Rhonda transformed my career over the six years she was my business coach. Rhonda’s style is immersive; she leaned into my work, my team, my customers, to contour messaging and deliver effective, deeply personal messaging to improve outcomes. Rhonda is exceptionally balanced; there were times when she pushed me to breakthrough moments when she could see I was close while there were other times, she let messaging and coaching principles soak when she knew I needed more time. Rhonda is a continuous learner and frequently shared industry insights and best practices to improve my knowledge and effectiveness as a coach. Rhonda has had a profound impact on my ability to build relationships.
John Archer
AVP Retirement Solutions, Sales and Strategy Leader
I had the privilege of working with Rhonda as my retirement coach and her personalized approach made all the difference in my transition journey. Rhonda took the time to truly understand where I was in the process, helping me think through and plan for the transition and helping me with concerns I had about retiring.
She guided me through a thoughtful exploration of my readiness to retire, helping me clarify both my personal goals and joint retirement goals with my partner. With her expert guidance, I created a plan for discussing this significant life transition with my employer and identifying what semi-retirement would look like for me.
Rhonda’s approach was empathetic, insightful, and tailored to my needs, ensuring every step felt manageable and aligned with my values and goals. Her support was invaluable in making this important decision with clarity and confidence.
Renee S.
Change Management Consultant
I have had the pleasure of partnering with Rhonda on an innovation project where we leveraged coaching as a value add to our experience. Not only was Rhonda instrumental in delivering coaching competencies to our teams, she continually pushed the team in sharing insights on how we could go deeper from a connection with our customers. She is a professional with heart who takes teams to the next level. It was amazing to watch how the team blossomed with coaching skills and how engagement of the team was lifted through the work with Rhonda.
Jenny Young
Director, User Experience, UX Enterprise Staff
Prior to joining NiSource, I had the distinct pleasure of working with Rhonda on several large, multi-channel initiatives at a Fortune 100 company. She was consistently an outstanding partner for me, our team, and our clients. She brought a rare and highly valued balance of practicality and sensitivity to everything she endeavored. Her leadership in developing coaching strategies that were relevant and impactful was a key component of our success in ensuring business leaders were prepared to lead their teams through the difficult changes we were implementing and ensure the changes were sustained.
Mary Beth Gallant
Manager, Change Management, NiSource
“I truly enjoyed the materials, Your Personal Mission Statement Action Plan, Retirement Readiness Wheel, and the Retirement Wellness Workbooks. These guided our coaching conversations. There’s an emotional side to retirement that needs to be discussed. Figuring out who I am, what I like, and how to build a sustainable plan was an amazing process.
Rhonda is a phenomenal coach and I’ve truly enjoyed and found our time together most productive. She helped me create my own plan for approaching retirement based on what I’m about. I value the time I spent with Rhonda.”
Judy S.
Columbus, OH
Thank you for our collaboration in my CBC Coaching journey. You have provided me gems along the way so that I can be a better listener, leader, and coach for my people. In the Coaching Program there is an element of pause, reflection and learning that you bring to the table. These exercises help us to listen, communicate and connect. We are not just in the Financial Services business; we are in the People business and your coaching keeps it real and applicable in today’s human journey. As a leader-coach, you win with people and executing strategy is easier.
Lou Moreno
AVP Retirement Solutions, Sales & Retention
Rhonda collaborated with members on my sales team to take an innovative approach in helping the clients with whom we worked. Coaching our clients through the process of preparing for Retirement, rather than just selling them a product to meet their needs required a different mindset. Asking the probing questions, and truly listening to their answers, helped the team understand that the decisions future retirees were facing went beyond assets, investments, and spending plans. It also included their hopes and fears after finishing their careers. This changed the entire tone of the conversations the team had and led to a better experience for our clients.
Nancy Olson
Director (Retired), Nationwide Consumer Direct
Rhonda bears an innate ability to listen and hear the root causes of concerns and is able to coach me in a way that meets my personal style and preferences. Through asking targeted open-ended questions, Rhonda can really challenge my thoughts which helps guide me through various situations and leads me to solutions. She has collaborated with me for several years now, through many challenging and difficult conversations, all of which have been easier as a direct result of her coaching. I am forever grateful to have her as my coach!!!
Sarah Bauder
Regional Annuity Sales Manager, Brokerage Annuity Distribution
Over the course of the last six years, Rhonda helped transform me from a leader with momentary questions and intermittent doubt, into a leader who learned, through coaching and feedback, how to reflect, reframe and reward. Through our interactions and questions, Rhonda determined my areas of improvement and held me accountable to develop in areas where I was not as strong. She taught me that it is okay to question motivation and direction, review our decisions, while working to develop a team cohesion that still followed corporate guidelines. Rhonda worked to strengthen the interactions with my team, senior leaders, and clients, while allowing me to be me. She is a wonderful partner, coach and friend, and these words will never truly express my gratitude.
Al Sorichetti
Regional Life Consultant, Greater Philadelphia
Rhonda’s coaching style is to match your communication style and challenge you through questions, direct feedback and she forces you to take action. I have enjoyed working with Rhonda and would recommend her as a coach to anyone as her broad experience will allow her to effectively challenge you to be better.
Andrew Diano
Senior Consultant, Retirement Solutions, Sales Enablement
My experiences with Rhonda as a business coach over the last 5 years have consistently exceeded my expectations. I view Rhonda as an extension of my leadership team in that she functions as a valuable sounding board and consultant. I have discussed too many situations to remember with Rhonda over the last 5 years… some positive, some negative. Each time she has approached the situation as a true professional business coach, capable of distilling all the information I share with her and then helping me delve deeper into the issue to help me discover the best path forward. Without this valuable business coaching resource, I would have certainly made numerous missteps along the way and not achieved the type of results the organization demands. Rhonda is not just a professional business coach to me; I consider her a trusted friend and colleague who makes me better in all facets of life.
Greg Vanderwoude
Director, Internal Sales, Brokerage Annuity Sales
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you want clarity, direction, and a steady guide through your career questions, Rhonda is here to help. She offers appointments on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and each session is built around your goals.