Mona has a passion for coaching and helping to empower others. She especially enjoys one-on-one dialogue with clients and seeing them have ‘light bulb moments’ of awareness. She is energized by working with diverse leaders: supporting them in being their authentic selves, and helping to connect them to key lessons from their feedback, training and experience.
As a former practicing attorney, Mona served in a counseling realm in that capacity. She has also coached and mentored employees in her various leadership roles throughout her career. Addtionally, Mona completed coach training at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and is an Executive and Feedback Coach for CCL. For Mona, coaching is rejuvenating. She gets a lift from seeing others rise to their highest potential.
LIFT Coaching and Consulting aims to help leaders (at all levels) elevate their effectiveness. The name ‘LIFT’ aligns with that purpose, as does the giraffe logo. LIFT encourages a holistic approach in supporting clients and assisting them in developing action oriented goals within a framework of their organization’s dynamics. Coaching is done within a context which connects to individuals’ identity, culture, and career goals.
Coaching services generally consist of individual sessions with leaders or employees to support and guide them in enhancing their effectiveness on the job or in their career pursuits. LIFT works with clients in all industry sectors with an emphasis on nonprofit, education, government and legal.
LIFT places a high value on listening, compassion, honesty, courage and results in working with clients. The ultimate goal is to help clients elevate their effectiveness.
As a result of Mona’s ability to quickly understand the business contexts and challenges that I described, and her ability to tailor feedback, I walked away from each of our discussions with clear action steps to achieve the desired outcomes we discussed. I also appreciated the thoughtful questions Mona asked to make sure I was thinking broadly and anticipating roadblocks that may occur as I pursue my goals.
Mona is an excellent coach. She is a great listener and she articulates ideas in a way that I found easy to apply to my situation. She gave me reading materials to review between sessions and would ask for my feedback on progress. I particularly found the role-playing exercises beneficial by enabling me to see areas where I needed to improve. I feel my work with her has helped me to be more efffective in my workplace and with my colleagues. In fact, after I completed our initial sessions: I have reached out to her for coaching in other areas.
Mona is calm and steady; provided me with things I can put into practice…and helped me formulate goals and a plan to implement them.
She definitely gave me food for thought and made me think outside of the box. Mona was able to relate to my challenges with my organization and offered good suggestions for next steps.
Mona was excellent at guiding me to get to specific things I can do to address areas I want to focus on. This was extremely helpful.
Mona took time to ask about my organization for clarity and so she could provide informed feedback that would be useful for me. All was non-judmental, purposeful and useful.