
Our Offer
We work with you to create longstanding, meaningful change.
Like many leadership coaches, we work toe-to-toe with individuals and systems to support them in identifying and achieving their goals.
We also take a step beyond more traditional approaches — bringing a holistic, regenerative perspective rooted in understanding our humanity, making sense of the larger context surrounding us, and translating newly gained knowledge into ongoing action.
In addition to exploring the very nature and science of what it means to be a human being, our work is connected to nature, society, and building a world fit for future generations.
Our wish is that in working with us, you’ll gain the perspectives and tools to live with intention, reach your full potential, continually regenerate yourself, and make the sustained impact you want. We trust this will allow you to contribute to a better future while enjoying the present more as you do.
“Our work and time together was essential to my life. It courses through my very being. I can now stand up in front of 500 people with poise and grace.”
— Activist, Board President, artist, wife, mother, grandmother
We help you to:
Create a base level of foundational knowledge
About the science of being a human being
We share concepts from areas such as emotional intelligence, somatic intelligence and neuroscience and connect these to behaviors such as language choices
We see how small shifts based on an understanding of these simple concepts can have a significant impact
About your full self
Who you are, what’s important to you, and what you want
About the full context around you
What’s important to others and what they want
Where you and others are and what you’re experiencing
Make sense of this information
Discovering connections in order to open up your fullest capacity
Gaining a new perspective about what is actually available to you
Apply these insights, integrating this into active doing
What you can do to show up as the fullest version of yourself (many refer to this as leadership presence) in service to your goals
How you can communicate effectively to influence others
Creating an active choice about leveraging everything available to you to get what you and those around you need
Develop the skills to continue this work and further share it
Our goal is that you can apply your insights to your life on an ongoing basis – and maybe even help others do the same – even after our work together has concluded
“The perspective that the work brings is invaluable. I can’t stop applying it. Without it, I would have listened to the voices in my head that were limiting me. You helped me whisper them away.”
— Business leader, intrapreneur, husband, son, chef
FAQs
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When you know what you want and how to show up as the fullest version of yourself, you can bring your best to the table. You’re able to leverage new perspectives or a fresh mindset when tackling problems. You can stay steady in who you are, rather than being rocked by outside events or opinions. You can spot when something is happening in your body or brain (such as feeling anxious or frustrated) and you know what to do about it. You can stay in the important conversations that will make change possible.
And when you better understand others, what they need and how to communicate with them, you can bring them along in your desired change. You can support them to stay in the conversations with you.
This work helps you to create the impact you seek. It also helps you to keep going. When you know what nourishes and depletes you, you can make choices and act in a way that continues to fuel you. In better understanding others, you feel more connected – to them and to humanity. To nature. You can exist in a space of enjoyment. All of this allows you to be regenerative – replenishing and fueling yourself so that you can keep going in your important work.
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We work with individuals and groups to develop regenerative leaders who can make the impact they seek and keep going in their important work. Our core process is similar with individuals and across systems.
We intentionally work with what we refer to as a “varied slice of humanity” coming from different places and positions. Despite the variations in background or challenge, we notice there is a pattern in the mindset of the people and systems who want to do this work. They want to go beyond what they currently know or do, they want to do their part – they don’t want to just accept what is. They’re interested in meaningful, lasting change. They are open and willing to do the work that will help them realize more of their own potential, and they trust it will benefit others.
We recognize that life ebbs and flows, and we go through different phases. Those we work with aren’t always directly changing the world in big ways when we’re working with them. Regardless of the phase you’re in, we trust this work will help you create more impact and joy.
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Systems are groups in which we are affiliated. We believe we, as people, are part of nature and thus part of a larger whole. At birth, each of us is born into the system of humanity. As a part of being a person, we are part of many systems, also including our families, our communities, and our businesses.
We help individuals better understand themselves and the systems of which they’re a part, which helps them to create the impact they want across these systems or groups.
We also work directly with systems (such as private corporates, NGOs, scaling startups or other organizations), helping them to achieve their goals.
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We see our role as being a guide and mirror while individuals and systems are committed to doing the work.
We begin with a chemistry discussion where we get to know you and explain how we can support you. We partner with you to understand your goals and immediate context. If we both feel the conditions for success are available to us, together we explore the best entry point to begin your work. Together, we set an agreement for the goal of the broader engagement. We also agree on the frequency and duration of our sessions.
Each session is in service to your goal for the engagement. We follow a general approach of gathering knowledge, sense-making, applying the insights and translating them into action, and developing your skills so that you can continue the work on your own.
However, because each of us is an individual, the sessions are specifically tailored to the individual person or system. Often we work through challenges you’re facing in the moment. You can bring a challenge to the session, and we help you gain new insights and connect them to the broader goal.
In between sessions, it is often helpful to actively practice and apply what we’ve discussed. We will offer ways in which you can do that, keeping in mind your context. You choose which offers to accept.
Generally we work with clients for a minimum of six months, and we have worked with some clients for years.
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We live in Los Angeles, CA and Zurich, Switzerland. And we work globally.
We’re very comfortable working virtually by video call or even phone call where appropriate. We also enjoy meeting with clients in person when we can.
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We never share individual or group names or experiences unless they’re specifically open to this. Confidentiality is paramount. Yet when our clients are open to it, we love when we can connect people with each other!
We know this work for ourselves and systematic change isn’t always easy, and it can be lonely at the top. More and more people are experiencing “_ful” lives and we see great value in building a community that allows us all to stay in our own and collective work.
If you’re interested in being part of a larger community, let us know.
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FUL was born out of our strong belief that being joyful and impactful goes hand in hand. Individual joy and collective impact are both worthy goals – and they build on each other. “FUL” is the connecting thread between these two words.
We believe having a holistic perspective and connecting the tangible (e.g. impact) and intangible (e.g. joy) aspects of things yields longstanding, meaningful change.
At the same time, we believe choice is absolutely critical, and know that our “_fuls” might not be the same as yours. We want to create space for whatever makes a full life for you, whether that’s one that is meaningful and purposeful or colorful and plentiful (and the possibilities don’t stop there).
Our goal is to help you understand which “_fuls” you yearn for and how you can bring your full self and context to the table to make them come to life.