COACHING
COACHING IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE YOUR LIFE FROM GOOD TO GREAT!
As A Coach, I ...
Help people play their game better!
Help people take their life from Good to GREAT.... from Surviving to THRIVING!
Help people who feel stuck get going with a new sense of freedom and choice.
Coaching is the fastest, most powerful way to make great strides, get unstuck and move forward.
If NOW is YOUR TIME TO THRIVE and... you want support and bigger results in less time and effort, you owe it to yourself to CONTACT ANNE today!
"The human spirit thrives on inspiration, not motivation. A coach helps you discover what naturally inspires you."
Thomas Leonard, Founder of Coaching, Coach U, and Coachville
During these coaching sessions, you will receive the support, tools, and guidance you need to stay focused and on track as you move closer to making your dreams a reality. Meet over the phone or in person monthly or bi-monthly. A three-month commitment is recommended.
Coaching Packages
Shape Your Destiny
CHOICE:
To ride on a mount of fear
OR
To ride on a stead of strength
You can choose to ride into the future holding the reins, guiding the experience, or you can be flung fearful, headlong into the same future. You choose!
As your coach, I will be both your greatest cheerleader and the one holding you accountable to achieve your goals.
In the four-month coaching program (we meet twice a month for 2 hours), you will be guided through a series of tools and processes to get you on track and keep you on track.
Sessions may include:
Future self visualization
Needs assessment
Values assessment
Beliefs
Habits
Your Best Year Yet Goal Plan
Self-talk
Tolerations
Radical Forgiveness
Polarity Process
Courageous Conversations Toolkit
Miracle Morning Process
Investment: $475.00/month
or
$1725.00 pre-payment in full
Roadside Assistance
GET BACK TO YOU
Struggling? Hitting a rough patch? Want to feel alive and energized again?
Feel like you are losing yourself?
In this four-month coaching program (we meet twice a month for 2 hours), you will be guided through a series of customized tools to gain insight to reawaken and reclaim yourself.
Tools will be tailored to your specific needs.
Some tools could include:
Tolerations
Prioritize for overwhelm
The Power of NO
Polarity Process
Time Management/First Things First
Courageous Conversations
Beliefs
Habits
Needs Assessment
Values Assessment
Enneagram
Your Best Year Yet Plan
Investment: $475.00/month
or
$1725.00 pre-payment in full
What's Next? The Next Chapter
WHAT'S NEXT?
Do you want to change jobs but just can't seem to be able to do it? Are you afraid to make a change? Are you wondering what you want to do that will be more fulfilling and have meaning and purpose??
Do you have a dream you keep putting on hold?
Are you retiring but don't know what you want to do? Do you still want to contribute but want it to be on your terms? Are you wondering what's next?
In this four-month coaching program (we meet twice a month for 2 hours), I will guide you to discover, explore, and support you in being accountable for creating a life on purpose.
Sessions include:
- Intake/Future Self Visualization
- Needs Assessment
- Values Assessment
- Enneagram
- Beliefs
- Habits
- Your Best Year Yet
Investment: $475.00/month
or
$1725.00 pre-payment in full
What's the Best Coaching Option for You?
1-on-1 coaching
Coaching is for people who are serious about wanting to be happier. While they experience struggles like all humans, they don't want to be a victim. Perhaps they want to learn the lesson this "dark Angel" (difficult boss or challenging relationship) offers so they can move on. Perhaps, like many people, they avoid conflict at great personal costs. Working with Anne, she will share the tools she created so you can have that "courageous conversation." Maybe there is a dream on the shelf to own your own business or to paint or make jewelry. Anne will be there to help you take bold steps...holding you accountable and cheering you on as you step into an On Purpose LIFE! Living Inspired and Fulfilled Everyday!
Coaching is for the person who is ready to:
- Become more self-aware
- Make some significant changes personally
- Improve relationships
- Find their purpose
- Live a life of greater meaning
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Address important decisions
- Set goals, take action
- Grow Spiritually
- Learn how to say NO
- Learn how to have a "courageous conversation."
- Learn their core values and live from them
- Identify sabotaging habits and beliefs, then make changes
- Be willing to be held accountable
- Brave!
Leadership Coaching
The higher you climb in an organization, the more pressure you have to deliver results. Most executives are high achievers who get things done. But at what cost? As they move up in the organization, there is often less time and patience for delays. Interpersonal relationships, listening skills, and empathy can suffer in a desire to get results. "It's just business - nothing personal," they claim. But their leadership style can have some significant consequences.... loss of top talent or mistakes costing millions of dollars or hundreds of lost jobs.
Executive Leadership coaching is for the leader who is ready to:
- Gain self-awareness about how they lead and the impact their style has on productivity and effectiveness
- Learn advanced leadership skills
- Improve interpersonal relationships, listening skills, and empathy
- Learn tools on how to lead during times of change
- Learn effective communication skills
- Learn motivation and engagement tools
- Create more effective team-building
- Develop internal talent and succession planning
Wavemaker Coaching
WaveMaker Coaching uses cutting-edge technology to eliminate the fears, stories, and excuses that keep you from living fully. The biggest difference between Life Coaching and WaveMaker Coaching is the amount of time it takes to achieve results. With the WaveMaker... fasten your seat belt because it can create shifts very quickly. Are you ready to make waves??
Wavemaker Coaching is for the person who is ready to:
- Remove "programmed thinking."
- Get rid of self-limiting beliefs, fears, doubts, and excuses
- Know they are co-creators of their life
- Ready and willing to change their internal programming
- Want to shift to new thinking
- Desire to release old patterns, habits, and conditioning
- Live to their fullest potential
Human Design Report
Knowing this is a bit like finding your lost owner's manual for how you work inside yourself.
The Human Design System is a unique and powerful system of knowledge that provides a framework for understanding very specific information for each individual. It has practical applications that can give you a strategy for living your life authentically. It's not about changing who you are but recognizing who you've always been.
Is Anne the Right Coach for You?
Feeling safe. Trusting. Being vulnerable. Willingness to be held accountable. Being brave. Taking bold actions. Facing fears. Identifying values, needs, beliefs, habits that are sabotaging, and willingness to change..
These are hard to do, and you need to feel safe with your coach. It requires a foundation of trust and respect. And it is a two-way street. So, contact Anne today to see if she is the right coach for you and if you are the right client for her.
Questions about Coaching
Frequently Asked Questions
Many changes can take place, and here are just a few:
- Moving forward - taking action and positive steps
- Increase possibilities for self-reflection
- Moving forward - taking action and positive steps
- Increase possibilities for self-reflection
- More empowered
- Dreams move to the front burner of your life
- Fears are faced
- Get unstuck
- See another picture — other possibilities
- Space is created ... typical stimulus/reaction to stimulus….pause…response!
- Know you are always at choice, and through choice, you design your life.
- The best gets even better!!
- You know you have someone on your team cheering you on to take risks
- You have someone holding you accountable to do what you say you want to do
- You have someone to call you out on inaction or other steps backward
- Honest feedback to create change
Typically, clients have a one-hour conversation (in person or on the phone) with their coach one to two times per month. (Email and brief phone support are available between sessions.) The client comes to the session with a goal, a challenge, or a topic they want to focus on during the call. The coach listens – not just hears, asks questions, and acts as a mirror, reflecting back for the client what is being said and not said while guiding them to new possibilities or actions to move forward. You will not be told what to do by a coach. They may explore other possibilities that you might not have thought of, particularly if you are stuck thinking there is no way out.
It should be noted that while sessions only last 60 minutes, the majority of the work is done in between the sessions. Generally, during the coaching session, a seed is planted for a new way of being/thinking or a new possibility. That new seed of thought is watered and nurtured as you begin to embrace other possibilities or pause to consider a new way of responding.
Coaching works because you take more effective and focused actions without delay. You stop putting up with what is dragging you down. You stay on track with your goals and create momentum so that it is easier to get results. You set better goals that are more of what you want. You take better care of yourself and are more committed to your growth and development. You become more of your authentic self as you live more fully from your core values. You have a person you can talk to who is your confidant, mentor, cheerleader, one of your biggest supporters. Someone who will listen to you.. really listen to you so you feel heard. A coach inspires you!
- Foundational Session (2 1/2 - 3 hours) $400.00
- Monthly session: from $250.00*
- Bi-Monthly sessions: from $450.00*
- (*Ask about discounted rates for Non-Profit organizations and self-pay rates)
Typically, I recommend a minimum of three months of coaching. The decision of how long is really up to you. I have clients I have been working with for nine years and others I have worked with for as short as two months.
The Coaching profession began about 20 years ago. Today, there are over 20,000 coaches and numerous professional organizations that represent coaching. The International Coaching Federation (ICF), International Association of Coaches (IAC), and Coachville are examples.
The government does not require any proof of training, and many can call themselves "coaches." However, there is professional training for this profession, and both the ICF and IAC have strict guidelines for certification. There are a select number of schools that have received such accreditation. Buyer beware. It is in the client's best interest to explore the training and credentials of the coach they hire. In addition, it is equally important for the client to feel like this is a person they can trust and feel at ease to share their struggles and triumphs.
I am a Certified Life Coach. I began my intensive coach training in September 2001 and graduated in June 2002 from Coach for Life (www.coachforlife.com), an ICF-accredited coaching school. I have coached over 150 clients and have more than 1,000 hours of coaching experience. In 2021, I became a Certified Executive Coach.
What makes coaching different than therapy or consulting? Imagine you are driving a car… Therapy tends to focus on unhooking from the past and exploring the meaning of those experiences. Therapy is like looking in the rearview mirror to see what you left behind.
Consulting often provides solutions and recommendations. Coaching is a process of asking questions, while consulting is providing answers. Consulting is like stopping and getting directions.
Coaching helps clients move forward – being in the present and the possibilities of now and the near future. Through the guidance of a coach, you take steps that move you closer and closer to what you want. You have someone who supports you, believes in you, and also holds you accountable and responsible for going after what you say you want. Coaching is like looking out the windshield with your foot on the pedal – moving forward.
Most clients enjoy the convenience of the sessions being on the phone. However, there are some clients that prefer in-person sessions. If this is your preference, in-person sessions can be arranged, and fees will vary depending on the meeting place. The foundational sessions can be done over the phone as well, but it is preferable that they are done in person.
Testimonials
Here is what Anne's Clients say about her....
Anne generously shares her wisdom, grace and humility at each session. Her wisdom often shows up in the elegant synthesis of information from multiple sources on the topic at hand. She vulnerably practices what she preaches and holds me accountable for my thoughts and actions. Anne is a change-maker with a mission. She inspires the Best Version of Me to show up in her presence.
Shauna, Pasadena, MD
In all my years working, it was only with Anne's incredible development strategy for women leaders that I have ever had a female mentor and professional mentoring. I read a lot on my own, but she has so much experience and is so passionate about women leaders that instead of learning everything the hard way and feeling alone with this task to develop my own team, I feel she provides a good space to learn and grow.
Kim, Annapolis, MD
Anne has provided an environment where I feel safe to share whatever challenges I am facing. She masterfully allows me to feel heard, supported. Each time I meet with her I leave with a better outlook about my current challenge and ready to tackle it.
Vickie, Millersville, MD
Anne is amazing! Every coaching session has helped move me toward my goals. Having had a number of coaches, I can say without hesitation that Anne has been the most effective. Her natural ability to put me at ease, to help me navigate through my thoughts, to ask powerful questions and support my decisions is the reason for my success in all my roles. (CFP, Mother, Wife, Mentor) Before meeting Anne I was disorganized, stressed out, unhappy and unfulfilled. Through her coaching I've been able to step back and assess my life and to live it with purpose!
Nancy S. Toronto, Canada
Anne's encouragement is priceless! She gave me what I needed to help me reach the goal I had set for myself, and knew just the right things to say to keep me focused and making progress every day. She understood what would inspire me to do what I had set out to do and helped me get there.
Amy, Annapolis, MD
Anne inspires me to be the best version of myself. Her coaching is personally tailored with generous guidance from a variety of perspectives. Do you have a goal or change you want to see show up in your life? Anne will hold your feet to the fire with wisdom and compassion while together you forge a path that leads to where you want to be.
Barb, Baltimore, MD
Working with Anne has been one thing that has helped me in my current position. She is easy to talk to and always makes herself available. She brings light to many of my ideas and always pushes me! She is simply amazing and inspirational!
Lakeisha, Glen Burnie, MD
"Anne is one of the most intuitive, insightful, and skilled coaches that I have ever worked with! There is no one that I trust and respect more than Anne Brooks. She is completely and totally dedicated to ensuring that her clients make positive shifts toward a more meaningful and joyous life. Her own rigorous path of personal growth is a testament to how committed and passionate she is about her life's work. Anne helped me to remove barriers that stood in the way of my ability to be my authentic self. I have a renewed sense of freedom and mobility in the way I now "respond" to life. She provided a compassionate and non-judgmental space where I felt supported in letting down my guard while we explored some of the core dynamics that have held me back. Once identified, she customized a program uniquely for me that allowed me to have a "break through"! WOW !!
Michele Wahlder, Dallas, TX
"What Anne has done for me is open my eyes to what I am capable of. The impact of Anne's 1-1 coaching has helped to shift my outlook on my work and the way I view my gifts. Anne's WaveMaker Coaching has been incredibly deep. I was amazed at how Anne quickly and gently got to the heart of what was really going on and created a positive and loving shift in my outlook as it relates to my entire life."
Cecilia, Palo Alto, CA
"Anne, you are an inspiration and the work that you are doing is so important. You are a gifted healer. Your enthusiasm, positive outlook on life, and commitment to empowering women airlifts me energetically and spiritually!!! Thank you for being you and helping me."
KL Annapolis, MD
"The one thing I will share right off the bat is...this morning ,as soon as I started to meditate, a little voice inside me said, "you need to stay home and take a hot bath." It was raining and windy and dark , so instead of pushing myself out the door ,rushing to swim, I listened to my voice and lit a candle and took a hot bath. First of all I heard my voice and then I actually listened to it. This may not seem like much to some but for me it is a huge shift. I can thank you for that. You have taught me this through your amazing ability of mirroring what I am saying...My conversations with you are like a practice run. Hearing myself out loud helps me to be more sensitive to my whisper inside me and even more importantly I have learned to be respectful of that whisper. AND... Dear Anne...I had just opened my studio door, with the intention for the day to finish up my orders so that I could start my creative week with an open heart. The sun is shining...I leave my door open and walk over to my work area...and I smile. It is hard to explain how happy and content I feel. Then I realize that I am so blessed to have Anne in my life. With your support and tender care I have taken what used to be a hair raising fall experience to one that is now exciting, exuberant and fulfilling. I feel a peace of mind, body and spirit that I never knew I could experience in the middle of such a busy, hectic time. Thank you.With love ...your blooming in" leaps and bounds" jewelry creator..
Renee, Rehoboth, MA
"Anne, Thanks so much for coaching me. You were always on my side, picking me up when I was down, keeping me focused on what I had accomplished and encouraging me to pursue what was most important to me. You listened intently to what I was saying, allowing me to branch off into various areas of self discovery, finding the real issue, and then you asked me powerful questions - enabling me to discover my truth. Thank you for holding sacred space for me so that I could know without doubt, that in times of uncertainty, all I ever need to do is seek my truth and become clear about my intentions and desires - and respond accordingly. You have enabled me to live my life with absolute faith. I appreciate you. "
Cheryl, Potomac Falls, VA
"Anne, I feel so fortunate to have you in my camp. You help remind me of who I am and what I am capable of and what is possible for me. It really helps me stay focused. You do great work in the world."
J. K. San Francisco, CA
"Anne's niche is vibrational healing. Her process is intuitive, personal, and I'm here to tell you its powerfully effective."
Diane E, Rockville, MD
"What first stuck me about Anne was her calm gentle spirit. That and the intense focus in her eyes. A focus that said to me, Anne listens..... Anne listens.... And you feel her intention to serve her clients agenda through our personal, professional, or spiritual journeys. Anne 's coaching style was like an old friend who one would love to sit with and sip tea with and open up to the possibilities of life. No matter what I brought to the table, I had a feeling Anne had been there. Or was willing to go there along side me. Yet her years in the corporate world served her knowledge of the business world and its sometimes complicated strategies. Although many of my coaching sessions were over the phone, I loved to go to her office and spend time in her space. She always had some new way to help me enter into the world of my inner Being. My true self. Always a creative way to make contact with my grandest guidance. I believe that lifelong search has brought her to the WaveMaker project and its intense way of connecting oneself to Our inner space for guidance and direction. Her longtime corporate experience, her lifelong quest for further discovery and "there's always more" attitude, her intention to serve her clients and her natural intellect make her an impressive coach. As a matter of fact I recommended her to my Daughter during her business transition as well. She related with grace and ease to us both. Feel free to call me. If you do, I'll go on and on....Or you can email me instead."
Robbie Patterson, Potomac, MD
"Anne helped me find the courage and strength I needed to listen to my heart. As a result, I have the confidence to change direction and pursue a career in teaching. Anne guided me as I defined my goals and explored ways to achieve them. Her support, encouragement and energy were invaluable to me."
Mary, Arlington, MA
