Who I Work With
Who I Work With
My most successful client is employed in and around the tech industry. She is done accepting the status quo that normalizes highly educated, experienced women being stressed out, passed over, overworked, and underpaid.
She is already questioning the systems of power and is ready to figure out her mid- and long-term career goals. She isn’t following outdated best practices anymore; she is bravely designing her own pathway forward.
She chooses the temporary discomfort of growth over the agony of long-term dissatisfaction and considers herself ambitious, intelligent, and brave-curious. Most of my clients have over 10 years of experience, have experienced career setbacks and failures, and is ready to partner with a trusted coach for deep personal transformation and sustainable career satisfaction.
Does this sound like you?
Scroll to learn more about my past and current clients, where they work,
the results they create, and how you can become one of my clients.
Where My Clients Have Worked
For privacy reasons, this is an incomplete, representative list
Corporations
Education & Research
Government & Public Services
- Amazon
- AWS
- BASF
- Blue Cross / Blue Shield
- Cigna
- Kaiser
- Meta
- McKinsey
- Microsoft
- Porsche
- PWC
- Salesforce
- And numerous start ups
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
- Harvard
- Heidelberg University
- Minnesota State University
- Penn State
- University of Chicago
- University of Oregon
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Utah
- Department of Defense, USA
- Coast Guard, USA
- Colorado House of Representatives
- Colorado State Senate
- Emily’s List
- Virginia State Senate
- New York Assembly
Coaching with me is for you when:
- You want to grow your career in your unique way and are committed to designing your unique and longer-term growth instead of expecting standardized, quick fixes
- You have foundational career skills and are ready to build upon them with more advanced frameworks, best practices, as well as design your own bespoke approaches
- You are ready to be done stressing yourself out, overthinking, and running multiple scenarios in your mind before taking action, and are ready to feel more at ease
- You are currently working more than you want and want to figure out how to find your own balanced approach to life and work
- You know or believe you are underpaid and aim to increase your income without burning (or boring!) yourself out
- You have at least three years of professional experience and are now ready for your next level of growth
Success
Results as of Q1 2024 Client Survey
%
of my clients reach their coaching goal including getting that promotion, shifting industries, relocating globally and nationally, and starting a profitable business.
%
of my clients reduced their stress including making decisions faster and with more ease, communicating with less anxiety, and enjoying more focus.
%
of my clients reduced their working hours the most commonly reported reduction was between three and five hours a week.
%
of my clients increased their income income including salary, benefit, and supportive structure to ensure their ongoing success.
Who I Work With
“Working with you has helped me tremendously. You have taught me that I was doing well. Everybody sees me as a very confident person, very skillful person, and there was a point when I started realizing: yes, I have that skill.”
–Nupur Aggarwal
That’s why I wanted to work with you as a one on one coach. I didn’t want someone to tell me how to do things. I was done following other people’s recipes. I want to have that strong voice of my own and not be an echo. We did that.
-Maartje Baker
Since starting to work with Nicole, there’s been a nice impact. I’ve financially grown as well as grown in my approaches within my career.
I almost want to cry thinking of just the clarity it’s given me. Helping me understand what questions to ask and helped me have confidence in people.
-Amanda Burma
Coaching helped me liberate myself from what others think about me and focus on what I think and what I believe about me. When I decided to be accountable to me, changing my entire life became so much easier. Now I’m living my dream, traveling the entire world
-Susanne Mueller
I don’t know how I would have gotten through the last six months of growth and working less without you. I am now curating my career and personal life, putting myself as the priority.
-Erin O’Leary
I didn’t know if I was strong enough or brave enough or courageous enough to keep going. I didn’t know if it was worth it anymore. I’m glad that I’ve been working with you and I’ve stuck with it. I set out with a goal for five years and I achieved it in 18 months.
-Chelsea Olson
Then I worked with you, and it was incredibly helpful. And now I’ve since landed a role, and I’m still working on those confidence issues and trying to make sure that what I was saying before, I’m a steady ship, even with a storm.
-Mariana Pavia
Coaching really helped me calm my nerves and stop second-guessing. I could embrace the authenticity of who I am and what I want.
Now I know I can still be professional while being authentic and confident, without worrying that one is taking away from the other.
-Jackie Podoll
Your coaching gave me the perspective on my life that I lacked and desperately needed. My view of my personal world and professional world was myopic. Working with you helped to remind me that the lenses I had were not the only way to see my career—or my life!
-Caroline Santinelli
I learned how to trust myself to know that I am good enough and that who I am is my biggest strength. I believe in myself, fully. This is my starting place and I know my career will make an improvement in the world.
-Nisha Shrestha
I got promoted more than ever, with career coaching from you. And I’m now stepping into leadership positions and creating new groups and being involved in many leadership roles.
I finally sleep seven, eight hours a night and enjoy what I do.
-Dora Szasz
When I started working with Nicole, I already believed in myself. I surprised us both when I decided to change my coaching goal while we were working together. Nicole helps you answer your own big questions so that you can make bold, unexpected decisions. Now I’m more informed, more at peace with my life, and even more proud of what I am doing.
-Nicole Vafadari
Working with Nicole, we set the goal more for the internal work. And as a coach, you have really helped me with that.
The good part about working with you is that you don’t provide the solutions. You just ask the questions. And all your models through those discussions over the weeks, I find my own solutions.
-Nurpur Verma
I think life events and also the pandemic have changed how I view feelings and how I feel feelings. And you know coaching has helped me do that a lot.
So I feel like I am living a life that is driven by my personal mission, not the mission of my employer or my job.
-Ginny Walters
I found a bunch of different [career] stuff that was cool, that I enjoyed. At one point…you said to me, “Rebecca, you know, you’re self-employed now.” And I was like, oh, yeah, I guess I am.
-Rebecca Walter
The conversation with Nicole actually is the thing that helped me to realize that I needed to quit my job.
I did my consult with you Nicole and a few other coaches. And I’ve always joked with my friends that you cracked me like an egg.
-Ashley Willumitis
Working with Nicole was fun and enriching, on professional and personal levels. She helped me do a full assessment of my career. Then helped me tap into my full potential. We identified areas of growth and strengths to create a structured and realistic plan to reach my goal in a short period of time. She is very empathetic, understanding, and straightforward. She is willing to tell you what others aren’t: where you need to grow and the harder things.
-Sac-Nicte Yescas
