About Rachel

I have spent more than 25 years working in human resource capacities in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia, The Caucasus, and the Balkans, primarily focused on managing expatriate activity and projects in diverse sectors (mining, banking and finance, health care reform, agri-business development, etc).

I have designed strategic human resources systems, performance and management systems and am skilled in team building, team planning, and the development of strategic work plans.  I am a bilingual Spanish ~ English speaker and in addition to a master’s degree in international development, I am formally trained in Facilitation and Training of Trainers.

I am a change management leader and have added value to professional organizations in strategic planning, human resource management, organizational development, training and facilitation.

As a trainer and facilitator, I had found a special niche in the facilitation of groups of people from mixed (international) backgrounds.  I discovered that I had a talent to work with these teams to help them discover and clarify their goals and then organize and take action to meet those goals.  For me it was about the thrill of the team’s self-discovery.

When I was first introduced to co-active coaching, I was delighted to find that coaching was the answer to the search for self-discovery at the individual level!  And even more so, that the personal growth of a manager or an executive in a given organization could change the corporate culture, improve productivity, reduce turnover, and otherwise affect the organization in a way no amount of ‘beauty school’ or ‘time management classes’ could.

I received my formal coach training through The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), San Rafael, California, and I am a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), and a member of the Co-active Coaching Network.  I am also currently participating in CTI’s acclaimed Leadership Program; a comprehensive training program designed to foster leadership potential and skills through the development of an international community of peers and leaders (and is, I might add, the most transformative development program I’ve ever been involved with.)

At a personal level, I am a wife, daughter, sister, aunt and friend!  I love to quilt and I am a voracious reader and a hopeless foodie!  I am a choral singer and love the masterworks!  I have sung with choruses in Jordan, Bangladesh, (soviet) Georgia, and in NJ and now with the Hampshire Choral Society in MA.  I have sung at Carnegie Hall in NYC, at the Canterbury Cathedral in the UK, the Dom in Salzburg, Austria, and will be singing in Prague and Montreal in 2009.

Although I coach a variety of professionals and private citizens, I have a keen understanding of the issues that expatriates face and I share a love and fascination of what it is to live a global life!  Although I’m a nomad, my home base is with my husband in the beautiful rural town of Leverett, MA. One of my strongest values is to live my life authentically and coaching is a perfect venue to express this!  As I have seen what coaching can do for others and have experienced what it has done for me, my greatest wish is that everyone have a coach – because everyone deserves to live a full and happy life!