Life Coaching

What Is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching is an interactive process that enables individuals and organizations to develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results.  Life Coaches work with clients in many areas including:  business, career, finances, health and relationships.  As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths to transform themselves.

Professional Life Coaches are trained to listen and observe, to customize their approach to the individual client’s needs and to elicit solutions and strategies from within the client.  They believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful and that the coach’s job is to  provide support, enhance the skills, resources and creativity that the client already has.  While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires.  Coaching does not focus directly on relieving psychological pain, treating cognitive or emotional disorders.

Gary Vann, PhD is a Michigan Licensed Psychologist as well as a Life Coach.  With over 30 years of  practice in the development of human potential with individuals and organizations, there are 4 major areas that he provides coaching in:

Ø      1.  Executive and Corporate Coaching:
·      Human Resources departments interested in hiring external coaches.
·      CEO’s executives, managers and other professionals who would like a coach.
·      Companies looking to launch a coaching initiative.
·      Companies intending to train their managers to be coaches.
·      Initiatives to prevent and/or cure burnout.
·      Companies interested in coaching workshops.
·      Companies wanting the support of a coach in any of the following:

o       Strategic/succession planning process re-engineering; creating a compelling vision with visioning advances;

o       Launching and development of teams using 360-degree audits along with leadership traits/skills assessment instruments. 

Ø      Family Owned Businesses:
·      Entrepreneurs
·      Owners or Managers of small companies
·      Start-up companies (actual or planned)
·      Professionals in private practice
·      People who operate a business from their home
·      Executives thinking of leaving a job and launching a business 

Ø      Personal/Life Coaching:
·      Life planning
·      Life vision & enhancement
·      Extreme self-care
·      Spirituality
·      Relationships (Singles, couples, families, etc.)
·      Health & Fitness
·      Creativity
·      Financial Freedom
·      Organization
·      Children/Teens/college Students

Ø      Career/Transition Coaching:
·      People in career transition
·      People with a big career decision to make
·      People struggling with the decision of whether to stay in a corporate job
·      People who would like to work with a coach familiar with the following:  

o       The changing expectations of employees and employers; trends in the work place, values and issues of loyalty and security; specific evaluation criteria for ones company, future or career satisfaction; determining ones readiness to stride out on their own or look for another career.