The quality of the human experience is limited by the quality of our relationships: relationships with ourselves, with others and with our world. By expertly using the tools of listening, questioning, supporting, challenging, clarifying, collaborating, strategizing, brainstorming, inspiring, championing, structuring, sharing new perspectives and insights, helping to remove blocks to growth, and holding the client accountable, we help clients bridge the gap from where they are to where they would like to be in their personal and professional lives.

Our clients range from the famous to the unknown. They have included famous entertainers, top performing athletes, successful CEOs and the average individual, couple or family. What they all have in common is the desire to achieve relationships with family, friends and colleagues of exceptional quality. The benefits that our clients have reported are significant. As a result of our coaching and their commitment to practicing they report that they:

Coaching is not Therapy. A traditional therapist looks to diagnose a mental disorder and use commonly accepted therapeutic interventions designed to treat the disorder. When the mental disorder is in remission, or “fixed” the therapy relationship typically ends.

In contrast, coaching is focused on assessing a client’s, couple’s, family’s or other system’s current performance and developing strategies designed to enhance existing strengths to meet one’s goals. We work with clients to forge a new future by practicing specific strategic tools that help move relationships towards excellence. Coaching opens the client to new ways of thinking and behaving, accelerating the natural learning curve, enhancing what is already known, developing relationship agility and resiliency, self-reflection skills, reinforcing strengths, providing new challenges and setting new standards for measuring exceptional performance.

Coaching is growth oriented, with a goal of expanding awareness, capabilities, possibilities and prospects.

K2 Coaching is a highly customized targeted experience that addresses the client’s specific need and challenges. Our eclectic approach allows for great flexibility in terms of how coaching services are delivered and the tools used. Services may be delivered through personal visits, phone conferences, and electronic interactions.

As coaches, we serve as guides and facilitators. The relationship between K2 and our clients is seen as a partnership. Each has equal responsibility to support change. We provide unfiltered, unbiased information and feedback, which is difficult for friends, family members, co-workers and bosses to do. We guide, monitor, help define, and evaluate. With our commitment to excellence, in our work we include the very latest empirically tested, state of the art information, tools, strategies and approaches.

While the coaching relationship obviously works better over time, coaching can be immensely effective in times of crisis.

As coaches we occupy a role similar in concept to one’s attorney, accountant, financial planner, personal trainer, clergy, therapist, or doctor; a member of their professional support team. Today, there is more information than any one person can possibly know about many important issues. The risks of not knowing important information is higher than ever before. The typical professional has spent and will continue to spend tens of thousands of dollars dedicated to learning and maintaining their professional credentials. They will put themselves in front of experts, to learn what they need to know to succeed in their lives.

Most people believe that quality relationship with their significant others, their families, their friends and their co-workers are the most important things in their lives. As such, we believe these relationships deserve to have a specialist on call also. Excellence in terms of quality relationships will not happen on its own.

The profile for a successful coaching client includes a commitment to improve, a willingness to look at what they bring to the relationship they are seeking to improve, an ability to trust the coach, an openness to feedback, a willingness to practice new and sometimes challenging skills, an openness to new ways of seeing the world, a willingness to look at changing his or her ways of behaving, and a positive optimistic view of the possibility for change to occur. K2 clients are individuals, couples, families, professionals and systems who are ready to extend and elevate their relationship performance level.

A successful coaching relationship can be measured, in part, by a positive responsive to the following questions: Has the client been able to exhibit improvement? Are his other performance targets being reached? Have others around the client noticed a positive difference or change? Has the client been able to transfer skills learned and developed to other areas of their lives?

As your guides, you can be confident that we have been to the mountain. We will not take you somewhere we have not already been. Exceptional personal relationships are the most important things in our lives. We continue to learn. We share what we have learned with you.