The Benefits of Coaching for Your Business

Here are some case study examples and reports from clients of the challenges they've faced and the benefits they've gained from our work together:

Case Study Examples:

• A consultant who wanted to grow his business needed focus plus a new brand identity. He clarified his new line of services, and from that exploration created a new business name, logo and tagline. He then developed and executed a marketing plan that included a website, newsletter and blog. His schedule is now fully booked for months ahead.
  
  
• Burnout and backaches led a nurse to explore other options. After designing and implementing a plan including classes and informational interviews, she was surprised to discover a deeper appreciation of her own work. She learned that what she actually needed was to take a long delayed vacation, and she returned to her job refreshed and inspired.
  
  
• After sending her children off to college, a stay-at-home mom discovered how to combine her original professional training with her life experience to become a management consultant. She developed a business plan, marketing strategy, business card and website, and now loves working with her growing client base.
  
  
• After a workplace injury, a lab technician developed a strategy to start a new business as a spiritual counselor while cutting back her job hours. In this way she maintained a cash flow while building the work that she had always wanted to do. She's now working full time in her new business.
  
  
• A web designer struggled with more business than she could comfortably manage. She learned how to establish boundaries and realistic schedules with each client, and designed a client welcome letter, written agreement and billable hours tracking system. She now enjoys more time with her family in addition to her work.
  
  
• Burnout from a high-tech career led an engineer to re-evaluate his work choices. He developed a plan to start a consulting business that expressed his expertise yet allowed him to choose his own hours and projects that reflected his personal values. He's now in the satisfying position of turning down job offers due to the success of his business.
  
  
• A massage therapist wanted to increase her business. She designed a logo that expressed the essence of your work, then created a business card and a flyer. She set up a beautiful display in the waiting room of office space she shared and took her flyer to locations targetting her ideal clients including health clubs and yoga studios.
  
  
• One burned-out client discovered a calling for a new career that she thought she wouldn't enjoy. After detailed research and analysis, she developed a multi-year transition plan and began training as a therapist within a few months after our completion.

You are welcome to contact me at inquiry@visionsintoform.com or 415.488.4998 for more information or to schedule a free session to see what might be next for you. I offer phone sessions as well as office appointments in San Anselmo, Marin County, California.

Reports from Clients:

"Audrey Seymour transformed my life. She exemplifies the radical power of coaching to change lives. Two years ago I was miserable at a startup company. My work/life balance was off, my pay was awful, and I was not living within my life's purpose. I turned to Audrey for help. Together, we mapped out what my perfect year would look like, to engineer a life of integrity and peak experiences. Today, thanks to Audrey's transformative work, I am now an inventor who is paid to do what I love. My peers respect me, I have ample room for spiritual reflection and travel, and I regularly meet with major companies to consult with them on invention and computers. I now live within my life's purpose. If you want to change your existence, I encourage you to contact Audrey without hesitation."
-- Brad Neuberg, Inventor and Software Engineer

"Working with Audrey these past two years has been awesome! I have learned organizing techniques and how to set goals. I bought a house and returned to school. I will be starting another business from what I've learned to inspire, empower, and encourage Bay Area women."
-- Doretta Kerl, Author and Publishing Company Owner

"Audrey is one of the best listeners I’ve ever met in my life, bar none. She was both supportive and non-judgmental. She helped me to think expansively and reminded me that by viewing obstacles and challenges differently they become opportunities. I was able to formulate concrete and measurable goals for my business, and to clarify what was most important to me in my brand, specialty, niches, and natural market."
-- Bob Love, Discovery Coach

"Since we started, I'm feeling much better about myself and my ability to get things done. I'm working much more efficiently and productively. I'm more on the ball, and it boosts my energy -- I've kicked into a higher gear. It's been really helpful for me in meeting my goals."
-- Eva Penzes, Web Programmer and PC Consultant

"Audrey’s intuitive wisdom and razor sharp inquiry helped me make sense of myself. She consistently and compassionately mirrored back to me my true nature. The clarity I found from working with Audrey has opened me up to a wealth of creativity. With Audrey’s steady guidance, I have successfully launched a business using the Speaking Circles® approach to assist individuals in dissolving their fear of speaking in public. I have become part of a collective that facilitates earth-based programs. I am writing children’s books and currently learning how to make documentaries. Thanks to my work with Audrey, for the first time, I feel my life has begun to synthesize in such a way that I can make the most of my gifts."
-- Sahara Chaldean, Vision Quest Guide and Speaking Circle® Facilitator

"At age 53 I was laid off from my job of 5 years. What I valued most was Audrey's ability to be deeply present, really listen & then to reframe my fears and confusion into more positive messages I could use to go forward. Audrey has the maturity, experience and wisdom to translate the language of the unknown into pathways to action. I would recommend her as a coach to anyone willing to explore the change they wish to make."
-- Linda Brosh, RN, Health Care Administrator

"If you had told me that within 3 months of starting to work with Audrey that I’d have left my job of 10 years for one that met ALL of my ideal work conditions, I would not have believed it.  But now I work in a beautiful environment, 10 minutes from home, and at a pay rate that I had not thought possible.  Following the steps with Audrey to identify my ideal job helped me recognize an opportunity as the right one for me.  Things just seemed to fall into place!"
-- Sue, Office Manager

"I have worked with Audrey for several months and have found the experience exciting, rewarding, and practical. With her passion for project management and background in engineering, combined with a depth based on years of spiritual work, she has a lot to offer. I see her as a 'life engineer', helping her clients to see clearly what arises, and make dreams become real. She has found her path, and is helping me to find mine. I am delighted to recommend her as a life coach."
-- Lee Brewster, Information Technology Consultant

"Audrey helped me to clarify and continually move toward my goals with ease, grace and compassion. Through our work, I started to include my whole self in my vision by staying true to my deepest values. Thank you Audrey for your divine wisdom and guidance."
-- Lorraine Platt, Psychotherapist

"Audrey's guidance has made a profound difference in my quest, this time around, for more meaning in my worklife. She is able to bring the focus of our sessions to the key question or issue that I need to explore more deeply in the moment, to find my truth. Through her compassionate and intuitive coaching - indeed through her full presence -- I am learning to recognize and trust my inner voice. Her style of coaching is very empowering, and within four months some significant shifts are already taking place."
-- Joanie Boyle, Business Systems Analyst

"I learned to say no to my negative inclinations and yes to the people and things that really matter. Audrey is a combination wise old aunt and professional mentor. I highly recommend her!"
-- Maxine Davis, Technical Writer

"Audrey engages me in a process of exploration that I could not do alone. Her questions and her listening and guidance help illumine my pathway. She encourages my evolving dreams and assists me in finding the ways to make them come true."
-- Jeannine Kay, Professional Speaker and Communications Coach

You are welcome to contact me at inquiry@visionsintoform.com or 415.488.4998 to schedule a complimentary initial session to see what might be possible for you. I offer phone sessions as well as office appointments in San Anselmo, Marin County, California.

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