Individual Coaching
Professional Development Coaching for Individuals
Whether you’re at the beginning of a management track, shifting from a professional expertise into leading a team, project, or initiative, or you’ve been in leadership a while and need to hone your skills, we’ll develop a program based on your individual goals and pain points.
Neora coaches in 5 areas, targeting specific kinds of challenges professionals face as they evolve into the leaders they were born to be.
The quick guide: Although Neora offers a broad array of ways to work with her, individual clients often come to Neora for empowerment coaching. Look to Performance Coaching for confidence, inner critic, or inner saboteur work. Look to Development Coaching for Neora's trademark "life coaching" mentoring.
Each type of coaching offers options for quick journeys, in depth mentoring, and on demand coaching for alumni clients.
Discover the coaching journey that is right for you.
· Executive Coaching: Develop a Leadership Practice
· Performance Coaching: Develop Leadership Presence
· Storytelling Coaching: Create a Professional Storytelling Practice
· Content Development Coaching: Develop an Individual Project
· Development Coaching: Get help Managing Change
Executive Coaching
Develop a Leadership Practice
Is "Leadership" an ineffable magic only available to the greats who possess that special gift? Or is it a practice we can learn by way of a developmental journey into becoming our highest potential?
Neora's years in the field as a transformational coach prove that leadership is a skillset we can learn. That said it's an individualized journey that also requires mentoring to get there. Neora's unique approach to Executive Coaching grounds your Leadership Practice in your Leadership Story.
Work with Neora to name and claim a leadership practice robust enough to hold your developmental journey.
Who it’s for: professionals in need of mentoring when tasked with carrying a role or project wherein you need to lead with genuine authority and wisdom. Neora will help you discover your wisdom and authority as coming straight out of the story you've already lived.
How we work together: Sometimes the coaching you need is a quick reframe on your situation. Sometimes it’s a more complicated transformation involving an intensive learning journey. Choose the right journey for you.
Quick Journeys: Spend an hour with Neora to illuminate the broad themes and patterns of your leadership journey as they relate to the current challenge you’re faced with.
Deep Learning Journeys: We'll create an individualized pathway with guided session work to mentor you through your needed development. This kind of work includes developing your Leadership Story as a road map to your highest self.
Get Help on Demand: Alumni Office Hours. Offered to clients who’ve worked with Neora before, in need of crises or developmental coaching after our initial engagement.
Performance Coaching
Develop Leadership Presence
Performance Coaching addresses “Executive Presence” in the room, whether that be in one on on conversations, team meetings, or high stakes presentation scenarios. This work is about how you show up in embodied presence.
We work in three modalities, getting your mind right, getting your body right, and learning the techniques that will allow you to show up in the room in your best self.
This coaching is helpful for both management level who have been tasked to develop “executive presence” and leadership who need to hone their skills.
Sometimes the work is merely about teaching to basic vocal and dramatic techniques. More often, however, clients come to Neora to get process around confidence issues.
With a ground in depth and archetypal psychology, Neora's specializes in teaching a technique to identify and subdue what she calls the “Saboteur.”
Well known to the creative journey but vertiably un-named in organizational life, recognizing the imposter syndrome and the inner critic as the saboteur releases our energy. We’ll learn to identify what holds us back and learn techniques to right size the ways in which the saboteur shows up in our performance so that we transform these demons into threshold guardians.
How we work together: Sometimes the coaching you need is a quick, targeted reframe on a performance challenge. Sometimes the coaching requires a more in depth learning journey. Choose the right coaching path for you.
Quick Journeys: Spend an hour with Neora for either a general assessment of performance pain points or for targeted performance work.
In Depth Learning Journeys: We’ll create a performance coaching package for you to move you through your pain points and growth edges.
Get Help On Demand: Alumni Office Hours. Offered to clients who’ve worked with Neora before, in need of additional targeted performance or for coaching coaching after our initial engagement.
Storytelling Coaching
Create A Storytelling Practice
Whether you are a leader, a manager, or a creative, storytelling as a practice is a skillset that we need to hone. Work with a Master Storyteller Mentor to teach you exactly how to create a practice around this vital skillset.
How we work together: Although storytelling skills are universal, the way we learn to improve our practice is not only specific, it requires a mentor. Clients who come to work on their storytelling skills are often either leaders aware that they need to up their game or professional creatives who are looking for a deeper ground.
Introductory session work is the doorway for Neora’s storytelling coaching towards deeper targeted learning journeys.
Quick Journeys: Spend an hour with Neora to assess your storytelling challenges, pain points, and ambition.
In Depth Learning Journeys: Guided session work to mentor you through needed development. We can work with general skills or through a specific storytelling challenge. With 30 years in the field of Story, Neora works in all genres, always grounded in structure, and uniquely gifted to help you name and claim the story you want to tell. Life Story work, Leadership Story, and Brand Story development are also available through this pathway.
Get Help On Demand: Alumni Office Hours. Offered to clients who’ve worked with Neora before in need of targeted storytelling coaching after our initial engagement.
Content Development Coaching
Develop an Individual Project
Discover the story you mean to tell and name a blueprint for development.
Content Development Coaching is for professionals or creatives who need help in communication planning, structuring, and developing a specific project. This offering helps clients who have a complicated story to tell and need professional help. We work both strategy and structure.
From an All Staff, to a recommendation, to that memoir or screenplay you’ve always wanted to bring into the world, Neora will help you to see the vison of your project, name the structure of the work, and provide you with a developmental pathway to bring the work into form.
How we work together: Work depends upon the scope of the project. We’ll begin with an introductory session to name the scope, scale, ambition, and challenges. For presentation design, this may be all that is required. For more complicated projects from communication planning to creative work, we’ll customize a learning journey to get you from a seed idea out to a fully fleshed road map.
Quick Journeys: Identify the scope, scale, ambition, and challenges of your project. This is the appropriate choice if you are having trouble cracking the structure or storytelling for a presentation or have a targeted question for a creative project.
In Depth Learning Journeys: Guided session work to mentor you through needed development. We’ll devise an individualized plan to get you through to your goal. Life Story work, Leadership Story, and Brand Story are all available through this pathway.
Get Help On Demand: Alumni Office Hours. Offered to clients who’ve worked with Neora before in need of targeted project development after initial project work.
Development Coaching
Develop a Practice to Manage Change
This is crises or “getting out of stuckness” work in our developmental trajectory.
Whether you are in your late 20’s or early 30’s and you’ve found yourself all of a sudden in a dark night of the soul or you are in your 40’s and you are trying to sort out how to find your way towards eldership, Neora's delighted to have developed a blessing way to mentor you through these difficult moments of transition. This mentoring is necessary for both professionals and creatives who find themselves stuck at a crossroads.
Famously transformational for this kind of "life coaching," Neora's devoted her life to developing a uniquely effective way to work with life's toughest moments based in "story work."
Neora anchors your developmental challenge in the larger perspective of your life story understood in terms of stage development and spiritual maturity. A long the way you'll recognize your developmental challenge as part of the much greater story of our human becoming.
Incontrovertibly our professional developmental crises reflect internal stories that need reframing. Neora helps you to understand what you are going through and create a road map out.
Choose the right journey for you: Although this kind of work by its nature is in depth requiring carefull mentoring and processing to integrate towards transformation, Neora does offer introductory sessions to guidepost you.
Quick Journeys: Spend an hour with Neora to name development challenges and locate where you are on the road towards maturity and becoming.
In Depth Learning Journeys: Guided session work to mentor you through this tough moment of change. We’ll devise an individualized plan to get you through to your goal. Life Story work and Leadership Story are available through this pathway.
Get Help On Demand: Alumni Office Hours. Offered to clients who’ve worked with Neora before in need of targeted project development after initial project work.