Barbara Smith, PCC

Certified graduate of an ICF-Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP)

Barbara has worked for ICF International as an executive coach and consultant on numerous human capital projects for federal government agencies. She has extensive federal management experience in executive education, leadership coaching, and in a broad array of human capital management areas including staffing, recruitment, and performance management.

Types of Skills She Uses While Coaching:

Barbara coaches leaders at all organizational levels and works within the context of each leader’s unique work environment, specific leadership challenges, and desired goals.

• She listens keenly, uses inquiry to explore possibilities, gives insightful feedback, is a focused observer, and creates positive and supportive coaching relationships.
• She inspires, challenges, and partners with leaders to become their best. She helps leaders create plans for success; manage their career transition; become effective in managing people and change; build connective networks; and define personal, professional and organizational vision for success,
• Barbara engages leaders in discussions with purpose, creative practices, learning activities, and planning and implementing workable actions.
• She believes the biggest gains from coaching are achieved when people increase their self-awareness, question their thinking and assumptions, and see their lives and work through a new perspective – all leading toward greater resourcefulness, optimism, and energy.
• Using an integrated coaching approach that incorporates many elements -work, career, family, health and wellness, values and interests,- Barbara’s coaching gets to the core of issues with ease; balances serious thought with wit; explores practical, realistic and sustainable solutions; and encourages people to continuously learn, grow and thrive.

Coaching methods:

• In person

 

• Telephone

 

• Skype

Specialties:

• Executive Coaching

 

• Business Coaching

 

• Leadership Coaching