I've coached over 1,000 military and business leaders across 9,000 sessions and trained over 1,500 MBA and journalism students to become awesome writers and speakers as their journalism and business communications professor. I entered coaching from two very bossy, chatty professions: Academic and journalist. Through coaching at scale and training with fantastic instructors, I've gained extreme comfort with silence, learned to ask powerful, open-ended questions, and read cues which connect me deeply with any audience. It uplifts me to train other professionals to do the same.