Virginia "Ginny" O'Brien, MS

Telephone: (877) 262-2470
Coaching availability: Mondays and Wednesdays
Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts

How will clients benefit with you as their coach?

• Create a vision of success and the career you want.

• Gain insight into yourself and increase your self-awareness and self-confidence.

• Develop and leverage your leadership skills.

• Build your emotional intelligence and develop your communication skills.

• Develop and nurture relationships that are key to your success.

• Balance your personal and your professional life.

• Manage people, change and transitions more effectively.

• Develop the ability to grow and operate at your highest potential.

• Sustain professional and organizational success.

• Successful job transitions and career advancement

• Increase in emotional intelligence and enhanced ability to communicate effectively, resulting in more productive interactions with others

• Greater ability to "manage up," resulting in better relationships with bosses and better positioning in political structure of the organization

• Improved ability to lead and motivate people, resulting in better teamwork and productivity

• Greater insight and understanding into themselves, resulting in changed behavior patterns, more empowered behavior, greater self-esteem and self-confidence

• Creation of vision and career plans, resulting in more well defined goals and action plans

• Identification of values and "values disconnect" that might be operating, resulting in better career choices

• “Ginny provided great counsel and support in a difficult job transition that was critical to my career. She offered me an outside, independent perspective when work got tough and thus prevented me from getting stuck in my own view. I was struck by Ginny's uncanny ability to cut through the noise I presented and help me see the situation differently. She really has an extraordinary ability to get to the core issue without making me defensive” -- Account Supervisor, Leading High-Tech Public Relations Agency

• “Working with Ginny has raised my awareness about my behaviors and enabled me to make positive changes, improving my level of performance, my ability to build better relationships with my managers and peers, and to lead my team. Ginny's skill in highlighting behaviors and situations without pushing too hard or being judgmental or making me feel guilty has allowed me to make my own choices and move forward in the right direction” -- Angelique McGuigan, HR Director, Thomson Financial Asia

• “As the CEO of my own company, the buck stops with me, so it was good to feel accountable to someone else. The coaching process helped me to reflect and prioritize both my business and my personal life. Ginny's coaching is direct and to the point. She didn't allow me to procrastinate, but kept me focused and moving on the issues.” -- Small Business Owner

• “After working as an executive director in the non-profit area, followed by a long stint as vice president of a family-owned retail group, making a mid-life career transition has been stimulating and challenging. Ginny has been a fantastic guide, sounding board, reality-checker, cheerleader and ass-kicker (when needed). She has provided honesty, insight and encouragement in a totally safe and trusted manner as my career coach.” -- Sarah Schmid, Woman in Transition

• “My coaching relationship with Ginny has been one of the best business decisions that I have made. Her expert guidance and superb questioning ability combined with a compassionate approach has given me deeper insight and a new way of thinking. In a very short time, Ginny's keen business knowledge and unique understanding of women's business development has been crucial in helping me to clarify, understand, and remove my internal roadblocks. My new way of thinking and my different approach to old situations is producing the results I had once only dreamed of.” -- Cindy Bitter, Vocational Developer, Author, and Speaker

• Deep listening skills

• Strong intuitive ability which helps me to know what questions to ask

• Use a psychological development approach that comes from my training in psychology and communications, which enables me to help people understand themselves and recognize what they need to do to make change

• Able to connect on deep levels with clients - empathy, compassion

• Direct approach that helps clients look at the key issues

• See the client within the system he or she is operating, so coaching doesn't happen in a vacuum

• Keen understanding of women's issues in the business world

I firmly believe in my tag line - you can succeed on your own terms, but you can't succeed alone. Each of us needs a trusted supporter, champion, and expert we can confide in and get honest feedback from - someone who can help us look at ourselves, help us understand ourselves, and provide guidance and support in learning how to make change, grow, and achieve our goals. I bring a psychological perspective to my work looking at my clients from a developmental point of view. I have a directive style of coaching and offer suggestions to clients. I see myself as a true partner committed to supporting my clients in identifying and getting where they want to go. I care about and make deep connections with my clients.

• Middle- and senior-level managers and executives as well as individual contributors (both men and women, but with a specialty in women) from small- and medium-sized companies, nonprofit organizations and large corporations such as Thomson Financial, Kodak, Xerox, Hasbro, FleetBoston, and Bose.

• Small business owners

• Women in transition

• 1998 to present: career and executive coach and workshop leader specializing in career and leadership development, women's leadership and advancement, and work/life balance.

• Author of Success on Our Own Terms: Tales of Extraordinary, Ordinary Business Women (John Wiley, 1998). Based on interviews with 45 female Fortune 500 managers and executives and a survey of 700 women, it provides strategies for navigating the corporate world and best practices for women's initiatives and advancing women in management. Also authored Fast Forward MBA in Business (John Wiley, 1996), an easy-to-read reference guide to business principles and management theory that has been translated into six languages.

• Professional experience includes: self -employed communications consultant and free-lance writer and editor; communications director for a globally recognized business intelligence firm; executive director of a not-for-profit foundation; public relations director for a major social services agency.

• Graduate of Coaches Training Institute; M.S. College of Communication, Boston University; B.A., Psychology, summa cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi

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Career Coaching Programs
Service	What You Get	Price	Add to Cart
Monthly Coaching	Three 30-minute sessions with an expert coach	$280.00