Services
Coaching & Assessment
I serve clients in and outside of organizational settings through a holistic approach to coaching, assessment, and development. Coaching supports clients to develop integrated, self-generating capabilities to approach their specific development areas of focus. I work with clients to co-create a development plan and use assessments, personalized exercises, self-awareness practices, and other tools to support the ongoing developmental process.
Coaching processes often begin with engaging one of several assessment tools (Hogan, Enneagram, CliftonStregnths, MBTI) and mapping the unique complexities of client contexts, and working to identify core values, purpose, and developmental direction. From there, we create an individualized development plan over a specified framework of time with clear goals and milestones as well as accountability structures.
Ongoing coaching work ranges in timespan and evolves with client goals, focus areas, and emerging factors in client lives. Coaching work is informed by a whole-person, integral philosophy to development and often incorporates somatic and mindfulness components. Within organizations, coaching often occurs as a component of wider-scale team and organizational leadership development programs and services. I have additional background in chaplaincy (grief support) and equine assisted coaching, and utilize these tools when applicable with clients.
Testimonials
“Bridgit brought a natural spaciousness and capacity to our work together, balancing abundant compassion and sensitivity with sharp intellect. She nimbly navigated a deep understanding of individual, organizational, and relational dynamics with grace, helping me cut through the noise and move forward while lessening overwhelm. Bridgit’s insightful questions and guidance supported me through difficult crossroads with confidence, clarity, and perspective.”
— Max Alaghband, Non-profit Services, Consultant
“I hired Bridgit several years ago to help me cultivate clarity and direction. I partner with Bridgit in order to help me to stay focused on things that matter personally and professionally. Bridget has been wonderful in helping me to maximize my potential. Bridgit's skills in listening, pattern recognition, strategic thinking, and communication are excellent. I bring questions, challenges, and opportunities, and together, we gain clarity that moves me toward the desired transformation. ”
-Bill Konves, Founder, ECOS
“Bridgit is a great coach. She uses powerful tools and resources to set a baseline, then assists you in setting your goals, then helps to hold you accountable to accomplish them in a timely fashion. She is personable and open, regardless of the topic that may arise. I trust her opinion and insight into making the most complex thoughts or tasks seem manageable. Plus, we have fun and always seem to have a good laugh! ”
-Jon Apino, Contract Diagnostics
Corporate OFF SITES & retreats
We custom-curate offsite and retreat experiences that support wide ranging team and organizational development objectives. We are based in Boulder, CO and regularly facilitate at conference, retreat, and ranch locations close to client locations in the U.S and abroad. We manage end-to-end production for individual team engagements and work with contracted production companies for large (50+) organization-wide events.
Half, full, and multi-day options are customized around the following areas:
Team Leadership & Strategy Development: Executive team mission, vision, and/or purpose development; discovery and codifying of organizational values; strategic planning; experiential leadership trainings (e.g. communication core practices, coaching as a manager, delivering feedback); team leadership development utilizing assessments
Equine Facilitated Leadership: Equine facilitated leadership sessions and debriefs take place on the ground inside the arena alongside horses and explore emotional intelligence, decision-making, and collaborative leadership methods as well as embodied, holistic leadership development
Team Building Activities: Strategic team collaboration games (think low impact, “capture the flag” inspired games); physical and mental group problem solving games and challenge activities
Retreat Activities: Guided creative expression, guided hiking, mindfulness and yoga, local skill-based courses, and more
“My group and I had a great learning experience with Bridgit. We are a group that is developing learning practices for people in performance fields such as leadership, education, family dynamics, community mobilization, social justice, and healthy organizations. The experience with the horses was an extraordinary learning lab to see how to include the body in learning, face challenges, and progress in confidence in a new, challenging situations.”
-Bob Dunham, Founder, Institute for Generative Leadership
“My team and I gained powerful tools to apply personally and as a group around effective leadership. The exercises with the horses were a great mix of fun and deep individual and group learning, with practical takeaways and applications for how to navigate interpersonal dynamics and strategic objectives effectively. This was the best part of our 2 day offsite! For teams looking for bonding, introspection, and team metaphors, I recommend Bridgit wholeheartedly.”
-Amanda West, Director, People Operations at Google
“Truly and deeply magical and empowering. The retreat itself was only a day, but here I am nearly a month later still continuing to grow and process all that I learned about myself and communicating with others from an open, authentic and safe space.”
-Dana K., Teacher
Organizational CONSULTING
Custom designed engagements support teams and larger scale organizational
initiatives in cultivating healthy cultures and overall alignment towards strategic goals. We specialize in the following areas:
Leadership Development: Holistic leadership development through customized virtual and in person leadership development courses and programs; individual and team development via coaching and assessment programming; experiential programing to support embodied leadership development
Organizational culture: Cultivating engaged teams and organization-wide culture in which people feel a sense of belonging, purpose, and bring their whole selves to work; fostering high quality communication, psychological safety, trust, openness, and culture where everyone feels supported to do their best work; creating a work place with strong work-life balance supporting high levels of productivity
Diversity and inclusion: Enabling overall diversity within organizations in which everyone feels included, understood, and supported to do their best work
“My experience with the group program profoundly opened up my awareness of my body states and the impact of unspoken inner dialogue. Our group worked on harnessing energy and presence through leadership exercises and powerful interpersonal exercises with other group members. I was able to understand and practice how to shift my energy and to be a better, more congruent collaborator with those around me at home and at work. I highly recommend to individuals and teams. ”
-Fernanda Montoya, Accountant, Boulder Heavy Industries
“The half day with fellow IGL colleagues generated rich conversations about how our awareness of ourselves in relationship with our team members, made visible in our conditioned tendencies. Bridgit negotiated the space to allow this to show up so elegantly. A key practice for our team was that nervousness, anxiety, fear, or uncertainty are normal and ok, and that there are skillful ways to embrace being settled amidst the unsettledness that shows up.”
-Andrea Bordenca, CEO IGL US
Equine Facilitated Leadership Development & coaching
Partnering with horses, we support individuals, families, and organizational teams in the development of holistic leadership capabilities. All work takes place on the ground, and no horseback riding is involved.
We do this through the following services:
EquusLibere Discovery Experience for individuals and families:
Custom-designed experiential processes for individuals, families, and groups looking to discover equine-facilitated learning and deepen how participants relate to themselves, others, and horses. We merge equine-guided personal and leadership development with other modes of inquiry and expression including mindfulness practices and the creative arts. Learn More
Equine Coaching for Adults:
Our approach uses various forms of groundwork exercises that unite horse and human in a co-learning process that reveals the way participants relate to themselves and others and offers a practice ground for embodied growth. Equine Facilitated Coaching offers powerful insights about your relationship with yourself, others, and life as a whole. Explore self-inquiry, deep listening, boundaries, collaborative leadership, non-predatory uses of power, and more. Learn More
Equine Leadership Development for Youth:
We partner tweens and teens with horses to develop their personal leadership, learn natural horsemanship training, practice mindfulness, and have fun as they learn to connect, communicate, and work with horses through unique and challenging groundwork exercises. Youth learn to embody new ways of leading that rest on a foundation of trust and respect and inspire attitudes of willing, curious collaboration with others. Learn more about youth sessions and programs. Learn More
Equine Facilitated Leadership Development for Teams:
Equine facilitated leadership sessions take place on the ground inside the arena alongside horses and explore emotional intelligence, decision-making, and collaborative leadership methods, embodied, holistic leadership development, surfacing difficult team dynamics and developing the versatility to skillfully navigate ambiguous and charged situations, and more. Learn More
Bridging Unicorns:
We work closely with our nonprofit partner, Bridging Unicorns, and donate 5% of our profit to the rescue and rehabilitation of slaughter-bound horses alongside youth leadership development programs.
“Bridgit and the horses uniquely show us sides of our behaviors that are often hidden from our own view. Little, if anything, is hidden from the horse and Bridgit is a great intermediary, putting into language possibilities to shift (e.g. unease, being inauthentic, fear) and other behaviors and emotional states that in other contaexts limit our freedom and fulfillment. Go for it, especially if you have any sense at all that this adventurous form of learning will serve you in your life.”
-Jeremy Nash, Leadership Consultant
“I have been with our time together all day- resonating with tracking where I have arrived and opening to the feel of new possibilities. The gift the horses bring to me is that immediate feedback of where I am - when I am deeply connected and when I am not connected. What an amazing space you hold, Bridgit - not only do you tend the space for humans, you also tend to the complexity for what is going on with the horses, and when we meld, the whole. ”
-Elizabeth Rohr, Constellations Facilitator, Special Education Teacher
“The discovery experience offered an amazing opportunity for us to learn about ourselves in relationship to each other and the horses. We were challenged to be far more aware of our body language and places of congruence and incongruence in ourselves...habits internally and externally that are so habitual and yet, as we saw time and time again, don’t always have good impacts in our lives and relationships. The horses were patient and gentle teachers as we worked through exercises and it was so fun to feel them open up to us in a way we had no idea horses could. Highly recommend.”
-The Marquez Family
“The echoes of our time with the horses is still reverberating with me and your gentle yet clear and firm guidance was exceptional in helping me push my edges with the horses. I discovered insights about my leadership that would have taken months if not longer to realize in just moments interacting with those horses. The way you lightly pointed at the dynamics you were seeing between them and I provided immediate, powerful, nuanced and gentle biofeedback on how I show up in the world with others and how I hold and wield my power. Excellent!”
-Adam Hopey, Therapist and Trainer