An experienced coach, guide, facilitator and teacher, Jane serves clients who seek to develop their full capacity in their lives, careers and communities. In her warm and intuitive style, she is known for teaching clients to use their whole minds, hearts, and inner resources so that they can step into their creative potential and become leaders from the inside out. Jane also serves small businesses and organizations, helping them create vision and sustainable success from the ground up.
In her former career as an attorney, Jane learned how to deal with difficult and complex situations while staying focused and holding a big picture perspective. She became skilled at seeing things from multiple angles and synthesizing many different threads into a unified whole.
Changing careers mid-life, Jane has brought her training together with the experience she has gained from thousands of hours coaching clients to develop her unique offering. She brings this to clients, small groups and workshop participants to help them expand their inner awareness and take meaningful steps toward their goals and dreams. Her clients gain tools and skills that transform their lives and careers.
Jane has extensive training, wisdom and experience. She has been trained in the fields of human development and potential, organizational and family systems and change, somatic (mind-body) awareness, neuro-linguistics, leadership, creativity, energy modalities, mindfulness meditation, shamanic healing and spiritual traditions. See Underpinnings of My Work on the Services page.
In addition to practicing law for twelve years in mid and large sized firms and public project consulting, Jane participated in Leadership Tomorrow in both Tacoma and Seattle. She has been on the boards of many non-profit organizations in the areas of environment, education and homelessness.
Jane is a coactive coach through the Coaches Training Institute and a professional certified coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She has trained at the Strozzi Institute and with Wendy Palmer in somatic leadership. She is a neurolinguistic programmer through NLPChoices and a shamanic healer through Sheila Belanger. She is trained in Emotional Freedom Technique and Sound Healing (Tom Kenyon), and is a Reiki Master.
Jane is on the Independent Review Board of the International Coaching Federation. She is a past board member of the Puget Sound Coaches Association. She is a facilitator for Awakening the Dreamer/Changing the Dream. She also trains the mentors of the Girls First Program at the local YWCA.
Jane lives in Seattle where she has raised two wonderful children. She enjoys the outdoors, poetry, art, yoga, kayaking, photography, music and spending time with family and friends.
Jane’s Philosophy
I experience my clients as creative, resourceful and whole. I support them as they gain awareness and learn to connect to their inner resources to create, innovate and succeed. As they discover these inner tools, they gain freedom of choice and the power to fulfill their goals and dreams. From this place, they are inspired to act, moving out of their comfort zone and taking risks that they could not imagine taking without that source of confidence.
In addition, the coaching relationship empowers them to lead from their unique gifts and strengths and make a difference without sacrificing their personal health and well being.
Jane’s Commitment to Clients
I am your partner. I create a confidential, beautiful environment so that you can more easily connect with your body, mind and spirit. I empower you to take the lead and I focus all of my attention on you.
I see and honor your full potential. I hold space for your fullest potential to emerge with the awareness and tools you need to release unwanted beliefs and patterns.
I help you focus. I provide focused momentum, keeping you moving forward in small steps, with a large vision to inspire you and give you courage. I provide you with customized tools and practices that transform your thinking and habits and sustain you over time.
I challenge you to take risks. I am your strongest fan, encouraging and challenging you to move out of your comfort zone, to grow, expand, and develop the capacity you need to attain your goals and dreams.
This is your journey. I respect your process and needs and customize our work to engage your creative spirit, your heart and your mind. I always work by permission.
