Services
Coaching & Assessment
I serve clients in and outside of organizational settings through a holistic approach to coaching, assessment, and development. Coaching supports clients to develop integrated, self-generating capabilities to approach their specific development areas of focus. I work with clients to co-create a development plan and use assessments, personalized exercises, self-awareness practices, and other tools to support the ongoing developmental process. I hold several certifications in integral, polarity, and somatic coaching and weave these frameworks in my work with clients.
Coaching processes often begin with engaging one of several assessment tools (Hogan, Enneagram, CliftonStregnths, MBTI) and mapping the unique complexities of client contexts, and working to identify core values, purpose, and developmental direction. From there, we create an individualized development plan over a specified framework of time with clear goals and milestones as well as accountability structures.
Ongoing coaching work ranges in timespan and evolves with client goals, focus areas, and emerging factors in client lives. Coaching work is informed by a whole-person, integral philosophy to development and often incorporates somatic and mindfulness components. Within organizations, coaching often occurs as a component of wider-scale team and organizational leadership development programs and services. I have additional background in chaplaincy (grief support), somatic therapy and equine assisted coaching, and am informed by these tools in my work with clients.
Testimonials
“Bridgit brought a natural spaciousness and capacity to our work together, balancing abundant compassion and sensitivity with sharp intellect. She nimbly navigated a deep understanding of individual, organizational, and relational dynamics with grace, helping me cut through the noise and move forward while lessening overwhelm. Bridgit’s insightful questions and guidance supported me through difficult crossroads with confidence, clarity, and perspective.”
— Max Alaghband, Non-profit Services, Consultant
“I hired Bridgit several years ago to help me cultivate clarity and direction. I partner with Bridgit in order to help me to stay focused on things that matter personally and professionally. Bridget has been wonderful in helping me to maximize my potential. Bridgit's skills in listening, pattern recognition, strategic thinking, and communication are excellent. I bring questions, challenges, and opportunities, and together, we gain clarity that moves me toward the desired transformation. ”
-Bill Konves, Founder, ECOS
“Bridgit is a great coach. She uses powerful tools and resources to set a baseline, then assists you in setting your goals, then helps to hold you accountable to accomplish them in a timely fashion. She is personable and open, regardless of the topic that may arise. I trust her opinion and insight into making the most complex thoughts or tasks seem manageable. Plus, we have fun and always seem to have a good laugh! ”
-Jon Apino, Contract Diagnostics
Corporate OFF SITES & retreats
We custom-curate offsite and retreat experiences that support wide ranging team and organizational development objectives. We are based in Boulder, CO and regularly facilitate at conference, retreat, and ranch locations close to client locations in the U.S and abroad. We manage end-to-end production for individual team engagements and work with contracted production companies for large (50+) organization-wide events.
Half, full, and multi-day options are customized around the following areas:
Team Leadership & Strategy Development: Executive team mission, vision, and/or purpose development; discovery and codifying of organizational values; strategic planning; experiential leadership trainings (e.g. communication core practices, coaching as a manager, delivering feedback); team leadership development utilizing assessments
Equine Facilitated Leadership: Equine facilitated leadership sessions and debriefs take place on the ground inside the arena alongside horses and explore emotional intelligence, decision-making, and collaborative leadership methods as well as embodied, holistic leadership development
Team Building Activities: Strategic team collaboration games (think low impact, “capture the flag” inspired games); physical and mental group problem solving games and challenge activities
Retreat Activities: Guided creative expression, guided hiking, mindfulness and yoga, local skill-based courses, and more
“My group and I had a great learning experience with Bridgit. We are a group that is developing learning practices for people in performance fields such as leadership, education, family dynamics, community mobilization, social justice, and healthy organizations. The experience with the horses was an extraordinary learning lab to see how to include the body in learning, face challenges, and progress in confidence in a new, challenging situations.”
-Bob Dunham, Founder, Institute for Generative Leadership
“My team and I gained powerful tools to apply personally and as a group around effective leadership. The exercises with the horses were a great mix of fun and deep individual and group learning, with practical takeaways and applications for how to navigate interpersonal dynamics and strategic objectives effectively. This was the best part of our 2 day offsite! For teams looking for bonding, introspection, and team metaphors, I recommend Bridgit wholeheartedly.”
-Amanda West, Director, People Operations at Google
“Truly and deeply magical and empowering. The retreat itself was only a day, but here I am nearly a month later still continuing to grow and process all that I learned about myself and communicating with others from an open, authentic and safe space.”
-Dana K., Teacher
Organizational CONSULTING
Custom designed engagements support teams and larger scale organizational
initiatives in cultivating healthy cultures and overall alignment towards strategic goals. We specialize in the following areas:
Leadership Development: Holistic leadership development through customized virtual and in person leadership development courses and programs; individual and team development via coaching and assessment programming; experiential programing to support embodied leadership development
Organizational culture: Cultivating engaged teams and organization-wide culture in which people feel a sense of belonging, purpose, and bring their whole selves to work; fostering high quality communication, psychological safety, trust, openness, and culture where everyone feels supported to do their best work; creating a work place with strong work-life balance supporting high levels of productivity
Diversity and inclusion: Enabling overall diversity within organizations in which everyone feels included, understood, and supported to do their best work
“My experience with the group program profoundly opened up my awareness of my body states and the impact of unspoken inner dialogue. Our group worked on harnessing energy and presence through leadership exercises and powerful interpersonal exercises with other group members. I was able to understand and practice how to shift my energy and to be a better, more congruent collaborator with those around me at home and at work. I highly recommend to individuals and teams. ”
-Fernanda Montoya, Accountant, Boulder Heavy Industries
“The half day with fellow IGL colleagues generated rich conversations about how our awareness of ourselves in relationship with our team members, made visible in our conditioned tendencies. Bridgit negotiated the space to allow this to show up so elegantly. A key practice for our team was that nervousness, anxiety, fear, or uncertainty are normal and ok, and that there are skillful ways to embrace being settled amidst the unsettledness that shows up.”
-Andrea Bordenca, CEO IGL US