Faith-informed executive coaching
Build leverage at every stage of your career.Stay rooted in what matters.
Coaching for the moments that shape what happens next, whether you’re angling for a promotion, navigating a difficult manager, weighing a new role, or negotiating your way out. All without compartmentalizing your faith.
Practical. Confidential. Non-prescriptive.
Your faith is welcome; your agency stays intact.
Years in Fortune 100 and nonprofit leadership
Apple, T-Mobile, Mission-driven organizations
faith + work
HR Leadership experience across
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Apple
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T-Mobile
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Elastic
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CityYear AmeriCorps
Coaching shaped around real leadership
Coaching built around the leverage you need right now.
Three of the most common inflection points clients bring to coaching. If yours isn’t listed, it’s likely still covered, see below.
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Career Moves & New Roles
Weighing a new role, a career change, or a job search that’s stalled. Get a clear read on the market, sharper positioning, and a strategy for the offer, the negotiation, or the exit.
- Job search strategy and positioning
- Offer evaluation and negotiation
- Layoffs, exit planning, and severance negotiation
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Managing Up & Workplace Dynamics
A difficult manager, a toxic dynamic, or a workplace that’s wearing you down. Build the presence and strategy to manage the relationship without absorbing all the cost of it.
- Managing a difficult or unpredictable manager
- Navigating conflict with peers or leadership
- Deciding whether to fix it, endure it, or leave
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Promotion & Advancement
Ready for the next level but not sure how to get there, or watching someone less qualified get there first. Build the visibility, positioning, and case for advancement that actually moves the decision.
- Positioning for promotion
- Building your case with leadership
- Navigating workplace dynamics without losing yourself
Listens to your lived experience
People · culture · learning · belonging
About Ivan
Leadership experience, translated into a thoughtful coaching partnership.
15+ years of tri-sector HR leadership brought to the decisions you’re facing right now.
Ivan has spent over 15 years leading global HR, enterprise learning and leadership development, and organizational change across corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Clients come to Ivan at a range of inflection points: strategizing a promotion, navigating a difficult manager, evaluating a new offer, or negotiating an exit. What connects the work is the same underlying skill: reading a situation clearly and building a strategy to act on it, rather than reacting from pressure or uncertainty.
Clients often find Ivan through referral, and many mention his reputation as a faith-informed leader as part of why they trusted him with something as consequential as their career.
The coaching approach
A clear process for a decision that doesn’t feel clear yet
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Name the real question
Move past “what happened” to clarify the actual decision in front of you: push for the promotion, address the manager directly, take the offer, negotiate harder, or wait.
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Examine it from multiple angles
Explore the practical facts (leverage, timing, positioning, finances) alongside the harder layers (values, identity, what you’re actually willing to do).
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Choose accountable action
Leave with a specific next step: a positioning strategy, a script for the conversation, a negotiation plan, or a decision you’re finally ready to make.
A good-fit coach should
Respect both your beliefs and your agency.
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Give you a clear strategy, not just support
This isn’t only a space to process. You’ll leave sessions with a specific plan for the conversation, negotiation, or decision ahead.
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Respect your beliefs without requiring them
Faith can be part of the conversation if it matters to you. It’s never assumed, and it’s never used to soften a hard truth.
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Keep clear boundaries
Coaching, consulting, and legal advice are distinct. Ivan will tell you directly when a question needs an employment attorney.
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Stay focused on your leverage and your next step
Every conversation is built to move you from where you are to a decision you can act on.
$360
per month
Standard Coaching Package
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Two 1-hour sessions per month, scheduled around your timeline
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Confidential, one-on-one, virtual or in-person
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Support through active negotiations, promotion pushes, or workplace conflict
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No long-term contract. Month to month.
Common questions
Before you choose a coach.
Straight answers about fit, boundaries, and what this work is designed to do.
What is faith-informed coaching?
Faith-informed coaching is a goal-oriented coaching relationship where your beliefs, spiritual practices, and sense of calling are welcome in the conversation. It is not pastoral counseling, therapy, or a substitute for professional mental-health care.
I’m not in crisis, I just want to get promoted or make a smarter next move. Is this still for me?
Yes. Most of the coaching Ivan does isn’t crisis-driven. It’s clients who want a sharper strategy for advancement, a new role, or a difficult work relationship, before things reach a breaking point.
Can you help me negotiate a severance package or plan an exit?
This is one of Ivan’s core strengths, even though it’s not one of the three areas listed first on this page. Coaching is not legal advice. For anything with legal exposure, Ivan will tell you directly when it’s time to bring in an employment attorney alongside the coaching.
What happens in a free fit call?
We spend 30 minutes clarifying what you want to change, what has made it difficult, and whether Ivan’s experience and approach fit your needs. There is no pressure to continue.
How is coaching different from consulting or spiritual direction?
Consulting usually delivers expert recommendations. Spiritual direction centers your relationship with your higher power. Coaching helps you think clearly, identify choices, and take accountable action; a faith-informed approach can respectfully draw on your spiritual framework while keeping those roles distinct.
A CLEAR first step
Bring the situation you’re facing.
In a free 30-minute fit call, we’ll get clear on what’s happening, what your options are, and whether working together makes sense.
No pitch. No obligation.
Leave the call with clarity on your options.