Success Stories

  • "Working with Coach Victoria has been an absolute gift! She is an expert guide who has been pivotal in helping me and my husband navigate all the complex facets of our individual whole person journeys, as well as our relationship. I’m always struck by how perceptive she is, and how she is able to hold space for us and uplift us while also consistently progressing us forward on our paths. Victoria inspires us and has been a hugely positive force in our lives — we are so grateful for the work we’ve done together so far, and look forward to what lies ahead!"

    - Helen Y.

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • "Coach Victoria has helped me individually, as well as my wife and I strengthen our marriage and understand each other at a deeper level. She is so easy to work with - wether you have something in mind at the start of a session or you just go in and “see where the river flows”; the conversation is always meaningful and expansive. After every session, without fail, I feel a greater sense of lightness and ease. I’ve come to realize how important perspective is, that is the way we view / frame up our world - Coach Victoria’s ability to find the pure, true, light, helpful frame of a given situation is unlike anyone I’ve ever met."

    Steven S.

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • “Working with Victoria has allowed me to articulate and celebrate my strengths while also exposing areas that have repeatedly caused problems, but I was unable to pinpoint on my own. Coaching has given me the vocabulary to understand and manage my professional growth. I have realized that my professional journey cannot be separated from my personal one. I have gained a much better understanding of the value of my time, the importance of setting boundaries, and making sure that I prioritize self-care.”

    - Director, Africa Innovation Mradi (program in Kiswahili) at Mozilla

    Three-month coaching engagement

  • “There have been many small moments wherein insights from coaching allowed me to be more self-aware and situationally aware in a moment, acting differently to achieve a better outcome. I realized that sometimes it’s not me…it’s “you”. Leadership involves recognizing and at times helping others past their own stuff. My larger accomplishments to come will be a compounding yield of these small moments."

    - Head of Product at a Cyber Security Startup

    Two-year coaching engagement

  • “I learned more from six months of Victoria's coaching than I have in years of traditional therapy and self-work. She helped me reflect on and assess every facet of my life, guiding me toward a more sustainable allocation of my energy. She taught me to commit to myself and to move with intention and curiosity towards the person I am becoming.”

    - Drew Montesantos

    Strategy & Operations Consultant at Alana Consulting

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • "Coaching increased my confidence professionally and personally. I learned to use a broader range of myself. My happiness has increased! I’m more honest with myself and my family, sharing more of what I'm thinking and why in my personal and professional life. This has strengthened trusting relationships with my partner, family, and colleagues. Victoria helped me understand my blindspots, including the impact of my actions, to achieve better outcomes. It's been a pleasure working with Victoria. In the relatively short time I have become a better, more authentic version of myself socially and as a leader. Victoria's ability to have me look at scenarios from different perspectives and actions that can be taken to improve outcomes in the future and address situations in the present is invaluable. I seek to continue to use what I've learned throughout my career."

    - Ian Rintoul

    Director of Engineering

    3-month coaching engagement

  • "There were so many things that I enjoyed about working with Victoria. She has a background in consulting so she just understood the demands of my job and how difficult it can be at times. Finding balance in my life was just as important to me as professional growth and she worked to help me find ways to make that happen. A client call came in during our session and I wanted to take it. I appreciated how she was able to gently challenge my desire to take that call and contrasted it against that balance/growth I was looking to achieve. She is a great listener and processor of information. There were many times where she would circle back to things that I said in previous conversations and posed them as learnings for the conversation that we were having in the moment. Victoria simply has a calming presence about her. It helped me to focus in the moment and work on the goals we were setting forth. There was a clear path that we worked on together. Victoria has a strong approach to mindfulness. I had so much growth in my six months with Victoria. I have a stronger sense of self and who I want to be."

    - Shelley Fulla

    Director, Public Sector at Slalom

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • “Victoria challenged me and pushed me in every session. This involved deep diving into my thought process, how various life factors were creeping into my decision making, and how to slow myself down. Victoria made our sessions a safe place to experiment and explore so that I could fail gracefully and iterate repeatedly until I was confident in how to proceed. I have incrementally become more adept at adapting my questions to revolve less around solutions and more around impacts of the conversation. Coaching with Victoria helped me to expand my leadership influence in my current organization and will ultimately bring positive outcomes on player experiences."

    - Andrew H.

    Senior Director, Global Partnerships and Content Strategy at a Media and Entertainment Company

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • "I immediately felt heard from our first coaching session. As a first time manager, I needed the proper tools to lead a team effectively. Through coaching, I learned how to be an empathetic leader, how to coach and develop my team, how to balance multiple competing priorities, and how to collaborate with my peers. Victoria gave me space to talk through blockers. Active listening and effective communication were challenging and Victoria taught me a more empathetic vocabulary and approach, allowing me to establish trust and rapport with my team. I developed a deeper understanding of my leadership style, giving me the confidence to collaborate and execute effectively with my team."

    - Alfonso Dumalo

    Technical Support Manager at Plaid

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • “When I started coaching with Victoria, I was working on being a better leader and preparing to manage a team. I now realize those weren’t my main challenges and Victoria helped me to access the underlying issues underneath so that we could get to the bottom of what was really happening. What I needed was to grow my self-confidence and awareness of limiting beliefs that stemmed from an ingrained worldview. During one session, Victoria said that leaders aren’t always managers, and managers aren’t always leaders. She reflected that I already am a leader, even without managing a team. I discovered that leadership is a quality of being, not a title. Victoria helped me to see that I can lead, have impact, influence others, and contribute from whatever position I hold.”

    - Rebecca C.

    Sr. Customer Success Manager at NovoEd

    Four-month coaching engagement

  • "I had the opportunity to be coached by Victoria over 4 months at RenoRun. Victoria and I worked together to develop a plan that would help me build upon my leadership skills and attain professional development. She was also a great sounding board for any challenge I was facing. Victoria is an authentic, energetic and empathetic advisor. She asks great questions and listens intently. She is also very structured and action driven. Beyond just verbal discussions, she made sure we were writing out the insights we were discovering, and building an action plan to drive results. Most importantly, I felt Victoria truly cared about my development and our team. That made the sessions more powerful and motivated me to get the most out of our sessions."

    - Ryan Dempsey

    VP of Operations at RenoRun

    Four-month coaching engagement

  • "Coaching was a welcome break from the grind and a way to spend intentional time working on personal and professional leadership skills. I gained great insights into my way of leading and engaging with challenging situations. It was good professional therapy in the sense that it provided much needed reflection on what had happened and what I want to happen in the future. Victoria does a wonderful job of listening and giving space to understand/reflect on situations. Coaching is a great tool for any leader."

    - Paul Wurth, CRO

    3-month coaching engagement

  • "I had the pleasure to work with Victoria as my Executive Leadership Coach for a period of 9 months. Victoria is a fantastic coach who is results driven, insightful, and has an ability to create those "aha moments" that helped me to grow as a professional and as a person. I recommend Victoria to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. She is also authentic, kind and super smart. This will make it a great coaching experience."

    - Margarita Maroto

    Sr. Director Linux & Chrome Systems Engineering at Intel

    Nine-month coaching engagement

  • “I’ve been extremely impressed with Victoria’s ability to bring out things in me that I didn’t know were possible. Before coaching, I never knew what or how to journal, but Victoria provided me with prompts that I use daily to make journaling easy. Writing has been an instrumental tool to help me realize my full potential. Victoria has also helped me to develop skills to use my time more effectively. I'm now able to acknowledge when I’m not doing the highest impact work and now I can pivot.”

    - Emily P.

    Head of Product at a Women Founded and Women Led FinTech Startup

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • "Coaching with Victoria is like talking with your most encouraging friend; it’s energizing and motivating. Victoria doesn’t tell you the answers, but she guides you there, to become a better version of you. From the first session, Victoria spotted things in me that are very true, but I didn’t realize or see myself. I appreciate that Victoria can pull out these insights for our conversations."

    - Stephanie, N.

    Head of Social and Community

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • “I learned that I am a very playful person when I let my guard down. I feel the most "myself" that I've ever felt. Coaching has helped me live authentically, which has brought me such delight! Coaching with Victoria exceeded my expectations and I would recommend her to anyone seeking more authenticity and confidence!”

    - Ashley B.

    Chief of Staff at a Healthcare Startup

    Two-and-a-half-year coaching engagement

  • "Victoria guided me in creating a Leadership Development plan to zero in on the most impactful areas for my continued development. We identified some core, tough-to-crack, but high impact goals that affect every area of my leadership…and my life. Once we'd decided on and documented goals, we took it a step further by dissecting them to fully understand how we would achieve them, as well as exploring overlap areas between goals. It gave me space, time, guidance, and structure to dive into my growth; time and structure that I…any of us…rarely have. It was a real worthy investment of time into improvement."

    - Lauren Bell Misri

    Director of People at RenoRun

    Three-month coaching engagement

  • "Victoria used simple tools that helped me talk through complex problems. Coaching provided a forum to talk and Victoria helped me unlock my potential as a courageous, influential leader who gets results. I’m now more able to recognize my superpowers and use them."

    - Alex Barrett

    Chief of Staff at RenoRun

    Three-month coaching engagement

  • “Victoria was patient and took the time to get to know me as a person. She helped me to see myself as a leader, confidently speak up, and lead.”

    - Marketing Team Lead at Sounding Board

    Six-month coaching engagement

  • "Coaching increased my ability to stop aimless rumination and make true change."

    - Trevor Cohen

    Manager - Cybersecurity Consulting at Accenture

    Three-month coaching engagement

  • “Victoria had an amazing approach (active listening, strong empathy, and grounded coaching) to support me in discovering who I am and how I can lead with my strengths to increase my impact. She was skillful in challenging me to become a better version of myself and enabled me to see what matters most to me.”

    - Director of Machine Learning Platform at a Financial Services startup

    Six-month coaching engagement

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