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For Executives and Leaders: One-on-One Coaching

Coaching is a safe place where people can fully be themselves and through conversation, discover new ways to achieve their desired outcomes.

Are you getting everything you want in your professional life?

We discover what you really want that you don’t already have – or are afraid to choose. Then, I keep you on track to get it!

Coaching begins with inward exploration and then expands to include direct reports, team, and the entire organization.

As a leader, how does your behavior affect those around you? Highly effective teams have leaders who model self-aware and responsible behavior.

Learn how you can lead your team – and your organization – to stellar growth.

Certified Coach

ICF Coaching Federation Certification

Coaching is an unregulated field. Many people hang out a shingle and call themselves a coach. I take my profession seriously, and treat my clients with care.

I believe having a coaching certification from an internationally accredited organization gives people comfort – and signifies the level of study I’ve undertaken to hone my craft.

Every Great Leader Has Strengths, and Weaknesses

When you don’t allow the full processing of emotions, you deny people their humanity.

Here’s a bit of what coaching includes:

Understand Your Background

We first dive into what you want, and how you got to where you are now.

Acknowledge Your Strengths

As an accomplished professional, we evaluate the amazing strengths you bring to the table.

How Do You Handle ‘Crisis’ Situations?

The hard situations are what show us our true strengths and weaknesses. We take an unflinching look.

How Do You Communicate?

Communication is at the base of everything you do in the workplace.

What’s Happening in Your Body?

As a practitioner dedicated to embodiment and somatics, we’ll explore what your body is telling you - and what you can learn from it.

Physical Exercises

We get ‘practical’ in our exercises - and out of your head.

Leaders Often Feel Alone

Being accompanied, by an objective outsider and professional

One of the most valuable characteristics of a coach is someone who can truly understand your situation and accompany you through the hard times – and celebrate when you reach milestones

Elite athletes understand there is nothing like a good coach to understand your strengths – and your limits – and help you achieve your objectives.

An objective outsider is someone who can enhance your perspective surrounding a situation – and assist you in making the best choices for yourself

Ready to Get Where You Want to Go?

Client Testimonials

"I would recommend Stephen as a coach in a heartbeat."

Steve Stave - Principle Visualities"Stephen is an amazing coach. He is very warm and inviting, and incredibly easy to talk to. His use of noticing how I physically felt around certain discussion points was very helpful to me. He took his time to truly notice "where I was" at any given time during our sessions."

"I recommend Stephen Kotev as a personal coach."

Ron Thurston - Vice President of INTERMIX fashion
and Author of Retail Pride"[Stephen’s] calming, intuitive, and honest coaching style created an experience for me that was life-changing. His listening and communication skills are indeed phenomenal, and Stephen's wide-ranging intellect and knowledge base are such that he connects with so many different types of personalities."

"Stephen is safe, encouraging, motivational, dynamic and helps you implement sustainable change."

Monica Hudson - EEO Complaints Program Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)"If you aren’t willing to be direct and just want someone to fill in the blanks and tell you what to do – then he’s not for you. You better be willing to work hard. If you do, you will get your money’s worth. Stephen is safe, encouraging, motivational, dynamic and helps you implement sustainable change."

“I didn’t realize how much my fears were directing everything I did.”

Patricia Retka - Supervisory Health Physicist, Leader for Program Development and Compliance Group at Government agency"Stephen is helpful, supportive and challenging. He was able to ... help me get to the core of what I was trying to say. He helped me articulate specific issues that I was struggling to clarify and identify. He was supportive... [but] also challenged me to address things that I was avoiding and which made me uncomfortable. I didn’t always like it but I appreciated it afterwards. I didn’t realize how much my fears were directing everything I did, until he helped reveal my unconscious drivers, unexpressed emotions and unacknowledged intuition. Now I have a path forward to become a more integrated person and effective leader.”

“This work has allowed me to be a better husband, father and leader.”

Mike Giovanetti - Employee Engagement Manager at ManTech"Before I met Stephen I was at a place where I would quickly let my emotions come over me without being able to understand why I was feeling them. I struggled expressing myself and how I was feeling in the moment. Stephen helped me to hold on to what I was feeling allowing me to get deeper into the emotions that were not being expressed. By using his calm and direct approach I discovered how to fully be in the moment with those emotions and not allow them to overwhelm me. This work has allowed me to be a better husband, father and leader. Stephen is an amazingly caring and knowledgeable coach, working with him has been life changing!"

“In just one session, working somatically I was able to focus on and voice personal challenges that were getting in the way of my effectiveness.”

Ruth Britt - TSA Federal Internal Coach Training Manager"Recently I reached out to Stephen for help in developing our Coaching Community of Practice … in these difficult times I knew that Somatic Coaching would add value to our clients, but I didn't realize how much until I was the client! In just one session, working somatically I was able to focus on and voice personal challenges that were getting in the way of my effectiveness. Before that session I thought Somatic Coaching was a nice addition to coaching skills, I now know that it is a powerful tool, something that I will continue to take advantage of for my personal growth and development and something that I want to add to my coaching practice."