for others so that they grow professionally.

Engaging with Jo was a key part of my professional growth as a leader. There was a big difference between what I was doing and what I was going to be doing; I doubled the number of people that I was responsible for and took on an entirely separate part of the business that I did not have any real direct knowledge of.

I started working with Jo when I realized the business needed a different type of leadership to transition from being a start-up to a bigger company. And my team did develop, in terms of relationships, communication, buy-in and forward movement; we turned a corner and grew.