Global Focus Coaching

Honoring the full complexity of the human story through the relational power of coaching.

Global Focus Coaching offers internationally recognized coach certification courses, coaching partnerships for organizations, and individual coaching experiences in service of the collective wellbeing of humans and the planet.

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Discover how authentic human connection fosters personal growth and transformation. Our coaching emphasizes relational attunement that ripples into every aspect of life, helping people navigate life’s complexities with great presence, clarity, and self-awareness. At the heart of work is the belief that coaching is a partnership grounded in curiosity, wholeness, and the belief that each person already carries profound wisdom and capacity for change.

Our programs are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which means our curriculum meets rigorous professional standards for ethical, high-impact education while ensuring our coaches are trained to hold space for the full complexity of human experience.

Our Offerings

Become a certified coach through our 6-month core certification program, Coaching for Complexity.

Take your coaching practice to the next level with our 3-month ICF Level 2 Certification.

Discover what coaching can do for you by signing up for Six Conversations, our signature six-session coaching experience.

Invest in coaching to develop your team members in ways that reverberate across your organization through an organizational partnership.

Meet Our Coaches

Our coaching team includes our founding faculty, seasoned mentor coaches, and staff coaches trained from a pool of outstanding graduates of our ICF Level 2 program, Coaching for Complexity. While our backgrounds are diverse, we practice from a single, shared stance: affirming your inherent wholeness, honoring your cultural context, and partnering with you to navigate complexity.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE

Coaching the Whole Person

Most organizations and coaches describe their approach by listing the primary concerns they support clients with: life coaching, business coaching, relationship coaching, career coaching, or wellness coaching. At Global Focus Coaching, we believe in the interconnectedness of the human experience: the issues that show up for us at work might also impact our health, show up in our relationships, and shape our life choices. We embrace a holistic coaching approach that braids together the different threads of our complex humanity and reconnects you to the most fundamental human questions: why are you here? What kind of person do you want to be? What gives you purpose? What do you value most?

We Coach People, Not Problems

Our focus is developmental rather than performance-oriented, meaning that rather than coaching toward solving a particular problem, we support people in developing new capacities, perspectives, ways of relating, and ways of being. Everything we do is in service of the messy, human process of Becoming.

The process of Becoming applies to the coach, too. Our certification is not simply about learning a set of coaching competencies. It is a developmental journey in which coaches examine their own ways of seeing, listening, relating, and showing up. As coaches become more aware and more capable of being in relationship, their impact extends beyond the coaching conversation.

We Know That Culture and Context Matter

Our approach to coach is rooted in each person's unique history, life experiences, identities, values, relationships, an and social location within systems of power. We honor many ways of being, knowing, and doing and believe that coaching is an age-old human practice that belongs to everyone. We are keenly aware of the potential for harm in the coaching relationship, and our approach to coaching across identity and power/privilege differences centers on curiosity, trust, accountability, and repair.

Relationship is the Heart of our Coaching Methodology

Many coaching programs use a cookie cutter approach that brings coach and client through a series of linear steps. Rather than trying to make everyone's coaching experience fit a single rigid methodology or process, our coaches take the time to co-create a culturally responsive relationship with the client that acknowledges the inherent complexity of their unique life story and context. An effective partnership between coach and client is the bedrock foundation for meaningful personal development.

Good coaches are like good hosts. They pay close attention to you. They notice when the you need more space, when something important is emerging, when a new perspective might be useful, or when it might be time to challenge an assumption. We call the intentional act of relational attention Attunement. We spend a lot of time training our coaches on how they manage their own perceptions, how they attune to the subtle energies of the client, and how they show up in full presence in service of the client's growth and development.

We Coach Individuals and Systems

None of us exist in isolation. Our approach understands people as part of interconnected inner and outer ecosystems. These ecosystems are both highly individual (including a person's thoughts, emotions, body, beliefs, identities, and relationships) and incredibly vast (including a person's communities, organizations, systems, and natural environment). Both our inner and outer ecosystem are alive, constantly changing and relating.

Too often, coaching holds individuals responsible for a "bootstraps" approach, asking them to make changes in their lives while ignoring systemic violence that creates barriers to these changes. At Global Focus Coaching, we uplift each individual's power and agency while recognizing how identity, power, privilege, oppression, history, and social context shape people's experiences and possibilities. We believe that coaching can be a powerful collective tool for understanding and changing complex systems.

COACHING FOR COMPLEXITY

Our Core Coach Certification Program is a coach training program that helps you grow your skills in all things distinctly human. The course’s experiential peer learning model and emphasis on practice, feedback and self-development are designed to empower you as a coach, fostering genuine relationships and growth in your practice.