When you’re at a crossroads in your career or business, the right questions can move you forward. They can unlock new insights, remove barriers and challenge your thinking in the most productive ways.
Before I studied executive and leadership coaching, I spent decades in New York City newsrooms, where your success rests on the questions you ask. Later, as a senior leader in NYC government advancing gender equity and innovation industries, I learned how the right questions can cut through complexity and lead to sound decisions.
I pursued coaching because I saw the power of inquiry to help people achieve more satisfaction and better performance in their work lives. My own practice is enhanced not only by my experience as a client, but also by my love for storytelling — helping clients craft messages that amplify their strengths and resonate with the market. While I work across industries, my core clients are creative and impact leaders, including elected officials.
Major professional decisions are hard, and facing them without the right support is even harder. If you’re at a pivotal point in your business or career and seek coaching to help you chart your path, let’s talk.
The one thing you need your coach to do is ask the right questions
“My time with Faye is my favorite meeting every week — it's always so energizing. She has this amazing gift of reflecting back a deeply embedded core value that I didn't even know I had.”
— Executive Director of Women's Rights Legal Policy Organization
“Faye's coaching is truly exceptional. Her background in journalism gives her a unique ability to help her clients identify their passions and create structured plans to achieve them. With her disarming candor, she's not afraid to challenge her clients and help them overcome obstacles, all while providing unwavering support and accountability.”
— Non-profit Communications Consultant
“Faye is different from other coaches because she really leverages her media background to zero in on messaging and branding. She has a strong bias for action and no BS.”
— Senior Leader in Risk Management
“Our sessions are incredibly productive and really amp me up. Faye always pushes out the edges of my thinking on how I can profit from my expertise.”
— Senior Attorney in Fintech
“I came to Faye with a vague idea of how an executive coach might help me manage the day-to-day trials of running a cultural nonprofit, from increasing board engagement to training an under-resourced workforce. What I encountered was genuinely life-changing support. She helped me strategically address the challenges I was facing, and ultimately navigate a new job opportunity. When I was struggling to see outside a crisis-oriented environment, she kept my focus on what mattered most. I look forward to continuing to work with Faye in my next chapter!”
— Executive Director, Los Angeles Arts Non-profit
“When leading a nonprofit in need of change, everything is moving so fast it's hard to know what to tackle first. As a new executive director, weekly sessions with Faye give me the time and space to face the hard questions and gain clarity about how to move forward.”
— Executive Director, Arts Non-profit
CLIENT TALK
CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE...
DRINKING FROM
A FIREHOSE
Whether you’re an emerging leader, an executive director or the head of your own company, you’re managing complex, ever-evolving demands. When there's so much coming at you all at once, I can help you and your team anchor on what’s most important.
LAUNCHING
A NEW THING
A lot goes into getting a big idea out of your head and into the market. I can help you establish a launch plan, articulate your vision, identify a clear lane, craft a brand and design your business offerings while helping you stay focused and forward-moving.
FORGING A NEW CAREER PATH
If you sense that there's a more fulfilling way to use your professional talents, that's a hunch worth exploring. Seeking a new role? I'll help you find that sweet spot where your talents meet the market and walk alongside you as you navigate the job hunt.
DREADING A BIG CONVERSATION
Need help summoning your confidence for an important interview, performance review or another high-stakes conversation? Even if you're not an existing client, you can book a session to help you communicate with strength and clarity to achieve the outcome you seek.
FIGURING OUT YOUR MESSAGE
Magazine cover stories, public testimony, speeches, reports, press releases, marketing copy — I've written and edited them all. When you need just the right words to achieve your brand, business or career goals, I can help you find your message and deliver it with confidence to any audience.
NOT SURE WHAT
YOU'RE ALL DOING
When your organization needs a strategic tune-up, I will work with you and your team to refine the what, why and how of your work and turn those principles into big-picture goals you can actually achieve. Then I'll collaborate with you on a real-world roadmap to help you meet those goals.
THINGS I'VE DONE
First Executive Director of Women.NYC, serving New York women through salary negotiation training, business bootcamps, 1:1 career coaching and more. We also advocated for childcare as an economic development issue.
Led innovation sector growth for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, helping New Yorkers of all backgrounds future-proof their careers by tapping into growth industries.
Achieved ICF ACC-level coach certification after studying at Brown University as well as the Center for Executive Coaching.
Led a collaboration between First Lady Michelle Obama and seven top American fashion designers to create an original line of tote bags to benefit Let Girls Learn.
Founded Brokelyn, a buzzy local site (sold in 2016) about life on the cheap In Brooklyn. Drove revenue via a viral series of beer, wine and cocktail passports to hundreds of Brooklyn bars.
Currently serve as a board member for the Borscht Belt Museum, a new museum celebrating the Catskills resort era.
Have held senior positions across print, digital, video and e-commerce at New York Magazine, the New York Post, The New York Observer, A+E Networks and InStyle.
Wrote the Style & Error humor column for InStyle magazine, chronicling my misadventures in personal style.
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