Executive Coaching
&
Team Development
Kim Miles provides executive coaching and team development services to help you create more success as a leader of people and your organization. Kim works with you to design customized leadership development programs to support you in increasing effectiveness for yourself and your team. Kim is your guide to a successful and fulfilling career.
–Nelson Mandela
Strong Values to Propel Your Growth
Your values not only indicate what is most important to you, but also drive your behaviors and decision making to ultimately steer you in a specific direction. When your values aren’t aligned with the organization you are in or the specific work you do, you find yourself off course. There is a sense of feeling lost or exhausted from navigating incredibly strong headwinds. Kim has been helping leaders and teams with values alignment since she opened her practice in 2007. She understands and has experienced for herself how much better job performance and fulfillment is with aligned values. Kim’s top values are empowerment and freedom (financial and time freedom) which is why she coaches people to find their empowerment, so they are free to create a life and career they love.
Services
The ICF defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”. Kim coaches individuals, leaders, and teams to reaching their full potential via executive coaching, career coaching and team development programs.
Executive Coaching
Executives need someone in their corner who is objective enough to bring clarity to their thinking, courageous enough to speak the hard truths, and supportive enough to help them be the absolute best leader they can be. When you work with Kim, you experience a true thought partnership to successfully navigate the executive life of external leadership and internal mindset challenges.
Team Development
Teams naturally move through several of the Five Stages of Team Development (Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing, and Adjourning). Teams hire a coach to help them move through those stages more quickly and easily so they can reach their goals and fulfill promises to their stakeholders.
Mentor Coaching
Coaches ready to take their skill mastery to the next level, work with Kim to identify the next step on their coaching journey. Be it participating in a group mentoring or individual mentoring program, Kim helps coaches improve their skills.
“My professional fulfillment comes from helping people be empowered to create a fulfilling life and career.”
—Kim Miles
I started my career in electrical engineering knowing design engineering was not my true calling. I spent the next 13 years in the engineering field taking on a variety of roles including cost controls analyst, project manager, contracts coordinator, business manager and engineering recruiter. In every role there was a small sense of satisfaction, but I was still searching for something more. In 2006, while searching a job board, I found professional coaching. While working my full-time engineering job, I completed my 18-month coach training program and opened my coaching practice in 2007. I had finally found a career that brought true fulfillment and joy which is why I am so passionate about helping others find theirs.
—Terry Orlick
Kim's Professional Background
Kim is a professional with over 30 years of experience in various roles and industries. She started her career as a design engineer in an engineering consulting firm, moving to project manager, program controls analyst, contracts coordinator, and business manager. She participated in project development, integration of strategic plans, business development, marketing and sales, facilitation and training, and engineering design.
These corporate experiences afforded her the understanding of business as well as what leaders needed to be successful in leading themselves and their teams. Kim held roles such as project manager, corporate account manager, technical recruiter, project engineer, and program controls analyst in industries including engineering, telecommunications, and aerospace. Being in a variety of industries and roles gives Kim an edge in deeply understanding what her clients experience so she can support them in navigating challenges to success and fulfillment.
From My Clients
I have the pleasure to have Kim as my Executive coach. Kim’s ability to deal with all the change we’ve been going through from an organizational and leadership perspective has been very helpful. I love her attitude, her down-to-earth approach and her great insights as well as the open discussion and constant challenge from Kim to define the real opportunities for me, how to address them AND how to measure them. Kim has been instrumental to help me manage and deal with all aspects of my executive coaching and for me to overcome some of the challenges at times.
—Nicolai Salcedo
Chief Information Officer
Kim is a top-notch talent development professional. She is in her element whether it be presenting to a large group or small group or guiding you in individual executive coaching sessions. Knowledge, passion, caring, and bluntness are what separate Kim from other talent development professionals. Kim has an incredible knowledge base from which to draw, which gives her credibility. Kim is passionate in the way she leads, and her genuine desire to drive change is evident in all she does. Kim cares about both the individuals and the organization that she supports.
—Stuary Kroonenberg
Director of Accounting
Kim is a no-fluff business coach and extremely knowledgeable about what it takes to move a business forward. Kim has a unique gift of asking brilliant questions—the kind of questions that make you think outside the box. She understands how to get to the heart of the matter and dive into what is in the way of business growth. Kim is talented, humble, authentic, and willing to get to the root of business issues and problems. Kim’s coaching aligned with my philosophies and business vision. She is the real deal. Not just a “rah-rah or you can do it” type of coaching. Anyone who wants to be moved and inspired should work with Kim. I left her coaching inspired and ready for action.
—Liz Wendling
Sales and Business Development Consultant
I had the great pleasure of working with and being mentored by Kim during my time at SlingTV. She was part of the training team at CLIMB (an intense 3-week executive training course) and facilitated many other training courses for the American Fork teams. Kim has so many amazing attributes, but what sets her apart are her integrity, humility, and that she can so easily inspire people with her charisma. One of my favorite sessions with her was when she led my leadership team through an Empower session. I would trust Kim without reservation and really hope I get the chance to learn from her again in the future!
—Karsten Shumway
Senior Director, PMO, Product Manager, QA
Things People Ask
How quickly will I get results from coaching?
Clients develop strategies and experience “ah-ha” moments in almost every call. The way in which a client implements the awareness and/or strategy varies, and results are dependent upon the client.
How much does coaching cost?
Coaching with Kim is an investment in yourself for achieving success and fulfillment. The level of financial and time investment is determined by the desired coaching goals and outcomes, as well as level of commitment of the client. Each coaching engagement is tailored to include coaching sessions, assessments, in-person observation and feedback and other tools and resources to help clients achieve their goals.
Are coaching sessions confidential?
Yes. All coaching sessions are completely confidential as required of all coaches certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Is my manager involved in the coaching process?
Three client lead meetings are part of every corporate sponsored coaching engagement. Each meeting includes both the manager and the coach with the intent of the client sharing coaching progress and requesting necessary support of the manager and the manager providing feedback to the client. Three-way meetings occur at the beginning, mid-way through, and at the end of the coaching engagement. For coaching engagements in which the client is paying out of their own pocket, three-way coaching sessions are optional.
How do I know if I am ready for coaching?
The clients who receive the most benefit from coaching have the following characteristics:
- A deep desire to successfully grow and develop themselves and their organizations
- Value personal and professional development
- Value outside support and collaboration
- Have or are willing to budget for coaching in the same manner you budget for other aspects of business and health.
How will I know if Kim is the right coach for me?
How can I be coached by someone who isn't in my field of work?
Professionally trained coaches are trained in process development and growth management. A coach customizes support and strategy to help you navigate through your specific challenges in your given field.
Aren't coaches just cheerleaders?
No. A coach’s role is to not only be a “cheerleader” but to be a strategic partner and support the development of skills, resources, and creativity to maximize growth and success.
How much work is required of me in the coaching process?
Coaching requires you be ready, willing, and able to participate in the following:
- Preparation for each call – forethought of what you would like to focus on during the coaching call.
- Coaching call – Transparency, vulnerability, and openness to develop your beliefs, thoughts, and actions. Focus on specific topics or areas that you would like to grow or achieve success.
- Homework – Follow up on action items agreed to in the coaching call.
How is coaching different than couseling/therapy?
| Coaching | Therapy |
|---|---|
| Assumes the clients is highly-functional | Assumes the client needs healing |
| Roots in business and personal growth venues | Roots in medicine, psychiatry |
| Works to motivate people to a higher level of functioning | Works with people to achieve self-understanding and emotional healing |
| Focuses on actions and the future; goal-orientation | Focuses on feelings and past events, past-orientation |
| Focuses on solving problems | Explores the root of problems |
| Works with the conscious mind | Works to bring the unconscious into consciousness |
| Works for solutions to overcome barriers, learn new skills and implement effective choices | Works for internal resolution of pain and to let go of old patterns |
Source: Hayden, C. J., and Whitworth, L. “Distinctions Between Coaching and Therapy”
—Jack Canfield
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