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Impromptu interview of Patricia Hirsch
Coaching and Management
Patricia is in the business of assisting clients begin to learn to observe their own observations such that they live a life of power causing results with open and honest communication.
Patricia Hirsch is the founder of Design Your Life Coaching (est. 2001), a coaching and leadership development company. During the past 31 years, she has held numerous mentoring, leadership and management positions. Through individual and team coaching, she has worked extensively to facilitate relationships across cultural, educational, emotional and other discourses. Her work has focused on senior executives, board members, teams and individuals. Patricia has delivered key addresses to marine, financial and coaching organizations. She regularly leads teleconferencing classes to a global audience. From 2006-2009, she was a KUCI Talk Show Host where she interviewed certified coaches worldwide (Design Your Life Coaching Media page - Radio) on the professional practice and applications of coaching. Patricia has worked on numerous organizational initiatives. She remains active on rosters for high impact change organizations, including serving as President for the local ICF-OC chapter and joining the global committee for the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ICF, formed in 1995, is the leading global coaching organization with over 17,000 members that is dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high professional standards, providing independent certification, and building a network of credentialed coaches. Patricia is presently a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Credentialing Committee for ensuring the credentialing system is updated to the standards for which the 17,000+ members measure their continuing professionalism. The ICF’s purpose isto support and advance the coaching profession through programs and standards supported by ICF members and to be an authoritative source on coaching information and research for the public. Patricia’s coaching and leadership development methodology is grounded in somatic, linguistic and emotional competence. She draws on each of these domains in her work with clients to raise awareness, enable action and generate sustainable and high levels of performance. Patricia owned a coaching company from 1993-1998, where she took clients off-shore cruising (out of sight of land) and coached them to “go after their dreams.” She also trained clients to operate 40-50 foot sailboats. For coaching work, she had earned an ontological coaching status and for sailing, she had gained her private captain licensure with the United States Coast Guard. Her primary roots with coaching are based in her 14 years in the healthcare field where, as an Open-Heart and Intensive Critical Care Registered Nurse, she coached people through the realization that they were at a life-altering turning point, or they were nearing the end stage of life. Patricia holds an undergraduate degree in Nursing from the University of Nevada Reno. In 2000, she earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, in order to find out more about business while she was working as a Project Manager in the Medical Information Systems field. She has since continued to seek out education that will support her in her goals of introducing communication competence across cultural, educational and emotional discourses. In 2002, Patricia successfully completed the Newfield Network Coaching and Organizational Learning program; in 2006, she completed the Certified Ontological Coach (NCOC™) program, and in 2009, she became a Mentor Coach. Personal Background Patricia's 26 years of experience are in Management in Information Technology in San Diego and Orange County, California; as a U.S.C.G. Private Captain, Personal Coach and Owner of a Sailing Adventures business, taking people offshore cruising on 40-50' sailboats in the Caribbean and the USA, and 12-years in Management of Open-Heart, Burn, Medical and Cardiac Intensive Care patients in the Healthcare Industry in San Diego, Sacramento and Davis, California. Patricia is the daughter of a pilot who served 30 years in the Air Force and traveled extensively with her parents, and then personally from Thailand on the east side of the globe to Hawaii on the west, from Alaska on the north end and Costa Rica on the south with extensive exploration of Europe and the USA. She has lived internationally including Spain, has had extensive stays in Greece, Mexico, Monaco and the Caribbean where she also co-owns a residence in the beautiful Cayman Islands, B.W.I. Her international wanderings give her a unique insight in working with people successfully have equipped her with a profound awareness of cultural diversity, the challenges we face in how we observe ourselves and how we don't, then how we communicate daily based on those observations. She has run two marathons (26.2 miles), biked extensively, including the 200 miles plus around the California foothills and from Los Angeles to San Diego, SCUBA diving is a passion for which she has 190 ocean dives, and now boasts a lowly Orange Belt in Sha'olin Kempo through the United Studios of Self Defense (www.ussd.com). Patricia knows challenges. Her next challenge is the gift from the man of her dreams, a Beneteau 423 sailboat which she Captains sails in the Southern California - Ensenada, Baja California, waters. Professional Qualifications
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Patricia Hirsch's Semi-In Depth Biography
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