My experience being coached by Elizabeth Boehm-Miller was a great one! After being promoted from middle management to an executive position at my company, I found myself in uncharted vocational territory. For the first time in my career, I didn’t have a mentor teaching me the ropes. I knew that I was performing relatively well, and I wasn’t afraid I would lose my job. But I felt insecure and disorganized, and I lacked vision. I needed help and didn’t know where to start.
Elizabeth helped me explore the process of understanding exactly what I was thinking and feeling, and then she empowered me towards setting goals and taking concrete steps to accomplish them. She didn’t tell me what I needed to do – she asked me questions and led me through a process of figuring out for myself where I was, where I want to go, and what steps I wanted to take to change my trajectory. In my time with her I gained confidence, got perspective, developed my career identity and purpose, set goals, established discipline, and changed behaviors which were holding me back. Most importantly, my anxiety went way down and I gained confidence!
Elizabeth is an active listener. She asked open-ended questions at a good pace for me to discover my issues and to make decisions. She encouraged me to make concrete, measurable goals (short-term and long-term). With each session we started by reviewing my progress since our previous session. This really helped me see my progress throughout the process. She was incredibly supportive along the way. I truly felt “coached” – I was the one on the field doing the work, and she was the one helping me find the right direction. She also had several tools and exercises she used for constructive brainstorming.
She is really good at what she does! This was a life changing experience for me, and I am so grateful for my time with her. I strongly recommend and endorse Elizabeth as a coach, particularly for anyone needing to figure out where they are and where they are going.
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