In working with Hilary, I was able to make significant strides in my professional development over the course of just a few months. She is thoughtful, analytical, and results-oriented in her work. I would highly recommend her as an executive coach to anyone seriously interested in improving their professional capabilities and opportunities..

Starting, building and growing a business is a life altering decision. As much as you think you know when you start, there are numerous decisions along the way that weigh heavily on the course you will have to navigate. Working with Hilary gives you a unique edge, because she consistently brings powerful insights on three levels that matter. She operates comfortably on strategic issues, has great insights on how to sequence the tactical components of a strategy and most important of all, she can develop you as a manager. At different points along the growth of a business, the focus shifts between these three areas. I have benefited in all these areas for the past several years and would expect that you would find the same benefits.

My partner and I have been working with Hilary as our business coach for several months. The experience has been enjoyable and invaluable. Hilary's insights into our work habits, relationships and client communications are real eye-openers. She helps us see from a fresh perspective and together we've identified and completed concrete steps that will help us take our business to the next level.

I turned to Hilary Joel for professional coaching - to determine what I could do to be as valuable a contributor to a corporation as I knew I could be -- preferably within my existing company. Despite my professional accomplishments, I was particularly frustrated with my efforts to lead teams comprised of representatives from diverse corporate entities. Within one month, Hilary helped me focus on key organizational and personality trait differences, and I was applying effective techniques and new perspectives that reinstated my confidence and positioned me for success. Without her objective assistance and professional knowledge base, I may have missed important opportunities to take action and improve my management approach. Thanks in large part to Hilary, I can work more effectively with other competent and committed professionals. The results are tangible.

Professional coaching was offered to me by my boss as a development opp- ortunity to help me progress to the next level with in my company. Hilary Joel was referred by a co-worker, and I worked with her over a six month period. Our collaboration and the 'homework' were customized to my specific objectives. I saw immediate results when I identified what my personal challenges and hot buttons were. In less than a year, I got the promotion I had been seeking, largely by improving my style, behavior and management skills -- thanks to Hilary's guidance.

As an executive with CIO and CTO experience, I was ready to find my next career move but lacked a plan. Hilary helped bring clarity to my career goals while her coaching enabled me to better articulate the value proposition that I offer to large organizations. Through our sessions, she helped improve my interviewing skills making me better prepared to talk to "C" level executives. I had the background and skill set but needed help in bringing out my own confidence and raising the level of my game. The result in just one month has been more follow through on opportunities from retained search firms and more excitement among executives about my capabilities. I know that I will find the right job for me soon.

Working with Hilary was instrumental in helping me reach my career objectives. Her professional approach ensured we had a shared understanding of the goals, and charted progress along the way. Her personal style and experience brought forth an invaluable level of clarity. I would highly recommend her as an executive coach.

Working with Hilary as my coach turned out to be much more rewarding and more comfortable than I had anticipated. I have a much better understanding of how to lead a team more strategically and how my emotions and my actions affect them and our performance. I thought I would be nervous about sharing personal information about my weaknesses and I remember wondering what could someone from outside of my company really be able to tell me that would be helpful. However, the exact opposite was the result. I learned a lot about myself that I know I never would have learned had I not had this opportunity.

Hilary Joel did a magnificent job of facilitating and teaching at our recent Myers-Briggs workshop for our mentorship program. She presented the material with ease and fielded tough questions from program participants. We are eager to have her back - in fact, we are doing so next month because of the wonderful feedback she received after the session.