Testimonials
What Clients Are Saying About Us
"Meaningful Organizational Design has proven to be an excellent tool for us to accurately understand where our current business practices and mission stand against our long term strategies and goals. By working through the MOD model, our organization has not only been able to identify crucial challenges and means to help address them, but also celebrate our current successes and fantastic workplace culture. MOD has given us the opportunity to identify deep insights into who we currently are as a company and the opportunities that lie ahead to sculpt who we want to become."
Director of Corporate Responsibility and Social Impact
"MōD’s methodology is incredibly effective in distilling the key components of a business and aligning them to be more impactful for employees, customers, and stakeholders at all levels. MOD is strat planning for the purpose-driven organization and I would recommend Elizabeth and MOD for any venture seeking to unlock a better way of doing business. "
Founder
“ Presence Coaching brought behavioral insight to our Executive Team through one-on-one and group coaching. Although it oversimplifies a sophisticated process, I will just say the program focused on individuals thriving in high demand environments, yet didn't overlook business logic as an essential part of the solution. Their process lead to a deeper understanding of personal - as well as team - motivations and a recommittment to "showing up as our best self". I recommend Elizabeth for Executive Coaching, especially if executive coaching has failed you in the past. She makes it work!"
CEO human capital management industry
"I found the coaching experience to be highly valuable in my life and in my work. I have done a great deal of transformational work and traditional therapy. This was one of the most effective programs I have been involved in."
Marketing Communications Director
“The results are even better when I’m not ‘driving’ or ‘forcing.’ Doing that causes things to be disjointed, disconnected, and unfulfilling. If I just let it happen…it works. It flows!”
Aerospace Industry
"I was deeply unhappy about a number of areas of my life that were not going well. I had built and grown a highly successful management consulting practice on two coasts, but I was stuck and unhappy about unhealthy and ineffective patterns around my work that I had noticed and struggled with for years but had not been able to overcome. With presence coaching I was able to pull back for the first time and really arrest the unhelpful pattern of negative self-talk and the way I was viewing my situation. Presence Coaching taught me to acknowledge and recognize my strengths and my rights (to happiness, to joy, to replenishment), to de-identify with negative thoughts, and to accept my humanity.
One of the most powerful things was simply taking five minutes each day to become present to my surroundings, my breathing, and my interior. This practice was at first strange and difficult for me, but then became something I actually craved as a centering and cleansing practice to start each day. Another simple but very powerful piece of the work was to address my needs across a host of areas such as mental, spiritual, physical, emotional and social. It was AMAZING to simply identify what I needed in each of these areas, and then TO GIVE MYSELF THESE THINGS EACH DAY. What a concept. How funny that though I was (very successfully) advising the CEO's of billion dollar companies how to fix their businesses, I could not fix myself. I could not see to give myself this simple and critical thing.
Following the teachings of the presence coaching, I found this created a huge new wellspring of mental and emotional energy in me, energy that allowed me to be more, rather than less, successful (more projects, wider kinds of projects, more money per project, more interesting clients, more interesting assignments, more contacts), even THOUGH I was spending MORE TIME HAVING FUN. This was the most precious gift of all -- to realize -- against all my pre-conceived notions, against everything that 'society' teaches us -- that success actually INCREASES with more joy and relaxation."
Owner/President
"While each of us is on a different journey and make changes at our own pace, I experienced considerable results after six sessions of Presence Coaching.
Elizabeth’s warmth and compassion created a safe and supportive environment that allowed me to develop greater self-awareness, discover compassion for myself, and recognize the things I do to get in my own way. Elizabeth provided connection from session to session, supporting my understanding, asking what always seemed to be the right questions, and sharing presence based coaching practices relevant to my needs that I was able to integrate into my day-to-day life. These simple practices helped me focus my awareness on the moment or task at hand resulting in less stress, increased productivity, and a feeling of greater peace with myself and my environment.
Overall, Presence Coaching has helped me feel more fulfilled and accomplish more with less effort. Elizabeth’s skills and insights have helped me create positive changes in my life. On a daily basis, I feel more refreshed, relaxed and better able to manage the demands of work and life. I look forward to continuing my coaching work."
Project Manager Defense & Aerospace Industry
"I wanted to send you a quick note to say how amazing my dabbling in this presence stuff has been. Not surprising, words cannot express the whole of it... The thing that is interesting to me, is that I have had all these glimpses into what I would call “being” or “essence” and then it becomes eclipsed by everything else and I lose sight of it. I think what is different for me now, and I want to thank you Elizabeth, for guiding me toward it, is that I now have an experiential orientation, which was really missing for me. More studying, more mental models, more thinking doesn’t get you there. It’s the finger pointing to the truth, a well worn cliché but works so well. Through my awareness work, I believe I am creating more space for many things to happen in my life. At the conference my colleague and I were discussing how practical and so simple these tools are. And yet how amazing the results. So again, thank you. This has been an awesome journey so far."
Project Manager Defense & Aerospace Industry
"I can’t thank you enough... our work from last week was a homerun with the board. Engaging your company in our organization really opened our eyes to new lenses through which to examine every level of our organization. You helped make the "meaningful value" question more prominent in all engagements our organization has at every level. Taking the time to go through the core business model, while some of it was very simple and straightforward, brought it all together and was extremely meaningful. It really helped me provide my board members with a "state of TRC."
Executive Director, non-profit conservation
"The process was motivating, inspiring and thought provoking. It makes me excited about future prospects."
Owner, Wellness business
"When we needed a business plan, MōD was there for us. With insightful questions, a proven framework, and genuinely supportive discussions, we were able to launch an incredibly ambitious and service-oriented Tour in a highly compressed time-frame. Key messages, vehicle wraps, a website, social media accounts, uniform designs, and so much more evolved from these discussions, along with documents that captured our ideas in a useful format. As a signal example--following the interview format, our foundational message emerged: “If you need help, get it. If you can help, offer it.”
CEO, non-profit human services, military
"I wanted to thank you once again for helping our group organize our thinking and feelings around a community wellness business model. I believe those who attended can "see" where we want to go a lot more clearly now. I believe we would have stepped right over some of the most important work if we had not met you. Thank you so much for bringing your skill and warmth to the table."
Marketing & Community Relations, Healthcare
"This process took a great deal of information and summarized it into one snapshot. As we filled in the model the seemingly unrelated ideas really came together in an organized way. At one glance we can see our vision in a graphic and more tangible way."
Participant
"The experience helped our group take a comprehensive look at building our program. We were required to clarify our vision as a group. It also helped us let go of some of our negative past and to look forward. The process in itself was team building."
Participant
"You did a fabulous job of engaging our team. We are in the process of developing a new program, with many different stakeholders involved. Your organization was key in helping us to formally articulate our vision. We walked away from our meeting with a solid plan--knowing definitively how to proceed. It also helped us realize how important "excitability" and "integration" were to all stakeholders at the table. Those values will continue to impact everything that we do."
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