Transform your life, one step at a time

Ready to stop coping and start growing? Coaching with Stop Coping will empower you to take charge of your journey towards success, growth, and happiness.

About

Welcome to Stop Coping, where you take 100% ownership of your life supported by tailored coaching.

My approach is centered around the belief that real change comes through daily incremental improvements. Let’s embark on this transformative journey together!

Services

Personal Coaching

One-on-one conversations tailored to your specific needs and challenges.

Agile Transformation

Learn and practice the values and mindset that are essential for Agile to succeed and thrive, together.

The Responsibility Process®

Practice strategies to cultivate Intention, Awareness, and Confront. Learn how to take ever greater ownership of everything in your life.

Goal Setting

Establish clear, achievable goals to track your progress, check in regularly, and claim your wins!

Youth Coaching

The best time to stop coping is at birth; the second-best time is now.

Special Focus Items

Theory of Constraints, Thinking in Bets, Lean, Safety Differently, Nonviolent Communication, and more.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Catastrophizing Is Coping

    Catastrophizing Is Coping

    Find yourself catastrophizing and coping when you are faced with an upset or problem? Find yourself looking at all the ways things can go wrong? Jump to the worst possible outcomes, regardless of how likely or unlikely they might be? How This Shows Up Screw up at work and immediately focus on being fired? Get

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  • Intention and Attention

    Intention and Attention

    To who and what did you show Intention and attention last week? Think about your last week and what you spent your time on. For the causes, purposes, initiatives. projects – were any of them yours, or did they start with and belong to someone or something else? Pursuing a shared vision can be powerful.

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  • Ownership Is Not “Being At Fault”

    Ownership Is Not “Being At Fault”

    One hurdle that people learning to practice Responsibility stumble on is the feeling that taking 100% Ownership means “being at fault.” You’re conditioned by cultural norms and past experiences to believe in “justice” as an assignment of fault and consequences: These structures and programs reinforce your natural coping strategies of Lay Blame, Justify, Shame, and

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  • # “People Are Our Foundation”

    # “People Are Our Foundation”

    Do you work for a company that claims “Our people are our foundation”? Maybe it’s that “People are our biggest asset” or phrased in another fashion. “Our heart is our people” perhaps? All of these sound noble and high-minded. Does your lived experience match? For many, unfortunately, no. All of these metaphorical framings betray themselves.

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