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What is Coaching?

Welcome to Coaching for Purpose™. My name is Tom Stein and I'm a professional Life, Career, and Business Coach. In my case I assist people who find themselves in workplace or career transitions reach their potential and growth goals and lead a fulfilling life.

The International Coach Federation, of which I'm a member, defines coaching as:

Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.

Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.

Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals and organizations set better goals, take more action, make better decisions and fully use natural strengths to produce more satisfying results. Coaches work with clients in all areas, including personal, business and career.

Unlike therapy which focuses on healing emotional wounds, coaching is a tool to gain a fresh, imaginative perspective and then take action on one's possibilities.

What does that mean to you, a potential client? It means I will assist you in leading an intentional life, to give up the “woulda-coulda-shoulda’s” that many of us live by, to make choices based on what you truly and fundamentally value in your life, to succeed beyond your wildest dreams—no, to succeed at your wildest dreams—and to lead a fulfilled life being who you really are.

As a Life, Career, and Business Coach I want to model the services I provide to you. I want to show what's possible by taking the courageous and reflective steps to find out who you are and what you want out of life.

Coaching is my fourth career. I spent seventeen years teaching foreign language, another eight in high-tech sales and management, learned how to build and market webbusinesses along the way, and finally hit upon the work that brings it all together: coaching. For me coaching allows me to work with others in a positive, growth relationship which both they and I find important and fulfilling.

I hope to share that passion with you.

Coaching brings intentional order out of the chaos of our lives.