I’ve built great trust in my own capacity as a leader.
Andrew is a fantastic senior leader who thinks deeply about how he wants to show up authentically at work. He was struggling to figure out how to shift away from the ambivalence he was feeling at work and how to take action. Together, we got clear on his values, turned up the imagination, and helped him leverage those personal values to align with his choices at work on both a tactical and strategic level.
“Before working with Rikki I felt ambivalent about my career and my biggest concern(s) was discerning the right next step in light of my past, current, and future aspirations. She will, through her practice, urge you to avoid making a habit of sacrificing the power of imagination to the assumed need for constant pragmatism under existing conditions as you perceive them at a specific time.
I found that she focuses on values and imagination as the place where we need to start to reach the best practical solution to a given problem. The practice has been invaluable to my personal and professional growth.
Rikki is an excellent listener and she will "push-guide" you to reach conclusions about professional development questions in constructive ways (it's a push because she's not signposting for you, she's making you the agent of your own change.)
After working together I have a much stronger sense of my personal values and how I can use them to align with choices at work at tactical and strategic levels. I’ve built great trust in my own capacity as a leader.
Now when confronted with a frustrating situation at work, at a local or system-wide level, I’m learning to step back and discern my own vision of what a better system looks like, what I have control over to improve, and what I can personally do to manage through elements of the situation is unlikely to change.
I would recommend Rikki to anyone who is looking to gain perspective on how to discern their personal values and create a clear and attainable vision of what "better" looks like in contrast to what they don't want or like in their work/life.”
-Andrew