Path of Purpose Coaching - About Life and Business Coaching.

Path of Purpose - Coaching Personal and Professional Development Strategies

Founded by Helaine Iris in 2001, Path of Purpose Coaching is a premier life coaching company that develops and delivers top-quality information products and life coaching services to help women achieve greater business success while living a more complete and balanced life.

"Your work with me today revealed tremendous skill Helaine. My heart is filled with gratitude, not only for your ability to speak to both the depth and breadth of my experience, but to guide me through an issue that could have completely encumbered my progress. With you on belay, how could I not but dare, once again, to leap empty-handed into the Void? With many thanks. "

Rev. Cheryl D. Harrell LICSW, Vermont

"Helaine's coaching has been invaluable to me as a solo business owner looking to grow my financial planning practice. Whether I need a sounding board, some outside perspective, specific "how-to" advice, a little understanding, or perhaps even a kick in the pants, she always recognizes and provides exactly what is needed to help me get "unstuck" and back moving full speed ahead in the right direction."

Sherrill St Germain, Financial Planner, Hollis, NH

"Helaine provided me with a breadth of practical advice, including keeping and sticking to a schedule, prioritizing, creating a business plan, and maintaining a balance in my work and my personal life. She made special efforts to provide thoughtful, intelligent recommendations for my website to help me attract customers and establish a more effective business foundation. Perhaps most importantly, she helped me to see the importance of having financial goals...

Her encouragement, enthusiasm, and interest in my success and well-being was invaluable to me, especially in a time of real need. I continue to use the strategies I learned while working with her, and continue to rely on many of the pieces of advice she provided to me throughout our sessions."

Michelle Lewis, Free Lance Writer, Maine

"Helaine has taught me to look at the challenges in my life and learn what can be gained from them. How can a negative situation be turned around? When things don't go as I'd like in my life, I now try to find the positive or at least the lesson to be learned from that situation. I am a new and improved person with a new outlook on life thanks to Helaine. I am so grateful to have received this opportunity!"

Suerae Stein, Photo-Graphic Design, Spofford, NH

"Helaine, you are a gift!! You have truly brought evolution to every facet of my life. I am often overwhelmed with gratitude that you are in my life! Thank you for sharing your remarkable ability to see the positive attributes in absolutely any situation. Thank you for graciously accepting and working with me exactly the way I am at any given moment, without judgment. And thank you for the simple yet extraordinary tools you share throughout the Path of Purpose process. Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!!!!!!!"

Sigi Koko, Architect, Bethlehem, PA

About Life and Business Coaching:

As a professional Life and Business Coach, I work in partnership with you to help you achieve extraordinary results based upon goals set by you. Results are achieved through a sophisticated form of teaching, skill building, expanding awareness and designing environments.

Simply, coaching begins when you want to do, be or have something more than you have now. I start by helping you clarify what result you want. Some examples of the results I've helped my clients achieve include:

Launching a business.
Improving a business.
Creating greater balance in life.
Improving personal and professional relationships.
Creating systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Increasing sales/ profits.
Building practical business skills.
Discovering life purpose.
Getting finances in order.
Changing careers.

Many people relate to coaching through the model of sports coaching. It’s very much the same, except the emphasis is on getting higher performance, fulfillment and success in your life, rather than achieving excellence in a particular sport.

General Benefits of Coaching:

Fresh perspectives on your personal and professional challenges.
Enhanced thinking and decision making skills.
Enhanced interpersonal effectiveness.
Increased confidence in your personal and professional life.
Greater productivity.
More personal satisfaction.
More rapid achievement of your goals.

How Coaching Works:

Coaching typically begins with a free, initial consultation, either in-person or via telephone, to:

Assess your current opportunities and challenges.
Identify your priorities - what you really want.
Establish the specific outcomes you'd like to achieve.
Define the scope of our relationship.

Subsequent coaching sessions are conducted in person or over the telephone, with each session lasting anywhere from 30-60 minutes as determined in our initial consultation.

In each meeting, you choose the focus of conversation, while I listen and encourage you with supportive observations and questions. This interaction creates safety, clarity and moves you into action.

Coaching accelerates your progress toward fulfillment by providing greater focus and awareness of your choices. Coaching is different than therapy. Therapy focuses on resolving the past and coaching focuses on moving you forward with new skills and confidence.

Coaching works in these 3 important ways:

Co-creation: You and I become a team, focusing on your goals and needs and helping you accomplish more than what you can accomplish alone.
Structure: Success is possible when you have the opportunity to think bigger, focus on what you want and are held accountable toward taking consistent, positive action and getting the job done.
Expertise: I will share my experience and skills, while supporting you to live the life you want, make better decisions, set goals, and restructure your personal or professional life for your highest performance and fulfillment.

Between scheduled coaching sessions, you may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of your goals. I may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments or models to support your thinking and actions. I am available to you between sessions via email or telephone.

The duration of our professional relationship is determined by your personal needs and preferences. However, initially, I do ask for at least a three month commitment as it takes at least that long, in most cases, to achieve lasting results.

Ready for Coaching?

If you’d like more information about how coaching can help you achieve extraordinary results, or, if you're ready to commit to yourself, a free initial consultation will reveal whether or not coaching is the appropriate next step for you. I'll address any questions you have and you'll get the opportunity to experience for yourself the power and effectiveness of support and guidance.

With coaching, I'll be right next to you as you eliminate stress and create fulfillment - occasionally holding your feet to the fire so you stay on track and take the necessary actions. To request your free initial consultation, email me at helaine@pathofpurpose.com or contact me via telephone at (603) 357-8546. I look forward to meeting you.