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Breakthrough Coaching

Is there an alternative to this? 

I have grand ideas, but too many to move forward.

I want a life of peace, power, passion and purpose.

Working Workshops

We can’t get out of the storming phase.

Half my role is firefighter & the other half is a referee.

I know what true leadership and high-performing teams can do.

Talent Optimization

See quickly why a team is struggling to execute its goals – and know exactly how to move forward to help them succeed.

Spend less time solving people problems and more time celebrating results.

My Story

I can be a stubborn person. It took me a long string of unfulfilling workdays – despite the amazing people I worked with – to decide on a mini-retirement, a trip without any goals or expectations. My friends and family thought I had lost my mind as my actions were a big departure from my usually responsible and results-driven self. I did check with my financial advisor to make sure my funds were good, though.

My 5-month solo trip around the world shifted my outlook and shed a bunch of expectations from my mind. I visited townships in Africa, wandered around Europe, learned to tango in Argentina, and took care of elephants in Asia. I met people on their own journeys. Some had made a big shift in their own life: my tango instructor was a former microbiologist in Japan, my Prague weekend friend had just divorced her husband despite family pleas not to, and so on. I started to see myself in their stories.

Once I made the decision to use my talents to help people directly, there was no stopping me. I kinda didn’t recognize myself, but I was excited – and scared at the same time. The funny thing was that opportunities to learn and grow started showing up on their own. Some were tough lessons to learn, for sure.

Now I help people make that mindset shift without needing 5 months and a passport of their own.

How are your own version of stubbornness and long-held beliefs keeping you unfulfilled?

How does taking an hour to slow down, quiet the inner critic and see if there is a different path forward sound to you?

See what’s possible when you realize no one is “shoulding on yourself” more than you.

Have a clarity conversation

Talent Optimization

Through my Talent Optimization Certification and alliance with MVP Results, LLC (a Certified Predictive Index Elite Partner), I provide a suite of tools that are reliable, scientifically valid that predict performance and allow leaders to use objective people data along with their intuition.  

DESIGN AMAZING TEAMS

Turn any team into a high-performing team.

The perfect team for running a software start-up is a terrible team for running a hospital. And vice-versa. A mismatch between a group’s behavioral style and its strategic goals can cause major problems.

Build teams with data, not gut feel. Stop wondering how to help your teams get along and get the job done. With PI Design, the answer is clear.

HIRE THE BEST TALENT

Help leaders across the org hire brilliantly.

When you make a new hire, you create a new team. The dynamics change—for the better or for the worse. One bad hire can disrupt a winning team’s groove. Yet companies keep winging it and hoping for the best.

Evaluate candidates for behavioral and cognitive job fit. See how they’ll affect team dynamics. With PI Hire, identifying the right fit is easy.

INSPIRE EMPLOYEES

Improve employee performance.

Managers think they understand their people—when they really don’t. They manage everyone the same way, ignoring individual needs and preferences. Frustrations grow. People stew in silence. High performers leave.

Help your managers understand how to interact with individuals to solve problems and increase their drive. With PI Inspire, performance soars.

MEASURE ENGAGEMENT

Run an employee engagement survey.

Failure to pull together the right people and build the right culture can lead to tension and unhappiness on a team or across the org. Even if you’re doing everything right, one bad hire or a crisis could hurt engagement.

Pinpoint and fix budding problems. Identify what’s working and do more of it. With PI Diagnose, you control engagement.

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Individual Coaching

professional coaching

PERSONAL COACHING FOR FOCUSED ATTENTION ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND GOALS

Is your To-Do list filled with other people’s priorities and not yours? 

Earned a promotion but people are treating you as if you are in the old position?

Just tired of being tired and wondering if how other people make it look so easy?

KeyInsight Consulting helps you get out of your own way. Your managers and friends see the potential in you; my job is to get you to see it, too.

There is a better way to make a living than fighting fires, dreading phone calls from clients, or waiting for bad news to come in from the field.

With over 20+ years working from the frontline to the boardroom, I’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. KeyInsight Consulting will help you to focus your attention through tried and true practices and get your life back in balance.

Let’s focus on your strengths first to get your head above water – and then set a course for where you want to be in work and life.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.  – Zig Ziglar

Contact me today to discover your next step up.

Workshops

Do you have 1-2 managers responsible for the bulk of the daily decisions and crew work? Did you hire them so you could focus on the bigger challenges, but find yourself coming back to put out fires?  Tired of repeating yourself and them just not getting it?

Let’s talk about workshops that will build your team while limiting time away from the business. We offer a series of 3-month programs – each with an increasing skill challenge.

HOW I WORK WITH YOUR TEAMS

  • I’ve been in their shoes – Trying to make the right decision based on what they think you want, keeping customers happy while keeping costs down, leading performers to do what’s best for the business, on and on.
  • It’s a community – Participants will hear from other leaders’ experiences and how they addressed the common issues.
  • It’s engaging – This isn’t a marathon lecture of content that is forgotten the next day. The workshops are coupled with coaching and mobile challenges to get better decision-making quickly.
  • It’s practical – We set expectations to keep your team motivated. The focus is to get a behavioral change on the job.

My goal is to work with your employees until your performance metrics improve; while providing continuous support and mutual problem-solving consultations.

Loyalty and retention increase when employees see an investment in themselves.  Let’s get started today!

Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.  -Brene Brown, Dare to Lead

Testimonials

Connie J.Project Engineer, Private Engineering Firm

A tremendous help to my career

As a result of these focus sessions, I changed just one thing in my life and that one change trickled to other areas of my life for the better! I look forward to the 1-hour focus time where I get to work on my goals – something I don’t normally do on my own.

Art BrionesProject Manager, CCC Group

I learned how to be a leader

I learned how to be a leader more often than a manager. A manager checks off boxes on a “to do” list. A leader works with people to get things done. Once I acted deliberately with my actions (and not just play lip service); people responded differently and that encouraged me to continue the journey.

Gail F.Materials & Process Engineer, Aerospace Company

Indecision to Empowerment

Carissa’s positive, empathetic approach puts clients at ease and sets the tone for important, vulnerable conversations. She is a natural leader who is well equipped with language and techniques to help her clients approach their lives with authenticity. In a single coaching session, she helped me to reflect on my values and take the leap to pursue a risky personal goal, helping me to move from a place of indecision to empowerment.

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