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Let’s create your success story.

If you're looking for highly personalized, customized coaching and support in a confidential and honoring space - you’ve found it.

Sometimes all success takes is having someone on your team who's got your back.

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In over sixteen years of coaching executives all around the world, I’ve learned that moving forward requires a sequence of specific steps. First, you have to understand yourself - fully and honestly. Then, you need to set an intention for what you need to change or how you’d like to be different. Only then can you move toward realizing your goal.

And, for the greatest possible success, this approach needs to be customized to you - to how you learn, to who you are, to how you work best.

This is what I do as your coach. This is my life’s work and I’ve been able to do it with people around the world who are now achieving things they never thought they could achieve.

It’s the best feeling ever.

And since I believe in transparency, my packages and offers are laid out clearly and straightforwardly on my Coaching page.

Are you ready to get started? Because I can’t wait to see what we’ll create together!



As Seen In

The Wall Street Journal

Do You Dare Switch Jobs in the Coronavirus Economy?

Workers debating a change sweat their security and how to make a good impression with new colleagues while many are still in lockdown. Executive coach Michele Woodward talks with Rachel Feintzeig about navigating career change in the midst of a global crisis.

 

Powerful Coaching. Powerful Results.

"I first went to Michele out of curiosity. I come back for the results! It is amazing how she knows just which questions to ask to generate a new energy and thought process. When I’m stuck, I call Michele. When I want to test an idea and have someone turn it on its ear, I call Michele. There are lots of people with experience but Michele just has that something extra – wisdom and a Zen-like quality – that helps me put it all together!"


Susan DeFife Askew
Entrepreneur, lifelong student

"Michele is both insightful and articulate. She has a wonderful way of giving and imparting her expertise so that both her clients and her audience come away with goals and a real vision of how they are going to make lasting changes that will serve them well at work and at home."


Fiona Gathright
President and CEO

"Michele has a keen intuition and gentle demeanor which enable her to ask the right questions in the right way, so I feel safe to explore uncomfortable and powerful issues. She is a first rate executive coach that I highly recommend for her creative approach, thoughtful technique and superb listening skills."


Julie M Hodack
Leadership Coach and Educator

Crys Wood

"Michele's eye is forever on the prize, which isn't making the most money, but making the most of your gifts, skills, and potential, and making danged sure you know the value of those things to the people you can best serve. I walked in with one offer and walked out with three, the main idea solidified, a fledgling idea validated, and an idea I never saw coming."


Crys Wood
Consultant

James Minichello

"Michele has a forward thinking approach that was would benefit anyone in pursuit of professional growth. Her capabilities as a coach along with her teaching skills are outstanding."


James Minichello
Association Executive

Denise Canellos

"Michele cut through two years of stuck in just two sessions. She identified the real problem almost immediately, and moved me through it all with compassion. My business is now moving forward, growing and I feel confident and hopeful for the first time in a long while."


Denise Canellos
Business Owner

Erin Yudchitz

"Michele helped me to approach challenges with confidence. Rather than providing answers, she offered perspective and helped me to reframe situations, always empowering me to be in control. With her guidance, I learned new tools for making plans, taking action, and getting results."


Erin Yudchitz
Program Director

Senya Rahmil

Michele is an experienced professional. She understands her customer needs, she listens, and she is smart, articulate, and practical. Michele is a delightful person and an excellent pro."


Senya Rahmil
Vice President

Lisa Dewey Wells, M.Ed.

Working with Michele wasn't just game-changing for my coaching business but for my heart and soul. Michele has an uncanny ability to see the best in people and to bring together people who complement and support each other. Advancing my business to the next stage would have been a messy process - that I may have abandoned - without Michele in my corner cheering and nudging me along.



Lisa Dewey Wells, M.Ed.

Grounded 2 Grow Coaching, Consulting & Wellness

Abbe Jacobson Kopf

Michele Woodward is a warm, wise, intelligent, skilled coach and leader. Michele’s astute observations have helped countless coaches develop and define their own businesses. With Michele’s guidance I have grown to be more calm, grounded and determined as a business owner.

Abbe Jacobson Kopf

Certified Health and Life Coach

Starla Fitch, MD

Michele Woodward is the real deal. She’s the “Coaches’ Coach.” Whether you’re a surgeon like me, an executive, a coach, a leader, she meets you where you are and truly listens to what you have to say — and, more importantly, to what you’re not saying. Michele is wise, thoughtful, and generous. She is amazingly succinct and cuts to the chase — so important in our busy lives. Life is short: working with Michele can help you get where you want to go!

Starla Fitch, MD

John Haeckel

I have found coaching to be among the most important components of evolving my career in a more fulfilling and rewarding direction. Though skeptical at first, once I embraced Michele’s approach and process, it not only opened new pathways forward, but I also found it so powerful that I encouraged my business partner to engage Michele and brought her into our company to help us.


John Haeckel

President and CEO

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In the news.

The Wall Street Journal
Do You Dare Switch Jobs in the Coronavirus Economy? Workers debating a change sweat their security and how to make a good impression with new colleagues while many are still in lockdown. Executive coach Michele Woodward talks with Rachel Feintzeig about navigating career change in the midst of a global crisis.
Thrive Global
3 Ways Managers Can Make Delegation Less Stressful and More Effective. Delegating isn’t lazy. In fact, it can be a learning opportunity for you and your team. Executive coach Michele Woodward talks with Thrive Global writer Jessica Hicks about successful leadership and the art of delegation.
The Wall Street Journal
Why Forgetfulness Might Actually Help You. Executive coach Michele Woodward talks with WSJ writer Sue Shellenbarger about absent-minded moments and what they may really mean.
HLN HLN
How To Stick To Your New Year’s Resolutions CNN Headline News “Weekend Express” anchor Lynn Smith talks to Michele about making – and sticking to – your resolutions. Televised nationally on Tuesday, January 2nd.
WNYC
Knocking Out the Office Bully. Bullies don’t exist just on the playground. They also exist in the workplace as well. So what’s the best way to deal with your local office thug? Jenna Kagel interviews Michele Woodward on WNYC Public Radio.
Dice
Your Workplace Transition Survival Guide by Yael Grauer. Whether you’ve decided to take the plunge into startup land after years in a big corporation, or chosen to move from a tiny startup to an enterprise position, there may be a few bumps along the way as you learn how to work with your new boss and team. Here are a few tips to help you find success in your new role.
 
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The latest.

It’s a Time Warp

Filed Under: Blog, Clarity, Happier Living, Managing Change

Time has taken on a weird, bendy quality in these pandemic days. Quick quiz:  Without checking any available resource – do you know what day it is?

‘Nuff said.

People tell me the lines between work time and non-work time (and school time and family time and every other kind of time) have blurred and bled into one another in a crazy grid of insanity.

We’ve never been busier even though we have no commute.

We’re swamped although we don’t leave our house.

We’re burned out while all we’ve got is time.

It’s a time warp.

The other day a client told me that she’d spent eight and a half hours in back-to-back Zoom calls. When she finally lifted her head from her computer screen, her family had made dinner. She ate, then promptly fell asleep on the couch. Where she stayed until she woke up the next morning and got ready for her 8am Zoom call.

A friend shared that since she’s monitoring her children’s studies during the day, she works well into the evening. “I’m pulling more hours than ever, mostly because I feel so guilty about parenting during the work day,” she said.

Let me lay out a few facts for you, just as a reminder:

  1. We are in a global pandemic;
  2. As I write this, it’s only getting worse;
  3. We’re in an economic downturn;
  4. Which, as I write this, is only getting worse

It seems to me that we can all use with finding a way to manage our time, our selves, our stuff better. Fortunately, I know exactly how to do it.

Set some boundaries.

No doubt, you’ve heard those three words strung together before, said by me or by a million other well-meaning folks. “Set some boundaries, set some boundaries, set some boundaries” – like a droning mantra.

Sets your teeth on edge, am I right?

I know, I know: You haven’t done it because boundaries feel so harsh and self-centered.

And they might very well require you to say no.

Which feels very icky.

Because you’re a person who says “yes!” Happily, with an exclamation point or two.

Boundaries, you fear, may make someone so angry that they will never, ever, ever speak to you again.

To which, I say: Maybe that’s a good thing in a pandemic. One less person in your bubble. #Justsayin

Boundaries work because they allow you to know where your edges are. So, let’s think about one that’s easy to set and could help you a ton. Ready?

Your boundary is simply saying, “That’s it. I’m done with work for today.” And then push back from wherever you’re working in your home to do something else.

That’s all you have to do.

You can say this at any time of the day you want to say it. Personally, if I get an 7:15am start with my first client of the day, I’m pushing back from the desk at 4pm.

Which means that from 4pm on, it’s Michele Time.

I read books, I take walks, I exercise, I chit chat on the phone with friends and family, I cook, I watch TV, I listen to music, I eat.

I store up my energy for the next day.

Now some of you dear readers are saying, “Fine for you. But I have a JOB and other people have access to my schedule and put things on my calendar and I’m getting paid more than my dad ever got paid and there’s a shaky economy and I can’t lose this job so I need to hustle and never say no and deliver, deliver, deliver.”

All I can say is that coffee is probably not helping you.

I also can say that I have a JOB and people have access to my calendar and put themselves on it and I’m also getting paid more than my dad ever got paid and all the rest.

I still set boundaries.

When you believe that you cannot set boundaries due to external pressures, you are giving every bit of your power to those external forces.

It’s OK to hustle. I am all about the hustle. Just do the right kind of hustle.

The kind that fills up your tank, not the kind that depletes it.

And hustling within boundaries you set for yourself fills up your tank.

Start small by deciding when your workday is over and push back from your desk, knowing that you’ve hustled enough for today given everything you’re experiencing and enduring.

Give yourself and everyone else around you a break by saying, “That’s it. I’m done for today”, and go about your life.

This pandemic will end one day.  It will all become a misty watercolor memory and no one will remember that on a certain Monday in October you pulled a 15 hour day.

But you’ll always remember the toasty crunchy feel of the burnout you experienced because you didn’t set a simple boundary. That knowing will stay with you forever.

#justsayin #onemoretime #setaboundary

 

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