Business and Practice Development Coaching

I signed up for a 12 session coaching program with Kaizen Leadership Institute to develop my ability to manage in a more organized and efficient manner without changing my commitment to the democratic organizational structure at Pure and Simple, my business of 20 years. After 3 months of coaching, I’ve enjoyed significant improvement in my management abilities – better than expected! Through our coaching partnership, Julia shared great management best practices with me. Julia’s perceptive ability and coaching style helped me gain insight into the nature of my character, leadership style and how best to apply it to my organization. She is an exceptionally astute listener and has highly developed intuitive abilities to grasp the situation and quickly understand where I need help; offering insight and guidance, as needed. Looking back over our first three-month business coaching program, the results include: 1. Developing a hiring process for a new position of marketing manager 2. Designing a process to help me clarify my business and personal goals, and 3. Creating a guide to better assess and monitor the progress of my senior staff. The personal learning outcomes have also been significant. I’ve developed my ability and confidence in designing effective hiring processes and learned to apply what I’ve learned to other staff hiring situations; I’ve learned how to create tools to better manage my staff and I’ve learned to act more objectively, mindfully and professionally at work. I look forward to continued learning, professional development, and personal growth as I continue my coaching with Julia von Flotow and the Kaizen Leadership Institute.

Deepening Rapport and Connections

"The first time I met with Julia she was immediately able to elicit information from the depths of my soul and reflect it back to me as though she were feeling the same things. I have never experienced this before with other coaches and was pleasantly surprised. She never told me what I should do but simply supported what came through the sessions organically. This not only allowed me to be in the moment but also encouraged me to be open and let the information flow between us. Coaching with Julia helped me realize the emotional pain my tribe has gone or is currently going through and showed me new ways to build rapport and connections. I learned how to let go of guilt, self-doubt and the "Compare & Despair" mindset and how to be open, receptive, allow myself to be guided and to step up and live my full potential."

From a Life Out-of-Whack to Clarity, Focus and Aligned Action

When I started coaching with Julia everything in my life was out of whack (work/career, relationships, confidence and love for myself). Life happened with Julia. I finished 2 film projects, signed a contract for more work, and branched out and found new clients....Just in Time coaching with Julia von Flotow allows me to take a minute, catch my breath and get focused on the issue at hand - how to respond and make the most of a business opportunity. Julia gives me the support I need to organize my thoughts and get clear on what I want, expand my thinking, weigh my options and make some great decisions to get closer to what I want. VERY useful!

Step by Step Results-Focused Strategies That Get Results

I was having a lot of trouble figuring out how to achieve my business goals and wanted help to build my yoga business. Julia is exceptionally insightful and clear. She offered me the best ideas on how to get started and what to focus on first. I now have a greater sense of clarity in relation to what I’m doing with clear action steps to follow. My client base is growing. An unexpected benefit is that I’ve been able to put more thought into my brand and how I want my business to stand out from other yoga studios. I’m very thankful for Julia’s coaching support and look forward to working with her in the future.

Directing Focus for Sustainable Success with Holistic Coach-Approach

I have worked with Julia for over a year now and have experienced both tremendous personal and business growth during that time. Her techniques and approaches are effective at overcoming obstacles and redirecting focus on what matters most. Many of my successes and accomplishments this year can be attributed to the detailed work I've done with Julia as she helped me to cultivate and nourish great ideas into fruition. Her knowledge, expertise, enthusiasm and holistic coaching approaches are second to none and I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to improve themselves at work or at home.

Raising the Bar on my Expectations + Focused Step by Step Action = Results

I started coaching with Julia to launch my business and develop self awareness. It is unbelievable how far we’ve come in just four coaching sessions. Julia has a knack of breaking things down and simplifying processes – I now appreciate the concept of taking baby steps and the importance of consistency and follow through. Coaching has helped me raise the bar on my expectations of myself and taught me how to think outside the box. The results are amazing. I don’t get flustered and frustrated with myself anymore and am able to think about things in priority sequence. I am enjoying the journey thoroughly and look forward to more progress even beyond my main objective.

Getting in Touch with my Core Values to Align Vision, Mission and Action

"After five coaching sessions with Julia, I experience that I am more magnetic for attracting my right clients who resonate with what I have to offer. Julia tuned into my need to focus on my feet and guided me through meditations that help to ground me, to “stand for myself on my own two feet.” I made a goal to have 3 new clients by the end of the month and I do! Having Julia there, as my coach, made a big difference in helping me stay on track and accountable. I appreciated Julia’s willingness to change agendas when something urgent came up; her compassionate and caring support, and her teaching me a special healing technique to offer a dear friend who was hospitalized in serious condition; I’m happy to say that technique was just what my friend needed and of course that helped me as well! She helped me uncover my core value of respect and the subtlety of how respect needs to permeate all aspects of my life. Thank you, Julia, for your time and commitment to helping me move forward in my life.” In gratitude

Balancing Structure and Flow to Create Efficiencies and Better Results

My life is easier now. I don’t beat myself up any more. I have more clients and more projects and I’m not overwhelmed. Your step by step approach helped me develop the structure I needed to become much more organized and produce better results with less effort. My family is inspired by the improvements they see.

Techniques and Methodology Improved Organization and Results

Sometimes finding the right words to describe the benefits received is no match for how I feel about the coaching experience. Awesome! Thank you, Julia. Your coaching exceeded my expectations – I appreciate your wisdom, grounded, calm manner, and your guidance with respect to organization, creating processes, scheduling and stress management techniques which are now a part of my routine. Your regular weekly reminders and documents were a wonderful way to connect and capture key information and have helped me become more organized and achieve more in my work day.