For management coaching & work with organizations:

I could speak volumes about Syd's expertise and the leaps and bounds my team and company have taken under her guidance. In brief, her oversight and ideas spurred a new level of professional growth for me and has became a legacy to follow for our senior leadership. The betterment she was able to foster during her consultancy has continued to inform our company culture through HR policies as well as our strategic thinking and operations at large. Syd is both a highly intelligent person who inspires and communicates complex ideas with clarity and purpose, and one who maintains a sense of ease and lightness that encourages others to do the same.

- Anna Sheffield, Founder and Creative Director

Syd has the intuitive ability to balance camaraderie with leadership. She developed me as an individual contributor to manager and taught me a lot about how to empower my team, lead by example, and manage internal systems.

Her mentorship and hands on approach inspired my individual development and professional growth. During our time together she was a problem solver and never hesitated to help me navigate the toughest assignments and lead my team toward favorable outcomes.

Syd has had a major influence on my career and way of thinking about leadership. You will be hard pressed to find a better partner, coach, and teacher. I feel lucky for the opportunity to work alongside and learn from her.

- Pedro Frias, Director of Sales

Syd was incredibly helpful when I stepped into a new sales manager role. Having Syd's clear, impartial and empathetic guidance allowed me to navigate more than one challenging situation thoughtfully and efficiently. I wholeheartedly recommend Syd to anyone interested in growing their professional and managerial capabilities.

- Jesse Hassinger, Sales Engineer

Syd has been so instrumental in my growth at work, in how I approach problem solving. The lessons I learned through her coaching have definitely stayed with me.

- Barbara Bisoni, President

As a director at a high growth start up, Syd was the most valuable resource made available to me as a people manager. Whether it was navigating the complexities of performance management of remote teams, setting measurable, challenging, but achievable departmental goals, improving inter-departmental collaboration or maintaining our teams dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion while exceeding our aggressive hiring goals, Syd was instrumental in our success.

- Jean Pembleton, Sales and Partnerships Director

For personal coaching:

Syd has been a phenomenal coach in that she's supportive, understanding, and incredibly adept at getting you to walk the path that you're meant to walk but maybe couldn't see. I have found Syd to be a really positive and influential presence, and I have appreciated the things she's helped me learn about myself.

- Kaitlyn H., San Francisco

Syd's work has not only grounded me in all facets of my life: personal and professional, but has also helped guide me with a vision (my carefully cultivated and finessed vision) for how I wish to live moving forward. Syd's knowledgeable, inquiry-based, and deeply intuitive approach to coaching has given me more confidence in how I spend my time, and how I look to spend it in the future. I am finding these sessions profoundly healing and strengthening, in that I find peace and grounding in them, increased self-understanding and awareness, and there is always an actionable element that I can apply in my life. The conceptual plus actionable orientation to these sessions make for transformative work, both inside and out.

- Em A., Seattle

My work with Syd has helped weave and tie together my five years of healing work in therapy, my spiritual practices, work, and radical self care. Syd’s unconditional compassion and straight forward approach has given me the courage and skills needed to make major yet basic life changes, and learn how to set attainable goals. She has helped me physically manifest all the emotional healing I have done in therapy, into my day to day life. Most importantly she helped me gain perspective and true clarity about who I am and what I would like to call in to my life. My work with Syd has quite honestly changed my life and I feel very grateful for their coaching skills.

- Lex H., Olympic Peninsula