Success Stories

Before working with Kevin, I lacked direction and self-confidence.

I didn’t think I was good enough for bigger roles. I didn’t know what my “calling” was.

My life felts like it was at a standstill. I felt like a spectator watching others progress in their careers with no movement in mine.

The friends I had were very superficial — just friends who just made me feel good but nothing more.

I yearned to have powerful, inspiring people around me.

In our work together, you helped me accept me where and commit to a higher potential.

You were respectfully firm while coaching me, and that lead to many personal breakthroughs. I appreciated how you weren’t attached to any outcome, but you were committed to helping me get what I wanted.

Even though you went through a huge personal loss in your life during our work together, you were still fully present to serve me.  That was incredibly powerful and made me feel valued.

I resisted being vulnerable at first, but opening up made a tremendous difference in so many ways.

I’m a little teary-eyed as I share this. Here are a few massive changes your help lead me to accomplish:

• I bravely stepped aside from the opportunity to be a partner in my business, so I could instead finish my BA in Psychology, which is aligned with the future I’m creating for
  myself
• I made plans for my family to move to the west coast to be closer to family
• I created a business retirement plan…I was able to do what I wanted and have fun with it.
• I also pursued scuba-diving and am now certified.
• I started taking charge of my health too. I’m down 50 pounds.

The best thing is taking on my mental well-being. I’m no longer a spectator watching other people’s lives!

I’m better able to communicate with others more effectively and feel freedom and peace of mind.

I’m eternally grateful for the support you gave me, Kevin.

This higher level of awareness has helped me manage myself and engage with others with less worry and stress.

I hold high standards for myself, and I wanted to excel both as an employee and as a leader. I knew I needed someone to guide and teach me — to show me how to ask good questions and
lead effectively.

You helped me avoid continuing down my habitual thought patterns and resulting behaviors and anxieties. This higher level of awareness has helped me manage myself and engage with others with much less worry and stress.

One of the most memorable sessions I have had with Kevin was a discussion about leadership styles and how I can be cognizant of the biases I inherently bring to the table as a male with privilege and how I can ensure that colleagues who I engage with feel that they have the agency to express their voices fully — that they are fully heard.

This was a challenge for me.

Your inviting, gentle style led me through the challenge, providing feedback without judgment, creating a safe space where I could be vulnerable with my true thoughts and worries. I walked away from the session feeling highly confident about the steps I could take to improve.

You ask good, powerful questions that get to the roots of issues, and that helps me come to my own conclusions about areas that I would not have considered but which are relevant to the topic of leading — and I learned a lot about myself.

I’m more self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and intentional when taking action — all of which help me manage and lead.

My developing leadership abilities have helped in so many areas of work: year-end goals, team-wide task management, improving processes, mentoring my department, grants management, developing products, social relationships, and personal challenges.

It was also a big help that you could mentor me in the government sector, an area I knew little about.

I understand myself better, and that’s been a tremendous help.

Kevin, you’re a role model for me. Thank you.

~ Amit K.