Human Centered Coaching for Entrepreneurs

COOPER MARGOLIN - HUMAN CENTERED LEADERSHIP COACHING FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Whether you're growing a startup, managing a small business, or launching a new venture, Human Centered Coaching empowers you to lead authentically, build trust-driven teams, and make confident, conscious decisions. You’ll gain practical tools to manage stress, improve communication, and cultivate a leadership style that drives both impact and sustainability.

HOW WE HELP

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Being an entrepreneur requires a perpetual juggling of your personal and professional life. We create a supportive and trusting environment for you to connect with your authentic self, explore the power of your potential to expand your impact, create more authentic relationships with yourself and others, and remain true to your values while increasing your ability to lead, influence, and inspire others in your work and personal life. Together we work to make your dream a reality. We know:

IT’S NEVER JUST BUSINESS!

What You Will Gain

Tools to Navigate Burnout and Uncertainty

Being an entrepreneur requires constant stress management, effective communication, and a leadership style that drives both impact and sustainability. Working with us you will learn practical tools that will empower you to lead authentically, build trust-driven teams, and make confident conscious decisions while learning skills such as resilience and perseverance that will naturally balance to help you avoid burnout and minimize stress and anxiety. It is a uniquely challenging frontier.

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Clarity of Vision

Clarity of purpose is about defining a path in work and life that leads you towards your greater “why”. Together, we will seek to uncover that vision and then build an intentional path towards it. Entrepreneurs can often walk a lonely road. It’s vital that within solitude, there is a deep sense of purpose that keeps you feeling fulfilled, whole and balanced.

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Improved Team Dynamics and Organizational Culture

By focusing our Human Centered Leadership coaching on the Human aspects of leadership such as empathy, active listening, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety we help you become more self aware, foster mutual respect within teams, build trust, and create an environment where it is safe to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes. In this environment conflicts are addressed constructively, burnout decreases, growth oriented mindsets are created, and a culture of belonging and accountability emerges.

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Foster Purpose-Driven and Growth Oriented Mindsets

Human Centered Leadership Coaching helps leaders connect their team’s work to a broader purpose and value system making people feel more connected to the mission and to each other, which boosts morale, alignment and connection. As leaders shift from a fixed mindset to a coaching mindset, it encourages development rather than focusing on only performance. Team members are more open to feedback, continuous improvement, and innovation. Scaling a business is a team event.

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Exploring the Power of Human Potential

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Expect to Explore

  • Strengths: What are your super powers?

  • Joy at work: What do you love doing so much that you would do it for free?

  • Flow state: Where do you get so involved in an activity that you lose track of time?

  • Purpose: What sense of duty or mission motivates you in your work or life?

  • Blockers: Where do I get stuck?  

  • Self Sabotage: How do you get in your own way? (We all do at some time or another)

  • Values: What are the values in your life that you are committed to?

  • Past: What life experiences have shaped you? Where have you seen self-growth? 

  • Future: What would true fulfillment look like?  What and who is a part of that?

  • Legacy: What would you want the words at your funeral to say? How do you want to be remembered?

Expect to Gain

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  • ENHANCED ABILITY TO CREATE AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS

  • GAIN CONFIDENCE

  • FIND YOUR TRUE VOICE

  • IMPROVE COMMUNICATION

  • ACQUIRE ADVANCED INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS

  • UNDERSTAND YOUR AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP STYLE

  • MANAGE STRESS AND EMOTIONS EFFECTIVELY

  • IMPROVE DECISION-MAKING

  • COMBAT IMPOSTOR SYNDROM

  • CREATE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

  • INCREASE RESILIENCE, ADAPTABILITY, & EFFECTIVENESS

Next Steps

Schedule a complimentary 45 minute intro call with Gary or Melissa to talk through your challenges and goals, and to see if Cooper Margolin’s Human Centered coaching and pricing is a fit.

Step 1: Complementary Consultation

An initial engagement of weekly or biweekly hourly sessions, with written and recorded material for takeaway exercises, assessments, customized action items, and accountability support. Based on your individual needs and goals, initial engagements are suggested to last approximately 3 to 6 months.

Step 2: Initial Engagement

After an initial engagement has set firm foundations, ongoing engagements with customized cadences and lengths, are designed to push your continual improvement and deliver sustainable change.

Step 3: Ongoing Engagement

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Since you are looking at our web site something has already created an interest to find out more. We think the most important part of hiring a coach is to find one that makes you feel safe, comfortable, heard and seen. That’s why we offer a free introductory consultation so we can get to know each other and you can decide if you feel that connection.

  • Human Centered coaching places the emphasis on an individuals journey to reach their fullest potential. The process has many rewards: personal and professional growth, stronger human connections, increased satisfaction with life.

  • Yes, coaching sessions are confidential. Our goal is to provide a space where you feel safe and comfortable to talk freely about anything that comes up without being judged.

  • Pricing depends on your professional circumstances. In the initial consultation we discuss pricing to determine your fees. We value flexibility and charge on a sliding scale, because we know life happens. Clients can discontinue the coaching relationship at any time and receive a refund for any payments made for coaching services not rendered by the discontinuation date.

  • We understand if you need to take a break from coaching and will always work with you to meet your needs . The purpose of coaching is to help not burden so it must work for you.

  • Of course! We often work with leadership to organize and design coaching for select team members or teams themselves. Please feel free to get in touch and we can discuss.