COACHWhat would you say to the person you were one year ago?
What do you want to change the most in your life?
What does a balanced life mean to you?
What would you do if time didn’t matter?
Are you ready to answer these questions?
As a life coach, I facilitate positive change. I help my clients set and refine goals, make life and/or career transitions, and maintain supportive relationships. My coaching is concentrated on the choices that are imperative and compelling to you right now. Harnessing the skills and various tools of the coaching technology, I work intuitively with my clients to create a safe space for harvesting visions and desires. I use a future-focused, solutions-based approach, and partner with my clients to achieve some noteworthy goals. I also employ concepts from contemporary neuroscience on how the brain makes connections: my coaching engagement is designed to support and coach the client to insight, harness the motivation that comes from illumination, and take you right into action. Consequently, this has produced some powerful results for my clients.
Jeanette Gonzalez, ACC
I believe that the coach supports the client in accessing his or her own inner wisdom -- the client can be guided to his or her own solutions and ultimately knows what to do. My coaching philosophy is best expressed by my acronym:
M otivate client to see
P ossibilities and
O utcomes through
W illingness and
E nergy to achieve
R esults
Contact me for more information on my coaching services,
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Jeanette’s work in filmmaking offers a unique opportunity to provide coaching to this community. While Jeanette helps clients from various professions, she also offers a particular focus on coaching actors, filmmakers, and creative professionals, who want to bring more balance into their lives, re-design their time. Whether it’s about time management, taking charge of finances, refining goals, or exploring ways to sustain healthy relationships, Jeanette has a working knowledge of this industry’s challenges. She combines her abilities and energy as a producer, with her coach presence, and empathically applies it all to the coaching engagement.
Jeanette’s coaching is highly informed by the field of contemporary neuroscience, and part of her training includes a “brain-based” approach to coaching. One of her more popular workshops is designed around the concept of setting meaningful goals by using recent discoveries on how the brain makes connections. She is a sought-after speaker and teaching artist at several schools, including the Junior School at the Neighborhood Playhouse Theater in NYC. She also volunteers her time as a teaching assistant for the Professional Coaching Program at New York University.
Jeanette is passionate about her work, and is certified by New York University as a Personal and Life Coach. She is also credentialed through the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC).
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Testimonials
Back To Top Testimonials “I am a total Type A Personality, so I brought a full plate to my coaching engagement with Jeanette – career woes, family struggles, and questions of spirit being a heavy few. In the short time we worked together, this is what I accomplished: I firmly committed to the pursuit of my big time love – acting – with all my heart. (Coincidentally I booked a day player on a feature film, started freelancing with 3 commercial agents, and a legit agent and booked 2 print jobs.) I’ve also had a major shift in my perceptions - of my place in my family and the world. And well, spiritually, I hope to always question… but it’s a joy to explore with such an open, compassionate, and gracious listener. Jeanette is a natural coach. From the moment we started working together I felt completely at ease and safe to be as honest as I would let myself be. And, if you are willing, she will ask questions that will bring forth your highest and most honest truth. No judgments, just inspiration – and with her wicked intelligence, wit and guidance – be prepared to get off your bum and get &*#$done. I really wish I could employ her until I was 85 – then I could really change the world.”Toni Pizzola
SAG Actress
“Jeanette’s coaching culminated in some great insights on a situation that I had been grappling with for some time now. Her ability to do real-time-analysis helped me to stay focused. Her style is engaging, and as her client, she completely put me at ease.
Jeanette is a natural coach.”
Arnold Kaplan
Executive Producer
Taxi Films, Inc.
"Through her direct expertise and easy manner Jeanette Gonzalez has coached me to success. Of course, my notion of success has morphed through the process of being coached--I now have different goals and aspirations as well as new ways of relating to my goals.
As a professor at two major universities and a PhD. candidate I have to balance time as well as keep my wits about me as I move through work, my personal life and achieving my requisite agendas. Jeanette has been instrumental in me envisioning and actualizing my dreams. The best part about it is I truly was unfocused and unaware as to what I wanted until Jeanette helped me retool my ideas of success. I recommend her life coaching skills with the highest regards."
Arin Mason
PhD. Candidate Professor,
American University & George Mason University
“Having Jeanette as my life coach has been such a great experience for me! I really didn’t know what to expect, and what I got was a warm and understanding person, who helped me to see things as they are. She showed me that I already had the answers I was looking for. I just needed help sorting through all of the stuff in my head to see them clearly. I would recommend Jeanette to anyone who is at a crossroads in his or her life, and who needs an objective person to talk things through with. I was Jeanette’s client during a time when I had many hard decisions to make, and her coaching was invaluable to me.”
Aura Vence
SAG Actress
“With Jeanette's blend of enthusiasm and compassionate support, I was able to break through a few tough barriers weighing down on my life. Her coaching style is like being with a caring friend, who helps you think differently, and unconditionally supports your decision.”
Tom Volk
Director of Coaching
Bumble & Bumble
“Jeanette and I worked together over a short time period and the results will benefit me for a lifetime! The time had come when I wanted to be proactive in getting what I wanted in my life and to realize some dreams. From the beginning I knew that I needed to create a schedule for myself that would allow me the time to work on the several things I wanted to include in my life. The problem was that I didn't know how to create a schedule that I would actually follow. Jeanette not only helped me to create a schedule, or “road map,” as she called it, for my life, but she held me accountable in the following of it – and we designed a map to follow with many possible turns. So now I work with a “road map” in front of me at my desk at all times, and look at it often so that I am reminded of the roads I have planned on traveling. My true success with the “road map” comes from my ability to take detours as needed, without fear of failure, and then successfully return to the road when ready. This was a big win for me!
It was through Jeanette's wise guidance that I was able to find this ability in myself. She has many talents, but in my opinion, one of Jeanette's strengths is her ability to delicately allow me to find my own answers to questions. Many times she would point out that within my question, I had spoken my answer. This always blew me away and taught me to trust myself much more! I left our brief time together with the tools I needed to continue our work on my own... and that, I think, is the signature of a great coach. Thank you, Jeanette!”
Brandon Pizzola
Writer
SAG Actor
“An artist’s life is a tough one. Many times, it’s hard to find what the first step is, and I’ve often felt overwhelmed by all of life’s tasks. Jeanette helped me to help myself, by guiding me to the core of what needed to be done. Her coaching was exciting, and yet gave me a wonderful sense of calm. Jeanette’s coaching helped me find the winning steps to accomplishing my goals.”
Cate Bottiglione
SAG Actress
Acting Teacher
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SAG Actress
Executive Producer
Taxi Films, Inc.
PhD. Candidate Professor,
American University & George Mason University
SAG Actress
Director of Coaching
Bumble & Bumble
Writer
SAG Actor
SAG Actress
Acting Teacher
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Coaching FAQ's
Back To Top Frequently Asked Questions About Coaching Q: What is coaching?
A: A supportive relationship with a trained professional that enhances clients' ability to learn, make desired changes, solve problems, and achieve goals. Coaches work with their clients individually or in groups, face-to-face or by telephone, typically in a series of regularly scheduled sessions. Q: How is coaching different from consulting, teaching, or therapy?
A: Coaching differs from consulting because the coach's primary role is not to give advice or design solutions. Coaches ask questions and suggest alternatives that guide clients to discover their own unique answers and choose their own path. A coach may provide ideas, expertise, and skill-building techniques, but doesn't solve clients' problems for them, nor tell them what to do. Coaching differs from teaching in that the coach doesn't determine what the client will learn, nor provide a curriculum to be followed. The client decides what he or she needs to know, and the coach facilitates learning by providing accountability, feedback, helpful resources, or useful models. Coaching differs from therapy because coaching sessions are primarily focused on learning and achievement, rather than healing or resolution. Coaches help clients to make changes in their lives by observing present conditions, visualizing future goals, and determining action steps. Analyzing past events, understanding emotional reactions, or determining the cause of a client's behavior are typically not addressed in coaching. Q: What do people get out of working with a coach?
A: Coaching clients experience a sense of partnership and support in achieving their personal goals that is often not available elsewhere in their lives. Regular coaching sessions provide clients with dedicated time to focus on what they truly want and what must happen to create it. Coaches help their clients design action steps to meet their goals, then hold them accountable to their own stated desires, providing perspective, feedback, and smart questions along the way. As a result, clients stay motivated, make significant changes, and achieve more than they may have thought possible.
Q: Where does someone find a qualified coach?
A: First, ask friends and colleagues if they have worked with a coach to achieve goals similar to your own. While coaching does not require a professional license, there are a number of organizations that train or certify coaches. The largest certifying body is the International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org) which offers a referral service to match prospective clients with appropriate coaches.
Q: What kinds of people use coaches?
A: A typical coaching client is someone who wants to make changes in his or her life, and is ready to take action. You might hire a coach for yourself when you are looking for a new job, needing to improve your management skills, wanting to increase profits in your business, launching an ambitious new project, planning your retirement, or dissatisfied with some of the conditions in your life and seeking a new direction.
You might hire a coach for your organization when you want to improve productivity, increase teamwork, implement new ways of working, or adjust to changing conditions.
Coaching clients are men, women, and young people, of all ages, professions, and income brackets. What they have in common is a desire for partnership, support, and strategic guidance in solving problems and achieving goals that are personally important to them.
Q: What are some real-world examples of the results people achieve through coaching?
A: A litigation attorney found a new career as a chef.
An executive improved job satisfaction and productivity in her department by learning to communicate better with team members.
A small business owner tripled his bottom line.
An overworked accountant found a life partner and learned to slow down.
A major corporation merged employees from two different cultures into cooperative work teams.
Any coach can provide examples like these of clients who achieved extraordinary results because they had the guidance, feedback, and support provided by coaching. Q: What qualifications are needed to be a coach?
A: The best coaches are those who excel at listening, communicating, questioning, action planning, and creating accountability, and have the ability to hold the client's agenda rather than follow their own. Coaches come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including business, counseling, consulting, training, and sports. There are no standard educational or licensing requirements for coaching. Many coaches have completed formal training programs or earned a credential from a training school, university, or professional association. Others have built their coaching abilities through substantial career or life experience. To determine the qualifications of a coach, in addition to asking the coach about his or her background, ask for references from former clients about the coach's capabilities. Satisfied clients are often the best measure of how well-qualified a coach is to help clients achieve results. Q: How does someone know if he or she is ready to work with a coach?
A: To get the most from a coaching relationship, clients need to be willing to learn new ways of doing things and make changes in their attitudes and behavior. Anyone who is open to hearing new perspectives, willing to question how they are currently acting, and ready to take on new challenges in their life or career can benefit from a working with a coach.
Back To Top Frequently Asked Questions About Coaching Q: What is coaching?
A: A supportive relationship with a trained professional that enhances clients' ability to learn, make desired changes, solve problems, and achieve goals. Coaches work with their clients individually or in groups, face-to-face or by telephone, typically in a series of regularly scheduled sessions. Q: How is coaching different from consulting, teaching, or therapy?
A: Coaching differs from consulting because the coach's primary role is not to give advice or design solutions. Coaches ask questions and suggest alternatives that guide clients to discover their own unique answers and choose their own path. A coach may provide ideas, expertise, and skill-building techniques, but doesn't solve clients' problems for them, nor tell them what to do. Coaching differs from teaching in that the coach doesn't determine what the client will learn, nor provide a curriculum to be followed. The client decides what he or she needs to know, and the coach facilitates learning by providing accountability, feedback, helpful resources, or useful models. Coaching differs from therapy because coaching sessions are primarily focused on learning and achievement, rather than healing or resolution. Coaches help clients to make changes in their lives by observing present conditions, visualizing future goals, and determining action steps. Analyzing past events, understanding emotional reactions, or determining the cause of a client's behavior are typically not addressed in coaching. Q: What do people get out of working with a coach?
A: Coaching clients experience a sense of partnership and support in achieving their personal goals that is often not available elsewhere in their lives. Regular coaching sessions provide clients with dedicated time to focus on what they truly want and what must happen to create it. Coaches help their clients design action steps to meet their goals, then hold them accountable to their own stated desires, providing perspective, feedback, and smart questions along the way. As a result, clients stay motivated, make significant changes, and achieve more than they may have thought possible.
A: First, ask friends and colleagues if they have worked with a coach to achieve goals similar to your own. While coaching does not require a professional license, there are a number of organizations that train or certify coaches. The largest certifying body is the International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org) which offers a referral service to match prospective clients with appropriate coaches.
Q: What kinds of people use coaches?
A: A typical coaching client is someone who wants to make changes in his or her life, and is ready to take action. You might hire a coach for yourself when you are looking for a new job, needing to improve your management skills, wanting to increase profits in your business, launching an ambitious new project, planning your retirement, or dissatisfied with some of the conditions in your life and seeking a new direction.
You might hire a coach for your organization when you want to improve productivity, increase teamwork, implement new ways of working, or adjust to changing conditions.
Coaching clients are men, women, and young people, of all ages, professions, and income brackets. What they have in common is a desire for partnership, support, and strategic guidance in solving problems and achieving goals that are personally important to them.
A: A litigation attorney found a new career as a chef.
An executive improved job satisfaction and productivity in her department by learning to communicate better with team members.
A small business owner tripled his bottom line.
An overworked accountant found a life partner and learned to slow down.
A major corporation merged employees from two different cultures into cooperative work teams.
Any coach can provide examples like these of clients who achieved extraordinary results because they had the guidance, feedback, and support provided by coaching. Q: What qualifications are needed to be a coach?
A: The best coaches are those who excel at listening, communicating, questioning, action planning, and creating accountability, and have the ability to hold the client's agenda rather than follow their own. Coaches come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including business, counseling, consulting, training, and sports. There are no standard educational or licensing requirements for coaching. Many coaches have completed formal training programs or earned a credential from a training school, university, or professional association. Others have built their coaching abilities through substantial career or life experience. To determine the qualifications of a coach, in addition to asking the coach about his or her background, ask for references from former clients about the coach's capabilities. Satisfied clients are often the best measure of how well-qualified a coach is to help clients achieve results. Q: How does someone know if he or she is ready to work with a coach?
A: To get the most from a coaching relationship, clients need to be willing to learn new ways of doing things and make changes in their attitudes and behavior. Anyone who is open to hearing new perspectives, willing to question how they are currently acting, and ready to take on new challenges in their life or career can benefit from a working with a coach.
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