Maureen Merrill
Professional Coach
Finding Your Voice
Presented by Sandra Ish & Maureen Merrill
A fun, enriching event!
Saturday, September 7, 2024
10:00am - 2:30pm
Luther Burbank Center Meeting Room
$125
Confidence and Self-Expression for Women
Build confident ease in speaking (and speaking up!), expanding your voice, body language and powers of presence in daily communications and special situations.
Explore "difficult conversations" skills, with gentle coaching and feedback. Practice a kind "no," and create "yes" responses that affirm your intentions. Re-discover your strongest inner leadership skills.
Enjoy your natural gifts of connection, presence, and self-expression!
It’s my passion to coach with people who are committed to creating lives of balance, fulfillment, and potential.
About Maureen
Personal and professional confidence, along with life balance and fulfilment, is essential to the work that my clients and I do together. We focus on clarifying life choices and perspectives that take us to the future you envision, placing personal values and individual strengths upfront. Often, we identify and design the next steps – for this week or for life.
I’ve benefited from having a coach over the years, and still do. With an academic grounding in psychology and a lifetime in business and community leadership, I came to professional coaching gradually, as a natural expression of my commitments.
My Professional Journey
Education & Development
- MA, Developmental Psychology
- Certifications in MBTI, DISC and Emotional Intelligence
- Co-Active Training Institute (Coaching), Positive Psychology, Target Training International (DISC, Emotional Intelligence, Driving Forces), InterStrength (MBTI/Myers-Briggs), Rotary Institute for Leadership
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
- Member, International Coaching Federation (certified associate) and American Psychological Association
Business & Community
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Principal of Merrill Consulting since 2004.
Partner & General Manager of A.M. Properties, a family investment business since 2000. Semi-retired in favor of coaching. - Steering Committee Chair and Co-Founder of Leadership Windsor.
- Leadership in business and NFP organizations including Rotary locally and regionally, Chambers of Commerce and currently on the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Honorary Council (past member, Board of Trustees).
- Grants Committee Member, Impact 100 Redwood Circle.
- Past elected city council member; appointed to Open Space Advisory Committee as business community representative, and to Sonoma County Transportation Authority.
- Past ownership of a membership health club and two retail stores.
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Faculty & Co-Founder, Rotary Leadership Institute / Ken Moulton Leadership Development Program in District 5130
Leadership in Rotary club, district and regional roles in Rotary International; participated in many overseas projects. Served as District Governor and in training of incoming District Governors. Frequent learning facilitator in areas such as membership, motivation and member morale.
Life, Transitions, and Leadership Coaching
My job is to help you identify your goals, create your plans, and stay motivated as you work towards achieving them. We work in partnership, with flexibility, perspective and creativity, and I support you as you create and pursue your dreams and plans.
Design your own destiny
- Develop a vision of what productivity looks like to you. What is the aim of your productivity?
- Help you define and envision your goals and intended results.
- Together we identify the perspective and resources that moves you toward your intended goals.
Navigating Life: Changes in Life, Work, Passions and Purpose
Stepping into a new leadership role? Trying to choose between career opportunities? Navigating clashes of dreams, needs, and wants? Shifts in a living situation?
These challenges offer opportunities. They deserve your time and attention. In coaching, you forge a present and future that is rooted in what you value as most important. Coaching can bring clarity to your visions for a fulfilling life.
Coaching Can Help You With:
- Confidence
- Life Balance
- Productivity
- Changes, Transitions, & Choices
- Leadership Skills
- Success in New Endeavors
- Life Strategies and Action Plans
- Healthy Habits & Practices
- Self-Expression & Communication Skills
- Happiness
Find Confidence With Your Professional & Personal Life
Find clarity by identifying what’s important to you
Make your best decisions based on your values
Create a fulfilling career and life path.
Express yourself. Find the words and the confidence to say what's on your mind and in your heart
Change
We know it happens! One aspect of a happy life is looking ahead with optimism, through a lens of confidence and preparation.
I believe everyone...
is creative, resourceful, and ready to keep growing in their own ways at their best pace.
gets stuck now and then, and “saboteurs” that we can learn to deal with
performs better with a coach whose job it is to listen, challenge, and support our chosen commitments
can live an even more fulfilling, pleasing, and contributing life.
Mid-life Fulfilment
Reaching the age of 30 . . . or 60 or 42 or 76 . . . can be fraught with excitement and trepidation. Mid-life, and then senior status, seems to arrive sooner than expected!
We often these milestones with more surprise than preparation. But life changes are opportunities. I believe that we can thrive and contribute, at any age. Coaching helps.
