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Introducing Coach Tim

Coach Tim’s Mission:

“Enhance people’s ability to perform life’s most important jobs.”

“Life” jobs like:

• Flourishing at Work

• Feeling a Profound Sense of Well-Being

• Knowing You are Making a Difference in the World by Contributing What You Do Best

• Connecting More Deeply with Colleagues and Loved Ones

The more challenging and important the “life job”, the more a client will benefit from Coach Tim’s expertise.

Dr. Tim’s coaching approach is different. He’s not a therapist. He’s not just a nice guy who is easy and fun to talk to. Coach Tim will challenge you to your core, with absolute care, compassion and concern. Expect to laugh but be open to crying. Achieving the next level of success often means a client needs to feel safe enough to explore where they feel they may have fallen short. Coaching is a whole-human experience.

Coach Tim’s approach is grounded in the Human Resource Development field. His unique research approach to studying experts in many professions from around the world, has produced many insights that help with coaching clients. Learning from experts means, in part, that people shouldn’t have to “reinvent the wheel” in difficult jobs when others have already figured things out that would make things easier for them.

The signature strengths* Tim' brings to his clients include:

• Curiosity & Interest in the World

• Creativity, Ingenuity, and Originality

• Judgment, Critical Thinking, and Open-Mindedness

• Perspective (Wisdom)

• Love of Learning

• Kindness & Generosity

  * VIA Signature Strengths Analysis

These are the strengths he brings to his coaching clients. Curiosity helps figure out what is really happening. Creativity means there are many ways to consider improving, but good judgement and wisdom are required to figure out the optimal approach for each client. His warmth, humor, kindness and generosity assure a client that they will feel supported and empathized with throughout the coaching.

Dr. Tim’s approach is based on specific not generalized approaches. His experience is that general approach generally fail. Coaching needs to focus on the specific things that will make a difference in this situation. His coaching gets specific. It focuses on specific life strategies and practical skills that fit each client personally, like a hand-made piece of clothing.

His coaching is designed to help people be robust so the coaching growth will work for clients long after the coaching experience.

“My piano teacher as a child taught me to love music for which I am very grateful. But when I started piano lessons in college, I learned that the habits she had taught me prevented me from ever being able to play the more advanced repertoire I dreamed about playing (e.g., Chopin Opus 10 Etudes). I had to relearn everything. For me coaching is about helping people learn habits that allow them to play life’s most advanced repertoire with ease.”
~ Coach Tim

Dr. Tim’s coaching is practical works in real life.

“I have concerns about people who provide advice that does not work in practice. What works for one person is not necessarily going to work for others. Clients deserve solutions proven robust enough to work in their situation.”
~ Coach Tim

When other coaches miss critical information, Dr. Tim catches it and reflects it back so a client can easily respond and make corrections. This ability to see performance clearly makes all the difference in helping clients create intentional change.

“I don’t believe that clients always have the answer inside themselves. If clients already knew how the answer, they would implement it.”
~ Coach Tim

A great coach helps clients see things they can’t see on their own in a way that makes improvement easy and effortless.

It takes discipline and experience to learn how to see what you don’t already know. Recognizing false assumptions and biases distorting our reality takes practice. Clients need guidance to recognize when their most closely held, unquestionable assumptions have been shattered with evidence and their ‘Titanic"‘ is sinking. Tim’s approach goes beyond mere insight to finding a path that works for an individual to perform life better.

Dr. Tim has spent a lifetime developing his talent at providing people with advice that really works. Great coaching requires knowing when to push, when to pull, and how to make it enjoyable for people to perform at their best. Humor helps.

Coach Tim expertise is built on a foundation of Ph.D. research in Human Development and Human Performance from the University of MN. He brings a powerful combination of social and behavioral science scholarship and practical experience to bear in helping his clients thrive.

The reason Coach Tim’s advice works is because it is grounded in evidence. Common sense ideas often do not work in practice. Solutions are often not as straight-forward as they seem.

Dr. Tim’s expertise has been shared in multiple research-based publications. He has been active on advisory boards, reviewing articles for research journals in his field, giving keynote speeches, teaching at the Masters Degree level (leadership, strategy, conflict, and positive psychology), and participating in professional associations (e.g., Association for Talent Development, Academy of Human Resource Development, Customer Experience, Marketing, and Medical Sciences).

Dr. Tim is known for creating results. An interesting phenomena is people who really love their coaches but nothing really changes. That is rare with Coach Tim. In over twenty years of coaching nearly a hundred physicians either on the verge of getting fired (performance improvement plan) or leaders trying to do something that hasn’t been successful, every physician kept their job. Every leader made spectacular improvements.

“I’m not sure potential clients know how to evaluate a coach very well. Clients often focus on likeability rather than ability to help them perform better. One client shared that it seemed to her that advice-providers mostly help clients reset their expectations lower.

My approach is quite the opposite. Clients typically increase their expectations to be in line with what they deserve and have the talent to accomplish.”
~ Coach Tim

Residing in Minneapolis, Tim is an avid bicyclist, classical music enthusiast, amateur chef, and volunteer helping students from diverse backgrounds achieve educational success.