Life & Career Coach in Scottsdale, AZ
Personal development coaching for high-achieving Scottsdale professionals — helping you build the career, relationships, and life you're actually excited about.
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Are You Going Through the Motions?
You’ve done everything right. Built the career. Made the money. Earned the title at a company people recognize. From the outside — the dinner parties in Old Town, the networking events in Kierland — you're the definition of success. But somewhere between Sunday night dread and the Monday morning commute down the 101, you lost the thread. Sound familiar?
X You Rehearse Your Answer to "What Do You Do?"
You used to love that question. Now it tightens something in your chest — not because the answer is wrong, but because it's someone else's answer you've been wearing so long you forgot it wasn't yours.
X You Got the Promotion and Felt Nothing
You spent years chasing it. You got it. You went home and picked a fight with your wife because you didn't know what else to do with the emptiness. The invisible ceiling wasn't about getting to the next level. It's about realizing the next level doesn't fix it either.
X You Dread Your Own Business
You built this from nothing — out of the Airpark, along the Price Corridor, from a Kierland co-working space. And now you dread walking into your own office. You don't even know when that started.
X You're Terrified That Honesty Means Burning It All Down
Everyone keeps telling you you're living the dream. So you're not going to say this out loud. Not to your spouse. Definitely not to anyone at the Gainey Ranch HOA mixer. Because the moment you admit the career you spent 15 years building might not be it, everything around it starts to feel unstable.
Here's What Changes When You Stop Performing
If your throat just tightened reading one of those, that's your signal. Not that something is wrong with you. That something is ready to change. With the right support, these transitions don't have to cost you everything you've built. They can become the foundation for a life that actually fits.
Meet Jeff
I’m a former tech executive turned personal growth coach, and my path to coaching started with my own unraveling. I scaled startups to billion-dollar valuations at companies like Apple, Target, Lending Club, and Upgrade. I hired over 1,000 professionals. I was the person in the room make the decision you’re making right now.
Then I got fired. Twice actually in 18 months. I sat in a parking garage staring at my phone through tears, wondering whether I would ever feel confident in my own personal worth again. That moment didn’t break me - it broke the story I had been telling myself. That my title was my identity, that my income was my value, that admitting I was lost meant admitting that I had failed.
Rebuilding from that place - with a mortgage due and a family counting on me - is what made me the coach I am today.
What Makes My Coaching Different:
✅ Personal Experience – I've rebuilt my career and identity from the ground up. I know the fear of losing your professional worth, and I know the way through.
✅ Corporate Credibility — 15+ years of tech leadership. I've been in your chair, navigated your politics, and made your kind of decisions.
✅ Evidence-Based Tools – Applied Positive Psychology certificate from the University of Pennsylvania, plus Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and Strong Interest Inventory certifications.
✅ Accessible Anywhere – In person at my Biltmore office (10 minutes from Scottsdale via Camelback), virtually via Zoom, or home/office visits in the Scottsdale area.
Meet Jeff
The 4-Pillar Coaching Method
1. Discover
We'll identify your Unique Genius using professional assessments (MBTI, Strong Interest Inventory, VIA Strengths) — mapping not just the skills you've been using, but the ones that actually energize you.
2. Stablize
We'll assess your foundation — health, relationships, finances, mental wellbeing — and strengthen what's shaky BEFORE you make big moves. If your finances are tight or your marriage is strained, a career pivot isn't brave. It's reckless.
3. Strategize
We'll create your personalized roadmap with clear milestones and concrete next steps — customized to YOUR situation, your financial reality, your timeline, and your risk tolerance. Not cookie-cutter advice.
4. Execute
Together, we'll convert clarity into results through weekly 60-minute sessions, accountability check-ins, and honest feedback. Most clients see clarity in Month 1, foundation and strategy in Months 2-3, and execution — new role, raise, promotion, or business pivot — in Months 4-7.
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Coaching for Your Specific Challenge
Career Transition & Reinvention — Navigating pivots after restructuring, business exits, or the realization that your current path isn't yours anymore.
Professional Positioning — You're doing the work of someone two levels up but communicating your value like someone who's grateful to be there. We fix that.
Post-Achievement Identity — The promotion, the exit, the title — you got it and felt nothing. We figure out what actually fulfills you.
Executive Burnout & Overcommitment — You're not bad at time management. You've lost touch with the work that originally gave you purpose. We reconnect you to it.
Life Transitions — Divorce, empty nest, relocation, or the quiet crisis that nobody around you sees because you're still performing.
Coaching Grounded in Experience and Science
I’ve rebuilt my confidence more than once - through layoffs, betrayals, and moments when I questioned my own worth. I know the fear of losing your career identity and the weight of wondering if you will ever feel strong again.
But I’ve also learned that what feels like an ending can become the start of something greater. Through my own journey and advanced training in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered how to turn setbacks into the foundation for growth.
That’s why my work is never about quick fixes. I combine evidence-based tools, real-world leadership experience, and a compassionate approach to create change for my clients that lasts. Whether you’re a Scottsdale professional meeting in person at my Biltmore office or connecting virtually, my role is to help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Serving Scottsdale Neighborhoods Including:
McCormick Ranch, Gainey Ranch, DC Ranch, Grayhawk, Kierland, North Scottsdale, Old Town Scottsdale, and the Scottsdale Airpark.
FAQs
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This is the most common fear I hear from Scottsdale professionals, and it's exactly why my method starts with stabilization, not disruption. We assess your financial foundation, your family obligations, and your risk tolerance before we explore any changes.
Many of my clients don't leave their jobs at all — they redesign how they work within them. And the ones who do make a move do it with a financial runway and a clear strategy, not a leap of faith.
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You can be grateful and still want more — those aren't opposites. The professionals I work with often find that the "just be grateful" conversation is really about their partner's fear of change, not about gratitude. Coaching typically improves relationships because you stop bringing your career frustration home.
One client told me his wife noticed the difference within two weeks. That said, I'd never encourage you to hide this from your partner. Transparency tends to bring people closer, not push them apart.
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They're complementary, not competing. Therapy helps you understand and heal the past. Coaching helps you build the future.
I work alongside several Scottsdale-area therapists who refer clients to me specifically because coaching picks up where therapy's scope ends: career strategy, professional identity, decision-making under pressure, accountability for forward action. If you're already in therapy, coaching amplifies that work. If you're not, and I think you should be, I'll say so.
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Retreats give you a high for a weekend. Then you go back to your desk on Monday and nothing changes.
Coaching is the opposite: slow, consistent pressure applied to the specific places where you're stuck, week after week, until something actually moves. There's no keynote speaker. No ropes course. Just you, me, and the honest conversation you've been avoiding with yourself.
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Most clients feel a noticeable shift in clarity and confidence within 2-4 sessions, often just from having someone ask the questions they've been avoiding. Tangible career outcomes — new role, raise, promotion, or a strategic exit plan — typically land within 3-6 months.
One recent client made a career pivot that came with a $20K raise in just 4½ months. But the first result is usually the simplest: you stop dreading the question "what do you do?" because you're finally building an honest answer.
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Not what you're imagining. We don't sit on couches and talk about your childhood. We start with what's most urgent for you that week — a conversation you're dreading, a decision you're avoiding, a pattern you keep repeating. I'll push you to get underneath the surface-level frustration to what's actually going on.
Then we build strategy around it and create specific action steps you'll take before our next session. You leave every session with something concrete to do, not just something to reflect on.
Ready to Stop Rehearsing Someone Else’s Life?
Your path forward is calling, and I'm here to help you answer it.
In our free 60-minute consultation, we'll clarify what's keeping you stuck, explore how coaching can support your specific situation, and see if we're a great fit to work together. Not a sales call — a real, strategic conversation. If we're a fit, I'll tell you. If we're not, I'll tell you that too.