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2020 started with an exciting change for me professionally. I joined the OKA family as “Director of Client Relationships”, pursuing an industry, company, and mission that I am incredibly passionate about. This opportunity came as a result of a several year journey searching for the optimal career path doing work that I believe whole-heartedly in. […]

A lot of the coaching work I’ve been doing with emerging leaders inside organizations and people in their 20’s and 30’s has been about finding a career they love. They are having success in their current role but feel that there is something more out there for them. Often times I hear they don’t know […]

As many baseball fans across the world are aware, the Washington Nationals came back from a season in which they started 19-31 to ultimately win the World Series. Winning the World Series is an incredible feat but doing so after such a difficult start is truly remarkable. In order to engineer such an incredible turnaround, […]

I’ve been working with a lot of people that are in the process of switching jobs or trying to switch jobs whether that be internally or externally, and therefore going through the interview process. While going through the interview process, I hear a lot of “I’m not confident enough,” or “when I didn’t get the […]

In many of the coaching conversations I have with emerging leaders in organizations, the question of “how can I be the best manager?” continues to come up. People are hungry to be effective managers and want to know the secret sauce to managing people. They are afraid of micro-managing, but at the same time want […]

As a coach, I have the privilege of working with individuals in all different stages of their career and life journey. I have worked with people that are new to leadership positions, executives within an organization, recent college grads that are new to the work force, individuals that have lost their job, individuals approaching retirement, […]

I recently went through a Hogan Assessment Certification course to become certified to give the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and the Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory. Hogan is an organization that provides science-based personality assessments to help improve workplace performance. The three assessments I became certified in focus on a person’s typical day to […]

There’s a good chance you’ve experienced a strong mentor relationship with someone at some point in your life. Whether that has been at work when you have a new task to take on, a teacher in school that helped you figure out your career, or a coach when you were playing a sport, we’ve all […]

During many meetings that I’m in with Executives at different Higher Education Institutions, the topic of engaging and motivating their employees continually comes up. A lot of these Executives are in their 50-70’s and mention the generational gap they are dealing with when trying to work with others in their division. This conversation usually begins […]

What is the definition of leadership? According to the dictionary, leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organization,” but that doesn’t really give us much. As someone that spends a lot of time reading about leadership and what makes a good leader, I am always searching for how I can […]