About
Coach Mary Bast
Are
you feeling stuck? With
me, you'll quickly resolve specific
short-term issues and experience
transformational
shifts, creative and
unanticipated resolutions to business and
personal issues.
Are
you a coach
looking for a mentor?
We can focus on your
personal life,
professional development,
building your business,
working with your clients,
writing your book, and/or coaching
with the Enneagram.
Want
to get your book published? My
experience as author of
several published books,
creative writer/poet (see
below) and former Nonfiction
Editor of
Bacopa Literary Review
has led to editing
several client
dissertations, research
projects, assessment
instruments, and
publications, most recently
Pam Boney's
True Tilt: An Uncommon Quest.
I completed an
interdisciplinary Ph.D.
in 1983, focusing on psychology,
personal growth, and organization
development. As Director of Executive
Development for Federated Department Stores
I then developed a benchmark program to
coach high-potential executives for
leadership positions.
After establishing
Bast Consulting in 1988, I coached hundreds
of senior executives in large corporations,
small companies, nonprofits, and family
businesses. Clients fine-tuned their
capabilities, attained desired positions,
got back on track when their careers were in
jeopardy, and interacted more effectively in
their work and personal lives. At
that point it was clear more
significant change was
possible and I also wanted
to broaden my client base to
include personal coaching.
Following a year of research and
writing, I launched Out of
the Box Coaching in 1999
with my current approach to
change. For more about my process, read "The
Yin and Yang of Presence" or listen to
Ed Morler interviewing me on
"What
We Need to Know."
Free
articles
at this web site and on
my
blogs offer personal and
work-related resources that address common
issues such as dealing with life-threatening
illness and other crises,
developing more meaningful
relationships, clarifying
your goals, managing
anger, giving and receiving
feedback,
listening, overcoming performance anxiety,
creating a life congruent with your deepest values—both individually
and in partnership with others,
becoming more creative, communicating with
people whose conceptual styles are different
from yours, collaborating with peers,
confronting poor performance, dealing with
resistance to change, team development,
delegation, meditation, and much more.
Whatever your interest in
coaching, I encourage you to
take 20 minutes to listen to
Dr. Brené
Brown
describing her research
about what makes people feel
connected. If I or any
other coach or counselor is
not taking you in the
direction Dr. Brown
describes, you're not
receiving the value you
deserve.
From a Senior Coach:
My Partnership with Mary
From Other Clients:
Appreciation A
Career Change
Examples
Personal:
Oil Paintings
Poem
Short Memoir
Developmental Journey
