EXECUTIVE AND PERSONAL COACH
I want to hear your story
Before the time of cell phones and e-mail, almost everyone I knew had a Citizens’ Band (or CB) radio in their car. The CB radio had been used by truckers to talk with each other while on long road trips. Truckers warned each other of traffic tie-ups, bad weather, suggested where they might find a good place to eat, and other useful information needed on the road. Each person with a CB chose a “handle” or name that they were known by on the road. When I bought my CB radio I agonized over my “handle”. A good friend said to me,
“Kevyn, I think your handle is obvious. You love to hear and to tell good
stories….clearly you’re ‘The Story Lady’! ”
My Executive clients know that I love to hear their stories. They tell me that “it’s lonely at the top” is not just a catch phrase for them. They are isolated by the very success they have worked so hard to achieve. Successful people often have no one they can entrust with the important goals, dreams, and challenges in their professional and personal lives. They have few peers, they can’t talk to their direct reports, and family members may not understand what they do. My clients need someone to talk with about their ideas, to get feed-back, and help in actualizing those ideas.
You are an Executive or an Entrepreneur and you a story to tell.
I would love to hear it. Please contact me.
About Coaching
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IMAGINE A BEST FRIEND WHO WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN YOUR COMPLETE SUCCESS,
who always listens with interest to what you have to say, and who gives you the feedback you need to make tough choices and changes. This is the essential job of a coach, to help you state the problem clearly and understand it, to plan an approach to solving it, and to execute that plan. Coaches believe that you already have the knowledge and skills you need for its solution, and that their job is to help you bring them out and use them effectively.
Coaching in Practice
Most coaches work almost exclusively over the telephone, without ever meeting their clients face to face. Sometimes clients and coaches are separated by oceans and continents, but feel as if they are in the same room. At first, it may seem strange to be working through issues with someone you can't see, but almost everyone gets used to it, because coaches are trained to use their voice to communicate more than words. Coaches are also trained to listen to the meanings behind the words you are using, and can read the tone of your voice as naturally as you could read someone's face. Trust me, it really does work well, and it is much, much more convenient than having to come in to my office. You can be coached in any setting you want, even if you're still in pajamas and fuzzy slippers.
Coaching is an outgrowth of "client centered " therapy, a style developed by Carl Rogers in the 1950's and 1960's. While coaching is not therapy, it shares the client-centered view: that the client is basically a healthy, integrated person, that she already has the resources and knowledge to solve her issues, and that the coach's task is just to focus her talents in a productive way.
About Kevyn
Kevyn has been very successful in a wide swathe of careers that lead her to a prominent executive and personal coaching practice.
She began her career teaching High School English for 3 years and then, becoming restless, owned and managed a seafood restaurant in Surf City, NJ. Still following her muse, she studied clinical psychology at Temple University and received her Masters degree in 1979 and Doctorate degree in 1989. This led her to twenty-two years of very successful practice in family relationship counseling and life transition counseling for divorced women.
Kevyn closed her clinical practice in 2004 to co-found Evergreen Seminars, and help C-level executives to improve their leadership skills through coaching and to address “what’s next” challenges in their own career development. Under the banner of Evergreen Seminars, she conducts workshops on leadership development and strategic planning for board members and leadership of non-profit organizations.
Kevyn was chosen to coach MBA candidates for Smeal College of Business at Penn State University’s Executive MBA program.
Returning to her teaching roots, Kevyn teaches a Foundations class for new coaches for MentorCoach. She is passionate about developing the skills of coaching students so that they are able to help others to lead full and satisfying lives.
Kevyn brings a huge energy and boundless enthusiasm to everything she does, including coaching; she stays motivated by her awe of the power of personal coaching, her curiosity about people and personalities, and the thrill of using her skills to help people solve big problems and transform their lives.
Kevyn isn't your typical reserved clinician: she has a raucous sense of humor, a boundless enthusiasm for adventure, and a limitless passion for encouraging others to live life to it’s fullest.
Kevyn would welcome your questions. Feel free to send her an email or call her Pennsylvania office using the contact information below.
Testimonials
"Working with Kevyn has made a big difference in my leadership style. She taught me to communicate much more clearly with direct reports and seek input from them."
ROBERT S., CEO, SMALL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
"Kevyn Malloy was compassionate and understanding while supporting me to turn some difficult company challenges during the economic downturn into solid company gains. She inspired me to look for opportunities to motivate my employees to work hard for our mutual success."
DWW, V.P. OF SALES
"Thank you, Kevyn, for encouraging me to be the effective leader I am today. You’ve made a profound difference in both my professional and business life."
KAREN L., MANAGING DIRECTOR
"I thought that I was a good leader of my department when my company hired Kevyn to be my coach. Kevyn helped me to identify my strengths so that I could work more effectively with my staff to get results."
FRG, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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