Helping People Create Change Since 2010
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What Is Executive Coaching?
Business and career coaching helps you get clear about what you want, understand what may be keeping you stuck, and make decisions that move you forward.
You may be successful on paper but questioning whether the work you’re doing still fits who you are. You may be facing a difficult business or career decision, struggling with a challenging workplace relationship, or carrying so much responsibility that it’s hard to step back and see what you actually want.
Sometimes the issue is practical. Other times, what looks like a business or career problem is being complicated by something deeper, like fear of making the wrong decision, difficulty disappointing people, overthinking, self-doubt, or feeling responsible for everyone and everything.
That’s where coaching can help.
Together, we’ll look at both what’s happening and what’s underneath it, so you can make clearer decisions, handle challenges more effectively, and create a career or business that works for your life, not just one that looks successful from the outside.
Where You May Feel Stuck
Do Any of These Sound Familiar?
You’ve built a successful career or business, but something isn’t working anymore. You may know something needs to change without being sure what that change should be.
Successful But Unfulfilled
You’ve accomplished a lot, but the work that once motivated you doesn’t feel as satisfying or meaningful anymore.
Overthinking a Big Decision
You keep going back and forth about what to do, worried you’ll make the wrong choice or regret changing direction.
Stuck in Your Career
You know you want something different, but you’re not sure what that is or how to get there.
Carrying Too Much
You’re the person everyone relies on, and the responsibility, pressure, and constant decision-making are taking a toll.
Leadership or People Challenges
You’re navigating difficult employees, colleagues, partners, or workplace dynamics and want to handle them more effectively.
Your Business Has Become Your Life
You’ve built something successful, but you’re questioning whether the way you’re working is actually how you want to live.
Business Coaching That Goes Beyond Business
The way you lead, make decisions, handle conflict, take risks, and define success doesn’t exist separately from who you are.
That’s why my approach to business and career coaching goes deeper than tactics.
We might work on a difficult business decision one week and discover that what’s really making the decision difficult is fear of disappointing someone, needing certainty before you act, or believing everything depends on you.
HOW I CAN HELP
Areas We Can Work On
You’ve built a successful career or business, but something isn’t working anymore. You may know something needs to change without being sure what that change should be.
Career Direction & Change
Figure out what you want next and whether it’s time to stay, leave, pivot, or create something new.
Leadership & Executive Coaching
Become a more confident, effective leader without feeling like you have to control everything or have all the answers.
Business Owners & Founders
Work through the decisions, pressures, relationships, and personal challenges that come with building and leading a business.
Confidence & Decision-Making
Stop endlessly second-guessing yourself and learn to make thoughtful decisions without needing complete certainty.
Workplace Relationships & Conflict
Navigate challenging dynamics, communicate more directly, set boundaries, and have conversations you may have been avoiding.
Burnout, Balance & Success
Examine what success means to you now and create a way of working that leaves room for the rest of your life.
Meet Wendy
I Understand That Success Doesn’t Always Feel The Way You Expected
I’ve spent much of my life creating, changing direction, and figuring out what meaningful work looks like for me.
Before becoming a coach, I had my own experiences with career changes, entrepreneurship, uncertainty, and questioning what I wanted the next stage of my life to look like.
When I began coaching in January 2010, I found myself working with many smart, capable people facing similar questions.
Some are founders and business owners carrying enormous responsibility. Some are executives dealing with leadership, people, or career challenges. Others have built successful careers only to realize they’re no longer sure they want the life that comes with them.
What I’ve learned is that the business problem or career decision someone brings to coaching is rarely only about business.
How you handle uncertainty, conflict, responsibility, approval, failure, money, and success affects the decisions you make and the way you lead.
My approach is warm and supportive, but also direct. I’ll help you see what you may not be seeing, challenge thinking that is keeping you stuck, and help you separate what you genuinely want from what you think you should want.
The goal isn’t for me to tell you what decision to make. It’s to help you trust yourself enough to make it.
What Working Together Looks Like
We’ll start with what’s happening now, get underneath what’s keeping you stuck, and focus on the decisions and changes that will make the biggest difference.
Clarity Call
We start with a free 30-minute conversation about what’s happening in your family, what you’d like help with, and whether working together feels like the right fit.
Ready to talk about what’s going on? Start with a free Clarity Call.
What Changes When You Do This Work
The goal isn’t simply to become more successful.
It’s to become clearer about what success means to you and more confident in how you create it.
- You make decisions with more confidence instead of endlessly second-guessing yourself.
- You recognize the fears and patterns influencing the way you lead, work, and respond to pressure.
- You communicate more directly and handle difficult conversations more effectively.
- You stop taking responsibility for things that aren’t actually yours to carry.
- You become clearer about what you want from your career or business now.
- You create success in a way that leaves room for your relationships, interests, and the rest of your life.
Client Stories
In Their Own Words
I’ve been working with Wendy for about 5 months and it has been one of the best investments I’ve made in myself both personally and professionally. She gave me the tools to build up my confidence….Read more
Yes, he’s doing well and is back on track. More importantly, he’s back to being Adam! This has been a big transition for him, and he’s come out of it with much more self-awareness and confidence that….Read more
I’m very lucky to have connected with Wendy! She has helped me regain perspective and strength in the midst of a series of family crisis and personal crossroads. I’m a career woman used to having control of my tomorrows….Read more
Alex and his wife came from very different families and had different approaches to parenting their young children. The differences were creating conflict and leaving Alex feeling increasingly alienated and isolated….Read more
A session with Wendy is like being gently held while she simultaneously punches you in the gut. It is not always easy but it’s a game changer…Read more
Common Questions
Questions About Executive Coaching
Find answers to the questions I’m most often asked about Executive Coaching
What is business and career coaching?
Business and career coaching gives you a place to step outside the day-to-day demands of work and look more clearly at what’s happening, what you want, and what may be getting in your way.
Depending on what you’re facing, we may work on leadership, career direction, business decisions, confidence, workplace relationships, boundaries, burnout, or a major professional change.
How is this different from a business consultant?
A consultant generally brings expertise in a particular area of business and tells you what they recommend doing.
My role is different. I help you think more clearly, uncover the patterns influencing your decisions, work through the personal dynamics involved, and determine what makes sense for you.
We can absolutely talk about practical business problems and strategy, but the work is centered on you as the person making the decisions.
Do I need to own a business to work with you?
No. I work with business owners and founders, executives and professionals, as well as people considering a career change or trying to figure out what they want next.
Can you help me decide whether to leave my job or change careers?
Yes. I won’t tell you whether you should stay or leave. We’ll look at what isn’t working, what you want instead, what fears or practical concerns are influencing you, and what each option would actually mean for your life.
The goal is to help you reach a decision that feels considered and genuinely yours.
Do you provide executive coaching?
Yes. I work with executives and leaders on decision-making, confidence, communication, leadership challenges, workplace relationships, boundaries, and the personal patterns that can affect how they lead.
Can you help with business partner problems?
Yes. Business partnerships can bring up many of the same issues that occur in other important relationships, including communication problems, different expectations, resentment, conflict, trust, boundaries, money, power, and uncertainty about whether the partnership can continue.
Business Partner Coaching will also have its own dedicated service page. Please link “Business Partner Coaching” to that page once it is live.
Is business and career coaching only about work?
Usually not.
Work affects your relationships, identity, confidence, finances, time, and quality of life. And the patterns you bring into the rest of your life often show up at work too.
That’s one reason I don’t treat your career or business as if it exists separately from the rest of you.
Do you work with clients outside Seattle?
Yes. I’m based in Redmond, Washington and work with clients in Bellevue and Seattle, as well as clients throughout the United States and internationally through online coaching.
Ready to Feel Clearer About What Comes Next?
You don’t need to have the answer before we talk.
Whether you’re dealing with a difficult business situation, questioning your career, struggling with leadership, or simply realizing the way you’re working isn’t working for you anymore, we can start there.