"Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We consider ourselves learning partners with those who seek to explore and become more effective in their work and lives. Our mission is to expand the capacity of our clients to grow and sustain their purpose and values within ever-changing circumstances. Our work is focused on individual development , especially but not exclusivelyin the areas of:

• Interpersonal Effectiveness: speaking, listening, self-representation, influencing, inspiring, engaging others, giving and receiving feedback, coach others, designing "learning" conversations, deepening relationships; building trust, collaboration and more.
• Leadership Presence: self-awareness and reflection, including the ability to stay with intense experiences without "leaking" or discharging, returning to balance quickly following a triggering reaction, speaking into experience as it occurs, cultivating heart, body and mind in support of spontaneous, generative, appropriate responses to what is needed in the moment.

Our Values and Commitments

We believe that within each human being lies the deep desire for authentic expression, intimate connection and true meaning.

We have found that Integral Coaching, a way of collaborating with clients to evoke their uniqueness and their essential truths, effectively supports a person's capacity to align with and actualize their fullest potential.

We are committed to collaborative partnerships designed to evoke these outcomes in ourselves and others. We do so by cultivating relationships that are:

• Authentic: Modeling and inviting genuine freedom of expression, which includes speaking what one is thinking, feeling, sensing, and attending to what is not said but might need saying. Doing so with honesty and humility.
• Practical: Focusing on what is useful and what works, including tying our work to defined outcomes that can be sustained beyond the terms of the coaching relationship.
• Elegant: Addressing, with simple clarity, what is most essential and relevant.
• Intelligent: Including assessments grounded in solid evidence and learning models derived from recognized human learning behavior, theory and practice.
• Compassionate: Cultivating a safe, trusting holding environment within which truth can emerge and grow.
• Integral: Recognizing interdependencies, valuing multiple intelligences and our connection to others; acknowledging the ultimate paradoxes and mysteries of seemingly competing realities and forces.

About Terry

 Terry has more than 25 years of business and coaching experience in the high tech and financial services industries, with a strong record of producing results. She has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of marketing, communications, customer loyalty and retention. For the past six years, Terry has coached leaders and executives to increase their effectiveness, prepare for expanded roles, and bring about the results they seek.

Her business background within a variety of organizational cultures, reporting structures, mergers and acquisitions helps her to understand and support executives across a wide range of leadership challenges: understanding or integrating into an existing work system or team, restructuring work and teams, establishing/repairing damaged relationships, cultivating leadership presence, re-defining vision, mission and purpose, and developing talent.

 In both her coaching and facilitating, Terry employs an approach to development that fosters collaborative dialogue and mutual learning. She brings a still, powerful presence to her coaching, which clients say evokes clarity and new ways of working with the challenges that interfere with their effectiveness. Her skills as a communicator, and her ability to bring to the foreground what is needed in the moment, cuts to the “heart” of what matters, and is admired and valued by clients. Her objectivity supports her clients in looking squarely at their blind spots, and practicing new behaviors until they become engrained.

Terry is an avid reader and a long-time practitioner of NIA, yoga, and meditation. She lives in an old mission-style home in historic Fort Worth, which she and her husband share with their son, dog and two cats.

Education and Affiliations

• B.A. in English Literature, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
• ICF Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
• Certified Integral Coach, New Ventures West
• Certified Integrative Coach, The Ford Institute
• Coach Training Mentor, The Ford Institute
• Coaching to Excellence, through New Ventures West (to train leaders to coach)
• Spiritual Intelligence Assessment Certification, Conscious Pursuits
• Riso-Hudson Enneagram certification (in progress)
• Certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator