Leaders, professionals and entrepreneurs have unique challenges. It can be lonely at the top - and hard to sustain growth and vision through the inevitable changes that make and break careers. Great athletes move beyond the status quo by hiring coaches. Successful professionals do too.
- Leaders have pressure from all sides: the board, employees, constituents/customers, the marketplace or social sector you serve - not to mention your family obligations and the heightened need for self care that comes with the territory of heightened responsibilities. You have to inspire creative innovation and yet stay the course for smooth operations. It's hard to discern whether professional and personal compromises are in your long term best interest or not. The pressure cooker nature of successful leadership leads to burn out, loss of competitive edge, high turnover and mediocre productivity. The spark of leadership that fueled your rise can burn when you're feeling confined by the status quo. Leaders around the world have discovered that a coaching partnership enables them to make their wisest choices, to align life and livelihood, and to realize their visions for success. Just like Olympic athletes hire coaches to get to the gold, leaders are reporting 150% return on investment in coaching.
- Entrepreneurs and private practice professionals are by nature attracted to the freedom of self-employment only to too often find themselves feeling trapped by it. And unlike your corporate counterparts, you've got to not only steer the ship and keep creating your business everyday, you also have to manage the mundane and everything in between. The creativity that sparked you to entrepreneurship can be a source of aggravation when you’re managing the insane range of details and surprises that come with the territory. And, your work has a different place in your life then everybody else’s - sometimes it feels more like having a baby than having a job.
Whether you're a successful organizational leader, entrepreneur or in private practice, you got there because you've got a certain kind of "leaderful spark." That spark can be challenging to focus and even more challenging to fan into the flame you envision. You have to balance organizational mission with your own personal mission. And, one way or another, you also have to negotiate the changes and choices that are uniquely yours to face while also balancing the missions of each and every person you're in business to serve and with everyone who works that business with you.
Sustainable change happens when you address core issues. If you watch the relationship between Olympians and their coaches, it's clear that the coaches are not therapists, and they're not just correcting physical moves - they're working in a holistic partnership for acheiving new standards of excellence. Just like Olympians and their coaches, Wisdom at Work clients capitalize on vision, passion, hard work, determination and even the obstacles and unexpected changes that inevitably show up on the path to sustaining success and blazing new paths.
Dr. Joni works with clients, primarily by telephone, and at the United Nations, to drill down to the values, beliefs and assumptions that drive and transform action. She helps clients develop their vision, talents and challenges into work they treasure. Clients report increased productivity that translates into bottom line value.
What do clients achieve?
They -
* Reach and surpass benchmarks for success
* Create professional excellence
* Realize visions
* Align life and livelihood
* Acheive high returns on investment of time, talent and money
* Gain a sense of being “in the flow”
* Identify and manage blind-spots and overcome persistent concerns
* Sharpen their focus and priorities
* Engage in more effective teamwork
* Maintain momentum
* Improve the triple bottom line: people, profit, planet
* Negotiate change successfully
* Leave meaningful legacies
Olympians never go for the gold without a coach - and that's not because they're weak! Quite the contrary. It's because they have evidence that a highly trained professional makes all the difference. Dr. Joni helps successful professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs move beyond the status quo.
Who are Wisdom at Work clients?
Professionals, entrepreneurs, and philanthropic/NGO/United Nations leaders who make changes that make a difference. They’re successful people who are smart and have heart. They're scattered throughout the US, UK & Canada and engaged in a wide range of businesses and services who have one thing in common: they bring their visions not only into focus but also into reality. They understand that coaching isn't like getting psychological help; it's an investment in excellence, creativity, productivity, vision, aligning life and livelihood, and unleashing potential.
Our coaching clients are people who recognize what independant studies confirm: that coaching is a good investment - when it's done well, it yields at least a 150% return on investment.
Why do clients sign on to Wisdom at Work coaching?
Clients use Wisdom at Work to evolve themselves and their organizations in 4 ways:
- Some clients hire us to become "unstuck." Wisdom at Work helps them increase the effectiveness and scope of what they already do. We help circumvent old habits and spark innovation. By changing aspects of operational deployment, people gain more vitality and their organizations start evolving more smoothly yet more dynamically.
- Some clients work with us through pivotal career points. Coaching provides reliable scaffolding for career building. It helps client's access and act on the power of personal vision. Transitions are more likely to be transformational, i.e. satisfying and meaningful, with a well qualified coach.
- Some clients hire us to help maintain a sort of dynamic equanimity - in other words, to stay on top of the inevitable rocking and rolling of doing business. They’re doing what they love and use us as a highly skilled check-in for maintaining clarity, for objectivity in making hard decisions, for an unconditional sounding board, for keeping eyes on the gold and feet on the path. Vital organizations manage both the ebb and flow well. Coaching helps organizations best negotiate the winds and tides of change in a way that partners, co-workers, friends and even spouses just can't.
- Some clients hire us because they’ve already achieved plenty – now it’s time to focus on legacy. Conscious dedication to the greater good changes the world. Having had responsibility for giving away over $1 million, Dr. Carley has a unique take on what money buys and what it doesn’t. Having a Doctorate in cultural transforamtion, working with United Nations departmental leaders, and sitting on countless NGO and philanthropic boards, she has an unprecedented ability to support leaders who are ready to give back. Get the best return on investment of your time, talent and/or money. Create a legacy that makes a difference.
Most coaching happens by telephone. Clients sign on for a set number of one hour calls and they take advantage of e-mail support. Calls are scheduled at mutually convenient times and there's a money back guarantee. All organizational coaching is custom fit to your needs.
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The coaching field is booming - you can find a coach for almost anything almost anywhere nowadays. Dr. Carley’s experience, innate skills, credentials, and sustainable results are a rare find in the coaching field today.
From the jungle to the boardroom, the classroom to the podium, from the heart and soul of the matter to the bottom line, Joni brings a unique depth and breadth of experience. The combination of 25 years of consulting, advising and teaching; a doctorate in the Reinvention of Work and Coach U grad; an innate gift for addressing core concerns; and her highly developed communication skills all contribute to exceptional insight and understanding that allow Joni to act as an inspiring facilitator, sounding board, warm mentor, wise guide, and relentless instigator. Dr. Carley shows both individuals and organizations the doors to change. And then politely, but firmly, nudges them through.
