Month: January 2019

Date and Time: July date TBD 9:30am – 4pm

Cost: This program is run on a sliding scale.

Community rate – $150
Standard fee – $275

The Community rate is available for not-for-profits and women/minority owned businesses.  HV Current, barters, and trades also considered. Please contact Jess for alternative payment methods.

Food and Drink: Vegetarian lunch, along with coffee, tea, filtered water, and light snacks will be provided.  

Event Description:  

As leaders (formal and informal!), we bring a lot to the table in our work with others.  One often overlooked but extremely effective role is that of a coach.

In this highly interactive and action-oriented session, we will identify and develop the key skills that leadership coaches use to bring out the very best in others.  By differentiating mentoring, managing, and coaching, Jessica will help you decode strategies for the various people you wish to coach, and we will practice and get supportive feedback from each other using real-world conversation for practice.  

Jessica has extensive experience coaching people in a wide range of organizations and settings.  She designed and led the Leader as Coach and Executive as Coach programs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and trained internal coaches at a Fortune 25 organization.  

In addition to her graduate training in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Jessica has trained with some of the best coaches in the world, including David Peterson (who currently leads the coaching practice for Google), Marshall Goldsmith, and is a Results Certified Coach (now the NeuroLeadership Institute).

Supplies:  None.

Cause: 

Programs in the Grow Yourself! series combine the work of learning and developing yourself with the joy and fulfillment of giving back- to the earth, to a good cause, to a group doing good work.  

In this class, a portion of the registration fee will also be donated to Mercy for Animals.

Register for the Class:
Registration Coming Soon.

Bio & Website: 

Jessica spent the first 20 years of her career working with people and organizations to help individuals identify and reach their potential, and to align their careers with their values and aspirations.  She helps groups identify their strategic direction and priorities, and supports the people on the team in working together most effectively. Much of her work is rooted in enhancing self esteem (your own and others’!) to deepen productive relationships.  

In 2017, Jessica came to Kingston, NY to work on bringing the dream of the idea garden to life with her partner Matt Taylor, including offering programs like this one to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and others doing good work in the Hudson Valley.  

Jess is an avid traveler, crossword puzzler, cook, knitter, and cyclist.  She and her dog Maggie are also a certified therapy team. You can read more about her here.

Date and Time: July 12, 9:30am – 4pm

Cost: This program is run on a sliding scale.

Community rate – $150
Standard fee – $275

The Community rate applies is for not-for-profits and women/minority owned businesses.  HV Current, barters, and trades also considered. Please contact Jess for alternative payment methods.

Food and Drink: Vegetarian lunch, along with coffee, tea, filtered water, and light snacks will be provided.  

Event Description:  

In this action-oriented and interactive session, Jessica will guide you through a process to find the intersection between what your business needs and what motivates you the most.  By identifying those key areas for your own development that are directly tied to your business priorities, you can have the biggest impact on your own growth AND the growth of your business.  We will translate your goals into behaviors and habits you feel excited to put into practice to make your aspirations a reality!

Jessica designed this program after working with hundreds of people who were frustrated by working on goals that didn’t quite hit the mark, didn’t excite them, and/or just felt like more work.  This program builds on techniques Jessica learned in training with Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s most successful executive coaches, David Cooperrider, the founder of Appreciative Inquiry, and many amazing colleagues and clients.

Supplies:  None.

Cause: 

Programs in the Grow Yourself! series combine the work of learning and developing yourself with the joy and fulfillment of giving back- to the earth, to a good cause, to a group doing good work.  

In this class, a portion of the registration fee will also be donated to

Mercy for Animals.

Register for the Class:

Bio & Website: 

Jessica spent the first 20 years of her career working with people and organizations to help individuals identify and reach their potential, and to align their careers with their values and aspirations.  She helps groups identify their strategic direction and priorities, and supports the people on the team in working together most effectively. Much of her work is rooted in enhancing self esteem (your own and others’!) to deepen productive relationships.  

In 2017, Jessica came to Kingston, NY to work on bringing the dream of the idea garden to life with her partner Matt Taylor, including offering programs like this one to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and others doing good work in the Hudson Valley.  

Jess is an avid traveler, crossword puzzler, cook, knitter, and cyclist.  She and her dog Maggie are also a certified therapy team. You can read more about her here.