Who gets coaching? or, Why I Love My Amazing Clients

As my client base has grown, I’ve gotten much clearer on who my clients are and where my niche in coaching is. With this post, I’m starting the longer process of revamping my website to offer a direct and welcoming invitation to the type of clients I love to work with.

Here’s my description of who my clients are, and why I love working with them …

For the most part, my clients are between the ages of 25-40. They are all people I would describe as successful and high achievers. They’ve done well in school, they’ve found good jobs, they’ve engaged in work they find meaningful. They push themselves to build self-awareness and to continually grow as people. They are always wondering what comes next for them: what is their next learning horizon? What is the next thing that will push their comfort zone? Where is their next meaningful contribution going to be?

They are discovering that their lives are works in progress. Graduating from school, or taking on that first or second job, or finding that partner … all of these milestones, it turns out, aren’t ending points. Their lives continue to be works in progress, a beautiful palette of paints where the colours and focus keep changing.

They come to coaching because at some point in their life, they’ve had the experience of being in an environment where they were pushed and challenged to grow. They loved the experience and the feeling and what it brought to them, and seeking out coaching has been a way to bring that back into their lives. Coaching is a way for them to be conscious, deliberate, and to fully experience the “work in progress”, the beautiful painting they’re creating.

My clients are using coaching as a space to do so many things: to explore how to build confidence, what sort of community they want to build, to discover their creativity, to define what openness, honesty, and trust mean in their lives and their relationships, to set career goals, to make plans for bringing their self-awareness out of their heads and out into the world.

It is a beautiful, incredible process, and I feel so privileged to be a part of it. If any of the above description resonates with you, maybe you’re the type of client who would find coaching a great fit, and you’re the type of person I would love to work with.

I offer thanks and admiration to all of these people who are growing and expanding in so many ways. You inspire me! 

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