MY TOOLS
Every craft needs tools
These are the trusted, transformative and time-tested tools that I use in my coaching and development work
Designing Your Life
In 2017, I read Designing Your Life. It changed everything in the course of my career and was the catalyst for my transformation into coaching as my professional purpose. Designing Your Life shows us how the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life - one full of fulfillment and joy, constantly creativity and productivity, and full of surprises. As a Certified Designing Your Life Coach, I use full range of tools, principles, and thinking in the DYL world in my coaching practice.
Leadership Versatility Index 360
The LVI 360 is designed to increase the versatility of leaders– as well as organizations. It gets past the superficial question of what a leader does “good or bad.” Through a full 360-degree feedback process informed by a full circle of a leader’s stakeholders, it focuses on what specific adjustments they could make to be even more effective right now.
The LVI is built around a patented Too Little / Too Much rating scale. Using this scale, the leader, working with their coach, can quickly distinguish their strengths from their strengths overused — as well as those areas they need to strengthen further to be more effective. These insights empower leaders to create a development plan for expanding their versatility and elevating their impact.
Personal Brand Wayfinder
Just like a brand or a product, everyone has an essence. Essence is the most essential you. It’s all the things that make up your identity and brand. It’s your way of being in the world where you create and contribute, most naturally and meaningfully. And when we are able to work from that Personal Brand Essence as a leader, we are able to create and contribute with authenticity and vitality. Working from essence is how we can effortlessly create the impact in the world that we want. The Personal Brand Wayfinder is my framework and process that helps unlock your essence, so that you can live and lead out of it, becoming the creative leader you are fully capable of.
Corestrengths SDI 2.0
The SDI assessment tool that helps us understand our motivational value system – or put more simply, why we behave the way we do. This relationship awareness tool looks at motives and behaviours when we are at our best, and when we are in conflict.
By understanding our own and others’ motivational value system (MVS), we get insight into what’s happening beneath the surface to drive our behaviours. It equips us to appreciate differences rather than moving into unnecessary conflict. It provides teams with a common understanding, language and insight into how we can develop effective and productive relationships with each other. As we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and others, we will be able to lead and work with clarity and empathy, navigate conflict, and ultimately build stronger teams.
