I’m Tristan.
It’s great to meet you!
As a career coach, I am proud to work with driven professionals who are ready to thrive at work by improving their overall wellbeing.
My clients are ambitious and bright, but need an adjustment to help them feel fulfilled in their professional and personal lives.
Sound like you?
Read on to learn more about my professional coaching services.
My Approach to Career Coaching
I trained with The Academies, the leader in neuroscience-based coaching. Taking this neuroscientific approach to career coaching allows us to touch on how internal brain-and-body chemistry impacts leadership, relationships, resiliency, and more.
After graduating, I received my Associate Coach Certification (ACC) certificate from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the leading global organization for coaches and coaching.
As your coach, I will ask you to explore ideas that may be beneficial, but I won’t tell you what to do or make decisions for you.
You’re in charge of your life.
My mission is supporting you on your mission. I will ask questions and make requests of you that will challenge you to try new ideas and stretch you beyond where your colleagues and friends will take you.
I am more than just a career coach. I can be a strategist, resource, confidante, and more. And yet I do not want you to be dependent on me. Our work together will increase your work wellbeing, with a focus on improving your happiness, purpose, satisfaction, and stress levels.
When you make a serious commitment to the coaching process, the benefits will continue to multiply for a lifetime.
My Background
I’ve always been passionate about helping others thrive in their environment by focusing on improving the whole person. My experience spans across industries and organizations, and has shown me how a focus on improving wellbeing at work can make a difference in a person’s entire life.
Prior to becoming a career coach, I worked in Marketing and Communications at a range of organizations across multiple industries: from Fortune 200 companies, to startups and creative agencies; and in sports media, tech, finance, and advertising.
After struggling to find fulfillment in my career, I sought out a coach to uncover what I really wanted to do with my career. While working with my coach, I discovered how effective and fulfilling coaching could be. I then chose to pursue coaching wholeheartedly.
I also help lead Indeed’s Work Wellbeing Initiative, where we partner with the world’s leading wellbeing experts to guide job seekers to companies where they can thrive and help employers build better work cultures that attract, nurture, and retain talent.
Outside of coaching, my interests include staying active by biking, running, swimming, and playing tennis. I love the outdoors, and spend as much time as I can with my family. If I’m home, I’m usually watching basketball. All of these activities influence the way I approach coaching and the way I approach life.
Focus on Middle Managers
While I’m experienced in working with executives, I’m passionate about working with middle managers. Why? I believe that this group is the lynchpin of every successful organization. And a growing amount of research backs this up:
Middle managers directly supervise as much as 80% of the workforce (Harvard Business Review)
Employee wellbeing across the board is directly impacted by their manager—hence the adage “people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” Managers account for at least 70% of the variance in one study’s engagement scores (Gallup)
The cost of training and coaching a manager for one year is around $10,000, while the cost of replacing a manager is up to $200,000, or 200% of their annual salary (Indeed, University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre)
Career coaching for the C-suite is commonplace among many organizations. But outside of management training, most middle managers aren’t given the tools to understand and execute critical leadership skills learned by coaching. This is where I come in.
