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Sully has provided valuable coaching to our team and to individual team members for five years. She's helped improve team communication, focus, and performance, and helped individual team members clarify their purpose and develop critical skills. We would be a far less effective organization without her coaching.
- Dr. Scott Dawson, Dean, Orfalea School of Business, California Polytechnic University.
Sully had a keen ability to provide space, support and strategic encouragement to "find the work"that was most important for me to attend to in my leadership role during a period of intense transition and turbulence in my job. She was a sounding board and an analytic partner. Sully helped me to a create a focused game plan to cultivate and support leadership among my team members, while staying true to my own authentic voice, style and ethics - all of which led to increased productivity, impact and well-being. I'll always be grateful that she was part of my leadership journey, and am grateful for the lessons and outcomes of our work together.
- Lauren Nissen, Dean, School of Social Work, Portland StateUniversity
Sully’s coaching is full of an expertly thought out balance of support, invitations for growth, and challenge. After a year of working with her, I ended my time recognizing that despite my lack of foresight, she had a road map for me the whole time. Thanks to her incredible guidance, I was able to make it through the largest career transition I have had to date. I am certainly a more thoughtful, balanced, and empathetic leader due to her skilled coaching.
- Rachel Foxhoven, Director, Graduate Programs Office, School of Business, Portland State University
I’ve known Sully for many years as a colleague, as a friend and in her work as a personal coach. I’ve relied on her keen insights and deep compassion to help me solve a variety of issues in my work as a nonprofit consultant and executive director. Though kind and gentle, her fierce commitment to helping a client underlies a tenacious rigor to challenge assumptions, force one to think in new ways, and often see problems, solutions and even oneself from a very different perspective. Sully will make you work hard, and you will end up loving her for that.
- Bob Hazen, Principal with Page Two Partners, nonprofit leader and consultant
When I first started working with Sully it was to help me become a stronger leader. What she ultimately helped me with went much deeper: Her wide breadth of knowledge, and tremendous capacity to comprehend, helped me identify not only what to work on but also a more profound understanding of the tremendous strengths I already possessed and how to harness them.
Additionally, Sully’s deep level of caring resonated with me from the moment we met, and was proven when she became more than a coach but a strong support and advisor during an unexpected and difficult situation I found myself in. The coaching we had been doing was instrumental in strengthening me, but it was her ready availability with insightful advice or a friendly ear that cemented my opinion that she is the most effective and skilled consultant with whom I have worked. I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to develop his or her full potential as a leader.
-Karyn Hamilton, Marketing Executive