“Amy is an exceptional coach! Her style is intuitive, flexible, honest, passionate, professional, insightful, and above all action oriented. When I started coaching with Amy, I had an abundance of change occurring in my professional life and felt scattered and unproductive most of the time. While I knew intellectually what I needed to do to change my situation, it was not translating into action. Amy offered me unfettered space to explore, clarify, and articulate my own goals. Through Amy’s coaching, I have perspective on how to realize my goals, life balance to keep me moving forward, and a continued realization that “anything is possible!”

— Kathy Ollearis, Chicago, Illinois

“Amy works with you to provide individualized actionable tools to attain your goals. Her passion for the work shines through and her knowledge of organizational complexity and cultures is really helpful.”

— Laura Tauber, UC Office of the President

“Amy led her fantastic “Promoting Yourself with Grace and Poise” workshop at our annual fall conference. She did an amazing job engaging a diverse group of university staff, sharing her knowledge and professional experiences and really connecting with the participants. Amy created a supportive and fun atmosphere where we could share, explore and learn how to promote ourselves and talk about our accomplishments. She used examples from her own career experiences to show how important self-promotion is to our professional growth and to the units and staff we support. The tips and advice she conveyed were tangible and easy to put into practice. The feedback we received from conference attendees about Amy and this workshop was overwhelmingly positive. Our group went away motivated to look for opportunities to tell others about the positive results of our accomplishments with grace and poise.”

—Jenny Brown, UC Santa Cruz

“Amy’s class and the entire Women and Leadership series has been an amazing experience. Not only has she and the guest instructors presented relevant topics, they provided us with tools and life skills that are useful and applicable to every aspect of life from work to personal interactions. Never again will I forget how empowered I am which is a priceless gift. It is clear that this is Amy’s passion and mission in life, to empower and develop people. This class was an exceptional value for the cost.”

— Tanaiia Hall, UC Berkeley

“Amy approaches coaching with a good balance of compassion and action. From the first moment, I felt completely safe as Amy shared fun stories from her own experiences to show me that I wasn’t completely alone. Beyond feeling better, I also performed better. We started with small manageable tweaks, which crescendoed into challenging “assignments” just past my comfort zone. Even if I didn’t finish every assignment by the next session, I knew I had a roadmap and felt more confident with new tools in my back pocket. With Amy’s coaching, I feel more calm and self-assured. More importantly, others see it too.”

— Hanh Quach, UC Office of the President

“Thank you for facilitating a series of informative and meaningful sessions as a part of the University of California Office of the President’s “Take Charge – Developing A Career Strategy” Sessions. Through this series I discovered quite a lot about myself and how to better evaluate, promote and value my contribution to UCOP. You are an amazing personality and enjoyable instructor.”

— Arthur Barker, UC Office of the President

“I fell absolutely in love with your workshop and negotiation techniques. I just wanted to thank you for sharing all these great tips with me! During the conference I accidentally dropped my iPhone and it fell face first onto the concrete. The glass screen was completely shattered and ruined my morning. I headed out to the Apple store after the conference with a positive attitude and your tips fresh on my mind! I talked to the sales associate and scored a complimentary replacement iPhone that would not have normally been covered due to the personal accidental damage. Thank you so much! Your workshop has proved to be extremely beneficial
and it has only been two days!”

— Nataly Barragan, UCLA