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High performance coaching.
Modern life is demanding. Navigating career growth, transitions, conflicts and opportunities can be challenging.
I support professionals through mindset shifts that help them to grow towards their aspirations. The outcome is unlocking your best self.
What is Professional Coaching?
Ever find you're over-indexing on something and don't know why? Imagine having a trained professional that can work with you to handle it.
Think about what an athlete gains having an experienced coach by their side. We spend a huge chunk of our lives working. Few of us ever get real support.
Need to know more? Check out how the International Coaching Federation describes coaching and its benefits here.
Or - book a free discovery call with me today!
Why work with me?
🥳 It's free! My first 100 hours of coaching is totally free. I'm asking only for your feedback and - totally at your option - a testimonial.
🧑🎓 UBC Coaching Program Student (Cohort 19). This award winning program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
🤝 20 years of global leadership. Including as a Co-founder, Director and CEO.
🌱 Role & sector transitions. Global finance, sustainability, Internet tech, and aerospace.
✈️ Cultural diversity. Former United Nations staffer. Professional travel to over 60 countries, lived and worked in Canada, Switzerland and the USA.
🧢 Workplace diversity. Experience in government, private sector, nonprofit and advocacy workplaces.
My Approach
Coaching can be challenging. It involves intense reflection, exploration and embedding of new practices. It's also affirming and freeing. I bring the values below to every coaching session as part of the compact we make to explore together.
Authentic: We are complex. Showing up as we really are with our whole selves.
Empathy: We hold one another. Meeting emotions, stories, failures and success with strength and support.
Innovation: We believe in agency. Being open to new ideas and ways of being and doing. Being inspired by our potential to create and change.
Direct: We call it what it is. Speaking in plain language that is open, direct and to the point. Calling out the things we’re avoiding talking about.
Efficiency: We get things done. Focus on achieving results and moving forward. Avoiding re-hashing, spinning wheels, and things that hold us back.
Creative: We aren’t afraid to imagine. Trying new things and exploring different ways of working and being.
Balance: All of it matters. Living a life filled with joy that not only allows for, but drives our passions.
Respect: We check our assumptions and question the source of our fears. Engaging in relationships that are grounded in mutual respect allows us to explore assumptions in safety.
My Story
Hi! I'm Jake. I was tired of living my life in boxes. I felt like a software stack that was constantly failing to interconnect. My work app, my family app, my surfing app, my entrepreneur app. The list goes on.
Last year I had a monster bike accident. I was airlifted to hospital. Lying in bed, unable to eat or move, forced me to run just one single app: recover. And I did.
Then, those other apps started creeping back in. Explode reminds me to blow them up. Our identity is a whole and unique way of relating to the world. Sure, we can run apps to relate to parts of it, but why give up our agency?
I came to coaching as a commitment to sharing this intention with others. Boxes may not be what gets you stuck, but we all have things that are holding us back.
Working together, we create a space for you to think deeply about how you relate to the world.
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