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FromWithin Coaching's Trusted Partners are Independent Coaches, Specialists, and Practitioners who share our values and beliefs and who we highly recommend.  Our Trusted Partner Program was designed to help ease the burden of identifying quality Coaches for clients seeking support outside of the FromWithin Coaching expertise.  

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Kim Nolan

Leadership Coach
Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead © Facilitator
​TED Talk Speaker

Hi – like other Trusted Partners, I am thrilled to collaborate with From Within Coaching to bring my coaching and consulting
​work to a new audience. By way of introduction, let me tell you a few things about myself. I look forward to your turn and
learning more about you!
 
I hold a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University and a M.Ed. from Boston University in Counseling Psychology.  I am an ordained Buddhist Chaplain and a certified trainer for Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead © curriculum. I have been a lifelong activist for social change and continue to advocate for human rights. My favorite words these days include joy, peace and freedom. And if we can’t laugh together – even while doing hard work –
then I am not doing my job!
 
I have worked closely with individuals and diverse teams for over 30 years as a community-based leader, educator, and practitioner. In 2008, I founded (and continue to serve as Executive Director of) The Dignity Foundation, through which I get to provide coaching and consulting services, teach self-care and mindfulness, and mentor executive seeking to lead from the inside out.
 
The framework of my practice is to build safe relationships that facilitate transformative learning experiences when people don’t know what they need, but recognize they need something. I work in collaboration with the innate wisdom and strength of the person before me, guiding them to discern a path forward when they are clear what they need and don’t yet know how to get there. As one client recently put it, “My life has aligned and is now exploding!! So many action items that I would love your help
with to frame and strategize.” 
 
I work in collaboration with the innate wisdom and strength of the person before me, guiding them toward their truth and creating
transformative change. I trust in and follow a process of deep listening, expanding perspective, and developing the necessary skillset to lead change from the inside out. My work encompasses all aspects of a client’s life (work, personal, relational, and spiritual) and takes many forms. With various groups I work with – most recently including graduate students, a circle of women ED docs, and emerging female leaders - I reference our work
as Cultivating Inner Sustainability. The phrase speaks to the (critical) qualitative aspects of our lives that often get by-passed for exclusively exclusive, result-oriented goals.
Both matter in our work!
Here is a link to a recent article I wrote on this topic:  https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/integrating-inner-and-outer-systems-change/
  
Now it is your turn… tell me a little about yourself.
 
Do you recognize that deep feeling that something is being called forth, but you just aren’t clear what it is or
how to manifest next steps?  I would welcome the opportunity to explore such questions with you.