FOR INDIVIDUALS
One-on-one coaching helps you clarify thinking, set goals, solve problems, and take strategic action
Courageous Leadership in Challenging Times
Executive Coaching for Executive Directors, CEOs and foundation leaders
Leading a social justice organization or foundation is unlike any other leadership role. You are navigating immense external pressure while managing internal complexity — holding your team's wellbeing, your board's expectations, and your community's needs simultaneously. And often, you're doing it without a true peer to think alongside. As your coach, I bring 25+ years of deep sector knowledge — so you never have to explain the landscape, the politics, or the stakes. I can help you:
- Adapt your strategies to changing contexts
- Problem-solve complex or charged situations
- Uplevel understanding and action to create thriving and equitable work cultures
- Succeed through empowering and supporting others
- Communicate powerfully and authentically
- Manage organizational growth and transitions
- Sustain yourself through managing stress and tending to wellbeing
Coaching provides invaluable support to leaders at any stage:
- If you are new in your position, coaching can help you start off on the right foot.
- If you are reaching a plateau, coaching can help you identify areas of growth or new goals that reinvigorate your work.
- And, coaching can help you in all aspects of succession planning, from the emotional and relational to the strategic and tactical.
Your Wellbeing is Not a Luxury, it is Essential
Resilience Coaching
Social justice leaders are asked to carry an extraordinary amount. Sustaining yourself is not optional - it is the foundation required for action and impact. This work is not separate from your leadership — it is your leadership. As your coach, I can help you:
- Develop practices to support your emotional wellbeing
- Understand and address your biggest stressors
- Leverage your body as a source of information and resilience
- Improve your sleep, nourishment, and physical wellbeing
- Sustain yourself through healthy boundary setting and management of commitments
- Strengthen your emotional intelligence
In addition to a mastery of coaching skills, I bring a life-long exploration of these topics to our sessions, sharing reflections and tools when appropriate. I am particularly passionate about helping people address metabolic health in a way that is holistic, body-positive, science-based, and behavior-focused. (You can find more about this part of my work at www.becomingvibrant.com.)
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HERE'S WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Goldman Environmental Foundation
Executive Coaching
"Rachel helped me clarify my own goals. These conversations helped me understand how to approach each challenge in a way that was best for both the organization and for the organization's grantees and beneficiaries. Her questions helped me understand and see the impacts of everyone's choices. Rachel's commitment to social justice activism is fantastic, and gave me the confidence that we approached these questions from the same set of values."
David Gordon
Executive Director
International Accountability Project
Executive Coaching
“Executive coaching has far exceeded my expectations: not only has Rachel helped me grow as a leader, but staff has expressed that 'the work with Rachel has benefited the whole organization.' Weekly coaching has created a vital space for me to address truly important issues which otherwise are overshadowed by an endless stream of other pressing problems. I am proud of all that my organization has achieved since I began as ED, and Rachel has been an integral part of that success.”
Joanna Levitt
Executive Director
LeaderSpring Center
Succession Coaching
"As a certified coach who oversees a coaching program for social sector leaders, it is my privilege to recommend Rachel Humphrey’s coach services. Rachel, a seasoned leader and manager, astutely helped me prepare my organization for a leadership succession at a time of growth and fast change. Her support was no small feat given this pivotal and complex transition, both professionally and personally. Among other lessons, when faced with challenging decisions, I learned from Rachel to more swiftly identify and weigh simultaneously conflicting values and priorities at hand, enabling me to make otherwise difficult choices with greater clarity and confidence. Without hesitation, I wholeheartedly recommend Rachel as a trusted coach and advisor."
Cynthia Chavez
Former Executive Director
Techbridge Girls
Executive Coaching
"I began working with Rachel as a first-time CEO. My goal was to have an executive coach that provided a safe space to grow, learn and evolve my leadership. Rachel is extremely easy to talk to and a wonderful listener. She has the ability to guide your thinking so that you are able to come up with a solution or path forward that is authentic to you. She also brings a deep awareness of the nonprofit sector especially in areas of social justice. That lens was extremely important as I navigated my leadership experiences in the sector."
Nikole Collins-Puri
CEO
Girls Inc. Affiliate
Executive Coaching
"After 6 months of coaching with Rachel, my relationships with my Board and staff are night and day from where they were. I am much less critical of the Board, and vice versa, and we're able to work together much better now. A key staff member is now performing strongly, and another is stepping up to new challenges successfully. Moreover, I've learned a lot about myself. I've become a better listener and am able to self correct. I am managing challenges thoughtfully and strategically rather than with insecurity or defensiveness.”CEO
