coaching

Coached by Obie

Navigating Life & Career Transitions with Clarity, Confidence, and Intention

Life invites us into seasons of change - moments when we pause, reflect, and ask deeper questions:

  • What is this moment in my life?
  • Am I fulfilled in my workplace?
  • What direction feels aligned?
  • How do I navigate this transition?
  • What is the next version of myself asking for?

Coaching with Obie offers a grounded, supportive space to explore these questions with honesty and intention. Together, we slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the values, strengths, and possibilities that matter most to you. Coached by Obie serves all of Ohio and all locations beyond. 

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A Coaching Approach Rooted in Transition

Change happens. Whether seemingly all at once or over a period of time, it unfolds in stages that may present ups, downs, uncertainty, reflection, discovery, and new beginnings.

Obie's coaching approach is holistic and strengths-based, grounded in understanding how people meet life's moments of transition, and focused on helping them approach change with intention and awareness. Coached by Obie supports you in expressing where you are, what you're carrying, and where you want to go next.

Coaching May Be Helpful If You Are:

  • Exploring a career transition or reinvention
  • Navigating a challenging or toxic workplace
  • Feeling burned out, stuck, or disconnected from your purpose
  • Seeking greater alignment with your values, gifts, and identity
  • Processing a major life decision or season of change
  • Wanting a supportive space to think, feel, be, and move forward
Coaching is a collaborative process designed to help you reconnect with your strengths and move forward with clarity.
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A Space That Affirms and Includes the Whole You

Coaching with Obie celebrates authenticity, dignity, and growth. Obie proudly provides coaching to individuals and groups of all identities, cultures, ages, and backgrounds, including SGL and LGBTQ+ identities. All coaching clients are welcomed into a supportive space where they can reflect openly, explore possibilities, and expand in ways that feel aligned with who they are becoming. 

Obie brings lived experience moving through complex systems and resisting hostile workplace dynamics, which informs his ability to support coaching clients with empathy, steadiness, and practical insight. He brings this insight and compassionate presence to each coaching conversation.

Obie's Background

Obie is a certified global career development facilitator (GCDF), a certified diversity and inclusion practitioner, and a qualified administrator and coach of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology, a graduate degree in educational policy and leadership with a focus in cultural & somatic studies, and a PhD in higher education administration. 

His coaching draws on:
  • cultural and somatic awareness
  • facilitation and reflective practice
  • identity-affirming approaches
  • inclusive and interdisciplinary leadership
  • supporting individuals and organizations through transition
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The Coaching Experience

Initial Conversation
  • We begin with a conversation. Obie listens to you about what you're navigating and what you hope to gain from coaching.
Coaching Sessions
  • Together we explore your experiences, strengths, and possibilities through introspective dialogue and reflection.
Forward Movement
  • Coaching helps you move forward with greater insight, confidence, and alignment.
A Note About Coaching...
  • Coaching supports personal goals, clarity, and forward momentum.
  • Coaching is not therapy and does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. 
  • If therapeutic support is needed, clients are encouraged to connect with a licensed mental health professional.
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Let's Talk About What's Next
If you're in a season of life or career transition and want a grounded, supportive space to explore what's emerging and create what's possible, coaching with Obie may be a powerful and empowering next step.