The possibilites include:

Individual coaching – providing clarity and courage to move forward with crucial conversations
Partner coaching – coaching couples, work associates or peers with similar needs/concerns
Organizational coaching/consulting – emphasizing results-focused conversations
Meeting facilitation – forging agreements for action and accountability
Conflict intervention – making it possible to discuss that which has been deemed “undiscussable”
Presentation skills coaching – employing a highly individualized, customized and efficient process which includes both content preparation and delivery skills
Guest speaking engagements – offering a variety of communication-related topics

Life – A Series of Conversations

Think about it. The decisions and actions that have shaped our lives… the things we have said “yes” to and the things we have said “no” to were most likely preceded by some kind of conversation with someone – even if it was an internal dialogue with ourselves. Conversation is not simply an activity we do in our life. Conversation shapes our life. It is truly one of the most creative endeavors we engage in as human beings. And, yet, it’s likely that a significant amount of the time we spend in conversational flow is without much thought, intentionality, or skill. Also, much of the suffering we experience in life comes from the conversations that we are not initiating because we fear the process and/or outcome.

Organizations – Networks of Conversations

Consider the world of organizations. Organizations can be described as networks of conversations that mostly revolve around making requests and promises on one hand, or offers and acceptances on the other. This plays out in the day-to-day world of a leader who spends the majority of their time in conversations, both written and spoken.

These conversations are critical for a leader to:

engage others in vision and strategy
reach agreement on goals
mobilize committed and aligned action to produce results
understand, resolve and learn from concerns, conflicts, breakdowns
acknowledge result achievement

The success of a leader is largely dependent on their conversational competence. The ability of an organization to perform successfully is largely determined by the conversational competencies of its members.

Conscious Conversations: Chris’s relevant experience

30 years professional experience as a nurse, manager, coach, counselor, trainer, and facilitator with communication as a predominant theme and area of expertise
Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology which included internship at an employee assistance program serving over 30 companies in multiple industries
Completed 9 month course Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching offered by Newfield Network largely based on the ontology of language, linguistic distinctions and conversational design
Completed 9 month course Coaching for Authentic Leadership offered by Naropa University which included curriculum on mastering communication, commitment management and emotional intelligence.