Assess: Power Down Temporarily
We’ll look at the issues that are delaying or preventing you from operating optimally in your personal or professional situation. Our goal is to shine some light onto your blind spot(s) and get a better understanding as to how you feel stalled in your efforts.

Imagine: Map Your Destination
Taking what we uncover in the first phase, we’ll visualize a different outlook that encourages you to travel outside of your comfort zone and discover innovative solutions, without boundaries or restraints.

Process: Study Your Wiring
Here we’ll map your style of thinking. Are you visual, auditory or kinesthetic? Then we’ll move to the brainstorming table where we’ll collaboratively download conventional (and, perhaps, not-so-conventional) options. Via questioning, sorting and refining, we’ll ask you to select two choices. Of the two, which one feels more comfortable, more intuitive?

Prepare: Recode Your Choices
Now that we have a better destination in mind, we’ll look at the practicability and attainability of your choice. You’ll do the necessary research by reaching out to your resource network (people and websites), and we’ll create a timeline and define your short-term goals.

Realize: Plug Back In
This is where the rubber meets the road! Together, we’ll:
• Visualize your success and keep your short-term goals at the forefront
• Tackle the reality of off-days and shortcomings
• Develop practical solutions to filter distractions and stay focused
• Change any actualization weaknesses into strengths
• Focus on the goal with energy and determination

LEAD STRATEGY COACH

Shirley Kurnoff, Ph.D., has navigated some diverse paths in life: start-up entrepreneur, author, working mother, competitive sportswoman. At each stage and phase, Shirley unearthed and honed her natural-given gifts of listening, brainstorming and problem-solving toward a greater end: Helping people derive their most meaningful, purposeful lives.

With multi-faceted life experiences and varied interests, Shirley offers global vantage points in her strategy coaching. As a qualified USPTA tennis professional and board member of the AT&T Pebble Beach Junior Golf Association, Shirley has long studied the commonalities between sports and work and applies the most beneficial tenets in her coaching.

Shirley excels at interviewing people and using her analytic skills to develop practical strategies to move forward in professional or personal situations. She is a seasoned interviewer in cross-cultural settings in the US, UK and Australia. She’s also a graduate of Stanford University (MA Education) and Sydney’s Macquarie University (Ph.D. Sociology), and has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and California State University at Monterey Bay.

Shirley has written The Human Side of Dyslexia: 142 Interviews with Real People Telling Real Stories, and The Human Side of Working Mothers: Today’s Technology Facilitating Working from Anywhere and Anytime, which is coming out soon. A sought-after keynote speaker and interviewer, Shirley drives others to reach their greatest potential.