COACHING

Opportunities for one-on-one personalized partnership towards realization of individual potential

Our coaching approach focuses on bringing to light the underlying motivations and insecurities that affect your every action and relationship so that you gain a better understanding of why you are doing what you are doing and the impact it's having.

How We Define Coaching at Upbuild

Serving as a human mirror to help you:

  • Examine what you are experiencing and see your life and your self with lucidity, lending our own insights to the process.

  • Surface the underlying motivations and insecurities that are affecting your relationships.

  • Concretize your goals and challenges and break them down into practical, step-by-step action.

  • Be accountable to yourself.

Through deeper inquiry, your experiences will strike you in new ways and create opportunities for lasting growth.

Personal vs. Professional

People often wonder, should I mix speaking about work with speaking about my personal life in our sessions? At the end of the day, you’re a human being, whether at work or at home. The same aspirations and insecurities drive us in different forms in our different environments. What we want to look at is more fundamental to who we are and how we show up. Therefore, all that you bring to the table, personally or from your work-life is relevant. Working on a challenge in the office often has great bearing on our personal relationships and vice versa. We welcome getting to know you holistically, and find that this integrated approach lends greater transformative power to the work.

The Ego and The Self

The deepest coaching focuses on the distinction between the ego and the self. We want to be able to recognize the ego so that we can be our true self. We define the ego as the identity of who we think we should be. We define the self as who we actually are deep down. Coaching can lead to this uncovering of who we are and living as we are.

What Happens in a Session

We provide a safe space for dynamic exploration, act as a mirror, share in struggles, bounce off ideas, help in prioritization, and lend our own insights, as we co-create a plan of action that we will hold you accountable to achieve. We utilize our own Upbuild content, the incisive Enneagram personality typology, our own personal experiences, practices of mindfulness, and other frameworks.

One of the most helpful aspects of coaching is to evaluate our habits and to build new ones that better serve us. If there’s something you want to be better at doing or there’s something you feel will help you grow personally, we’ll craft small goals to help you move in that direction and keep progressing. We will also help you to navigate conversations and relationships as you bring them into the discussion.

You can share or ask us anything that comes to you. Our time speaking is your space to process experiences together with someone deeply invested in you. We will make suggestions when we feel strongly that this will be a beneficial direction or approach.

Sessions are 55 minutes over Zoom, typically every two weeks.

Interested in Coaching?

  • “I have had a life changing experience with Upbuild and with Michael as my coach. I've achieved challenging career objectives, improved my personal and professional relationships, and found greater balance in my life. As a coach, Michael never claimed to have all the answers, but he knew exactly where I would find them, always giving me a little nudge to seek the answers within. I am more confident and fulfilled today as a result of the coaching. Michael is empathetic, patient, down to earth and a true professional. He is genuinely invested in helping his clients define priorities and articulate inspiring future versions of themselves, and he provides the right amount of challenge to help one actually achieve these goals.”

    – KUMAR SUNDARAM, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT GOLDMAN SACHS

  • “My main goal in working with a coach was to improve my effectiveness as a leader. What I did not fully realize was that the path of self-discovery with Vipin would not only impact me professionally but also meaningfully increase my sense of purpose and overall happiness. Vipin has a natural way of guiding self-exploration, blending thought-provoking questions and non-judgemental observations that unearth extraordinary insight. It is particularly gratifying to finish a session with a deeper understanding of yourself and then to use that knowledge to make tangible improvement.“

    — JASON BEVERAGE, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT TWO SIGMA

  • “Hari Prasada is a coach who truly practices what he preaches with sincerity, beauty, and authenticity. He has a heart of shining light, is a compassionate listener, and a pleasure to be around. It's been a conversational journey of uplifting consciousness and deepening awareness. He helped me structure my busy thoughts - in one of the most difficult times of my life - and focus my energy into profound presence and crystal clear vision. He pushed me to determine practical ways I’ll carry out my vision and to prioritize my values for a life of freedom. He taught me to anticipate obstacles before they arise so I’m equipped to deal with whatever comes. I’m now extremely dedicated to the vital personal practices we co-created and to giving in service, rooted in my deepest sense of purpose.”

    – PARASTOU MARASHI, DESIGN, COMMUNICATION, AND TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT

  • “Management coaching is arguably the highest leverage investment any company can make. It also means that the coaches you pick will have multiplicative effects on you and your company, which is why we feel so incredibly fortunate to have found Upbuild. Upbuild has been immensely helpful in not only building trust within our senior leadership but also serving as a sounding board and point of support as we work through the most uncertain of times, providing a toolkit for our leadership team to navigate the ever-changing and challenging landscape of running a company. From the beginning, we’ve made it a point to surround ourselves with good, thoughtful, and decent people, and you’d be hard-pressed to find better people than the team at Upbuild - they have our deepest respect.”

    NOAH ISAACS, CO-FOUNDER & CO-CEO, BOWERY VALUATION

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