Coaching is the best excuse to have an authentic conversation. Nothing more, nothing less.

I am a trained coach and have had an internal coaching practice at a consulting firm for the past 8 years, founding our coaching center of excellence.

I work with employees at all points of their careers in all different domains. And not just that, I have worked side by side with my coaching clients as they quit their jobs, decided to go to grad school, get married, have children, move across the country, travel to distant lands, face a personal challenge, deal with loss, etc.

I have developed a private coaching practice over the past few years, and I am looking to work with people at any age & stage in their life & career who want to change, get better, and make a difference in their lives or the lives of others.

I live in Brooklyn and have been married for 20 years to the person with the best laugh I have ever heard. I have a spunky poet daughter who attends college in Los Angeles. I like to go to the woods & make fires and travel to European cities & map their streets with my feet. I love movies (I will likely use some metaphor or example / line from a film at some point of our conversation) and am named after a movie cowboy. I have had a few different careers and worked inside the walls of many, many different institutions.

I love coaching. It works.

Areas of Focus

Early career transitions

I have worked with many young adults in their transition from school to the start of their careers and have helped them discover their interests and talents and how they want to use them. I have helped them identify the skills they want to acquire, find the best stretch assignments for growth, explore real-time course correction, get faster promotions, and select the right off-ramps to new opportunities (e.g. Google) and higher education (e.g. Wharton School of Business).

First-generation workforce

As the first person in my family to go to college and the first person in my family to work in a corporate environment, I came to the world of work with a different background and perspective than many of my colleagues and was faced with unique challenges as I established myself in my career. I have found that other people in this first generation cohort benefit from specific types of coaching and mentorship to recognize their unique strengths and value to organizations.

Severe workplace challenges

As a project professional and management consultant, I have seen the inner workings of more than a dozen firms in the last ten years and there has been a startling uptick in “toxic” work environments. I have written a paper on how these environments negatively impact teams and have advised individuals and organizations on how best to deal with toxicity and how to bring psychological safety to their organizations. If you want my paper on this - just ask.

Program managers, Project Managers, and Business Analysts

In my day job, I am a program, project and product consultant helping my C-suite clients run large programs and projects. I am a CBAP-certified business analyst and corporate trainer and can provide tools and training in large program management, project management, business analysis, and agile skills. I have coached many junior PMs and BAs to skill-up their hard and soft skills in order to become trusted advisors to their clients and excel at the craft of project management and business analysis.

Consulting / Mentorship / Training / Financial Literacy

Coaching is a discrete discipline that is different than mentorship or consulting or therapy, but I am also available for specialized assistance for those looking for help with building their consulting skills, networking, resume building & branding, the skills and steps involved in quitting a job (cause it is a skill!), and financial literacy for those taking control of their finances for the first time. I also can advise on how to set up internal coaching programs and make them successful.

“To live in the world of creation - to get into it and stay in it - to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation - this is the only thing - and I neglect it, far and away too much; from indolence, from vagueness, from inattention, and from a strange nervous fear of letting myself go. If I vanquish that nervousness, the world is mine.”

– Henry James

  • "I was wary of coaching...but quickly connected with Kirby on many personal and professional levels"

  • "I wish more people could benefit from such effective and genuine coaching relationships"

  • "He has helped me form a career roadmap and been completely supportive every step of the way"

  • "I consider my time [with Kirby] to be the most rewarding period of career growth I have yet experienced and it has subsequently helped set a solid long-term trajectory for my life and work. If you’re wondering if coaching is 'worth it' and where you might begin, I can assure you that it is and implore you to consider reaching out to Kirby to take the next step.”

Call me

If you want to get coached, if you want to try it out, contact me below.