Unlock your potential.

Tools we'll use in our journey together

Coaching tools in action: Immunity Mapping

Discover your immunities to change.

"I try so hard to lose weight, but it fails every time."

Replace "lose weight" with "get a promotion," "find a partner," "figure out what I what to do with my career," or a host of other things, and you've got a challenge.

Immunity Mapping is a technique we use to help you to unblock what's getting in your way. We all develop "immunities" over the course of our lives. Immunities, such as perfectionism, can serve us well. It can encourage us to produce high quality work that get us promoted. It can also get in our way - for example, making us spend so much time "getting it right" we sacrifice family time.

We'll work together through an exercise - developed by experts at Harvard Business School - to help you uncover and unblock these immunities and underlying assumptions, actions, and behaviors, so that we can unlock your best self.

Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). Immunity to change: How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Tools We'll Use. Read on Below.

Keep the Change focuses on two basic tenants. Envisioning a more authentic, capable, empowered you, and unblocking barriers to that vision.

Living the Future you Want.

Design Thinking Coaching - living authentically
Values Card Sort - values, “even overs,” prioritization
Reflected Best Self - envisioning your best “you” that you may not see
Re-writing your Narrative
Journaling - individual prompts - energizers and drainers

What’s Getting in your Way.

Skills – Leadership/Technical. Skills assessments will be used on a needed basis - as a solution to mental blocks or to upskill for leadership development.

360 Feedback (Custom)
Hoganⓒ
Reflected Best Self
EQi2.0ⓒ
MBTIⓒ
DiSCⓒ
Communication Styles
Leadership skills (individual coaching - presentation skills, strategic/talent planning, vision, delegation, communication, teamwork, working innovatively, design thinking)
Mental Models. Coaching will include a deep dive into mental models and how they block your path forward.

Naming – coaching ex, relationship inventory, defense mechanisms
Reframing – naming biases and the reframe (multitrack, widen your options, avoid a narrow frame), what if, observation, design thinking/ideating pathways forward
Testing – journaling, testing, reflection, mindfulness

Your Immunities to Change - Immunity mapping

reframing

Re-framing is about unblocking mental models that keep you from moving forward. Coaching involves asking the right questions to get to solutions that feel right for you.

Rewriting your Narrative

What's your story? Who are you? Getting clear on your story will help you prioritize life's challenges and keep you energized. We'll work together on your story.

design thinking pathways forward

Ideate. Test. Test Again. Design Thinking methodology is a huge component of what makes Keep the Change different. We'll test out all the different ways to unblock yourself.

Leadership Assessments

Whether it's a skill, feedback, or understanding how you're perceived, Keep the Change coaching combines over a decade of Leadership Development and assessment experience with coaching to best serve your needs.

Keep the Change 360 Feedback
Communications and Personality Assessments - including EQi2.0, Hogan, and MBTI

The Keep the Change Coaching Frameworkⓒ

Keep the Change focuses on three basic tenants. Envisioning a more authentic, capable, empowered you, unblocking barriers to that vision, and creating real pathways forward.

1. Living the Future you Want.

What will we talk about first? Through use of discovery discussions, tools, and diving deep, we'll craft goals to unblock your best self. Our goals will be focused, achievable, and will "feel right" for you.

2. What's Getting in Your Way.

Our partnership will focus on co-creating pathways forward. But we'll hit some snags - and that's ok! That's where my leadership expertise comes in. We'll clearly define your roadblocks and determine the right mix of changing thinking (unblocking mental models, your immunities to change), leadership or technical expertise (utilizing assessments such as MBTI, EQi2.0, short assignments, and feedback), or social support you need to reach your goals.

3. A Real Plan to Get you There.

The rest of your partnership with me will be a flexible, action oriented journey of "testing" new ways to challenge your thinking, upskill you in any areas where you'll need more knowledge and expertise, and constantly iterating and creating different pathways every session, until we're where you want to be.

When we work together, I'll help you keep the change by bringing to the table:

13 years of corporate talent and leadership development experience at all levels. From early career professionals to c-level executives, I've seen it all.

A graduate degree in learning and change. Advanced coursework from a top university means that I have the knowledge, background, and resources to help you learn, change, and grow.

A focus on discovery. Often, we "know" what to do, or what needs to be done differently. Why don't we? A clear focus on the right "whys" will help you get to where you want to be.

Experience with real tools, assessments, and feedback. I'm certified in a variety of assessments that are used in the real world, including Myers Briggs and DisC (leadership and personality), EQi2.0 (emotional intelligence), Prosci Change Management (enacting and sustaining change), Dare to Lead (Brene Brown's leadership model).

A focus on design thinking to co-create your coaching journey. My approach, style, and coaching partnerships leverage design thinking concepts by focusing on seeing the big picture and creating small actions to get you to where you want to be. You are unique. Your coaching plan will be too.