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, fulfillment, and continued growth are at the heart of my work with clients. Together, we clarify what matters most, build on your individual strengths and values, and explore the path forward—whether that means growing in your career, navigating change, or discovering what’s next in life.
With an academic grounding in psychology and a lifetime of experience in business and community leadership, I came to professional coaching as a natural expression of my commitment to helping others thrive. I’ve also benefited from having a coach throughout my own life.
My goal is to help you feel more confident, connected, and clear about your path, with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility for what’s ahead.
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.
A Life in Full
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.
BALANCE
FREEDOM
CLARITY
Purpose
Rooted in wisdom. Cultivating purpose and joy. Blooming forward.
There is no age limit on growth, purpose, or possibility.
This program is designed to help you embrace your whole life—every part and every stage of it—while creating space for what is still waiting to emerge.
Maybe there is something you have always wanted to bring to life. Maybe you are entering a new chapter and asking, What’s next? Maybe the roles that once defined you have shifted, and you are ready to reconnect with who you are now and who you are becoming.
Our mission is to help you move forward with greater clarity, connection, and intention. By expanding your mindset and staying actively engaged in your own growth, the years ahead can be your most meaningful and fulfilling yet.
Who it's For
For those who are ready for what comes next—not by leaving their past behind, but by building upon the wisdom, experiences, and accomplishments that brought them here. You don’t need to have the answers yet. Sometimes, knowing we’re ready for something new is just the right place to begin.
Are you near, contemplating or in ‘retirement’ and seeking meaning and purpose for the next phase? Ever think: I want something more?
Have you been thinking about doing that one thing for quite a while? Might this be the time to pursue it?
Do you question the social premise that we get “too old” to begin again, make a change, or pursue something new?
Want to remain curious, connected, engaged, and open to what is still possible?
What to Expect
This is a space to explore the ideas, dreams, questions, and possibilities that have been waiting quietly in the background. Every person’s experience is different, but expect the following:
- A lively and refreshing review of your values and the aspects of life that are most important to you now.
- Thought-provoking exploration of the things that call to you strongly – your desires, dreams that may have been on hold, new adventures and as-yet unexpressed areas to look into.
- Identification of desired new directions, including the habits, practices, or maps that work best for you.
- Refreshing perspectives on setbacks, detours, or obstacles.
Whether you are nurturing the beginning of an idea or focusing on what you want this next chapter to look like, you’ll have a thoughtful partner alongside you as you explore, clarify, and take meaningful steps forward.
Embrace your whole life. Every part. Every stage.
Come join A Life in Full, Course One
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